Octave Aubry

Octave Aubry

(1881/1946)

Historian, essayist, but also novelist and poet, he devoted himself primarily to Napoleon and Napoleon III. He was elected to the French Academy in 1946, but he was never formally inducted, having died before he could submit his acceptance speech to the reading committee.

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Comte Pierre Raymond Hector d’Aubusson

(1765/1848)

Sous le Premier Empire, il est chambellan de l’Impératrice Joséphine, ministre plénipotentiaire auprès de la Reine Marie-Louise d’Etrurie et ambassadeur près de Joseph Bonaparte, Roi de Naples. Il fut également membre de la Chambre des Pairs.

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Hubertine Auclert

(1848 /1914 )

A French feminist activist, journalist, and writer, she fought for women's eligibility and suffrage, and founded the newspaper La Citoyenne and the society Le Droit des femmes.

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Léon Aucoc

Léon Aucoc

(1828/1910)

A legal scholar and constitutional expert, member of the Council of State, he inaugurated the administrative law course at the École des Ponts & Chaussées. Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

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Jules Auffray

Jules Auffray

(1852/1916)

Politician. Grandson of Doctor Boulu, physician to Napoleon III. Director of the Saint-Germain newspaper, a Catholic and royalist publication.

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Emile Augier

Emile Augier

(1820/1889)

Poète et dramaturge, il connaît de grands succès au théâtre. Il est élu à l’Académie française en 1857.

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Caroline Aupick

(1793/1871)

Mère du poète français Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Elle épousa Joseph-François Baudelaire en 1819 puis Jacques Aupick en 1828.

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Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara

(1901/2000)

Autant-Lara dessine les décors de Nana de Jean Renoir d’après Émile Zola. Il devient ensuite assistant–réalisateur de René Clair. Autant-Lara critiquera invariablement l’ensemble du mouvement de la Nouvelle Vague.

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Mario Avati

Mario Avati

(1921/2009)

An engraver, he gravitated towards the mezzotint technique. Several of his engravings were used for stamp production.

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Paul Azan

Paul Azan

(1874/1951)

Général de corps d’armée et historien, directeur du service historique de l’armée 1928-1933, il prit une part importante à la pacification du Maroc.

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Jean Babelon

Jean Babelon

(1889/1978)

Historian and numismatist, he spent his entire career as curator at the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which he directed between 1937 and 1961.

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Gracchus Babeuf

Gracchus Babeuf

(1760/1797)

A revolutionary, he formed the "Conspiracy of the Equals" against the Directory and was executed. His ideas inspired a school of thought, "Babouvism," which foreshadowed communism.

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