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Biography of Herculine Barbin (excerpt)
Herculine Barbin (1838-1868) was a French hermaphrodite who was treated as a female at birth but was later redesignated a male after an affair and physical examination. Most of what we know about Barbin comes from her later memoirs. Herculine Adélaîde Barbin was born in Saint-Jean-d'Angély in France in 1838.
Biography of Gerard Hopkins (excerpt)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889), was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.
Biography of Émile Clapeyron (excerpt)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (26 janvier 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Life Born in Paris, Clapeyron studied at the École polytechnique and the École des Mines, before leaving for Saint Petersburg in 1820 to teach at the École des Travaux Publics.
Biography of Léopold Stapleaux (excerpt)
Léopold Guillaume Stapleaux, born October 16, 1831 in Brussels and died November 1891 in Paris, was a Belgian author and novelist. Selected works Romans La Chasse aux blancs (1861) Cent francs du dompteur (1863) Fabio (1864) Les Drames du grand monde.
Biography of Alfred von Tirpitz (excerpt)
Alfred von Tirpitz (March 19, 1849–March 6, 1930) was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916. Born in Küstrin in Brandenburg, the son of a senior civil servant, he grew up in Frankfurt (Oder).
Biography of Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (excerpt)
Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (October 23, 1813–May 18, 1900) was a French philosopher and archaeologist. He was born at Namur. After a successful course of study at the College Rollin, he went to Munich, where he attended the lectures of Schelling, and took his degree in philosophy in 1836.
Biography of Henri Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (excerpt)
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (30 January 1831 (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut) – 30 June 1913), French politician and journalist, was born in Paris. Life His father was a Legitimist noble who, as Edmond Rochefort, was well known as a writer of vaudevilles; his mother's views were republican.
Biography of Jean-Henri Fabre (excerpt)
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 21, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author. Life Fabre was born in Saint-Léons, Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras.
Biography of Eugène Silvain (excerpt)
Eugène Charles Joseph Silvain, born on June 17, 1851 in Bourg-en-Bresse (birth time source: Lescaut), died on August 21, 1930 in Marseille, was a French comedian, a member of la Comédie-Française (1878-1928). Filmography (extract) 1928 : La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc : l'évêque Cauchon
Biography of Edmond Billaudot (excerpt)
Jules Charles Ernest Billaudot, known as Mage Edmont Billaudot , born August 17, 1829 in Poilly-sur-Serein, Yonne (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain), died in 1881 in La Chapelle-Vieille-Forêt, was a French man who claimed psychic abilities and made predictions, for example for Victor Hugo, Napoléon III and Louis Bonaparte.
Biography of Charles Landelle (excerpt)
Charles Zacharie Landelle, born June 2, 1821 in Laval, died December 13, 1908 in Chennevières-sur-Marne, was a French painter.
Biography of Édouard de Castelnau (excerpt)
Noël Marie Joseph Édouard, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French general in World War I, one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of attaque à outrance that dominated French military thinking in the early part of the war.
Biography of Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (excerpt)
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (August 20, 1807–November 18, 1876) was a French painter. Diaz was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his earlier years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother.
Biography of Maximilian I of Mexico (excerpt)
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (Emperador Maximiliano I de México) (July 6, 1832 – June 19, 1867) (born Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg-Lorraine family. With the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican monarchists, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on April 10, 1864.
Biography of François Grison (excerpt)
François Adolphe Grison, born on June 17, 1845 in Bordeaux, died in 1914, was a French painter.
Biography of Victor Massé (excerpt)
Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé, Lorient (Morbihan) (birth time source: Lescaut), 7 March 1822 – died Paris, 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Biography Massé studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le Rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera.
Biography of Charles Valentin Alkan (excerpt)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813–March 29, 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso and teacher.
Biography of Laure Surville (excerpt)
Laure Surville, born Balzac September 29, 1800 (source not archived) and died in 1871, was a French author. She was the sister of Honoré de Balzac.
Biography of Aristide Boucicaut (excerpt)
Aristide Boucicaut (July 14, 1810 (birth time source: Janine Tissot, FDAF) - 1877) created what is considered to be among the first department stores. Born in Bellême, the son of a banker, he began as a simple clerk in Bellême before he left to become a fabric salesman selling shawls.
Biography of Hugo de Vries (excerpt)
Hugo Marie de Vries (Feb 16, 1848, Haarlem - May 21, 1935, Lunteren) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.
Biography of Julevno (astrologer) (excerpt)
Julevno, born March 16, 1845 in Vannes, died in 1915, was a French professional astrologer, author and translator. He had translated the works of Ptolémée and Thomas Burgoyne.
Biography of Louis-Philippe de Brabant (excerpt)
Louis-Philippe, born July 24, 1833 in Bruxelles and died May 4, 1834, was the first son of Leopold I. Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick (in German Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony) (16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians.
Biography of Amédée Bonnet (excerpt)
Amédée Bonnet, born March 20, 1809 (source: Gauquelin) in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain, died in 1858, was a French orthopedic surgeon, and a Member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Biography of William E. Henley (excerpt)
William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903) was an English poet, critic and editor. Henley was born at Gloucester and was the eldest of a family of six, five sons and a daughter. His father, William, was a bookseller and stationer who died in 1868 leaving young children and creditors.
Biography of Oscar II of Sweden (excerpt)
Oscar II (21 January 1829 - 8 December 1907), born Oscar Frederik was King of Norway from 1872 until 1905 and King of Sweden from 1872 until his death. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.
Biography of Henry Steele Olcott (excerpt)
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism.
Biography of Frédéric Bastiat (excerpt)
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (pronounced: ) (30 June 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 December 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. Biography Bastiat was born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, France. When he was nine years old, he was orphaned and became a ward of his paternal grandparents.
Biography of Adolf von Baeyer (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: ; October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen.
Biography of Dominique Savio (excerpt)
Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; April 2, 1842 – March 9, 1857)) was an Italian adolescent student of John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died, possibly from pleurisy. His teacher, Saint John Bosco had very high regard for his student, and wrote a biography of his young student, The Life of Dominic Savio.
Biography of Marshall Field (excerpt)
Marshall Field (August 18, 1834 – January 16, 1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. Life and career Marshall Field was born on a farm in Conway, Massachusetts, the son of John Field IV and wife Fidelia Nash.
Biography of François Achille Longet (excerpt)
François Achille Longet (May 25, 1811 (birth time source: Lescaut) - 1871) was a French anatomist and physiologist who was a native of Saint Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He was a student of François Magendie (1783-1855), and a pioneer in the field of experimental physiology.
Biography of Désiré-Joseph Mercier (excerpt)
Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Cardinal Mercier (November 21, 1851—January 23, 1926) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907. Mercier is noted for his staunch resistance to the German occupation of 1914, and is considered to have been the mentor of Leo Cardinal Suenens.
Biography of Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (excerpt)
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (Ville-d'Avray, July 14, 1816 – October 13, 1882 in Turin) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855).
Biography of Georges Sorel (excerpt)
Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November, 1847 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 29 August, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered.
Biography of Emmanuel Chabrier (excerpt)
Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer from the Auvergne region of central France and was born in Ambert in 1841. The region of France from whence he came was traditionally useful in providing Parisians with cheese, cabbage and men to mend the boiler.
Biography of Holger Drachmann (excerpt)
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (October 9, 1846 – January 14, 1908), was a Danish poet and dramatist. He is an outstanding figure of the Modern Break-Through. The son of Dr AG Drachmann, whose family was of German extraction, he was born in Copenhagen.
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The French Second Republic (French: Deuxième République Française or La IIe République), officially the French Republic (République française), was the republican government of France that existed between 1848 and 1852. It was established in February 1848, with the Revolution that overthrew the July Monarchy, and ended in December 1852, after the 1851 coup d'état and when president Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III and initiated the Second French Empire.
Biography of Emile Levassor (excerpt)
Émile Levassor (21 January 1843, Marolles-en-Hurepoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 14 April 1897, Paris) was a French engineer and a pioneer of the automobile industry and car racing in France. Graduated at École Centrale Paris, he started his career in 1872 in a company that produced wood-working machines, where he met René Panhard.
Biography of Julie-Victoire Daubié (excerpt)
Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains (birth time source: Marc Brun, FDAF, birth certificate n° 32) – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she optained a bachelor degree in Lyon in 1861.
Biography of Fulgence Bienvenue (excerpt)
Fulgence Bienvenüe (January 27, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – August 3, 1936) was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro. A native of Uzel in Brittany, he graduated as a civil engineer in 1872.
Biography of George du Maurier (excerpt)
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier.
Biography of Simon Newcomb (excerpt)
Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics, statistics and authoring a science fiction novel. The life of Newcomb
Biography of Albert Lebourg (excerpt)
Albert Lebourg, born February 1, 1849 in Montfort-sur-Risle and died January 6, 1928 in Rouen, was a French painter of Rouen's School. He was a member of Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts of Rouen. Bibliography (extract) Léonce Bénédite, Albert Lebourg, Georges Petit, Paris, 1923
Biography of James Russell Lowell (excerpt)
James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.
Biography of Filippo Palizzi (excerpt)
Filippo Palizzi, born June 16, 1818 in Vasto and died September 11, 1899 in Rome, is an Italian painter. Works Saint Jean (cathédrale de Vasto). Amedée de Savoie blessé à Custoza en 1866. Al Pascolo con le caprette. (au paturage avec les chevrettes).
Biography of Joseph Liouville (excerpt)
Joseph Liouville (March 24, 1809 – September 8, 1882) was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the Ecole Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838.
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The Instrument of Government (Swedish: 1809 års regeringsform) adopted on 6 June 1809 by the Riksdag of the Estates and King Charles XIII was one of the fundamental laws that made up the constitution of Sweden from 1809 to the end of 1974.
Biography of Edouard van Beneden (excerpt)
Edouard Joseph Marie Van Beneden (Leuven, 5 March 1846 – Liège, 28 April 1910), son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris.
Biography of Ernest Hébert (excerpt)
Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (3 November 1817 - 5 December 1908) was a French painter and academic. He was born in La Tronche and died in La Tronche. His painting Mal'aria was exhibited in the Salon of 1850-1851, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Biography of Jean Aicard (excerpt)
Jean François Victor Aicard (February 4, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - May 13, 1921) was a French poet, dramatist and novelist. He was born in Toulon. His father, Jean Aicard, was a journalist of some distinction, and the son early began his career in 1867 with Les Jeunes Croyances, followed in 1870 by a one-act play produced at the Marseille theatre. |
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