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Biography of Henri Bergson (excerpt)
Henri-Louis Bergson (IPA: ; October 18, 1859–January 4, 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. Overview Bergson was born in the Rue Lamartine in Paris, not far from the Palais Garnier (the old Paris opera house) in 1859, the year of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. ![]()
Biography of Le Pétomane (excerpt)
Le Pétomane was the stage name of the French professional farter and entertainer Joseph Pujol (June 1, 1857 - 1945). He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to fart at will. His stage name combines the French verb péter, "to fart" with the -mane, "maniac" suffix, found in words like toxicomane.
Biography of Jean-Julien Fulcanelli (excerpt)
Fulcanelli (1839 - .) is almost certainly a pseudonym assumed, in the late 19th century, by a French alchemist and esoteric author, whose identity is still debated. He is also called the Master Alchemist. The appeal of Fulcanelli as a cultural phenomenon is partly due to the mystery that surrounds most aspects of his life and works; one of the anecdotes pertaining to his life retells, in particular, how his most devoted pupil Eugène Canseliet performed a successful transmutation of 100 grams of lead into gold in a laboratory near Sarcelles with the use of a small quantity of the "Projection Powder" given to him by his teacher, in the presence of several eyewitnesses.
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Biography of Comte de Lautréamont (excerpt)
Comte de Lautréamont (French IPA: ) was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
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Biography of Getúlio Vargas (excerpt)
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (pronounced ; April 19, 1883 – August 24, 1954) served as president of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954. Background Vargas was born in São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, on April 19, 1883, to Manuel do Nascimento Vargas and Cândida Dornelles Vargas.
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Biography of William Howard Taft (excerpt)
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 (birth time source: Frances McEvoy) – March 8, 1930) was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party in the early 20th century, a pioneer in international arbitration and staunch advocate of world peace verging on pacifism, and scion of a leading political family, the Tafts, of Ohio. ![]()
Biography of René Coty (excerpt)
René Jules Gustave Coty (March 20, 1882 – November 22, 1962) was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president under the French Fourth Republic. Early life and politics René Coty was born in Le Havre and studied at the University of Caen, where he graduated in 1902, receiving degrees in law and philosophy. ![]()
Biography of Jagadish Chandra Bose (excerpt)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (Bengali: জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু Jôgdish Chôndro Boshu) (November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937) was a Bengali physicist and science fiction writer, who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made extremely significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. ![]()
Biography of Raymond Poincaré (excerpt)
Raymond Poincaré (August 20, 1860 – October 15, 1934) was a French conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France, the son of Nicolas Antonin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and meteorologist.
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Biography of Bérenger Saunière (excerpt)
François Bérenger Saunière (April 11, 1852 - Januaray 22, 1917) was a priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 to 1909 (when he was transferred to another village by his bishop, that he declined and subsequently resigned) and after 1909, until his death in 1917, in the role of Free Priest (a priest working independently without a parish). ![]()
Biography of Giacomo Balla (excerpt)
Giacomo Balla (July 18, 1871 - March 1, 1958) was an Italian painter. Biography Born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist, as a child Giacomo Balla studied music. By age twenty his interest in art was such that he decided to study painting at local academies and exhibited several of his early works.
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Biography of Calvin Coolidge (excerpt)
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – January 5, 1933), more commonly known as Calvin Coolidge, was the thirtieth President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
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Biography of Edmond Rostand (excerpt)
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868 - December 2, 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late 19th century.
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Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater (excerpt)
C.W. Leadbeater (Feb 16, 1854 England-1934 Perth, Western Australia), English clergyman and theosophical author, contributed to world thought mostly through his work as an alleged clairvoyant. Early life Although some sources state that he was born in 1847, his biographer has uncovered sufficient documentation that he was actually born in 1854. ![]()
Biography of William Lyon Mackenzie King (excerpt)
William Lyon Mackenzie King PC OM CMG (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian lawyer, economist, university professor, civil servant, journalist, and politician. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921, to June 28, 1926; September 25, 1926, to August 6, 1930; and October 23, 1935, to November 15, 1948. ![]()
Biography of Maurice de Vlaminck (excerpt)
Maurice de Vlaminck (April 4, 1876 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 11, 1958) was a French painter, printmaker and author. Vlaminck was born to musician parents in Paris. As a youth he studied violin before becoming a professional cyclist.
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Biography of Georges Méliès (excerpt)
Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was born in Paris, where his family manufactured shoes. He was very innovative in the use of special effects. ![]()
Biography of Victor Noir (excerpt)
Victor Noir, (July 30, 1848 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– January 10, 1870), was a French journalist. Born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he went to Paris where he became a popular journalist for the newspaper "La Marseillaise" where he adopted the name Victor Noir as his pseudonym. ![]()
Biography of Séraphine Louis (excerpt)
Séraphine Louis, known as "Séraphine de Senlis" ("Séraphine of Senlis") (1864–1942), was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. The intensity of her images, both in color and in replicative designs, are sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness. ![]()
Biography of Charles Maurras (excerpt)
Charles Maurras (April 20, 1868 Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône France (for his time of birth, André Barbault had indicated 2:00 earlier, but Didier Geslain checked, it's 10:00) – November 16, 1952) was a French author, poet, and critic. He was a leader and principal thinker of the reactionary Action Française, a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary, and is the main intellectual influence of National Catholicism and integral nationalism .
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Biography of Louis Renault (industrialist) (excerpt)
Louis Renault (February 12, 1877, Paris, France (source pour son heure de naissance : Didier geslain, birth certificate) – October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry. The youngest of five children born into a Paris bougeois family, Renault was fascinated by engineering and mechanics from a very early age, and spent many hours in the Serpollet steam car workshop or tinkering with old Panhard engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in Billancourt. ![]()
Biography of Jane Addams (excerpt)
Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the eighth of nine children born into a prosperous miller family. ![]()
Biography of Mary of Teck (excerpt)
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was the Queen Consort of George V, and Empress of India. Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall and Princess of Wales.
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Biography of Konrad Adenauer (excerpt)
Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer (IPA: ), January 5, 1876 – April 19, 1967) was a German statesman. Although his political career spanned 60 years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as the first Chancellor of West Germany from 1949–1963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966.
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Biography of Jean Sibelius (excerpt)
Johan Julius Christian "Jean" / "Janne" Sibelius December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of classical music and one of the most notable composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. ![]()
Biography of François Gény (excerpt)
François Gény (1861–1959) was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Nancy, who introduced the notion of "free scientific research" to the interpretation of positive law. His advocacy of judicial discretion in the interpretation of statutory law had an important influence across Europe.
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Biography of W. C. Fields (excerpt)
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1879 – December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century—a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women, unless they were the wrong sort of women.
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Biography of Maxim Gorky (excerpt)
Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 26, 1868 (Gregorian calendar) – June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
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Biography of Émile Coué (excerpt)
Émile Coué (February 26, 1857 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 2, 1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a method of psychotherapy, healing, and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion. The application of his familiar conscious autosuggestion, "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better" (Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux), is the best known example of what is often called Couéism or the Coué method. ![]()
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Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes".
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Biography of James Ensor (excerpt)
James Ensor (April 13, 1860 - November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. Ensor's father was of English extraction, and his mother was Flemish.
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Biography of Emile Durkheim (excerpt)
Émile Durkheim (IPA: ; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work and editorship of the first journal of sociology (L'Année Sociologique) helped establish sociology within academia as an accepted social science. ![]()
Biography of Fritz Haarmann (excerpt)
Friedrich "Fritz" Haarmann (October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925) was a notorious serial killer born in Hanover, Germany. Crimes From 1919 to 1924, Haarmann committed at least 24 murders, and possibly many more. Haarmann's victims were young male vagrants and male prostitutes who hung around railway stations, whom Haarmann would lure back to his apartment and then kill by biting through their throats in a kind of sexual frenzy. ![]()
Biography of Marie of Romania (excerpt)
Princess Marie of Edinburgh (Marie Alexandra Victoria; later Queen of Romania; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was a member of the British Royal Family who became the queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania. Early life She was born on October 29, 1875, at Eastwell Park in Kent, the eldest daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. ![]()
Biography of Armand Peugeot (excerpt)
Armand Peugeot (June 18, 1849—January 2, 1915) was an industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot. Family Armand Peugeot was born on June 18 1849 in Valentigney (25), in eastern France. He was the son of Émile Peugeot (1815-1874) and Wilhelmine Ehrmann (1818-1893).
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Biography of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (excerpt)
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was a member of the British Royal Family, as the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark.
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Biography of Emma Goldman (excerpt)
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically-motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics. ![]()
Biography of Mistinguett (excerpt)
Mistinguett (April 3, 1875 – January 5, 1956 from Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France) was a French actress and singer, with the birth name of Jeanne Bourgeois. At an early age she aspired to be an entertainer. She began as a flower-seller in a restaurant in her home-town, singing popular ballads as she sold her flowers.
Biography of Hector-Germain Guimard (excerpt)
Hector Germain Guimard was born on march 10, 1867 in Lyon (France). From 1882 to 1885 he visits the Ecole des Art Decoratifs in Paris and continues his study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he graduates in 1889.
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Biography of Muhammad Iqbal (excerpt)
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (علامہ محمد اقبال / Allama Muḥammad Iqbāl; November 9, 1877 - April 21, 1938), commonly referred to as Allama Iqbāl (علامہ اقبال, ʿAllāma meaning "The Learned One") in Pakistan, was a Lahori Muslim poet, philosopher and politician in British India. ![]()
Biography of Émile Gallé (excerpt)
Émile Gallé (Nancy, France, 8 May 1846 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – Nancy, 23 September 1904) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement. ![]()
Biography of Emmy Noether (excerpt)
Amalie Emmy Noether (March 23, 1882 – April 14, 1935) was a German-born Jewish mathematician, said by Einstein in eulogy to be "n the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. ![]()
Biography of Pope Pius XI (excerpt)
Pope Pius XI (Latin: Pius PP. XI; Italian: Pio XI; May 31, 1857 – February 10, 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, reigned as Pope from February 6, 1922 and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1929 until his death on February 10, 1939. ![]()
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Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it is the fourth-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers and Tripoli) and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world. ![]()
Biography of Jules Renard (excerpt)
Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard (February 22, 1864- May 22, 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de Carotte (Carrot hair) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Natural Histories) (1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking) (1898) and Huit jours à la campagne (Eight Days in the Countryside) (1906).
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Biography of Alfred Dreyfus (excerpt)
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most sensational political dramas in modern French history, still known as the Dreyfus Affair. ![]()
Biography of Henri Becquerel (excerpt)
Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)– August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. Early days Becquerel was born in Paris into a family which, including him and his son Jean, produced four generations of scientists. ![]()
Biography of Raoul Dufy (excerpt)
Raoul Dufy (June 3, 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 23, 1953) was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.
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Biography of Pope Pius XII (excerpt)
Pope Pius XII (Latin: Pius PP. XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from March 2, 1939 until his death. ![]()
Biography of Ernst Kirchner (excerpt)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (May 6, 1880 – June 15, 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. |
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