Brothers Jules ((1830-1896) & Edmond (1822-1896) de Goncourt were the aristocrats of modern French literature and publishing. They were born to nobility, cultivated, neurotic and extremely arrogant. Seldom apart their collaboration was so complete that there were rarely mentioned separately.Jules & Edmond de Goncourt T-shirts on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN8LBHFV
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French novelist. He was a leader of the literary realism movement in France. Flaubert helped install the realist school into French literature. He is best known for his masterpiece Madame Bovary.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5FFV7BX
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. Know as the Father of Microbiology, Leeuwenhoek used his self-made lenses to discover single-celled animals and plants, bacteria, and spermatozoa.Leeuwenhoek T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM6P2PRL
Casimir Delavigne
Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843) was the most talented of the dramatists, filling the gap between neoclassical tragedy and romantic drama, Delavigne first achieved popularity in 1819 with his play with Les Vêpres Sicilians. Inspired by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he wrote two impassioned poems. His “La Parisienne”, set to music by Daniel Auber, was …
Ferdinand III
Ferdinand III (1608-1657) was Archduke of Austria from 1621 and King of Hungary from 1625. He was King of Croatia and Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 until 1657.Ferdinand III T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DF6RS8FW
Pierre Baillot
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (1771-1852) was a French violinist and composer. He was born in Passy, Paris, France he wrote “the Art of the Violin.” He taught at the Conservatoire de Paris along with Pierre Rode and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Kreutzer wrote the Conservatoire’s official violin method. Baillot studied the violin under Giovanni Battista …
Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789-1863), known as Horace Vernet, was a French battles, portraits, and Orientalist subject painter. Born in the Paris Louvre while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. Vernet disdained the seriousness of academic Classicism French art work. Instead he painted contemporary life subjects. During his early career, when Napoleon Bonaparte …
Joseph Gay-Lussac
Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He pioneered investigations into the behavior of gases, established new techniques for analysis, and made notable advances in applied chemistry. The Gay-Lussac’s Law states that the pressure of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas, when the volume is …
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) was a romantic era German, French composer and impresario. A child prodigy, at four he studied violin with his father; at nine he fell in love with the cello. At 14 he was accepted as a student to the prestigious Paris Conservatoire. International Fame But Offenbach grew bored and left after a …
Sir Kenelm Digby
Dashing 17th century courtier Sir Kenelm Digby (1603 –1665) was a dashing 17th century courtier. During his time on the continent Marie de Medici fell madly in love with him and wrote about him in her memoirs. An English courtier, diplomat, philosopher, and astrologer Digby was also a privateer. Privateer A privater is a government …