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Biography of Arthur Coquard (excerpt)
Arthur Coquard (26 May 1846 – 20 August 1910) was a French composer and music critic. He studied composition with César Franck, and was a music critic for Le Monde and Echo de Paris. He served as director of the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles from 1891–99.
Biography of Charles Ardant du Picq (excerpt)
Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq (19 October 1821 – 15 August 1870) was a French colonel and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.
Biography of Auguste Bravais (excerpt)
Auguste Bravais (23 August 1811, Annonay, Ardèche – 30 March 1863, Le Chesnay, France) was a French physicist, well known for his work in crystallography (the Bravais lattices, and the Bravais laws). Bravais also studied magnetism, the northern lights, meteorology, botanical geography or phyllotaxis, astronomy, and hydrography.
Biography of Henry Becque (excerpt)
enry François Becque (18 April 1837 – May 1899), French dramatist, was born in Lille. In 1867, he wrote, in imitation of Lord Byron, the libretto for Victorin de Joncières's opera Sardanapale, but his first important work, Michel Pauper, appeared in 1870.
Biography of Oscar Roty (excerpt)
Louis-Oscar Roty usually known as Oscar Roty (11 June 1846 – 23 March 1911) was one of the most celebrated medallists of the Art Nouveau period. Biography Louis-Oscar Roty was born on 11 June 1846 in Paris. He first studied painting and sculpture, working under Lecoq de Boisboudran, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and François-Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme.
Biography of Pierre Bosquet (excerpt)
Pierre François Joseph Bosquet (8 November 1810- 5 February 1861) was a French soldier. He served as General during the conquest of Algeria and the Crimean War; returning from Crimea he was made Marshal of France and senator. He entered the artillery in 1833, and a year later went to Algeria.
Biography of Charles Wolf (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Étienne Wolf (November 9, 1827 in Vorges – July 4, 1918) was a French astronomer. In 1862, Urbain Le Verrier offered him a post as assistant at the Paris Observatory. In 1867 he and Georges Rayet discovered Wolf-Rayet stars. Note however that the nearby red dwarf Wolf 359 was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf and not by him.
Biography of Albert Robida (excerpt)
Albert Robida (March 14, 1848, Compiègne, Oise – October 11, 1926) was an illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, journalist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels.
Biography of Sadi Carnot (physicist) (excerpt)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (French: ; 1 June 1796 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics". In his only publication, the 1824 monograph Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, Carnot gave the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines.
Biography of Robert Bridges (excerpt)
Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. Life Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and intended to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry.
Biography of Johannes Bosboom (excerpt)
Johannes Bosboom (born The Hague, February 18, 1817 – died there September 14, 1891) was a Dutch painter and watercolorist, known especially for his paintings of church interiors. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague. His wife was the writer Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint.
Biography of Alfred Richet (excerpt)
Alfred Richet, born March 16, 1816 in Dijon, died in 1891, was a French surgeon and a member of the Académie des Sciences.
Biography of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (excerpt)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (October 11, 1825 – November 28, 1898) was a poet and, as he was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a fellow-townsman of Gottfried Keller. Meyer is a master of the novella, but in all other respects there is a most striking difference.
Biography of Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (excerpt)
Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (December 31, 1827, Marseille - July 10, 1895, Château-Puys, near Dieppe) was a famed French operatic soprano, particularly associated with light lyric and coloratura roles. Born Marie Caroline Félix-Miolan, she studied first with her father, François Félix-Miolan, an oboist, and later at the Paris Conservatory with Gilbert Duprez.
Biography of Sidney Sonnino (excerpt)
Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino (March 11, 1847 – November 24, 1922) was an Italian politician. Sonnino was born in Pisa to an Italian father of Jewish heritage (Giorgio Sonnino, who converted himself to Anglicanism) and a Welsh mother. He was raised as a Protestant.
Biography of Henri Boudet (excerpt)
Henri Boudet, born November 17, 1837 in Quillan, Aude (source not archived), died March 30, 1915 in Axat (bowel cancer), was a French Catholic priest and writer. Bibliography Du Nom de Narbonne (Circa 1880) La Vraie Langue Celtique ou le Cromleck de Rennes-Les-Bains (1886)
Biography of Henry Dupray (excerpt)
Henry Dupray, born November 3, 1831 in Sedan, died in 1909 in Paris, was one of the "Masters" of twentieth century Painter of portraits and military subjects.
Biography of Adolphe Brongniart (excerpt)
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (French pronunciation: ) (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany.
Biography of Jules Claretie (excerpt)
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (3 December 1840 – 23 December 1913) was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français. He was born at Limoges. After studying at the lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he became a journalist, achieving great success as dramatic critic to Le Figaro and to the Opinion nationale.
Biography of Marcel Deprez (excerpt)
Marcel Deprez (December 29, 1843 - October 13, 1918) was a French electrical engineer. He was born in Chatillon-sur-Loing. He died in Vincennes. At Creil, from 1876 to 1886, Deprez conducted the first experiments to transmit electrical power over long distances. At the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris in 1881, Deprez undertook the task of presenting an electricity distribution system based on the long-distance transport of direct current.
Biography of Charles Meray (excerpt)
Hugues Charles Robert Méray (born November 12, 1835 in Chalon-sur-Saône; died February 2, 1911 in Dijon) was a French mathematician. He is noted as the first to publish an arithmetical theory of irrational numbers. His work did not have much of a role in the history of mathematics because France, at that time, was less interested in such matters than Germany.
Biography of Wilhelm Leibl (excerpt)
Wilhelm Leibl (October 23, 1844 – December 4, 1900) was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life. Leibl was born in Cologne and in 1861 began his first training with Hermann Becker, a local painter. He entered the Munich Academy in 1864, subsequently studying with several artists including Carl Theodor von Piloty.
Biography of Jules Malou (excerpt)
Jules Edouard Xavier Malou (19 October 1810 - July 1886) was a Belgian statesman, a leader of the clerical party. He was born at Ypres. He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native constituency in 1841, and was for some time governor of the province of Antwerp.
Biography of Elizabeth Prentiss (excerpt)
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878) was a Presbyterian pastor's wife, mother, and author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869). Some of her verses were recently compiled in a book published by Solid Ground Christian Books (Golden Hours: Heart-hymns of the Christian Life).
Biography of Willem Maris (excerpt)
Willem Maris (February 18, 1844, The Hague - October 10, 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. He got his first lessons in drawing from his brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris. For a while he followed evening classes at the Hague Academy and later continued his studies with the cattle painter Stortenbeker.
Biography of Joseph Rollet (excerpt)
Joseph Rollet, born November 12, 1824 in Lagnieu, died in 1894, was a French physician and researcher.
Biography of Paul Alexandre Protais (excerpt)
Paul Alexandre Protais, born October 17, 1826 in Paris, died in 1890, was a French painter.
Biography of Agar (actress) (excerpt)
Marie Léonide Charvin, best known as Agar, born on September 18, 1832 in Sedan (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on August 15, 1891 in Mustapha, Algeria, was a French comedian, one of the most famous comedians with Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt.
Biography of Paul-Dominique Gourlier (excerpt)
Paul-Dominique Gourlier, born on June 13, 1813 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1869, was a French painter.
Biography of Ferdinand Sarrien (excerpt)
Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien (1840-1915) was a French politician of the Third Republic. He headed a cabinet supported by the Bloc des gauches (Left-Wings Coalition) parliamentary majority. Sarrien's Ministry, 12 March - 25 October 1906 Ferdinand Sarrien - President of the Council and Minister of Justice
Biography of Pierre-Ossian Bonnet (excerpt)
Pierre Ossian Bonnet (December 22, 1819- 22 June 1892) French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Early years Pierre Bonnet attended the Collège in Montpellier. In 1838 he entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Biography of Henri Murger (excerpt)
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger (27 March 1822, Paris – 28 January 1861, Paris) was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la vie de bohème, from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian attic, and member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" (because they were too poor to afford wine).
Biography of Émile Mellinet (excerpt)
Émile Henry Mellinet, born on June 1, 1798 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, city archives), died on January 20, 1894 in Nantes, was a French military (General in 1850). He was also the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France (1865, June 9-1870).
Biography of Charles Duclerc (excerpt)
Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc (9 November 1812 - 21 July 1888) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as prime minister from 1882 to 1883.
Biography of Eugène Simon (excerpt)
Eugène Simon (30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species.
Biography of Gustave Brion (excerpt)
Gustave Brion, born November 4, 1824 in Rothau, Alsace, died November 6, 1877, was a French realist painter. Bibliography Hélène Chew, « Gustave Brion, illustrateur d'archéologie, ou le "désigneux de l'Empereur" », Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire, n° 47, 2004 , p.
Biography of Rui Barbosa (excerpt)
Rui Barbosa de Oliveira (November 5, 1849 – March 1, 1923) was a Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician. Born in Salvador da Bahia, he was a federal representative, senator, Minister of Finance and diplomat. For his distinguished participation in the 2nd Hague Conference, he earned the nickname "Eagle of the Hague".
Biography of Charles Monselet (excerpt)
Charles Monselet (30 April 1825, Nantes - 19 May 1888, Paris) was a French journalist, novelist, poet and playwright, nicknamed "the king of the gastronomes" by his contemporaries. He specialised in comedic and romantic novels and his total output was around 40 volumes.
Biography of Léonide Babaud-Laribière (excerpt)
François-Saturnin-Léonide Babaud-Laribière, born on April 5, 1819 in Confolens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 45), died on April 25, 1873 in Perpignan, was a French politician, lawyer, journalist, author, and Freemason. Publications Histoire de l'Assemblée constituante (2 vol.)
Biography of Clotilde de Vaux (excerpt)
Clotilde de Vaux, was born Clotilde-Marie de Ficquelmont on April 3, 1815 in Paris, France and died on April 5, 1846 in Paris, France. She gave philosopher Auguste Comte the inspiration for the Religion of Humanity. Biography Elder daughter of a branch of a preeminent family of ancient nobility, sister of French military officer and mathematician Maximilien-Marie de Ficquelmont, follower of Positivism, Clotilde de Vaux was educated at the prestigious Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur.
Biography of Charles Richet (excerpt)
Charles Robert Richet (August 26, 1850 (birth time source: birth certificate, Gauquelin) – December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" in 1913.
Biography of Marie-Adolphe Carnot (excerpt)
Marie Adolphe Carnot (27 January 1839 – 20 June 1920) was a French chemist, mining engineer and politician. He came from a distinguished family: his father, Hippolyte Carnot, and brother, Marie François Sadi Carnot, were politicians, the latter becoming President of the third French Republic.
Biography of William Thomson (excerpt)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE (26 June 1824 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
Biography of Louis Buffet (excerpt)
Louis Joseph Buffet, born in Mirecourt (Vosges) October 26, 1818 and died in Paris July 7, 1898, was a French politician. In 1890, he is member of Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences).
Biography of Philippe Dautzenberg (excerpt)
Philippe Dautzenberg (Ixelles, Brussels, 20 December 1849 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 466, André Dekoster) - Paris, 9 May 1935) was a Belgian malacologist, in other words, he was a biologist who specialized in the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with mollusks.
Biography of Eugène Schneider (excerpt)
Joseph Eugène Schneider (29 March 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 27 November 1875) was a French industrialist who in 1836 co-founded the Schneider company with his brother Adolphe Schneider. Biography Schneider was born on 29 March 1805 in Bidestroff, in the départment of Moselle, France.
Biography of Frederick Hockley (excerpt)
Frederick Hockley (October 13, 1809 in London (birth time source: this article – November 10, 1885) was a British occultist who was a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Hockley collected some important occult texts, including a Rosicrucian manuscript belonging to Sigismond Bacstrom, who was initiated into an occult society in Mauritius in 1794.
Biography of Ernest Goüin (excerpt)
Ernest Goüin (or Gouin) (July 22, 1815 in Tours – March 24, 1885 in Paris) was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects.
Biography of Hippolyte Bayard (excerpt)
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.
Biography of Hippolyte Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801, Saint-Omer (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 16, 1888) was a French statesman. Early life Hippolyte was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon. |
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