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Musset, Alfred de

(Encyclopedia)Musset, Alfred de (Louis Charles Alfred de Musset)älfrd´ d müs´ [key], 1810–57, French romantic poet, dramatist, and fiction writer. His first collection of poems, Contes d'Espagne et d'It...

Medici, Lorenzino de'

(Encyclopedia)Medici, Lorenzino de' lrnts´n d m´dch, Ital. m´dch [key], 1515–47, member of the cadet branch of the Medici family. A boon companion of Alessandro de' Medici, he secretly pl...

Alfred

(Encyclopedia)Alfred, 849–99, king of Wessex (871–99), sometimes called Alfred the Great, b. Wantage, Berkshire. Early Life The youngest son of King Æthelwulf, he was sent in 853 to Rome, where the pope gave h...

Jarry, Alfred

(Encyclopedia)Jarry, Alfred älfrd´ zhär´ [key], 1873–1907, French author. He was well known in Paris for his eccentric and dissolute behavior and for his insistence on the superiority of hallucinations ov...

Cortot, Alfred Denis

(Encyclopedia)Cortot, Alfred Denis älfrd´ dn´ kôrt´ [key], 1877–1962, French pianist and conductor. Among his appearances as a conductor were those at Bayreuth (1898–1901). He joined the faculty of...

Rambaud, Alfred Nicolas

(Encyclopedia)Rambaud, Alfred Nicolas älfrd´ nkôlä´ räNb´ [key], 1842–1905, French historian and politician. He served in the administration of Jules Ferry, was elected senator (1895), and was minist...

Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de

(Encyclopedia)Vigny, Alfred Victor, comte de älfrd´ vktôr´ kôNt d vny´ [key], 1797–1863, French poet, novelist, and dramatist. One of the foremost romantics, Vigny expressed a philosophy of stoica...

Loisy, Alfred Firmin

(Encyclopedia)Loisy, Alfred Firmin älfrd´ frmN´ lwäz´ [key], 1857–1940, French theologian, biblical critic, and leading exponent of biblical modernism. He was ordained (1879) a Roman Catholic priest ...

Bréal, Michel Jules Alfred

(Encyclopedia)Bréal, Michel Jules Alfred mshl´ zhül älfrd´ bräl´ [key], 1832–1915, French philologist. He is best known for his Essai de semantique (1897), which gave great impetus to scientific in...

Fouillée, Alfred Jules Emile

(Encyclopedia)Fouillée, Alfred Jules Emile älfrd´ zhül ml´ fooy´ [key], 1838–1912, self-educated French philosopher and sociologist. Until 1875, when he retired, he was a teacher at various French...