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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Durand-Brager (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, a French marine painter, was born at Dol on May 20, 1814 (birth time source: Lescaut). He studied under Gudin and Eugène Isabey, and in 1840 accompanied the fleet which brought Napoleon's remains from St. Helena, which island afforded him subjects for various pictures. ![]()
Biography of Alexis de Castillon (excerpt)
Marie-Alexis de Castillon de Saint-Victor, best known as Alexis de Castillon, born December 13, 1838 in Chartres and died March 5, 1873 in Paris, was a French composer. ![]()
Biography of Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray (excerpt)
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray was a French composer and teacher. He was born at Nantes on 2 February 1840 and died at Vernouillet, near Paris, on 4 July 1910. He studied law before switching to music at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1862. ![]()
Biography of Arthur Ranc (excerpt)
Arthur Ranc (20 December 1831 – 10 August 1908) was a French leftwing politician, journalist, and writer. Born in Poitiers, Vienne, he was educated for the law. Implicated in a plot against Napoleon III in 1853, he was acquitted, but shortly afterwards was imprisoned for belonging to a secret society; for his share in anti-imperialist conspiracies in 1855 he was arrested and deported to Algeria without a trial. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Charles Houzeau (excerpt)
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (1820–1888) was a Belgian astronomer and journalist. He was born in Havre, Belgium (a small city near Mons). From 1842, he worked as a voluntary assistant at the Brussels observatory and began writing papers. He travelled a lot during his career (to Paris, the United Kingdom, United States, and Jamaica).
Biography of Alfred J. Pearce (excerpt)
Alfred J. Pearce, born on November 10, 1840 (source: his Textbook of Astrology), died on April 25, 1923, was a British physician, editor, and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Bravais (excerpt)
Auguste Bravais (23 August 1811, Annonay, Ardèche – 30 March 1863, Le Chesnay, France) was a French physicist, well known for his work in crystallography (the Bravais lattices, and the Bravais laws). Bravais also studied magnetism, the northern lights, meteorology, botanical geography or phyllotaxis, astronomy, and hydrography. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Bertrand (excerpt)
Joseph Louis François Bertrand (March 11, 1822 – April 5, 1900, born and died in Paris) was a French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics. Bertrand was a professor at the École Polytechnique and Collège de France.
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Biography of Emile Bayard (excerpt)
Émile-Antoine Bayard (1837-1891) was born November 2, 1837, in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France. A student of Léon Cogniet, he is best known by many for his illustration of Cosette from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He died in Cairo in December 1891.
Biography of Charles Lecocq (excerpt)
Alexandre Charles Lecocq (June 3, 1832, Paris (birth time source: Lescaut) – October 24, 1918, Paris) was a French musical composer. He was admitted into the Conservatoire in 1849, being already an accomplished pianist. He studied under François Bazin, François Benoist, and Fromental Halévy, winning the first prize for harmony in 1850, and the second prize for fugue in 1852. ![]()
Biography of Paul-Gabriel d'Haussonville (excerpt)
Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (September 21, 1843 - September 1, 1924) was a French politician and author. Born at Gurcy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne), he was the son of Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville and Louise née Louise Albertine, princesse de Broglie; in 1865 he married Mlle Pauline d'Harcourt. ![]()
Biography of Simon Wolf (excerpt)
Simon Wolf, born October 28, 1836 in Wolfstein and died in 1923, was a German politician. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Deprez (excerpt)
Marcel Deprez (December 29, 1843 - October 13, 1918) was a French electrical engineer. He was born in Chatillon-sur-Loing. He died in Vincennes. At Creil, from 1876 to 1886, Deprez conducted the first experiments to transmit electrical power over long distances. At the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris in 1881, Deprez undertook the task of presenting an electricity distribution system based on the long-distance transport of direct current.
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Biography of Ferdinand Poise (excerpt)
Jean-Alexandre-Ferdinand Poise, born on June 3, 1828 in Nîmes, died on May 13, 1892 in Paris, was a French composer, musician, and author. Works Bonsoir voisin, mis en scène le 18 septembre 1853 au Théâtre Lyrique de Paris Les Charmeurs, mis en scène le 17 mars 1855 au Théâtre Lyrique de Paris
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Biography of Pierre Bosquet (excerpt)
Pierre François Joseph Bosquet (8 November 1810- 5 February 1861) was a French soldier. He served as General during the conquest of Algeria and the Crimean War; returning from Crimea he was made Marshal of France and senator. He entered the artillery in 1833, and a year later went to Algeria.
Biography of Charles Ardant du Picq (excerpt)
Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq (19 October 1821 – 15 August 1870) was a French colonel and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.
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Biography of Arthur P. Gorman (excerpt)
Arthur Pue Gorman (March 11, 1839 (birth time source: Alan Leo) – June 4, 1906) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1881 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1906. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1869 to 1875. ![]()
Biography of Charles Wolf (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Étienne Wolf (November 9, 1827 in Vorges – July 4, 1918) was a French astronomer. In 1862, Urbain Le Verrier offered him a post as assistant at the Paris Observatory. In 1867 he and Georges Rayet discovered Wolf-Rayet stars. Note however that the nearby red dwarf Wolf 359 was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf and not by him. ![]()
Biography of Marco Minghetti (excerpt)
Marco Minghetti (November 18, 1818 – December 10, 1886) was an Italian economist and statesman. Minghetti was born at Bologna, then part of the Papal States. He signed the petition to the Papal conclave, 1846 urging the election of a liberal pope, and was appointed member of the state council summoned to prepare the constitution for the Papal States.
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Biography of Jules Malou (excerpt)
Jules Edouard Xavier Malou (19 October 1810 - July 1886) was a Belgian statesman, a leader of the clerical party. He was born at Ypres. He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native constituency in 1841, and was for some time governor of the province of Antwerp. ![]()
Biography of Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (excerpt)
Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho (December 31, 1827, Marseille - July 10, 1895, Château-Puys, near Dieppe) was a famed French operatic soprano, particularly associated with light lyric and coloratura roles. Born Marie Caroline Félix-Miolan, she studied first with her father, François Félix-Miolan, an oboist, and later at the Paris Conservatory with Gilbert Duprez.
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Biography of Henry Becque (excerpt)
enry François Becque (18 April 1837 – May 1899), French dramatist, was born in Lille. In 1867, he wrote, in imitation of Lord Byron, the libretto for Victorin de Joncières's opera Sardanapale, but his first important work, Michel Pauper, appeared in 1870. ![]()
Biography of Henri Boudet (excerpt)
Henri Boudet, born November 17, 1837 in Quillan, Aude (source not archived), died March 30, 1915 in Axat (bowel cancer), was a French Catholic priest and writer. Bibliography Du Nom de Narbonne (Circa 1880) La Vraie Langue Celtique ou le Cromleck de Rennes-Les-Bains (1886) ![]()
Biography of Jules Claretie (excerpt)
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (3 December 1840 – 23 December 1913) was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français. He was born at Limoges. After studying at the lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he became a journalist, achieving great success as dramatic critic to Le Figaro and to the Opinion nationale. ![]()
Biography of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (excerpt)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (October 11, 1825 – November 28, 1898) was a poet and, as he was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a fellow-townsman of Gottfried Keller. Meyer is a master of the novella, but in all other respects there is a most striking difference.
Biography of Elizabeth Prentiss (excerpt)
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878) was a Presbyterian pastor's wife, mother, and author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869). Some of her verses were recently compiled in a book published by Solid Ground Christian Books (Golden Hours: Heart-hymns of the Christian Life). ![]()
Biography of Charles Meray (excerpt)
Hugues Charles Robert Méray (born November 12, 1835 in Chalon-sur-Saône; died February 2, 1911 in Dijon) was a French mathematician. He is noted as the first to publish an arithmetical theory of irrational numbers. His work did not have much of a role in the history of mathematics because France, at that time, was less interested in such matters than Germany.
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Biography of Johannes Bosboom (excerpt)
Johannes Bosboom (born The Hague, February 18, 1817 – died there September 14, 1891) was a Dutch painter and watercolorist, known especially for his paintings of church interiors. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague. His wife was the writer Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint.
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Biography of Alfred Richet (excerpt)
Alfred Richet, born March 16, 1816 in Dijon, died in 1891, was a French surgeon and a member of the Académie des Sciences.
Biography of Henry Dupray (excerpt)
Henry Dupray, born November 3, 1831 in Sedan, died in 1909 in Paris, was one of the "Masters" of twentieth century Painter of portraits and military subjects.
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Biography of Willem Maris (excerpt)
Willem Maris (February 18, 1844, The Hague - October 10, 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. He got his first lessons in drawing from his brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris. For a while he followed evening classes at the Hague Academy and later continued his studies with the cattle painter Stortenbeker. ![]()
Biography of Agar (actress) (excerpt)
Marie Léonide Charvin, best known as Agar, born on September 18, 1832 in Sedan (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on August 15, 1891 in Mustapha, Algeria, was a French comedian, one of the most famous comedians with Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt.
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Biography of Joseph Rollet (excerpt)
Joseph Rollet, born November 12, 1824 in Lagnieu, died in 1894, was a French physician and researcher.
Biography of Paul-Dominique Gourlier (excerpt)
Paul-Dominique Gourlier, born on June 13, 1813 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1869, was a French painter.
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Biography of Paul Alexandre Protais (excerpt)
Paul Alexandre Protais, born October 17, 1826 in Paris, died in 1890, was a French painter.
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Biography of Ferdinand Sarrien (excerpt)
Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien (1840-1915) was a French politician of the Third Republic. He headed a cabinet supported by the Bloc des gauches (Left-Wings Coalition) parliamentary majority. Sarrien's Ministry, 12 March - 25 October 1906 Ferdinand Sarrien - President of the Council and Minister of Justice ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Ossian Bonnet (excerpt)
Pierre Ossian Bonnet (December 22, 1819- 22 June 1892) French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Early years Pierre Bonnet attended the Collège in Montpellier. In 1838 he entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Brion (excerpt)
Gustave Brion, born November 4, 1824 in Rothau, Alsace, died November 6, 1877, was a French realist painter. Bibliography Hélène Chew, « Gustave Brion, illustrateur d'archéologie, ou le "désigneux de l'Empereur" », Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire, n° 47, 2004 , p. ![]()
Biography of Henri Murger (excerpt)
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger (27 March 1822, Paris – 28 January 1861, Paris) was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la vie de bohème, from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian attic, and member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" (because they were too poor to afford wine). ![]()
Biography of William Thomson (excerpt)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE (26 June 1824 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
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Biography of Charles Duclerc (excerpt)
Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc (9 November 1812 - 21 July 1888) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as prime minister from 1882 to 1883. ![]()
Biography of Johanna Spyri (excerpt)
Johanna Spyri (German pronunciation: ) (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. ![]()
Biography of Louis Buffet (excerpt)
Louis Joseph Buffet, born in Mirecourt (Vosges) October 26, 1818 and died in Paris July 7, 1898, was a French politician. In 1890, he is member of Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences).
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Biography of Léonide Babaud-Laribière (excerpt)
François-Saturnin-Léonide Babaud-Laribière, born on April 5, 1819 in Confolens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 45), died on April 25, 1873 in Perpignan, was a French politician, lawyer, journalist, author, and Freemason. Publications Histoire de l'Assemblée constituante (2 vol.)
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Biography of Charles Monselet (excerpt)
Charles Monselet (30 April 1825, Nantes - 19 May 1888, Paris) was a French journalist, novelist, poet and playwright, nicknamed "the king of the gastronomes" by his contemporaries. He specialised in comedic and romantic novels and his total output was around 40 volumes. ![]()
Biography of Clotilde de Vaux (excerpt)
Clotilde de Vaux, was born Clotilde-Marie de Ficquelmont on April 3, 1815 in Paris, France and died on April 5, 1846 in Paris, France. She gave philosopher Auguste Comte the inspiration for the Religion of Humanity. Biography Elder daughter of a branch of a preeminent family of ancient nobility, sister of French military officer and mathematician Maximilien-Marie de Ficquelmont, follower of Positivism, Clotilde de Vaux was educated at the prestigious Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur.
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Biography of Marie-Adolphe Carnot (excerpt)
Marie Adolphe Carnot (27 January 1839 – 20 June 1920) was a French chemist, mining engineer and politician. He came from a distinguished family: his father, Hippolyte Carnot, and brother, Marie François Sadi Carnot, were politicians, the latter becoming President of the third French Republic.
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Biography of Ernest Goüin (excerpt)
Ernest Goüin (or Gouin) (July 22, 1815 in Tours – March 24, 1885 in Paris) was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Maria Visconti (excerpt)
Filippo Maria Visconti, born on September 23, 1392, in Milan, was the fifth son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti and became Duke of Milan after his brother in 1412. He began his rule by eliminating his brother's murderers and marrying the wealthy widow Beatrice Tende, thus strengthening his army and reclaiming Milan.
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Biography of George, King of Saxony (excerpt)
George (German: Friedrich August Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Maximilian Karl Maria Nepomuk Baptist Xaver Cyriacus Romanus; 8 August 1832 – 15 October 1904) was a King of Saxony of the House of Wettin. Life George was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He was the second son of King John of Saxony (1801–1873) and his wife Princess Amelia of Bavaria (1801–1877), daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825). |
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