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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 Grandma Moses (excerpt)
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses" was a renowned American folk artist. She is most often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. ![]()
Biography of Montéhus (excerpt)
Gaston Mardochée Brunswick, better known by his pseudonym Montéhus, was a French singer-songwriter. He was born in Paris on 9 July 1872 (birth time source: birth certificate) and died in December 1952. He was the writer of such notable songs as Gloire au 17ème and La Butte Rouge.
Biography of Upton Sinclair (excerpt)
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating socialist views. He achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Aimé Cotton (excerpt)
Aimé Auguste Cotton (9 October 1869 - 16 April 1951) was a French physicist known for his studies of the interaction of light with chiral molecules. In the absorption bands of these molecules, he discovered large values of optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), or variation of optical rotation as a function of wavelength (Cotton effect), as well as circular dichroism or differences of absorption between left and right circularly polarized light. ![]()
Biography of Félix Mayol (excerpt)
Félix Mayol (November 18, 1872 - November 1, 1941) was a French singer and entertainer. Mayol was born in Toulon, France. His parents were both amateurs singers or actors, who arranged for Felix to make his debut stage at six years of age. ![]()
Biography of Lady Randolph Churchill (excerpt)
Lady Randolph Churchill, CI, DStJ (January 9, 1854 – June 9, 1921), born Jennie Jerome, was the American-born wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Early life Jennie Jerome was born in Brooklyn (Kings County), New York, the second of three daughters of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clara, daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner and sometime New York State Assemblyman. ![]()
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 Emile Nelligan (excerpt)
Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 (birth time source: email (the author wants to remain anonymous) – November 18, 1941) was a francophone poet from Quebec, Canada. Nelligan was born in Montreal on December 24, 1879 at 602, rue de La Gauchetière. He was the first son of David Nelligan, who arrived in Quebec from Dublin, Ireland at the age of 12. ![]()
Biography of William Jennings Bryan (excerpt)
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American politician, orator and lawyer. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for his deep, commanding voice.
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Biography of Anatole Le Braz (excerpt)
Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" (April 2, 1859 – March 20, 1926) was a Breton folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. Le Braz was born in Duault and raised amongst woodcutters and charcoal burners, speaking the Breton language; his parents did not speak French.
Biography of André Charles Weiss (excerpt)
André Charles Weiss, born September 30, 1858 in Mulhouse, died in 1928, was a French author, law teacher in Paris, international law specialist. ![]()
Biography of Léon Lhermitte (excerpt)
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (also known as Léon Augustin L'hermitte). Born Mont-Saint-Père, 1844, died Paris, 1925. French painter and etcher of the late nineteenth century. A student of Lecocq de Boisbourdran. A realist artist whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.
Biography of Pierre-Ernest Pinoy (excerpt)
Pierre-Ernest Pinoy, born February 3, 1873 in Paris, was a French French physician, a doctor of medicine and member of Académie of Sciences.
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Biography of François Cachoud (excerpt)
François Charles Cachoud, born October 27, 1866 in Chambéry, died in 1943, was a French painter. Selected works Brume et rosée primée au prix Royoncourt-Goyon. Aux musées de Chambéry : La nuit évoque le passé La montagne du Signal au soleil couchant ![]()
Biography of François Pompon (excerpt)
François Pompon (May 9, 1855 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 6, 1933) was a French sculptor and animalier. Born in Saulieu in Burgundy, he moved to Paris. Beginning in 1870 he studied under the noted animalier Pierre Louis Rouillard at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and later worked as Auguste Rodin's assistant. ![]()
Biography of François Coli (excerpt)
François Coli (February 5, 1881 - presumably on or after May 8, 1927) was a French pilot and navigator best known as the flying partner of Charles Nungesser in the doomed attempt to fly the Atlantic Ocean on the aircraft known as The White Bird. ![]()
Biography of Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (excerpt)
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (November 19, 1868 - February 16, 1932) was a French radio pioneer and army general. Ferrié was born in Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoie. After graduating from the École Polytechnique, Paris, in 1891, he became an officer in the French army's Engineers Corps, specializing in its military telegraph service. ![]()
Biography of Percy Fawcett (excerpt)
Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett (August 31, 1867 – in or after 1925) was a British archaeologist and explorer. Along with his son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find what he believed to be an ancient lost city in the uncharted jungles of Brazil.
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Biography of Louis Vauxcelles (excerpt)
Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943) was an influential French art critic. To him are attributed the terms Fauvism (1905), and Cubism (1908). Vauxcelles coined the phrase 'les fauves' (translated as 'wild beasts') to describe a circle of painters associated with Matisse as well as the audiences who criticised them (he couldn't decide which were more arrogant).
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Biography of Gérard Cooreman (excerpt)
Gérard François Marie Cooreman (25 March 1852 birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – 2 December 1926) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, Cooreman was trained in law, and practised as a lawyer, but was more active as a businessman and financier, and became involved with Catholic social groups.
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Biography of Will Rogers (excerpt)
William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S. Congressman and WWII Veteran Will Rogers, Jr. Known as Oklahoma's favorite son, Rogers was born to a prominent Indian Territory family and learned to ride horses and use a lariat so well that he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing three ropes at once—one around the neck of a horse, another around the horse's rider, and a third around all four legs of the horse.
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Biography of Charles Dalmorès (excerpt)
Charles Dalmorès (December 31, 1871 (source: Gauquelin) – December 6, 1939) was a French tenor. He enjoyed an international operatic career, singing to public and critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic during the first two decades of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Georges-Joseph Toutée (excerpt)
Georges-Joseph Toutée, born February 26, 1855 in Saint-Fargeau (birth certificate n° 16), died November 16, 1927 in Paris, was a French military, general, politician, and explorer in Africa. He was also an author, and has written Dahomé, Niger, Touareg, Récit de voyage (1897), Du Dahomé au Sahara and La nature et l'homme (1899). ![]()
Biography of Camille Guérin (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (December 22, 1872, Poitiers, France – June 9, 1961, Paris. French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Camille Guérin was born in Poitiers to a family of modest means. ![]()
Biography of Léon Deubel (excerpt)
Léon Deubel, born on March 22, 1879 in Belfort, died on June 12, 1913, was a French poet. Publications (extract) La Chanson balbutiante. Éveils, Sollicitudes, la Chanson du pauvre Gaspar (1899) Figurines suivi de Petit drame lunaire et lunatique (1901) ![]()
Biography of Arsène d'Arsonval (excerpt)
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (June 8, 1851 – December 13, 1940) was born in La Porcherie and was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil galvanometer and probably of the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century. ![]()
Biography of Franz von Papen (excerpt)
Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen (help·info) (29 October 1879 – 2 May 1969) was a German nobleman, Catholic politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany (Reichskanzler) in 1932. To many historians, Papen was also a key member in the small clique of right-wing politicians who "jobbed Adolf Hitler into power by backstairs intrigue" . ![]()
Biography of André Suarès (excerpt)
André Suarès was one of the pseudonyms used by Félix-André-Yves Scantrel (12 June 1868, Marseille – 7 September 1948, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) a French poet and critic. From 1912 onwards, he was one of the four "pillars" of the Nouvelle Revue Française, along with André Gide, Paul Claudel and Paul Valéry.
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Biography of Lionel Barrymore (excerpt)
Lionel Barrymore (April 12, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film. Personal life Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of actors Georgiana Drew and Maurice Barrymore (née Blythe). He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore, the uncle of John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-uncle (or great-uncle) of Drew Barrymore. ![]()
Biography of René Sudre (excerpt)
René Sudre, born April 1880 in Angoulême, died in 1968, was a French parapsychologist, science author, professor and commentator.
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Biography of Félix Kir (excerpt)
Canon Félix Kir (January 22, 1876 (birth time source: Richard Pellard, birth certificate) - April 26, 1968) was a French Catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician. He was born at Alise-Sainte-Reine on the Côte-d'Or. He entered a small seminary at Plombières-lès-Dijon in 1891 and was ordained 1901. ![]()
Biography of Henry Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (Paris, October 8, 1850 - Miribel-les-Echelles September 17, 1936) was an influential French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is most famous for devising Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists to predict the effect of a change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium. ![]()
Biography of François Coty (excerpt)
François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno; 3 May 1874, Ajaccio, France – 25 July 1934, Louveciennes) was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française. The company he founded in 1904 is now Coty, Inc. ![]()
Biography of John Davidson (poet) (excerpt)
John Davidson (11 April 1857 – 23 March 1909) was a Scottish poet and playwright, best known for his ballads. He was born at Barrhead, East Renfrewshire as the son of a Dissenting minister and entered the chemical department of a sugar refinery in Greenock in his 13th year, returning after one year to school as a pupil teacher. ![]()
Biography of Walther Rathenau (excerpt)
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 – June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic. Political career Rathenau was a leading proponent of a policy of assimilation for German Jews: he argued that Jews should oppose both Zionism and socialism and fully integrate themselves into mainstream German society. ![]()
Biography of Renée Carl (excerpt)
Renée Carl (10 June 1875 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) – 31 July 1954) was a French actress of the silent era. She appeared in 186 films between 1907 and 1937. At least 150 of the films she appeared in were directed or co-directed by Louis Feuillade. ![]()
Biography of Alexandre Yersin (excerpt)
Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin (September 22, 1863 (birth time source: Astrotheme, civil registrar, email)–March 1, 1943) was a French (born Swiss) physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was re-named in his honour (Yersinia pestis). ![]()
Biography of Claude Farrère (excerpt)
Claude Farrère (Lyon, April 27, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 363) – Paris, June 21, 1957) was a prolific French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki. One of his novels, Les civilisés ("The Civilized Ones") won the first Prix Goncourt, for 1905. ![]()
Biography of Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) (excerpt)
Engelbert Humperdinck (September 1, 1854 – September 27, 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893). Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces. He produced his first composition after receiving piano lessons when he was only seven.
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Biography of André Alerme (excerpt)
André Alerme, born September 9, 1877 in Dieppe, died February 2, 1960 in Montrichard, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (selection) * 1925 : Amour et carburateur de Pierre Colombier * 1931 : Le Blanc et le Noir de Robert Florey - (Georges Samoy)
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Biography of André Chantemesse (excerpt)
André Chantemesse (October 13, 1851 - February 25, 1919) was a French bacteriologist. After graduation from the University of Paris in 1884, he traveled to Berlin to study bacteriology at the laboratory of Robert Koch (1843-1910). Chantemesse is primarily known for his collaborative work done with Georges-Fernand Widal (1862-1929) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Fridtjof Nansen (excerpt)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (October 10, 1861 – May 13, 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest personalities in the history of Norway. ![]()
Biography of Emperor Taisho (excerpt)
Emperor Taishō (大正天皇, Taishō-tennō.), KG (August 31, 1879 – December 25, 1926) was the 123rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from July 30, 1912, until his death in 1926. His personal name was Yoshihito (嘉仁, Yoshihito. ![]()
Biography of Hugo Wolf (excerpt)
Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Lanvin (excerpt)
Jeanne Lanvin (b. Jeanne-Marie Lanvin, Paris, January 1, 1867–d. Paris, July 6, 1946) was a French fashion designer and the founder of the Lanvin fashion house. One of the most influential designers of the 1920s and '30s, Jeanne Lanvin's skillful use of intricate trimmings, virtuoso embroideries and beaded decorations in clear, light, floral colors became a Lanvin trademark.
Biography of Stéphane Gsell (excerpt)
Stéphane Gsell, born on February 7, 1864 in Paris (source not archived), died on January 1, 1932, was a French archaeologist, historian, and author. Selected works Fouilles dans la nécropole de Vulci, exécutées et publiées aux frais du prince de Torlonia 18911
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Biography of René de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Charles René de Paul de Saint-Marceaux (September 23, 1845 - April 23, 1915) was a French sculptor. He was born in Reims and at age eighteen went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. A student of François Jouffroy, he became primarily a sculptor of portrait busts and animals. ![]()
Biography of Rudolf Otto (excerpt)
Rudolf Otto (September 25, 1869–6 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Life Born in Peine near Hanover, Otto attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, where he wrote his dissertation on Martin Luther's understanding of the Holy Spirit, and his habilitation on Kant. ![]()
Biography of Jérôme Carcopino (excerpt)
Jérôme Carcopino (27 June 1881 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives) – 17 March 1970) was a French historian and author. He was the fifteen member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1955. Biography Carcopino was born at Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure and educated at the École normale supérieure where he specialised in history. |
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