Category: 19th-century French people

Baudelaire's Les Bijoux ( The Jewels ) is a typical example of the use of the alexandrine in 19th-century French poetry:

From Monet to Cézanne: late 19th-century French artists.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

* Christian ( French actor ) ( 1821 – 1889 ), stage name of Christian Perrin, a 19th-century French actor and singer

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

The French bow was not widely popular until its adoption by 19th-century virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini.

Category: 19th-century French writers

Category: 19th-century French writers

The modern sophisticated instrument spanning 6½ octaves in virtually all keys was perfected by the 19th-century French maker Sébastien Érard and because of its pedal-driven ability to play all sharps and flats of all notes within its range, it continues today as the standard style of most large professional concert harps.

Elements of historicism appear in the writings of Italian philosopher G. B. Vico and French essayist Michel de Montaigne, and became fully developed with the dialectic of G. W. F. Hegel, influential in 19th-century Europe.

Reflecting French society, as well as employing stock character associations, many of the lesbian characters in 19th-century French literature were prostitutes or courtesans: personifications of vice who died early, violent deaths in moral endings.

The 19th-century French painter Edgar Degas was a most prolific user of pastel and its champion.

The illness is named after the famous 19th-century French author Stendhal ( pseudonym of Henri-Marie Beyle ), who described his experience with the phenomenon during his 1817 visit to Florence in his book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio.

* That it derives from the late 19th-century French slang use of the word sabot to describe an unskilled worker, so called due to their wooden clogs or sabots ; sabotage was used to describe the poor quality work which such workers turned out.

The chief French popularizer of the villanelle form was the 19th-century author Théodore de Banville ; Banville was led by Wilhelm Ténint to think that the villanelle was an antique form.

Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand.

Category: 19th-century French writers

Category: 19th-century French writers

In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury's orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named Vulcan.

Category: 19th-century French writers

Boolean logic is a system of syllogistic logic invented by 19th-century British mathematician George Boole, which attempts to incorporate the " empty set ", that is, a class of non-existent entities, such as round squares, without resorting to uncertain truth values.

Boolos was an authority on the 19th-century German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Frege.

Often those involve what are called Fourier series, after the 18th-and 19th-century French mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier.

19th-century British philosophy came increasingly to be dominated by strands of neo-Hegelian thought, and as a reaction against this, figures such as Bertrand Russell and George Edward Moore began moving the direction of analytic philosophy, which was essentially an updating of traditional empiricism to accommodate the new developments in logic of the German mathematician Gottlob Frege.

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity is a book by American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace that examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory.

The crater itself is named for Carl Jacobi, a 19th-century German mathematician.

In mathematics, the Riemann series theorem ( also called the Riemann rearrangement theorem ), named after 19th-century German mathematician Bernhard Riemann, says that if an infinite series is conditionally convergent, then its terms can be arranged in a permutation so that the series converges to any given value, or even diverges.

Well known former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson (" father of fractals "), the Nobel peace prize winner of 1959 Philip John Noel-Baker, and Stuart Rose, Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer.

* Federico Villarreal, a 19th-century Peruvian mathematician

Beginning with Immanuel Kant, German idealists such as G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Arthur Schopenhauer dominated 19th-century philosophy.

In the USSR, under Joseph Stalin, Marxist dialectics became " diamat " ( short for dialectical materialism ), a 19th-century social theory by Joseph Dietzgen emphasising the importance of commodities and the effects of their exchange.

This 19th-century concept was largely initially developed by Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau.

The origins of the Nazi version of the theory of the master race were in 19th-century racial theories of Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau, who argued that cultures degenerated when distinct races mixed.

Richard D ' Alton Williams, a well-known 19th-century Irish patriot, poet, and physician, died of tuberculosis in Thibodaux in 1862, and is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery.

According to the 19th-century antiquary Joseph Hunter in his Chorus Vatum, in 1633 Fraunce wrote an Epithalamium in honour of the marriage of Lady Magdalen Egerton, seventh daughter of the Earl of Bridgwater, in whose service he may have been ; thus, it was long assumed that Fraunce died in or after 1633.

According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates ( also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden Bible ) are the source from which Joseph Smith, Jr. said he translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith.

The Tanners contend that the Book of Abraham is a 19th-century work written only by Joseph Smith.

He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U. S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland.

Nicollet Avenue was named for early 19th-century French explorer and mapmaker Joseph Nicollet, who led three expeditions in what is now Minnesota.

Andrew Joseph Russell ( 1830 – 1902 ) was a 19th-century American photographer of the Civil War and Union Pacific Railroad .< ref name = cprr >

* Joseph Harper ( horse breeder ), 19th-century Australian horse breeder

Early Mormonism and the Magic World View is an exhaustive recounting of the role of 19th-century New England folk magic lore in Joseph Smith's early visions and in the development of the Book of Mormon.

* Joseph Pujol-a 19th-century French performer also known as Le Pétomane