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Émile Félix Gautier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1864-1940, French geographer, an authority on Algiers, the Sahara, and the French African possessions. He explored W Madagascar (1892-94) and traversed the Sahara in various directions. His books include Madagascar (1902), Le Sahara (1923: tr. Sahara, the Great Desert, 1935), Un Siècle de
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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
see Nadar .
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Félix Dujardin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1801-60, French zoologist. He did valuable research on bacteria and on the Infusoria. In 1835 he described protoplasm in unicellular animals, naming it sarcode.
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Félix Bracquemond
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1833-1914, French engraver, painter, and decorator of ceramics. He is best known for his many etchings, both original and reproductions of famous paintings. Bracquemond was a chief founder of the influential Society of Painter-Engravers, established in France in 1889.
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Félix Vallotton
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, 1865-1925, Swiss woodcut artist and painter. Associated with the Nabis , he worked in Paris. Vallotton rejuvenated the woodcut medium as a creative technique. His boldly cut designs, conceived as arrangements in black and white, depict Parisian society with wit and intelligence. A painting, Swiss
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Félix María Calleja del Rey
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, 1750-1826, Spanish general, viceroy of New Spain (1813-16), conde de Calderón. In command of the post of San Luis Potosí when the revolution under Hidalgo y Costilla broke out, he led a large force into the field and defeated Hidalgo at Aculco and at Calderón Bridge and besieged Morelos y Pavón
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Félix Faure
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1841-99, president of the French republic (1895-99). A leather merchant, he served in the Franco-Prussian War and became an undersecretary for commerce and colonies in the cabinet of Léon Gambetta (1881-82). He later (1882-85, 1888) occupied the post again and was vice president of the chamber of
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Félix Lope de Vega Carpio
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, 1562-1635, Spanish dramatic poet, founder of the Spanish drama, b. Madrid. Lope, born a peasant, was orphaned at an early age. He wrote the first of his nearly 1,800 plays at 12, and by 25 he was an established playwright and a celebrated wit. He was involved in countless amorous adventures and
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Félix Édouard Émile Borel
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, 1871-1956, French mathematician. He is noted for his work in infinitesimal calculus and the calculus of probabilities. He was professor at the Univ. of Paris (1904-41), director of the Henri Poincaré Institute (from 1927), and a representative in the French chamber of deputies (1924-36).
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Félix Alexandre Guilmant
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1837-1911, French organist, one of the foremost performers of his day. He taught at the Schola Cantorum, of which he was a founder, and at the Paris Conservatory, where Marcel Dupré, Joseph Bonnet, René Vierné, and Nadia Boulanger were among his pupils. He composed much organ music.
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