Biographies : 3
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BiographyBARBIER, Antoine-Alexandre
1765-1825 Principal publications:– Catalogue de la bibliothèque du conseil d'Etat (Paris, 1803)– Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, (Paris, 1806-1808), and still in use today (a second edition of this work was in progress when he died in 1825).– Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de goût (Paris, 1808-1810) Prior to the Revolution, Barbier was a maths and physics […]
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BiographyLESSEPS, Ferdinand de
Creator of the Suez Canal. Born in Versailles, into a family raised to the nobility in 1777, son of Mathieu de Lesseps, French Consul, and nephew of Barthélemy de Lesseps, one of the members of the La Pérouse expedition and subsequently French Consul General in St Petersburg during the First Empire. Ferdinand, who was schooled […]
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BiographyVIDOCQ, François-Eugène
François-Eugène was born in Arras on 24 July, 1775, son of a master baker.His early years were characterised by petty theft, poverty and garrison life, and he was to frequent gamers, crooks and prisons… Tired of this existence but having learned a great deal, he was in 1809 to offer his services to the police, vaunting […]