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Biography of René Caillié (excerpt)
Auguste René Caillié (19 November 1799 – 17 May 1838) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city. ![]()
Biography of Charles Goodyear (excerpt)
Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844. Although Goodyear is often credited with its invention, modern evidence has proven that the Mesoamericans used stabilized rubber for balls and other objects as early as 1600 BC.
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Biography of Émile Faguet (excerpt)
Auguste Émile Faguet (French pronunciation: ; 17 December 1847, La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 7 June 1916, Paris) was a French author and literary critic. Faguet was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, and educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Alexandrine Zola (excerpt)
Alexandrine Zola, born March 23, 1839 in Paris, was the wife of French writer Emile Zola.
Biography of Raphaël VI (excerpt)
Raphaël VI or Robert C. Cross, born May 15, 1850, died in 1923, was a British astrologer, writer, and editor. ![]()
Biography of Félicien Rops (excerpt)
Félicien Rops (July 7, 1833 - August 23, 1898) was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint. Rops was born in Namur in 1833, and was educated at the University of Brussels. Rops's forte was drawing more than painting in oils; he first won fame as a caricaturist. ![]()
Biography of William Hamilton (excerpt)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. His discovery of quaternions is perhaps his best known investigation. Hamilton's work was also significant in the later development of quantum mechanics. ![]()
Biography of Sadi Carnot (president) (excerpt)
Marie François Sadi Carnot (August 11, 1837 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – June 25, 1894) was a French statesman, the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his death. Early life ![]()
Biography of Françoise-Xavière Cabrini (excerpt)
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917) also called Mother Cabrini, was the first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Early Life She was born in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, the youngest of thirteen children of Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini who were farmers. ![]()
Biography of Léon Riesener (excerpt)
Léon Riesener, born Louis Antoine Léon Riesener January 21, 1808 in Paris, died May 25, 1878 in Paris, is a French romantic painter.
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Biography of José Zorilla y Moral (excerpt)
José Zorrilla y Moral (February 21, 1817 - January 23, 1893), was a Spanish Romantic poet and dramatist. He was born in Valladolid to a magistrate in whom Ferdinand VII placed special confidence,. He was educated by the Jesuits at the Real Seminario de Nobles in Madrid, wrote verses when he was twelve, became an enthusiastic admirer of Walter Scott and Chateaubriand, and took part in the school performances of plays by Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca.
Biography of Noël Saunier (excerpt)
Noël Saunier, born September 28, 1847 in Vienna, died January 7, 1890 in Paris, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Benjamin Harrison (excerpt)
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at age 21 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became a prominent state politician. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (excerpt)
Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (26, March 1842 - 1909) was a French occultist who adapted the works of Fabre d'Olivet and, in turn, had his ideas adapted by Papus. He coined the term Synarchy - the association of everyone with everyone else. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Clésinger (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger or August Clésinger, born October 22, 1814 in Besançon, died in 1883 in Paris, was a French sculptor and painter. He wasthe husband of the daugther of French writer George Sand. Some works 1847 : Femme piquée par un serpent marbre Musée d'Orsay de Paris ![]()
Biography of Pierre Loti (excerpt)
Louis Marie Julien Viaud (January 14, 1850 - June 10, 1923) was a French sailor and writer, who used the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Viaud was born in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France, to an old Protestant family. His education began in Rochefort, but at the age of seventeen, being destined for the navy, he entered the naval school in Brest and studied on Le Borda.
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Biography of Victor Considérant (excerpt)
Victor Prosper Considérant (October 12, 1808 – December 27, 1893) was a French utopian Socialist and disciple of Fourier. Considérant was born in Salins and studied engineering at the École Polytechnique (1826 diploma). Subsequently working as an engineer, he collaborated with Fourier on newspapers. ![]()
Biography of James McNeill Whistler (excerpt)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail.
Biography of Isaac Rodrigue Péreire (excerpt)
The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. Like the Rothschilds, they were Jews, but unlike them the Péreire brothers were Sephardi Jews of Portuguese origin. Émile (1800–1875) and his brother Isaac Péreire (1806–1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank. ![]()
Biography of Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (excerpt)
Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (November 7, 1838 – August 19, 1889) was a French symbolist writer and journalist. Life Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to a distinguished aristocratic family. His parents, Marquis Joseph-Toussaint and Marie-Francoise (née Le Nepvou de Carfort) were not rich, however, and were financially supported by Marie's aunt, Mademoiselle de Kerinou.
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Biography of Zenobe Gramme (excerpt)
Zénobe Théophile Gramme (April 4, 1826 - January 20, 1901) was a Belgian electrical inventor and engineer. In spite of the fact that he was semi-literate and had no advanced knowledge of mathematics, in 1869, he invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct current dynamo capable of generating smoother (less AC) and much higher voltages than the dynamos known to that point. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Gallieni (excerpt)
Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 - 27 May 1916) was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921.
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Biography of Oscar de Négrier (excerpt)
Oscar de Négrier was a French General, born October 2, 1839 in Belfort.
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Biography of Félix Pyat (excerpt)
Félix Pyat (4 October 1810 - 3 August 1889) was a French Socialist journalist and politician. He was born at Vierzon (Cher), the son of a Legitimist lawyer. Called to the bar in Paris in 1831, he threw his whole energies into journalism. ![]()
Biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (excerpt)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 15 September 1859) (pronounced /ˈɪzəmbɑrd ˈkɪŋdəm brʊˈnɛl/), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first with a propeller, and numerous important bridges and tunnels.
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Biography of François-Marie Raoult (excerpt)
François-Marie Raoult (10 May 1830 - 1 April 1901) was a French chemist who conducted research into the behavior of solutions, especially their physical properties. Life and work Raoult was born at Fournes, in the département of Nord. He became aspirant répétiteur at the Lycée of Reims in 1853, and after holding several intermediate positions was appointed in 1862 to the professorship of chemistry in Sens lycée. ![]()
Biography of Paul Déroulède (excerpt)
Paul Déroulède (September 2, 1846 - January 30, 1914) was a French author and politician, and a leading figure of the French right-wing. Early life He was born in Paris, and first appeared as a poet in the Revue nationale, under the pseudonym of "Jean Rebel". ![]()
Biography of Christophe Louis Léon Juchault de Lamoricière (excerpt)
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière (5 September 1806 – 11 September 1865) was a French general. Life He was born at Nantes, and entered the Engineers in 1828. He served in the Algerian campaigns from 1830 onwards, and by 1840 he had risen to the grade of maréchal-de-camp (major-general). ![]()
Biography of Phineas Quimby (excerpt)
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (February 16, 1802 – January 16, 1866), was a New England philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, and scientist, who resided in Belfast, Maine, and had an office in Portland, Maine. Family The son of blacksmith John Quimby (1765-1827) and Susannah Quimby (1768-1827) née White, Quimby was the sixth of seven children. ![]()
Biography of Léon Bonnat (excerpt)
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (June 20, 1833 – September 8, 1922) was a French painter. He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old masters, developing a passion for drawing. ![]()
Biography of André Theuriet (excerpt)
Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (October 8, 1833 - April 23, 1907), French poet and novelist, was born at Marly-le-Roi (Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his mother's province of Lorraine. He studied law in Paris and entered the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau, before his retirement in 1886.
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Biography of Pedro I of Brazil (excerpt)
Pedro I (English: Peter of Alcantara Francis Anthony John Charles Xavier of Paul Michael Raphael Joaquim Joseph Gonzaga Pascal Cyprian Seraphim of Braganza and Bourbon) (full name: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco Antônio João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim de Bragança e Bourbon), known as "Dom Pedro Primeiro" (October 12, 1798 – September 24, 1834), proclaimed Brazil independent from Portugal and became Brazil's first Emperor. ![]()
Biography of Henri Dunant (excerpt)
Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 – October 30, 1910), aka Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy. ![]()
Biography of Charles Lancelin (excerpt)
Charles Lancelin, born January 4, 1852 in Dreux, died in 1941, was a French occulist and author. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Huxley (excerpt)
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Le Bon (excerpt)
Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir – 13 December 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology. ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Adam (excerpt)
Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his last work), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852, often regarded as his finest work), and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (O Holy Night) (1847). ![]()
Biography of José Echegaray (excerpt)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 – September 14, 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. Along with the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904, making him the first Spaniard to win the prize.
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Biography of Léon Bourgeois (excerpt)
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (29 May 1851 – 29 September 1925) was a Jewish French statesman. He was born in Paris, and was trained in law. After holding a subordinate office (1876) in the department of public works, he became successively prefect of the Tarn (1882) and the Haute-Garonne (1885), and then returned to Paris to enter the ministry of the interior. ![]()
Biography of Virginia Oldoini (excerpt)
Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was an Italian courtesan who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France]. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Eugène Delaunay (excerpt)
Charles-Eugène Delaunay (April 9, 1816 – August 5, 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics. Life Born in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, Delaunay studied under Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Sorbonne. ![]()
Biography of Désiré Nisard (excerpt)
Jean Marie Napoléon Désiré Nisard (March 20, 1806 - March 27, 1888) was a French author, journalist, and critic. He was born at Châtillon-sur-Seine. In 1826 he joined the staff of the Journal des Débats, but subsequently transferred his pen to the National. ![]()
Biography of Eugénie de Guérin (excerpt)
Eugénie de Guérin (January 29, 1805 – May 31, 1848), French writer, was the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her Journals (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her Lettres (1864, Eng. trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand von Zeppelin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf (Count) von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 – March 8, 1917) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. He was born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden (now part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany). ![]()
Biography of Hervé Faye (excerpt)
Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye (October 1, 1814 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – July 4, 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. ![]()
Biography of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (excerpt)
Princess Isabel of Brazil, daughter of Pedro II, Emperor of Brasil and Princess Teresa of The Two Sicilies, was born 29 July 1846 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died 14 November 1921 Château d'Eu, France. She was the wife of Gaston d'Eu, born 28 April 1842 Château de Neuilly and died 28 August 1922 (Married 15 October 1864 Rio de Janeiro). ![]()
Biography of Charles-François Daubigny (excerpt)
Charles-François Daubigny (Paris, February 15, 1817 – February 19, 1878 in Paris) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism. Daubigny was born into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny.
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Biography of William M. Thackeray (excerpt)
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Biography Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand de Lesseps (excerpt)
Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805–December 7, 1894) was the maker of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas for the first time in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East. |
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