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Biography of Lucien Daudet (excerpt)
Lucien Daudet (9 June 1878 – 16 November 1946) was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet and Julia Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his ties to fellow novelist Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time).
Biography of Gabrielle Bompard (excerpt)
The Gouffé Case, also known as the Gouffé trunk, Miller's bloody trunk or the Eyraud-Bompard affair was an 1889 murder case which unfolded in France. On 26 July 1889, bailiff Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé of Montmartre, Paris, was reported missing. Two weeks later, Gouffé's corpse was found 300 miles (480km) away, near Millery village, a suburb of Lyon.
Biography of Charles Angrand (excerpt)
Charles Théophile Angrand, born April 19, 1854 in Criquetot-sur-Ouville and died April 1, 1926 in Rouen, was a French neo-impressionist painter from the School of Rouen, of libertarian convictions.
Biography of Clara Viebig (excerpt)
Clara Emma Amalia Viebig (17 July 1860 (for her time of birth, two sources exist, 10:00 pm and 9:00 pm) – 31 July 1952) was a German author. Life Viebig was born in the German city of Trier, the daughter of a Prussian civil servant.
Biography of Cyriel Buysse (excerpt)
Cyrillus Gustave Emile "Cyriel" Buysse (20 September 1859 – 25 July 1932) was a Flemish naturalist author and playwright. He also wrote under the following pseudonyms: Louis Bonheyden, Prosper Van Hove and Robert Palmer. Buysse married the Dutch widow Nelly Dyserinck in 1896 and spent winters in The Hague in the Netherlands, where his son René Cyriel was born in 1897, while staying at his rural estate in Afsnee in Belgium during summer.
Biography of Albert Londe (excerpt)
Albert Londe (26 November 1858 – 11 September 1917) was an influential French photographer, medical researcher and chronophotographer. He is remembered for his work as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, funded by the Parisian authorities, as well as being a pioneer in X-ray photography.
Biography of Edmond Aman-Jean (excerpt)
Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter and art critic, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923. His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln. He had his first art lessons with Henri Lehmann at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he shared a workshop with Georges Seurat.
Biography of Lilla Hansen (excerpt)
Lilla Georgine Hansen (1 April 1872 - 11 June 1962) was Norway's first female architect. Background Georgine Marie Hansen was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of Georg Martin Hansen (1828-1915) and Maren Paulowna Victoria Bülow (1838-1898). She studied at the Royal Drafting School (now Oslo National Academy of the Arts) under Herman Major Schirmer, graduating in 1894.
Biography of Adrien Caillard (excerpt)
Charles Adrien Caillard born March 23, 1872 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died October 8, 1942 in Nice, is an actor and director of French theater and cinema, He directed around thirty films between 1909 and 1926 and starred in eight films between 1909 and 1941.
Biography of Helene Christaller (excerpt)
Helene Christaller (née Heyer: 31 January 1872, in Darmstadt – 24 May 1953, in Jugenheim/Bergstraße) was a German Protestant writer mostly of youth books, especially for girls. During the Nazi-Era her books were not printed because of their Christian tenor. Literary works
Biography of Otto Bartning (excerpt)
Otto Bartning (born 12 April 1883 in Karlsruhe; died 20 February 1959 in Darmstadt) was a Modernist German architect, architectural theorist and teacher. In his early career he developed plans with Walter Gropius for the establishment of the Bauhaus. He was a member of Der Ring.
Biography of Philéas Gilbert (excerpt)
Philéas Gilbert, born September 11, 1857 in La Chapelle-sur-Oreuse and died in 1842, was a famous French cook. He wrote with Auguste Escoffier the preface to the first edition of the famous Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné from 1938.
Biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (excerpt)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, journalist, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.
Biography of Gabriel Lippmann (excerpt)
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. His parents were French Jews. Academic affiliations
Biography of Henriette Poincaré (excerpt)
Henriette Poincaré (born Henriette Adeline Benucci, lived 1858–1943) was the wife of French statesman Raymond Poincaré. She was born in Passy, France. Her parents were a coachman of Italian origin, Raphael Benucci, and Louise Mossbauer, a young servant. She served for a time as a companion to old ladies of the bourgeoisie.
Biography of Henry Gauthier-Villars (excerpt)
Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931), known by the pen name Willy , was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l’Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, L’Ouvreuse, L’Ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy, Boris Zichine.
Biography of Julia Morgan (excerpt)
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
Biography of Jean-François-Charles Amet (excerpt)
Jean-François-Charles Amet, born January 29, 1861 in Rivière du Rempart on Mauritius and died May 2, 1940 in La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz in Ille-et-Vilaine, is a French naval officer of the 19th and twentieth centuries. Vice-admiral, he ended the First World War as Senior Commander of the Allied naval forces in the Dardanelles.
Biography of Jules Durand (excerpt)
Jules Durand, born September 6, 1880 in Le Havre and died February 20, 1926 in the asylum of Sotteville-lès-Rouen, was a French libertarian trade unionist who was the victim in 1910 of a serious miscarriage of justice, sometimes called the "Dreyfus affair of working class" or the "Dreyfus affair of the poor".
Biography of Juliette Dodu (excerpt)
Juliette Dodu (Saint-Denis de la Réunion, June 15, 1848 – October 28, 1909) was a legendary heroine of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the first woman to be awarded the Legion of Honor. However, many doubts have been raised about her actions during the war, and her story remains controversial.
Biography of Antonie Pfülf (excerpt)
Antonie "Toni" Pfülf (14 December 1877 – 8 June 1933) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). An advocate of equal rights for women, she was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1933 and one of the most prominent women in her party.
Biography of Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
Biography of Edmond Bouty (excerpt)
Edmond Marie Léopold Bouty, born in Nant on January 12, 1846 and died in Paris on November 5, 1922, is a French physicist, professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris for 37 years. His scientific work focuses mainly on magnetism and electricity.
Biography of Israël Querido (excerpt)
Israël Querido (1 October 1872, Amsterdam – 5 August 1932, Amsterdam) was a Dutch naturalist novelist. His novels are sympathetic to workers and the Socialist movement.
Biography of Mite Kremnitz (excerpt)
Mite Kremnitz (4 January 1852, Greifswald – 18 July 1916 in Berlin), born Marie von Bardeleben (pen names George Allan, Ditto and Idem), was a German writer. Kremnitz was the daughter of the famous surgeon Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. She grew in Greifswald, London and, starting with 1868, in Berlin.
Biography of Marie Surcouf (excerpt)
Marie Surcouf (19 May 1863 – 11 March 1928) was a French balloonist and feminist. In 1906, she was the first French woman to earn an aeronautical balloon pilot's license and later that year she became the first French woman to pilot a balloon flight with an all-woman crew.
Biography of Edmond Locard (excerpt)
Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 May 1966) was a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace".
Biography of L. Frank Baum (excerpt)
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
Biography of André Mornet (excerpt)
Constant Victor André Mornet, born January 5, 1870 in La Châtre and died July 22, 1955 in Nohant-Vic, is a French magistrate. Both collaborator and resistance from 1943, he was the prosecutor for the trials of Pierre Laval and Philippe Pétain at the time of his release, which led to their death sentences, that of Pétain being commuted to life imprisonment because of his age.
Biography of Marie-Justine Pesnel (excerpt)
Marie-Justine Pesnel, born March 22, 1862 in Paris 18th, known as Madame Cent-Kilos (Miss 220 Pounds), was a spy, false marquise and real French prostitute, known in the underworld of the Belle Époque. She set up a matrimonial agency scam, was married three times without divorcing, prosecuted for polyandry.
Biography of Alejandro Sawa (excerpt)
Alejandro Sawa Martínez, a Spanish bohemian novelist, poet, and journalist, was born on 15th March 1862 in Seville and died on 3rd March 1909. Of Greek descent, he initially pursued priesthood, then studied law in Granada, and later moved to Madrid in 1885, leading a life of poverty.
Biography of Jean Bouyssonie (excerpt)
Canon Jean Bouyssonie, born August 31, 1877 in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the department of Corrèze in France and died August 13, 1965 in the same city, is a French Catholic priest, canon and prehistorian who became interested in the remains. of the departments of Lot and Corrèze.
Biography of Gertrude Atherton (excerpt)
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author and journalist. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name.
Biography of André Heuzé (excerpt)
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright. Selected filmography Actor 1923 : La Rue du pavé d'amour by André Hugon 1928 : Little Devil May Care as André Bucaille
Biography of Caroly (excerpt)
The magician Jean Augustin Charles Joseph Faugeras alias Caroly was born on June 15, 1868 in Rochechouart (France) and died on December 2, 1955 in Paris 20th. In 1902, he carried out a new revolution in the rather closed field of prestidigitation: he published the first copy of the monthly newspaper L'Illusionniste.
Biography of Henri Demare (excerpt)
Henri Demare, born May 3, 1846 in Paris and died November 11, 1888 in Vincennes, was a cartoonist and caricaturist who collaborated in many newspapers between the end of the Second Empire and the first decades of the Third Republic.
Biography of Thérèse Peltier (excerpt)
Thérèse Peltier (26 September 1873 – 18 February 1926), born Thérèse Juliette Cochet, was a French sculptor and early aviation pioneer. Popularly believed to have been the first ever female passenger in an airplane, she may also have been the first woman to pilot an aircraft.
Biography of Anna Brigadere (excerpt)
Anna Brigadere (October 1, 1861 (Gregorian calendar) in Tērvete – June 25, 1933 in Tērvete) was a writer, playwright and poet from Latvia. Her first story was published in 1896. In 1897, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlīna was published.
Biography of Gabriel Astruc (excerpt)
Gabriel Astruc (14 March 1864 – 7 July 1938) was a French journalist, agent, promoter, theatre manager, theatrical impresario, and playwright whose career connects many of the best-known incidents and personalities of Belle Epoque Paris. Born in Bordeaux, to the Astruc family, he was the son of Élie Aristide Astruc (1831–1905), the Grand Rabbi of Belgium from 1866–1879, and began his career working for publisher Paul Ollendorff, and as a columnist from 1885 through 1895.
Biography of Else Ury (excerpt)
Else Ury (1 November 1877 – 13 January 1943) was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series.
Biography of Henri Gustave Jossot (excerpt)
Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, 16 April 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 7 April 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. Life and career Jossot started his career under the guidance of Jean Paul Laurens and Eugène Carrière.
Biography of Ivan Shmelyov (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled Shmelev, Chmeliov, and Chmelov) (3 October (O.S. 21 September) 1873 – 24 June 1950) was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow.
Biography of Émilie Tillion (excerpt)
Émilie Tillion (née Cussac; 20 February 1876 – 2 March 1945) was a French writer and art critic. Tillion is known for her work on the popular "Les Guides Bleus" and as a member of French Resistance during the Second World War.
Biography of Ethel Ayres Purdie (excerpt)
Ethel Ayres Purdie (née Ayres) (2 October 1874 – 26 March 1923) was a chartered accountant and suffragist. She specialised in counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. She was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax.
Biography of Gabriel Thomas (art lover) (excerpt)
Gabriel Thomas (1854-1932) was a wealthy financier who was one of the promoters of the Grévin museum and its reconfiguration in 1900, of the Eiffel Tower and the construction of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This man was also a great art lover who owned a very large collection of paintings: Berthe Morisot (his cousin), Manet, Vuillard, Flandrin, and no less than a hundred works by Maurice Denis, including the series of The Eternal Printemps which he had commissioned from the painter for the decoration of his dining room in Meudon.
Biography of Buatier de Kolta (excerpt)
Buatier de Kolta (né Joseph Buatier; Caluire-et-Cuire, 18 November 1845 – New Orleans, 7 October 1903) was a French magician who performed throughout the latter part of the 1800s in Europe and America. Joseph Buatier was born in Caluire-et-Cuire (Rhône, France). His parents were fabric merchants.
Biography of Zo d'Axa (excerpt)
Alphonse Gallaud de la Pérouse (28 May 1864 – 30 August 1930 (suicide)), better known as Zo d'Axa), was a French adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist, journalist, and founder of two of the most legendary French magazines, L'EnDehors and La Feuille. A descendant of the famous French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, he was one of the most prominent French individualist anarchists at the turn of the 20th century.
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.
Biography of Louise Thuliez (excerpt)
Louise Thuliez (12 December 1881 – 10 October 1966) was a French schoolteacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II and author. Life and career Thuliez was born in Preux-au-Bois, northern France, on 12 December, 1881. When World War I broke out, Thuliez was working as a teacher in Saint-Waast-la Vallée.
Biography of Gervèse (excerpt)
Charles Millot alias Henri Gervèse (September 21, 1880 Vesoul - May 24, 1959 Buenos Aires) was a French naval officer, painter and illustrator. He provides drawings to various newspapers such as Le Rire, Fantasio and La Vie parisienne. He is known for his series of Navy postcards and cartoons inspired by the other famous Navy cartoonist Sahib. |
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