* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.

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* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, who had been a leader of the moderate republicans in France during the 1840s became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government that was established by this Assembly.

Railways became a national medium for the modernization of backward regions, and a leading advocate of this approach was the poet-politician Alphonse de Lamartine.

It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists ' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's " La Voix humaine ", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana (" voix humaine "), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters ( late 16th century ) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.

The word “ pear ”, or its equivalent, occurs in all the Celtic languages, while in Slavic and other dialects, differing appellations, still referring to the same thing, are found — a diversity and multiplicity of nomenclature which led Alphonse de Candolle to infer a very ancient cultivation of the tree from the shores of the Caspian to those of the Atlantic.

Death of William Rufus, lithograph by Alphonse de Neuville, 1895

* December 2 – Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

* November 10 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler ( b. 1659 )

On 7 May 1251 Avignon was made a common possession of counts Charles of Anjou and Alphonse de Poitiers, brothers of French king Saint Louis IX.

On 25 August 1271, at the death of Alphonse de Poitiers, Avignon and the surrounding countship Comtat-Venaissin ( which was governed by rectors since 1274 ) were united with the French crown.

The French King Philip the Fair, who had inherited from his father all the rights of Alphonse de Poitiers ( the last Count of Toulouse ), made them over to Charles II, King of Naples and Count of Provence ( 1290 ).

However, his piety does not seem to have matched that of his brother ( Jean de Joinville relates a tale of Louis catching him gambling on the voyage from Egypt to Acre ) and he returned with his brother Alphonse in May 1250.

Alphonse de Polignac ( 1817 – 1890 ) was a French mathematician.

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Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Française and Alphonse de Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins, in particular, showed the marks of the feelings aroused by the revolution's regicide.

The group counted among its members the artists Gérard de Nerval, Alexandre Dumas, père, Petrus Borel, Alphonse Brot, Joseph Bouchardy and Philothée O ’ Neddy ( real name Théophile Dondey ).

Gautier experienced a prominent time in his life when the original romantics such as Hugo, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny and Alfred de Musset were no longer actively participating in the literary world.

Three other old-time New Orleans musicians, George Baquet, Alphonse Picou and Bob Lyons also remembered a recording session (" Turkey in the Straw ", according to Baquet ) in the early 1900s.

* Alphonse Picou

* October 19 – Alphonse Picou, clarinettist

Ford worked with such musicians as Alphonse Picou, " Big Eye " Louis Nelson Delisle, and Bouboul Valentin.

Alphonse Picou ( background ) behind Papa Celestin.

Alphonse Floristan Picou ( October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961 ) was an important very early jazz clarinetist who also wrote and arranged music.

Alphonse Picou was born in a prosperous middle class Creole of Color family in downtown New Orleans.

Alphonse Picou at least once followed fellow musicians up north to Chicago about 1917-1918 ( and possibly briefly to New York City in the early 1920s ) but said he didn't like it up north and spent the bulk of his career in his home city.

Picou's funeral procession in 1961 was one of the largest the city had seen, with several brass bands and many additional musicians playing to give Alphonse Picou a send off.

-- Personal Life — Alphonse Picou's father was Alfred Picou and mother was Clotilde ( Serpas ) Picou.

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* Alphonse Picou ( 1878 – 1961 ), an American early jazz clarinetist

Musicians from Tremé include Alphonse Picou, Kermit Ruffins, Lucien Barbarin, and " The King of Treme " Shannon Powell.