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Biography of Henri Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (excerpt)
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (30 January 1831 (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut) – 30 June 1913), French politician and journalist, was born in Paris. Life His father was a Legitimist noble who, as Edmond Rochefort, was well known as a writer of vaudevilles; his mother's views were republican. ![]()
Biography of Charles Landelle (excerpt)
Charles Zacharie Landelle, born June 2, 1821 in Laval, died December 13, 1908 in Chennevières-sur-Marne, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Emmanuel Chabrier (excerpt)
Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer from the Auvergne region of central France and was born in Ambert in 1841. The region of France from whence he came was traditionally useful in providing Parisians with cheese, cabbage and men to mend the boiler.
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Biography of Ernest Hébert (excerpt)
Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (3 November 1817 - 5 December 1908) was a French painter and academic. He was born in La Tronche and died in La Tronche. His painting Mal'aria was exhibited in the Salon of 1850-1851, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. ![]()
Biography of Oscar II of Sweden (excerpt)
Oscar II (21 January 1829 - 8 December 1907), born Oscar Frederik was King of Norway from 1872 until 1905 and King of Sweden from 1872 until his death. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother.
Biography of Jean-Delphin Alard (excerpt)
Jean-Delphin Alard (March 8, 1815 – February 22, 1888) was a French violinist. Alard was born in Bayonne, the son of an amateur violinist. From 1827 he was a pupil of F. A. Habeneck at the Paris Conservatoire, where he succeeded Pierre Baillot as professor in 1843, retaining the post till 1875. ![]()
Biography of Aristide Boucicaut (excerpt)
Aristide Boucicaut (July 14, 1810 (birth time source: Janine Tissot, FDAF) - 1877) created what is considered to be among the first department stores. Born in Bellême, the son of a banker, he began as a simple clerk in Bellême before he left to become a fabric salesman selling shawls. ![]()
Biography of Adolf von Baeyer (excerpt)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: ; October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially studied mathematics and physics at Berlin University before moving to Heidelberg to study chemistry with Robert Bunsen.
Biography of Julevno (astrologer) (excerpt)
Julevno, born March 16, 1845 in Vannes, died in 1915, was a French professional astrologer, author and translator. He had translated the works of Ptolémée and Thomas Burgoyne. ![]()
Biography of James Russell Lowell (excerpt)
James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. ![]()
Biography of Julie-Victoire Daubié (excerpt)
Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains (birth time source: Marc Brun, FDAF, birth certificate n° 32) – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she optained a bachelor degree in Lyon in 1861. ![]()
Biography of Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (excerpt)
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (August 20, 1807–November 18, 1876) was a French painter. Diaz was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his earlier years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother. ![]()
Biography of George McClellan (excerpt)
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. ![]()
Biography of Simon Newcomb (excerpt)
Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics, statistics and authoring a science fiction novel. The life of Newcomb ![]()
Biography of Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (excerpt)
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (Ville-d'Avray, July 14, 1816 – October 13, 1882 in Turin) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855). ![]()
Biography of Marshall Field (excerpt)
Marshall Field (August 18, 1834 – January 16, 1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores. Life and career Marshall Field was born on a farm in Conway, Massachusetts, the son of John Field IV and wife Fidelia Nash. ![]()
Biography of Johannes van der Waals (excerpt)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids. Early years Van der Waals was born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg. ![]()
Biography of Charles Garnier (excerpt)
Charles Garnier (6 November 1825 in Paris 5e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 3 August 1898) was a French architect, designer of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Education Student of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas at the École royale des Beaux-Arts de Paris beginning in 1842, he obtained the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1848.
Biography of Louis-Philippe de Brabant (excerpt)
Louis-Philippe, born July 24, 1833 in Bruxelles and died May 4, 1834, was the first son of Leopold I. Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick (in German Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony) (16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians. ![]()
Biography of Emile Levassor (excerpt)
Émile Levassor (21 January 1843, Marolles-en-Hurepoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 14 April 1897, Paris) was a French engineer and a pioneer of the automobile industry and car racing in France. Graduated at École Centrale Paris, he started his career in 1872 in a company that produced wood-working machines, where he met René Panhard. ![]()
Biography of Henry George (excerpt)
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "Single Tax" on land. He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. ![]()
Biography of George du Maurier (excerpt)
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier.
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Biography of Joseph Liouville (excerpt)
Joseph Liouville (March 24, 1809 – September 8, 1882) was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the Ecole Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838. ![]()
Biography of August Kekule von Stradonitz (excerpt)
Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (also August Kekulé) (September 7, 1829 – July 13, 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent chemists in Europe from the 1850s until his death, especially in the theoretical realm, he was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.
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Biography of Jules Léotard (excerpt)
Jules Léotard (French: ; 1 August 1838 (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain) – 17 August 1870) was a revolutionary French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze. He also popularised the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name and inspired the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" sung by George Leybourne. ![]()
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Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is the county seat of Ramsey County, the state's smallest in terms of area, second-most populous, and most densely populated county. As of 2020, its population was 311,527, making it the 63rd-largest city in the United States and the 11th-most populous in the Midwest.
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Biography of Edmond Laguerre (excerpt)
Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (April 9, 1834, Bar-le-Duc – August 14, 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). ![]()
Biography of François Ponsard (excerpt)
François Ponsard (1 June 1814 – 7 July 1867), was a French dramatist, poet and author and was a member of the Académie française. Biography He was born at Vienne, Isère in 1814 and trained as a lawyer. Literary career His first literary work was a translation of Manfred (1837). ![]()
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The Instrument of Government (Swedish: 1809 års regeringsform) adopted on 6 June 1809 by the Riksdag of the Estates and King Charles XIII was one of the fundamental laws that made up the constitution of Sweden from 1809 to the end of 1974. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Palizzi (excerpt)
Filippo Palizzi, born June 16, 1818 in Vasto and died September 11, 1899 in Rome, is an Italian painter. Works Saint Jean (cathédrale de Vasto). Amedée de Savoie blessé à Custoza en 1866. Al Pascolo con le caprette. (au paturage avec les chevrettes).
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Biography of Paul Gabriel (excerpt)
Paul Gabriel, born July 5, 1828 in Amsterdam, died August 23, 1903, was a Dutch artist and landscape painter. ![]()
Biography of Henry Morton Stanley (excerpt)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (June 10, 1840 – May 10, 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr.
Biography of Eugène Tisserand (agronomist) (excerpt)
Eugène Tisserand, born on May 26, 1830 in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, died in 1925 in Paris, was a French agronomist and author.
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Biography of Jules Perrot (excerpt)
Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 in Lyon, France – 29 August 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including Pas de Quatre, La Esmeralda, Ondine, and Giselle with Jean Coralli. ![]()
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Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Lalo (excerpt)
Édouard Victor Antoine Lalo (January 27, 1823 – April 22, 1892) was a French composer of Spanish descent. Born in Lille, he studied first at that city's conservatoire, and then at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck. For years, he worked as a viola player (specializing in chamber music) and teacher in Paris before gaining fame as a composer, which eventually arrived when he was in his late forties.
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Biography of Jean Albert Gaudry (excerpt)
Jean Albert Gaudry (September 16, 1827 - November 27, 1908), French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas. At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece, residing in the latter country from 1855 to 1860. ![]()
Biography of Evariste Luminais (excerpt)
Evariste Vital Luminais, born October 13, 1821 in Nantes, died in 1896 in Paris, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Laffitte (excerpt)
Pierre Laffitte (February 21, 1823 - January 4, 1903) was a French positivist. Laffitte was born at Béguey (Gironde). Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor. On the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death, he was recognized as head of the section which accepted the full Comtian doctrine; the other section adhered to Émile Littré, who rejected the religion of humanity as inconsistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier period. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Henner (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Henner (March 5, 1829 - 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato in painting religious subjects and nudes. Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). At first a pupil of Drolling and Picot, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1848, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of "Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel" (1858). ![]()
Biography of Ernest Lavisse (excerpt)
Ernest Lavisse (December 17, 1842 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - August 18, 1922) was a French historian. He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence (1876) at the école normale supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888), in the place of Henri Wallon. ![]()
Biography of Max Bruch (excerpt)
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (January 6, 1838 – October 2, 1920) also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire. ![]()
Biography of Carlo Collodi (excerpt)
Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio. Biography Collodi was born in Florence. During the Wars of Independence in 1848 and 1860 Collodi served as a volunteer with the Tuscan army.
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Biography of Edmond About (excerpt)
Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 January 1885), was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Life He was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the École Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came first. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Schure (excerpt)
Eduard (Edouard) Schuré (Strasbourg, January 21, 1841 – April 7, 1929), French philosopher, poet, writer, musical critic and publicist of esoteric literature. He is known by being the author of "The Great Initiated" (1889) in which he describes the path followed by some of the ancient philosophers in search for profound esoteric knowledge, so often called the "initiation", as describing the process of becoming a mystic master or spiritual healer. ![]()
Biography of Jean Gaston Darboux (excerpt)
Jean-Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. Life Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier. ![]()
Biography of Russell Sage (excerpt)
Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 22 July 1906) was a financier and politician from New York, United States. Sage was born at Verona in Oneida County, New York. He received a public school education and worked as a farm hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R. ![]()
Biography of François-Auguste Ravier (excerpt)
François-Auguste Ravier, born on May 4, 1814 in Lyon (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate, es Archives Municipales de Lyon, email), died on June 26, 1895 in Morestel, was a French landscape painter. Bibliography (French) Maurice Wantellet, Deux siècles et plus de peinture dauphinoise, Grenoble, édité par l'auteur, 1987, 269 p.
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Biography of Giovanni Giolitti (excerpt)
Giovanni Giolitti (October 27, 1842 – July 17, 1928) was an Italian statesman. He was Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. Giolitti was born at Mondovì (Piedmont). After a rapid career in the financial administration he was, in 1882, appointed councillor of state and elected to the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Parliament). ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Yvon (excerpt)
Adolphe Yvon (January 30, 1817 in Drulingen - September 11, 1893 in Paris) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars. Paintings (extract) The Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Reichshof Marshall Ney at Retreat in Russia |
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