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Biography of Arthur Koestler (excerpt)
Arthur Koestler CBE (September 5, 1905, Budapest – March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. ![]()
Biography of Célestin Freinet (excerpt)
Célestin Freinet (15 October 1896 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)–8 October 1966) was a noted French pedagogue, and educational reformer. Early life Freinet was born in Provence as the fifth of eight children. His own schooldays were deeply unpleasant to him, and would affect his teaching methods and desire for reform.
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Biography of Maurice Garçon (excerpt)
Maurice Garçon (25 November 1889, Lille (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 5540) - 29 December 1967, Paris) was a French novelist, historian, essayist and lawyer. A major figure at the bar, he gained a certain notoriety and was even mentioned with René Floriot in the last phrase of Jean-Pierre Melville's film "Bob le flambeur". ![]()
Biography of Henry de Monfreid (excerpt)
Henry de Monfreid (14 November 1879, Leucate - 13 December 1974) was a French adventurer and author. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child. "I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life," Monfreid declared a few days before dying in 1974 at the age of 95. ![]()
Biography of René Dorin (excerpt)
René Dorin, born November 13, 1891 in La Rochelle (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died July 25, 1969 in Paris, was a French singer, composer, musician, violonist, artist, radio host and author. He wrote more than 600 sings and founded more than 40 newspapers. ![]()
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Biography of Roland Freisler (excerpt)
Roland Freisler (October 30, 1893 – February 3, 1945) was a prominent and notorious Nazi German judge. He became State Secretary of Adolf Hitler's Reich Ministry of Justice and President of the Volksgerichtshof, a court set up outside constitutional authority. This court handled political crimes against Adolf Hitler's dictatorial regime.
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Biography of Molly Brown (excerpt)
Margaret Brown (née Tobin) (July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), more widely known as Maggie Brown, Molly Brown, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous in the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, after getting lifeboat 6 to return to look for survivors and as leader of the women survivors.
Biography of Yves Tanguy (excerpt)
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955) was a surrealist painter. He was born in Paris, France, the son of a retired navy captain. His parents were both of Breton origin. After his father's death in 1908, his mother moved back to her native Locronan, Finistère, and he ended up spending much of his youth living with various relatives. ![]()
Biography of Édouard Delmont (excerpt)
Édouard Delmont, born Édouard, Marius Autran on December 5, 1883 in Marseille (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives), died on November 2é, 1955 in Cannes, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography 1930 : L'Arlésienne de Jacques de Baroncelli
Biography of Madame Fraya (excerpt)
Valentine Dencausse, best known as Madame Fray, born May 20, 1871 in Villeneuve-de-Marsan (40), was a French chiromancer. She was reputed to have had psychic abilities. ![]()
Biography of René Maizeroy (excerpt)
René Maizeroy, born May 2, 1856 in Metz, died in 1918, was a French author. Works (extracts) La Fête (1893) Mauvais mirage (Le) Frisson nouveau (Le) A l'ombre Parvenu La Vraie et l’autre Celle qu’on n’achète pas ![]()
Biography of Charles Pathé (excerpt)
Charles Pathé (December 26, 1863 – December 26, 1957) was a major French pioneer of the film and recording industries. The son of a butcher shop owner, Charles Pathé was born at Chevry-Cossigny, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. In 1894, together with his brother Émile, he formed Pathé Records.
Biography of France Dhélia (excerpt)
France Dhélia (Saint-Lubin-en-Vergonnois, France, November 9, 1894 - Paris, May 3, 1964) was a French actress. She often performed under the name Mado Floréal. ![]()
Biography of Philippe Henriot (excerpt)
Philippe Henriot (January 7, 1889, Reims—June 28, 1944, Paris) was a French politician. Moving to the far right after beginnings in Roman Catholic conservatism in the Republican Federation, Henriot was elected to the Third Republic's Chamber of Deputies for the Gironde département in 1932 and 1936. ![]()
Biography of Ruben Dario (excerpt)
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 10, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat, and influential poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío and is also known as The Father of Modernism. His poetry brought vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time.
Biography of Guillaume Seznec (excerpt)
Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec, born May 1, 1878 in Plomodiern, has been conviced of murder where the victim is Pierre Quéméneur, a French politician, May 26, 1923. References « Affaire Seznec. Pas de recours devant la cour européenne », Le Télégramme, 14 juin 2007
Biography of Friedrich Schwickert (excerpt)
Friedrich Schwickert, born September 16, 1857 in Cesky Krumlov and died in 1930, was an Austrian author, naval officer and astrologer. He wrote under the name of Sinbad. ![]()
Biography of Paul Fort (excerpt)
Paul Fort (February 1, 1872 - April 20, 1960) was a French poet. Born on in Reims, Marne département, France, he became an important part of the artistic community of Montparnasse. By 1912 his accomplishments and influence were such that Paul Verlaine gave him the title "Prince of the Poets. ![]()
Biography of René Dary (excerpt)
René Dary, born Anatole Antoine Clément Mary, July 18, 1905 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died October 7, 1974 in Plan-de-Cuques (Bouches-du-Rhône), was a French actor and film director, the son of French artist and showman Abélard, also called "le Comique Idiot". ![]()
Biography of René Grousset (excerpt)
René Grousset (September 5, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 12, 1952) was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, and a member of the prestigious Académie française. He wrote several major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations, with his two most important works being History of the Crusades (1934-1936) and The Empire of the Steppes, a History of Central Asia (1939), both of which were considered standard references on the subject. ![]()
Biography of Paul Hutin-Desgrées (excerpt)
Paul Hutin-Desgrées, born October 21, 1888 in Bovée-sur-Barboure (Meuse)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died March 25, 1975 in Rheu (Ille-et-Vilaine), was a French journalist, president of newspapers and politician.
Biography of Amélie of Orléans (excerpt)
Amélie of Orleans (28 September 1865 - 25 October 1951) was the eldest daughter of Philippe, comte de Paris and his wife and cousin Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans. She was Queen consort of Portugal, and was known by her subjects by the name of Maria Amélia. ![]()
Biography of René Clair (excerpt)
René Clair (November 11, 1898 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 846/CR – March 15, 1981) was a French filmmaker and author. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. ![]()
Biography of Leopold III of Belgium (excerpt)
Leopold III (born as Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel (French) or Leopold Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel (Dutch); 3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the Heir Apparent, his son Baudouin. ![]()
Biography of André Perchicot (excerpt)
André Perchicot (August 9, 1888 in Bayonne (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives) - May 3, 1950) was a French cyclist who won the bronze medal at the 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's Sprint in Newark, New Jersey and the 1912 French National Track Championships.
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Biography of Pearl Buck (excerpt)
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū) (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), was a prolific American writer who won a Nobel Prize in Literature and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Biography of Salvatore Ferragamo (excerpt)
Biography Salvatore Ferragamo was born in 1898 in Bonito, near Avellino, the eleventh of 14 children. After making his first pair of shoes at age nine, for his sisters to wear on their confirmation, young Salvatore decided that he had found his calling.
Biography of André Zeller (excerpt)
André Zeller (1 January 1898 – 18 September 1979) was a French Army general, he was one of four generals that organized the Algiers putsch of 1961. He was sentenced to fifteen years for his part in the putsch, but he was amnestied in 1968. ![]()
Biography of Nicola Abbagnano (excerpt)
Nicola Abbagnano (15 July 1901 – September 9, 1990) was an Italian existential philosopher. Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno. He studied in Naples and taught at Turin. In 1972 he moved to Milan, where he collaborated to Indro Montanelli's Il Giornale.
Biography of Maurice Noguès (excerpt)
Maurice Noguès, born in Rennes, October 31, 1889 and killed by accident January 15, 1934 in Corbigny (Nièvre), was a French aviator of Britain descent. Bibliography La Tragédie de l'Emeraude. 15 janvier 1934, Saïgon-Paris, par Michèle Kahn. Editions du Rocher (2007). ![]()
Biography of André Rivoire (excerpt)
André Rivoire, born in Vienne May 5, 1872 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) and died in Paris August 19, 1930, was a French poet and author. Bibliography Collectif, André Rivoire, le poète, sa vie, son œuvre, Blanchard Frères, Vienne, 1932.
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Biography of Gemma Galgani (excerpt)
Saint Gemma Galgani (born March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Campania, Italy, died April 11, 1903) is a Catholic saint who was canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 2, 1940. She was the daughter of a poor pharmacist and suffered throughout her life with ill health.
Biography of Sigrid Onégin (excerpt)
Sigrid Onégin (June 1, 1891 - June 16, 1943) was a Franco-German operatic contralto who enjoyed an international career prior to World War II . She was born in Stockholm, Sweden to a German father and a French mother. She first sang professionally under her maiden name, Lilly Hoffmann.
Biography of Camille Guérini (excerpt)
Camille Guérini, born Camille Adolphe Georges Le Pape on June 29, 1900 in Lorient, Morbihan (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate), died on April 15, 1963 in Clichy-la-Garenne, Hauts-de-Seine, was a French actor and comedian. Theater (extract) * 1926 : Et moi j'te dis qu'elle te fait de l'œil de Maurice Hennequin, Théâtre Déjazet ![]()
Biography of Shoghi Effendi (excerpt)
Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (September 27, 1897 (some other sources give March 1, 1897) - November 4, 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian and appointed head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. After the death of `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1921, the leadership of the Bahá'í community entered a new phase, evolving from that of a single individual to an administrative order with executive and legislative branches, the head of each being the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Jean Jouve (excerpt)
Pierre Jean Jouve (Arras, October 11, 1887 - 1976) was a French writer, novelist and poet.
Biography of Philippe Parès (excerpt)
Philippe Parès, born on May 3, 1901 in Paris (birth time source: Geslain, Lescaut), died in 1979, was a French editor, music producer, and composer.
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Biography of Jean Carlu (excerpt)
Jean Carlu made posters during World War II to promote increase in American production.
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Biography of Karl Abraham (excerpt)
Karl Abraham (3 May 1877 - 25 December 1925) was an early German psychoanalyst, and a correspondent of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil' . He founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, and was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 1914 to 1918 and again in 1925.
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Biography of Maurice Paléologue (excerpt)
Maurice Paléologue (13 January 1859—18 November 1944) was a French diplomat, historian, and essayist. Paléologue was born in Paris as the son of Alexandru Paleologu, a Wallachian Romanian revolutionary who had fled to France after attempting to assassinate Prince Gheorghe Bibescu during the 1848 Wallachian revolution; Alexandru was one of three illegitimate children of Elisabeta Văcărescu of the Văcărescu family of boyars - he and his siblings were later adopted by Zoe Văcărescu, Elisabeta's mother, who gave the children her maiden name Paleologu. ![]()
Biography of Dick Powell (excerpt)
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in the midwest.
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Biography of Jean Fourastié (excerpt)
Jean Fourastié (April 15, 1907, in Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nièvre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 25, 1990, in Douelle, Lot) was a French economist, notable for having coined the expression Trente Glorieuses ("the glorious thirty ") to describe the period of prosperity that France experienced from the end of World War II until the 1973 oil crisis (1945-1973).
Biography of René Trintzius (excerpt)
René Victor Trintzius, born July 29, 1898 in Rouen and died January 24, 1953 in Paris, was a French novelist, author, biographer, occultist and healer. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Alquié (excerpt)
Ferdinand Alquié (born December 18, 1906 in Carcassonne, Aude (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 590), died February 28, 1985 in Montpellier) was a French philosopher and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He taught at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and at the Sorbonne university. ![]()
Biography of George Eastman (excerpt)
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.
Biography of Karl Böhm (excerpt)
Karl August Leopold Böhm (August 28, 1894 – August 14, 1981) was an Austrian conductor. Born in Graz, Austria, Böhm studied law and earned a doctorate on this subject. He later studied music at the Graz Conservatory. On the recommendation of Karl Muck, Bruno Walter engaged him at Munich's Bavarian State Opera in 1921. ![]()
Biography of Marie Laurencin (excerpt)
Marie Laurencin (October 31, 1883 (birth time source: Arno Muller vol 3)–June 8, 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. Laurencin was born in Paris where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. When she was 18 years old, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. ![]()
Biography of Jacqueline Thome-Patenôtre (excerpt)
Jacqueline Thome-Patenôtre, born February 3, 1906 in Paris, died June 2, 1995 in Rambouillet, was a French politician, daugther of politician André Thome, and wife of Minister Raymond Patenôtre. ![]()
Biography of Marie-Eugène Debeney (excerpt)
Marie-Eugène Debeney (5 May 1864 – 8 November 1943) was a French Army general. Several streets in his birthplace are named after him Life Marie-Eugène Debeney was born in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain. A student at Saint-Cyr, Marie-Eugène Debeney became Lieutenant des Chasseurs in 1886. |
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