Traces Écrites

French naturalist and entomologist, author of Souvenirs Entomologiques.

Writer and polemical journalist; close to Doriot and the PPF.

Commander of ships (La Gracieuse, Le Fier, Le Protecteur, Le Sagittaire, among others). He left the service in 1792 and took refuge in Spain.

Emile Faguet was primarily interested in the critique of ideas. He is the author of biographies of Corneille, La Fontaine, Voltaire, and Flaubert.

French general, explorer, governor of Senegal and politician.

Painter and illustrator, student of Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin-Constant. He was a caricaturist for Le Figaro, L'Assiette au Beurre and Le Rire.

Press cartoonist. He was a political cartoonist at Le Figaro for 45 years, from 1960 to 2005.

French actor, member of the Comédie-Française.

Spanish painter.

Renowned French goldsmith.

French jeweller. Trained at Mellerio Frères, he supplies other jewellers such as Boucheron.

Spanish composer.

French writer and screenwriter.

A writer, reader in the House of Orléans, and physics professor to the future Louis-Philippe, he had several comedies performed.

Painter of animated compositions and genre scenes, engraver and illustrator. He painted many paintings of the Salons, music halls, views of Paris and Venice, and crowds in general.

A poet and writer, he celebrates Paris in his prose poems such as "Piéton de Paris" (1939).

American opera singer and actress.

He was noticed by Pierre Loti and Pierre Louÿs and won the Prix Goncourt (1906), unanimously, for Les Civilisés.

Economist and politician, Minister of the Interior and President of the Council under Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.

Geologist and volcanologist, first holder of the chair of Geology at the Museum of Natural History, he supported the beginnings of ballooning by helping the Montgolfier brothers and Pilâtre de Rozier.

President of the Republic (1895/1899), died suddenly at the Elysée Palace from a cerebral hemorrhage, on February 16, 1899.

An anarchist, he founded Le Libertaire (1895), then became director of Le Journal du Peuple.

Composer.

French politician, member of the Montagnard National Convention.

French actress, member of the Comédie-Française.

Expressionist painter, then abstract-informal.