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Biography of Sheridan Le Fanu (excerpt)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfənjuː/; 28 August 1814 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
Biography of Auguste Dumont (excerpt)
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (January 28, 1801 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives de Paris) – 1884 Paris) was a French sculptor. He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc.
Biography of Charles Zidler (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Zidler, born on December 29, 1831 in Saint-Cloud (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 10, 1897 in Paris 9e, was a French artist manager, one of the founders of Moulin Rouge, a famous cabaret in Paris, France. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
Biography of Félix Buhot (excerpt)
Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was an American explorer, guide, fur trapper trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in Northern California.
Biography of Hippolyte de Villemessant (excerpt)
Jean Hippolyte Auguste Delaunay de Villemessant (22 April 1810, Rouen (birth time source: Didier Geslain) 12 April 1879, Monte-Carlo) was a conservative French journalist. Life The son of colonel Pierre Cartier and of Augustine Louise Renée Françoise de Launay de Villemessant, Hippolyte de Villemessant began his career trading in ribbons.
Biography of Wilkie Collins (excerpt)
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868). Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in Westminster.
Biography of Claude Gueux (excerpt)
Claude Gueux, born on May 18, 1804 in Chassagne-Montrachet (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de la Côte d’Or,) was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction (Claude Gueux is a real person), and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Misérables.
Biography of Ernest Solvay (excerpt)
Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (French: ; 16 April 1838 (birth time source: André Dekoster) – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born at Rebecq, he was prevented by acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of 21.
Biography of Franz Brentano (excerpt)
Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 (birth time source: Arno Müller, Vol. 2., BC) – March 17, 1917) was an influential German philosopher and psychologist whose work strongly influenced not only students Sigmund Freud (whose doctoral dissertation he helped supervise), Kazimierz Twardowski, Alexius Meinong, and Thomas Masaryk (as well as Masaryk's student, Edmund Husserl), but countless others whose work would follow and make use of his original ideas and concepts.
Biography of Paul Broca (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Broca (/broʊˈkɑː/ or /ˈbroʊkə/; 28 June 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that has been named after him.
Biography of Hélène Jégado (excerpt)
Hélène Jégado (17 June 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Morbihan archives) – 26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people (it could be 80, with many children (source: French Wikipedia)) with arsenic over a period of 18 years.
Biography of Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (excerpt)
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste; 21 December 1800 (birth time source: the Wikipedia bio of her mother: Duchess_Louise_Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin) – 30 August 1831) was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
Biography of Maria Feodorovna (excerpt)
Maria Feodorovna (26 November 1847 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, rectified from approx. time) – 13 October 1928), christened Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, was a Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Tsar Alexander III (reigned 1881–1894). She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel; her siblings included Alexandra (Queen Consort of the United Kingdom), King Frederick VIII of Denmark and King George I of Greece.
Biography of Multatuli (excerpt)
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 (birth time source: Koppejans, birth certificate) – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
Biography of Louis Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815, Paris – 10 November 1873, Paris) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. The method was later superseded by the Aniket's process. His son was the well known chemist Henri Louis Le Chatelier.
Biography of Charles Lamoureux (excerpt)
Charles Lamoureux (pronounced: ; 28 September 1834 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 21 December 1899) was a French conductor and violinist. Life He was born in Bordeaux, where his father owned a café. He studied the violin with Narcisse Girard at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1854.
Biography of Henri Tresca (excerpt)
Henri Édouard Tresca (12 October 1814 – 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations, which he explored in an extensive series of experiments begun in 1864.
Biography of Auguste Perdonnet (excerpt)
Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet (12 March 1801, Paris – 27 September 1867, Cannes) was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. He also worked to investigate and remove the causes of railroad accidents.
Biography of Eugène Devéria (excerpt)
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, Paris (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings. He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time.
Biography of Pauline Leroux (excerpt)
Adèle-Louise-Pauline Leroux, born on August 19, 1809 in Paris (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Lescaut, original source unknown), died on February 5, 1891 in Paris, was a French famous dancer in the Paris Opera Ballet and in London. On July 12, 1848, she married the French comedian Pierre-Chéri Lafont (1797-1873).
Biography of Auguste Arnaud (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Arnaud (22 August 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 6 September 1883), known as Auguste Arnaud was a French sculptor. Life Arnaud was born at La Rochelle. A student of the École des Beaux-Arts at Angers, he first came to Paris thanks to a scholarship for his département, joining the workshop of François Rude.
Biography of Henri de Dion (excerpt)
Earl Henri de Dion (born near Montfort-l'Amaury on 18 December 1828, died in Paris on 13 April 1878) was a French engineer who contributed to the construction of the Eiffel Tower. He was an alumnus of the École Centrale Paris and specialised in metallic constructions, such as those of the Exposition Universelle (1878).
Biography of Camille Polonceau (excerpt)
Jean-Barthélémy Camille Polonceau (29 October 1813 – 21 September 1859) was a French railway systems engineer. He was born in Chambery, France, and died in the French commune Viry-Chatillon. In 1839 he invented the Polonceau truss, a method of roof construction considered "one of the most successful roof designs of the nineteenth century".
Biography of Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (10 July 1814 – 31 March 1852) was a French chemist. Ebelmen was the son of Claude Louis Ebelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume. Thereafter he grew interested in the Sciences and attended the elementary mathematics classes in Paris at Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, and applied mathematics at the Lycée de Besançon.
Biography of Jacques Triger (excerpt)
Jacques Triger (March 10, 1801–1867) was a French geologist who invented the 'Triger process' for digging through water logged ground. Triger was also Deputy Director of coal mining operations in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire). Biography Triger was born in Mamers, a town in the Sarthe French county, on 10 March 1801.
Biography of Antoine Béchamp (excerpt)
Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 (birth time source: Roger Fix, birth certificate) – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur. Béchamp developed the Béchamp reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry.
Biography of Auguste Delpech (excerpt)
Noël Antoine Gabriel Auguste Delpech, born on December 22, 1846 in Bonnac, Ariège (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 11, 1935 in Toulouse, was a French professor, politician, and author. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1902 and 1903.
Biography of Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (excerpt)
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (19 February 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives départementale de l’Orne) – 5 April 1889) was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869. Early life Perreaux was born in the village of Almenêches, in Normandy, France, on 19 February 1816.
Biography of Jean-Claude Colfavru (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Colfavru, born on December 1, 1820 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on May 18, 1891 in Paris, was a French politician and lawyer. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1885-1887).
Biography of Louis Lucipia (excerpt)
Louis Adrien Lucipia, born on November 18, 1843 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 459), died on May 21, 1904, was a French journalist, writer, and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1895-1896) and (1898-1900).
Biography of Charles Combes (excerpt)
Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes (26 December 1801 – 1872) was a French engineer. He was Inspector-General of Mines and the Director of the School of Mines in Paris. His name is on the Eiffel Tower. Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes was born on 26 December 1801 in Cahors.
Biography of Henri Boutet (excerpt)
Henri Boutet (March 24, 1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée (birth date and time source: Didier Geslain) - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depicted women ranging from ordinary shop assistants to elegant ladies, managing to portray their common qualities of coquettishness and femininity.
Biography of Georges Diebolt (excerpt)
Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, (6 May 1816, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 November 1861, Paris) was a French sculptor best known for his publicly commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides.
Biography of Jean-Augustin Barral (excerpt)
Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist. Barral was born in Metz (Moselle). He studied at a polytechnic school and became a physicist as well as a professor of chemistry and agronomy. He wrote many works of popular science, especially concerning agriculture and irrigation, and became director of publication of scientific works.
Biography of Marie-François Goron (excerpt)
Marie-François Goron, born on March 2, 1847 in Rennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on February 4, 1933 in Sannois, is a French policeman and writer. Selected bibliography Les Mémoires de Goron, ancien chef de la Sûreté, Paris, Flammarion, 1897, 4 tomes, disponible sur Gallica.
Biography of Louis Breguet (excerpt)
Louis François Clément Breguet (22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet.
Biography of Charles Delagrave (publisher) (excerpt)
Charles Marie Eugène Delagrave, born May 12, 1842 in Paris where he died March 17, 1934, is a French bookseller-publisher, founder of Éditions Delagrave.
Biography of Martin Dumollard (excerpt)
Martin Dumollard (April 21, 1810 in Tramoyes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)) - March 8, 1862 in Montluel) was a French serial killer condemned to the guillotine after having been arrested and charged with the deaths of maids from 1855 to 1861.
Biography of Marcel Deslignières (excerpt)
Marcel Deslignières, born on May 15, 1847 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on July 29, 1914 in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumôn, is a French architect, painter, and watercolourist.
Biography of Frans Van Leemputten (excerpt)
Frans Van Leemputten or Frans van Leemputten (Leuven, 29 December 1850 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Vol. 4, acte de naissance) – Antwerp, 26 November 1914) was a Belgian Realist painter who specialized in landscape paintings of the Campine and Brabantine regions in Belgium as well as scenes with villagers and animals.
Biography of Pierre François Lacenaire (excerpt)
Pierre François Lacenaire (20 December 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 January 1836) was a French murderer and would-be poet. To aid him in committing his crimes, Lacenaire recruited two henchmen, Pierre Victor Avril (whom he had met while in prison) and Hippolyte François.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (August 1, 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departemental archives)-1911) was a French politician. He served as the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand from 1884 to 1889, and as a member of the National Assembly for Puy-de-Dôme from 1885 to 1889.
Biography of Fanny Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer. She composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs.
Biography of André Léo (excerpt)
Victoire Léodile Béra (18 August 1824 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 50 AD86) – 20 May 1900) was a French novelist, journalist and feminist. She took the name of André Léo, her two twin sons' names. In 1866 a feminist group called the Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes began to meet at the house of André Léo in Paris.
Biography of Ernest Flammarion (excerpt)
Ernest Flammarion, born on May 30, 1846 in Montigny-le-Roi (Haute-Marne)(now Val-de-Meuse)(birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1936, was a French editor, the founder of Groupe Flammarion, the fourth-largest publishing group in France, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center).
Biography of Victor Prévost (excerpt)
Victor Joseph Prévost (born December 11, 1836 in Mormant, Seine-et-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 19, 1880 in Paris), also known as The La Chapelle Butcher and The Handsome Man, was a French former butcher, cuirassier, cent-gardes, policeman, murderer and possible serial killer.
Biography of Marie Pape-Carpantier (excerpt)
Marie Pape-Carpantier (1815 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 1878) was a French educator born September 11, 1815 in Sarthe, France and died in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d'Oise) on July 31, 1878. She grew to play a major part in revolutionizing education in French schools.
Biography of Pierre-Jules Hetzel (excerpt)
Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today.
Biography of Alphonse Guépin (excerpt)
Alphonse Guépin (17 February 1808 in Uzel (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 8 December 1878 in Saint-Brieuc) was a French architect and building restorer. He was specialized in churches in Côtes-d'Armor. Saint-Pierre church in Plessala Saint-Gwénaël church in Lescouët-Gouarec Church in Plouézec |
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