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birth charts with Proserpina in VirgoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina in Virgo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
Biography of Anthelme Mangin (excerpt)
Anthelme Mangin (19 March 1891 – 10 September 1942), real name Octave Félicien Monjoin, was an amnesiac French veteran of the First World War who was the subject of a long judicial process involving dozens of families who claimed him as their missing relative.
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Biography of Albert Londe (excerpt)
Albert Londe (26 November 1858 – 11 September 1917) was an influential French photographer, medical researcher and chronophotographer. He is remembered for his work as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, funded by the Parisian authorities, as well as being a pioneer in X-ray photography. ![]()
Biography of Nelson Algren (excerpt)
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
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Biography of Jean-François-Charles Amet (excerpt)
Jean-François-Charles Amet, born January 29, 1861 in Rivière du Rempart on Mauritius and died May 2, 1940 in La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz in Ille-et-Vilaine, is a French naval officer of the 19th and twentieth centuries. Vice-admiral, he ended the First World War as Senior Commander of the Allied naval forces in the Dardanelles.
Biography of André Beaudin (excerpt)
André Beaudin, (born February 3, 1895 in Mennecy and died June 6, 1979 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), is a French painter and sculptor belonging to the School of Paris, whose work follows on from the cubism bordering on non-figuration. ![]()
Biography of Victor Fleming (excerpt)
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939). ![]()
Biography of Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
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Biography of August Stramm (excerpt)
August Stramm (29 July 1874 – 1 September 1915) was a German war poet and playwright who is considered the first of the expressionists.Stramm's radically experimental verse and his major influence on all subsequent German poetry has caused him to be compared to Ezra Pound, Guillaume Apollinaire, James Joyce, and T.S.
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Biography of Mary Helen Young (excerpt)
Mary Helen Young (5 June 1883 – 14 March 1945) was a Scottish nurse and resistance fighter who helped British servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo and put to death at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945.
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Biography of Helene Christaller (excerpt)
Helene Christaller (née Heyer: 31 January 1872, in Darmstadt – 24 May 1953, in Jugenheim/Bergstraße) was a German Protestant writer mostly of youth books, especially for girls. During the Nazi-Era her books were not printed because of their Christian tenor. Literary works
Biography of Pierre Demargne (excerpt)
Pierre Demargne, born February 8, 1903 in Aix-en-Provence and died December 13, 2000 in Paris, was a French historian and archaeologist. Member of the French School of Athens from 1926 and member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres from 1969 until his death, Pierre Demargne continued his research and publications until an advanced age.
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Biography of Max Croiset (excerpt)
Max Croiset (13 August 1912 – 7 April 1993) was a Dutch actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1934 and 1993. He starred in the film The Village on the River, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Biography of Anna Sokolow (excerpt)
Anna Sokolow (February 9, 1910, Hartford, Connecticut – March 29, 2000, Manhattan, New York City) was an American dancer and choreographer known for the social justice focus and theatricality of her work, and for her support of the development of Modern Dance in Mexico and in Israel.
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Biography of Zo d'Axa (excerpt)
Alphonse Gallaud de la Pérouse (28 May 1864 – 30 August 1930 (suicide)), better known as Zo d'Axa), was a French adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist, journalist, and founder of two of the most legendary French magazines, L'EnDehors and La Feuille. A descendant of the famous French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, he was one of the most prominent French individualist anarchists at the turn of the 20th century.
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Biography of Émile Demangel (excerpt)
Émile Joseph Demangel (20 June 1882 – 11 October 1968) was a French amateur track cyclist who competed in several sprint events at the 1906 Intercalated Games and 1908 Summer Olympics.In 1906 he finished fourth in the 5,000 m and 333⅓ m time trial events.
Biography of Al Cabrol (excerpt)
Al Cabrol (Georges Albert Cabrol) is a French wrestler and actor born May 12, 1911 in Bagnolet and died November 2, 1957 in Charleroi. Filmography (fr) 1943 : Coup de tête de René Le Hénaff 1945 : Blondine d'Henri Mahé 1949 : Branquignol de Robert Dhéry : un cow-boy
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Biography of Mary Hallaren (excerpt)
Mary Agnes Hallaren (May 4, 1907 – February 13, 2005) was an American soldier and the third director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) at the time that it became a part of the United States Army.As the director of the WAC, she was the first woman to officially join the U.S.
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Biography of Krystyna Feldman (excerpt)
Krystyna Zofia Feldman (1 March 1916 – 24 January 2007) was a Polish actress. Life and career Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) to a Catholic mother, Katarzyna Sawicka, an opera singer and a Jewish father, Ferdynand Feldman, an actor.Her father died in 1919 when she was 3 years old.
Biography of Jeanne Fontaine (excerpt)
Jeanne Antoinette Fontaine (born Lagrue on August 29, 1897 in Génelard and died on March 5, 1994 in Villepinte), was a French flight attendant, co-pilot and administrator.
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Biography of Dona Drake (excerpt)
Dona Drake (November 15, 1914 – June 20, 1989) was an American singer, dancer, and film actress, known for her ethnic roles in the 1930s and 1940s. Often presenting herself as Mexican, she also performed under the names Una Novella and Rita Novella.
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Biography of Sylvie Jung (excerpt)
Sylvie Jung (10 July 1904 – 15 December 1970) was a French tennis player who was active during the late 1920 and the 1930s. She had her best results in the doubles event, finishing runner-up in seven Grand Slam doubles and mixed-doubles competitions. ![]()
Biography of Marie Surcouf (excerpt)
Marie Surcouf (19 May 1863 – 11 March 1928) was a French balloonist and feminist. In 1906, she was the first French woman to earn an aeronautical balloon pilot's license and later that year she became the first French woman to pilot a balloon flight with an all-woman crew.
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Biography of Lilla Hansen (excerpt)
Lilla Georgine Hansen (1 April 1872 - 11 June 1962) was Norway's first female architect. Background Georgine Marie Hansen was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.She was the daughter of Georg Martin Hansen (1828-1915) and Maren Paulowna Victoria Bülow (1838-1898).She studied at the Royal Drafting School (now Oslo National Academy of the Arts) under Herman Major Schirmer, graduating in 1894.
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Biography of Elizabeth of the Trinity (excerpt)
Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), born Élisabeth Catez (18 July 1880 – 9 November 1906), was a French Discalced Carmelite, a mystic, and a spiritual writer. She was known for the depth of her spiritual growth as a Carmelite as well as bleak periods in which her religious calling was perceived to be unsure according to those around her; she however was acknowledged for her persistence in pursuing the will of God and in devoting herself to the charism of the Carmelites.
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Biography of Elfriede Brüning (excerpt)
Elfriede Brüning (8 November 1910 – 5 August 2014) was a Communist German journalist and novelist. She also used the pseudonym Elke Klent. Selected honours 1960: Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze 1975: Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver 1980: Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin ![]()
Biography of Jacques Cartier (jeweler) (excerpt)
Jacques-Théodule Cartier (2 February 1884 – 10 September 1941) was a French jeweler and Cartier jewelry company executive. Career Jacques worked with his two older brothers to create the world-famous name and business, 'Cartier', in jewellery and watches.While Jacques opened and managed the store in London, Pierre managed the store in New York City.
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Biography of Thérèse Matter (excerpt)
Thérèse Matter, born December 22, 1887 in Rouen and died May 29, 1975 in Lille, graduated from the Protestant Health Center in Bordeaux (hospital-school), co-founder and director of the Ambroise-Paré nursing school in Lille . She is recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for helping the Jews during World War II.
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Biography of Colette Maze (excerpt)
Colette Maze, a French pianist, was born on June 16, 1914, in Paris.Born into a bourgeois family, she developed a passion for music early on and started playing the piano at the age of 5. Despite her parents' opposition, she joined the École Normale de Musique de Paris at 15, studying under masters like Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger.
Biography of Suzanne Kohn (aviator) (excerpt)
Suzanne Kohn was a French aviator.Kohn was born in Paris to a wealthy Jewish family; one of four children, her sister Antoinette would later become a noted painter and French Resistance fighter. In 1939, Kohn flew a Caudron C.600 Aiglon aircraft from Orly, France, to Madagascar.
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Biography of Helen Harrison-Bristol (excerpt)
Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol (December 7, 1909 – April 27, 1995) was a pioneering Canadian female civil aviation instructor and the first Canadian Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot during World War II. In 1939, she was appointed chief flying instructor at the Sheffield Aero Club, then journeyed to the United States to earn that country's commercial pilot's certificate.
Biography of Madeleine Barot (excerpt)
Madeleine Barot (4 July 1909 in Châteauroux – 28 December 1995 in Paris) was a French activist and theologian, who was influential in Protestant, humanist, and human rights movements. ![]()
Biography of Diana Rowden (excerpt)
Diana Hope Rowden (31 January 1915 – 6 July 1944) served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.Rowden was a member of SOE's Acrobat circuit in occupied France where she operated as a courier until she was arrested by the Gestapo.
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Biography of María Zambrano (excerpt)
María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the 20th century after living many years in exile.
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Biography of Élisabeth de Rothschild (excerpt)
Élisabeth, Baroness de Rothschild (née Pelletier de Chambure; a.k.a.Lili; 9 March 1902 – 23 March 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. Biography Born in Paris as Élisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, into a wealthy Catholic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region. ![]()
Biography of Marta Abba (excerpt)
Marta Abba (25, June 1900 – 24 June 1988) was an Italian actress, considered as the muse of the playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba lost her mother early and was raised by her grandparents.She began acting at 14, later joining Enrico Reinach's company in Milan.
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Biography of Princess Hélène of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta.
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Biography of Danuta Szaflarska (excerpt)
Danuta Szaflarska (6 February 1915 – 19 February 2017) was a Polish film and stage actress. In 2008 she was awarded the Złota Kaczka for the best Polish actress of the century. Szaflarska participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a liaison. Szaflarska was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, Commander's Cross and Commander's Cross with Star, one of Poland's highest Orders and Gold Medal of Gloria Artis (2007).
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Biography of Joseph Paul-Boncour (excerpt)
Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour (4 August 1873 – 28 March 1972) was a French politician and diplomat of the Third Republic.He was a member of the Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) and served as Prime Minister of France from December 1932 to January 1933.
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Biography of Louis Gasnier (excerpt)
Louis Joseph Gasnier (September 15, 1875 – February 15, 1963) was a French-American film director, producer, screenwriter and stage actor. A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously successful film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914) and capped his output with the notorious low-budget exploitation film Reefer Madness (1936) which was both a critical and box office failure.
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Biography of Laura Bianchini (excerpt)
Laura Bianchini (23 August 1903 – 27 September 1983) was an Italian educator and politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as part of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. She was subsequently elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, serving until 1953.
Biography of Caroly (excerpt)
The magician Jean Augustin Charles Joseph Faugeras alias Caroly was born on June 15, 1868 in Rochechouart (France) and died on December 2, 1955 in Paris 20th. In 1902, he carried out a new revolution in the rather closed field of prestidigitation: he published the first copy of the monthly newspaper L'Illusionniste. ![]()
Biography of Karen Horney (excerpt)
Karen Horney (née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis.
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Biography of Jan Verkade (excerpt)
Johannes Sixtus Gerhardus (Jan) Verkade (18 September 1868 - 19 July 1946), afterwards Willibrord Verkade O.S.B., was a Dutch Post-Impressionist and Christian Symbolist painter. A disciple of Paul Gauguin and friend of Paul Sérusier, he belonged to the circle of artists known as 'Les Nabis.'
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Biography of Edmond Aman-Jean (excerpt)
Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter and art critic, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923. His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln.He had his first art lessons with Henri Lehmann at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he shared a workshop with Georges Seurat.
Biography of Jean Bernier (journalist) (excerpt)
Jean Bernier, born August 29, 1894 in Beauvais (Oise) and died August 10, 1975 in Paris, is a French writer and journalist. After breaking with Stalinism in 1929, he became an anarchist sympathizer. Marked by the First World War, he is a pacifist and internationalist.
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Biography of Isaac Israëls (excerpt)
Isaac Lazarus Israëls (3 February 1865 – 7 October 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap, Isaac Israëls displayed precocious artistic talent from an early age.
Biography of Étienne Borne (excerpt)
Étienne Vincent Borne (January 22, 1907 – June 14, 1993) was born in Manduel (Gard). He was a professor of philosophy Hypokhâgne at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Étienne Borne founded the Mouvement republicain populaire (MRP), and the French Christian Democratic Party. He was a columnist in the newspaper La Croix.
Biography of Éli Lotar (excerpt)
Eli Lotar (born Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu; January 30, 1905 – May 10, 1969) was a French photographer and cinematographer. Lotar was born in Paris, the son of Tudor Arghezi, a Romanian poet, and Constanța Zissu, a teacher.He became a French citizen in 1926 and met the German photographer Germaine Krull.
Biography of André de Richaud (excerpt)
André de Richaud (April 6, 1907 in Perpignan – September 29, 1968 in Montpellier) was a French poet and writer.After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away.
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Biography of Sophia Antoniadis (excerpt)
Sophia Antoniadis (Greek: Σοφία Αντωνιάδη, 31 July 1895, Piraeus - 25 January 1972, Athens) was a Greek Byzantinist. She was the first female professor at the Leiden University, the first female Humanities professor in the Netherlands and during her career was one of the few Greek women to hold a position at a European university. |
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