Hilaire Belloc
Poet, essayist and historian. Born France. Catholic. His works include 'Cautionary Tales for Children', in which Matilda told lies and was burnt to death. Died Guildford.
Poet, essayist and historian. Born France. Catholic. His works include 'Cautionary Tales for Children', in which Matilda told lies and was burnt to death. Died Guildford.
Explorer. Born Paris. For his participation in the 1845 Anglo-French expedition to Madagascar Bellot received the Legion of Honour. 1851 he joined Captain Kennedy's expedition to find the Frank...
Botanist. Born in Stoke, near Plymouth. His family moved to St Petersburg in 1805, where he becam proficient in several languages. In France he studied at the universities of Tours and Montpelier. ...
Private or Lance Corporal. Number S/449 in the 7th Battalion of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Born in Bermondsey. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme.
Leading anarchist known for his political activism and writing. Born Russia, emigrated to America. Lover and life-long friend of Emma Goldman. The pair were deported to Russia for their anarchis...
Actor, playwright, author and director. Born Leslie Steven Berks in Stepney. After studying at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he founded the London Theatre Group where he directed his own adap...
Born: La Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France. Died: Paris. Raymond E.O.Ella has sent me the link to the Hector Berlioz Website, which has a huge amount of information about Berlioz in London.
born in Paris in 1844. Oscar Wilde wrote Salome for her. Died 1923.
Organic and physical chemist. Born and died in Paris. Very successful and well-known in his lifetime. Achieved high office in the Chemical Society of Paris and in the French Academy of Sciences.