Adolphe Thiers

Adolphe Thiers

male, deceased (1877)
Louis Adolphe Thiers (Marseille, April 16, 1797-September 3 1877) was a French politician and historian. Thiers was a prime minister under King...
Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach

male, deceased (1880)
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 - 5 October 1880) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta...
Robert Moses

Robert Moses

male, deceased (1981)
Robert Moses (December 18 1888-July 29 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County. As...

Eugène Rouher

male, deceased (1884)
Eugène Rouher was a French statesman of the Second Empire. He was born at Riom (Puy-de-Dôme), where he practised law after taking his degree in Pa...
Hortense Schneider

Hortense Schneider

female, deceased (1920)
Hortense Catherine Schneider was a French soprano. She was born in Bordeaux. She created the title roles in Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffes "La b...
Jules Dalou

Jules Dalou

male, deceased (1902)
Aimé-Jules Dalou, was a French sculptor. Jules Dalou came from a working-class family of Huguenot background, who raised him in an atmosphere of s...

René Goblet

male, deceased (1905)
René Goblet was a French politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886-1887. He was born at Aire-sur-la-Lys, in the Pas de Calais "...

Horace de Viel-Castel

male, deceased (1864)
Marc-Roch-Horace de Salviac, Baron de Viel-Castel, known as Horace de Viel-Castel, was an art lover and collector, and director of the Louvre until...

Eugène Pelletan

male, deceased (1884)
Pierre Clément Eugène Pelletan was a French writer, journalist and politician. Born in Royan, Eugène Pelletan was an associate of Lamartine, but ref...

François-Vincent Raspail

male, deceased (1878)
François-Vincent Raspail was a French chemist, physiologist, and socialist. Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the republican C...