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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
Biography of Benito Pérez Galdós (excerpt)
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain. Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings.
Biography of Auguste Poulet-Malassis (excerpt)
Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (March 16, 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 11, 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was also a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire.
Biography of George Müller (excerpt)
George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split his group was labelled as the Open Brethren.
Biography of Herminie Cadolle (excerpt)
Herminie Cadolle August 17, 1842 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 1924) was the French inventor of the modern bra and founder of the Cadolle lingerie house. Cadolle was a close friend of the French insurrectionist Louise Michel, and it was this connection that led her to leave for the safety of Buenos Aires.
Biography of Élie Berthet (excerpt)
Élie Berthet (8 June 1815 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 3 February 1891) was a French novelist. Berthet was born in Limoges. A most prolific writer, he wrote more than 100 novels about Paris, criminal affairs, the prehistoric world, and other subjects.
Biography of Edgar Demange (excerpt)
Edgar Demange (April 22, 1841 in Versailles (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 1925 in Paris) was a French jurist. He was, with Fernand Labori, the lawyer of Alfred Dreyfus during his trials in 1894 and 1899. Biography Demange was a winner of the national eloquence competition.
Biography of Clémence Royer (excerpt)
Clémence Royer (21 April 1830 – 6 February 1902) was a self-taught French scholar who lectured and wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. She is best known for her controversial 1862 French translation of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Biography of Carolus-Duran (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (Lille 4 July 1837 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 17 February 1917 Paris), was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.
Biography of Armand Colin (excerpt)
Armand Colin, born on August 31, 1842 in Tonnerre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1900, was a French editor, the founder or Armand Colin, a historically important French publishing house. It quickly became the principal publisher in the world of education, including higher education, with works for students and faculty in the human sciences, economics and education.
Biography of Charles Girault (excerpt)
Charles-Louis Girault (27 December 1851 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 26 December 1932) was a French architect. Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honoré Daumet at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He received the first Prix de Rome, awarded him in 1880 on the basis of a design for a hospital for sick children along the Mediterranean Sea.
Biography of Victoria Welby (excerpt)
Victoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated English philosopher of language, musician and watercolour artist. By the late 19th century, she was publishing articles in the leading English language academic journals of the day, such as Mind and The Monist.
Biography of Jean-Georges Hachette (excerpt)
Jean-Georges Hachette, born on February 28, 1838 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1892, was a French editor, the director of Librairie L. Hachette et Cie, a publishing house founded by Louis Hachette.
Biography of Marie-Antoinette Rivière (excerpt)
Antoinette de Beaucaire or Marie-Antoinette Rivière (21 January 1840, in Nîmes, France – 27 January 1865 (age 25)) was an Occitan language writer. Her works include Li Velugo or "The Sparklets."
Biography of Calmann Levy (excerpt)
Kalmus "Calmann" Lévy (March 29, 1819 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1891) was a French editor. With his brother Michel Lévy (1821–1875), he had founded Calmann-Lévy, a French publishing house. By 1875, the company was among the foremost publishing houses of Europe.
Biography of Gabriel Davioud (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine-Gabriel Davioud (30 October 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 April 1881) was a French architect. Davioud was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Vaudoyer. After winning a Second Grand Prix de Rome, he was named inspector general for architectural works in Paris, and chief architect for its parks and public spaces.
Biography of Hubertine Auclert (excerpt)
Hubertine Auclert (April 10, 1848 in Saint-Priest-en-Murat – August 4, 1914 in Paris) was a journalist, author, leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage.
Biography of Louis Diémer (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Diémer (14 February 1843 – 21 December 1919) was a French pianist and composer. He was the founder of the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s, and gave recitals on the harpsichord. His output as a composer was extensive, including a piano concerto and a quantity of salon pieces, all more or less forgotten these days.
Biography of Henry Longfellow (excerpt)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.
Biography of Albert Pel (excerpt)
Félix-Albert Pel (born June 12, 1849 in Aigueblanche, Savoie Department (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - June 9, 1924 in the prison of New Caledonia) was a French criminal and serial killer. He was nicknamed the "Watchmaker of Montreuil".
Biography of Victor Baltard (excerpt)
Victor Baltard (19 June 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 January 1874) was a French architect famed for work in Paris including designing Les Halles market and the Saint-Augustin church. From 1849 on, he was Architect of the City of Paris.
Biography of Élisa Lemonnier (excerpt)
Élisa Lemonnier (24 March 1805 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 48) – 5 June 1865) was a French educationist who is considered the founder of vocational education for women in France. After various attempts, Élisa Lemonnier managed to create the Société de protection maternelle ("League of maternal protection"), which on 9 May 1862 became the Société pour l'enseignement professionnel des femmes ("Society for Vocational Education of Women").
Biography of Charles Pfizer (excerpt)
Karl Gustav Pfizer (March 22, 1824 – October 19, 1906), known as Charles Pfizer, was a German-American chemist who founded the Pfizer pharmaceutical company with his cousin Charles F. Erhart in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co. On November 9, 2020, it was announced that the vaccine against Covid-19, developed by Pfizer and Biontech, is "90% effective".
Biography of Jean Camille Formigé (excerpt)
Jean-Camille Formigé (July 24, 1845 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 1926) was a French architect during the French Third Republic. He served as the chief architect of historic monuments of France, and also as the chief architect of buildings, promenades and gardens of the city of Paris.
Biography of Luise Büchner (excerpt)
Elisabeth Emma Louise ("Luise") Büchner (12 June 1821, Darmstadt – 28 November 1877) was a German women's rights activist and writer of essays, novels, travelogues and poetry. She published her influential Die Frauen und ihr Beruf (Woman and Their Vocation) anonymously in 1855, in which she campaigned for equality of education for girls, with the opportunity for productive vocations as adult women, but also to better prepare young women for motherhood.
Biography of Paul-Émile Sarradin (excerpt)
Paul-Émile Sarradin, born on October 15, 1825 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on November 1, 1909, was a French industrialist and politician, the mayor of Nantes between (1899-1908).
Biography of Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher) (excerpt)
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (January 28 (O.S. January 16) 1853 – August 13 (O.S. July 31) 1900), a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early-20th century.
Biography of Joseph-Antoine Boullan (excerpt)
Abbé Joseph-Antoine Boullan (Saint-Porquier, Tarn-et-Garonne, 18 February 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 January 1893, Lyon) was a French Roman Catholic priest and later a laicized priest, who is often accused of being a Satanist although he continued to defend his status as a Christian.
Biography of Pauline Roland (excerpt)
Pauline Roland (1805, Falaise, Calvados (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) — 15 December 1852) was a French feminist and socialist. Roland was a close associate of Pierre Leroux and George Sand and she joined Leroux's community at Boussac (Indre) in 1847, where she worked in the school and wrote for l'Eclaireur de l'Indre.
Biography of Mary Seacole (excerpt)
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.
Biography of Paule Mink (excerpt)
Paule Mink (born Adèle Paulina Mekarska; 1839 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 801) – 1901) was a journalist, author, French feminist and socialist revolutionary of Polish descent. She participated in the Paris Commune and in the First International. Her pseudonym is also sometimes spelled Minck.
Biography of Ilya Repin (excerpt)
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August (O.S. 24 July) 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian and Ukrainian realist painter. He was the most renowned Ukrainian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature.
Biography of Antoine Renard (excerpt)
Antoine-Aimé Renard, born February 14, 1825 in Lille (Nord) (source for his date and time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate, Wikipedia indicates February 15), rue Saint-Sauveur, and died on May 9 1872 in Paris, is a tenor of French opera, best known for having composed in 1867 the music of Temps des cerises, the famous song of Jean-Baptiste Clément.
Biography of Valentin Magnan (excerpt)
Valentin Magnan (16 March 1835 – 27 September 1916) was a French psychiatrist who was a native of Perpignan. Magnan was an influential figure in French psychiatry in the latter half of the 19th century. He is remembered for expanding the concept of degeneration that was first introduced into psychiatry by Bénédict Augustin Morel (1809–1873).
Biography of Octavia Hill (excerpt)
Octavia Hill (3 December 1838 – 13 August 1912 (cancer)) was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing to the financial failure of her father's businesses.
Biography of Victor Masson (editor) (excerpt)
Victor Masson, born on February 2, 1807 in Beaune (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 3, 1879 in Fleurey-sur-Ouche, was a French editor and book seller.
Biography of Alphonse Hasselmans (excerpt)
Alphonse Hasselmans (5 March 1845 – 19 May 1912) was a Belgian-born French harpist, composer, and pedagogue. Hasselmans' daughter, Marguerite Hasselmans (1876–1947), was a concert pianist; she was also the mistress of Gabriel Fauré for many years. His son, Louis Hasselmans (1878–1957), was a conductor, especially of opera, whose career took him to the United States, working at the Chicago Civic Opera and the Metropolitan Opera before becoming Professor of Music at Louisiana State University.
Biography of John Dalberg-Acton (excerpt)
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.
Biography of Anselme Bellegarrigue (excerpt)
Anselme Bellegarrigue was a French individualist anarchist, born on March 23, 2813 in Monfort (Gers) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) and presumed dead around the end of the 19th century in Central America. He participated in the French Revolution of 1848, was author and editor of Anarchie, Journal de l'Ordre and Au fait ! Au fait ! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique.
Biography of Millicent Fawcett (excerpt)
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political leader, activist, writer and feminist icon. Known as a campaigner for women's suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until 1919 she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
Biography of Antoni Patek (excerpt)
Antoni Norbert Patek (French: Antoine Norbert de Patek; 14 June 1812 – 1 March 1877) was a Polish pioneer in watchmaking and a creator (in 1839) of the Patek Philippe & Co., one of the most famous Swiss watchmaker companies. Patek Philippe is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious watch manufacturers in the world.
Biography of Afanasy Fet (excerpt)
Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, later known as Shenshin, born 5 December (O.S. 23 November) 1820 – 3 December (O.S. 21 November) 1892), was a renowned Russian poet regarded as the finest master of lyric verse in Russian literature.
Biography of Delphine Delamare (excerpt)
Veronique Delphine Delamare (17 February 1822 – 8 March 1848), born Couturier, was a French housewife who took numerous lovers and later committed suicide. She was said to have been the inspiration for Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. Delamare was the daughter of a wealthy land owner.
Biography of Anna of Prussia (excerpt)
Princess Maria Anna Friederike (17 May 1836 – 12 June 1918) was a Princess of Prussia. She was usually called Anna. Anna was the youngest of the three children of Prince Charles of Prussia and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. As a beautiful young princess, she was the object of much attention at court.
Biography of Michel Joseph Maunoury (excerpt)
Michel-Joseph Maunoury (17 December 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 March 1923) was a commander of French forces in the early days of World War I. Initially commanding in Lorraine, as the success of the German thrust through Belgium became clear he was sent to take command of the new Sixth Army which was assembling near Amiens and then fell back on Paris.
Biography of Osman Hamdi Bey (excerpt)
Osman Hamdi Bey (Constantinople 30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey.
Biography of Howard Pyle (excerpt)
Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University).
Biography of Fyodor Tyutchev (excerpt)
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (December 5 1803 – July 27 1873) was a Russian poet and statesman. Tyutchev was born into a Russian noble family in the Ovstug family estate near Bryansk (modern-day Zhukovsky District, Bryansk Oblast of Russia). His father Ivan Nikolaevich Tyutchev (1768—1846) was a court councillor who served in the Kremlin Expedition that managed all building and restoration works of Moscow palaces.
Biography of Paul Rougnon (excerpt)
Paul-Louis Rougnon (24 August 1846 (birth certificate n° 529, Astrotheme) – 11 December 1934) was a French composer, pianist and music educator. As a prolific composer and writer, he composed more than 300 musical works in addition to literary and pedagogical volumes.
Biography of Charles Bataille (excerpt)
Charles Bataille, born in Pontgouin (Eure-et-Loir) on January 27, 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Paris on December 10, 1868, is a French journalist, singer, poet, novelist and playwright. From 1854, he collaborated in various newspapers including Le Gaulois, The Diogenes, Le Charivari and Le Figaro (1854-1866) where he held the literary critics, author sometimes under the pseudonyms of Paul Dyas or Antonio, he is famous for being the author of the obituary of Charles Baudelaire published in Le Charivari on September 8, 1867. |
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