Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.
Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she first met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France. She was considered one of the great beauties of pre-Revolutionary society, but her extravagance and exclusivity earned her many enemies.
Eva Ionesco is a French actress and filmmaker. She is the daughter of photographer Irina Ionesco and came to international prominence as a child model after being featured in her mother's works.
Virginie (Marie) Loveling was a Flemish author of poetry, novels, essays and children's stories. She also wrote under the pseudonym W. E. C. Walter. She did write sentimentally early in her career but her later novels dealt with difficult subjects directly.
Nathalie Lemel, was a militant anarchist and feminist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of 1871. She was deported to Nouvelle Calédonie with Louise Michel.
John Joseph Frederick Otto Zardetti was a Swiss prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He first served as the first bishop of the new Diocese of Saint Cloud in Minnesota in the United States from 1889 to 1894. Zardetti then served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bucharest in what is today Romania from 1894 to 1895. After resigning as archbishop, Zardetti briefly, but influentially served in the Roman Curia with the title of titular archbishop of Mocissus.
Virginie Claire Désirée Marie Hériot was a French yachtswoman who won in the 1928 Summer Olympics in the 8 Metre Aile VI.
Marie-Paule Nolin was a French Canadian high-fashion designer who lived and worked in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Aglaé Louise Françoise Gabrielle de Polignac was the daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, the favourite and confidante of Marie Antoinette, and her husband, the 1st duc de Polignac.
Marie-Rose-(Claude-)Josephe Levasseur, known in her day as Mademoiselle Rosalie, and later commonly referred to as Rosalie Levasseur was a French soprano who is best remembered for her work with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Jean-Jacques Dwelshauvers, who went by the name of Jacques Mesnil was a journalist, art critic, art historian and anarchist.
Eléna Wexler-Kreindler was a Romanian mathematician. She spent most of her professional career in France, where she specialized in modern algebra and studied the Ore extensions, the theory of the filtration of rings, or algebraic microlocalisation.
Dominique Goblet is a Belgian visual artist, illustrator and pioneer of the European graphic novel. She lives and works in Brussels.
Marie-Paule Cani is a French computer scientist conducting advanced research in the fields of shape modeling and computer animation. She has contributed to over 300 research publications having around 12000 citations.
Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire was a Belgian writer and activist. She was known as the "mother of the Flemish Movement".
Marie Lenéru was a French playwright and diarist.
Marie Joséphine Claire Prestat (1862–1933) was a French organist, pianist, composer and teacher. She was a native of Paris where she spent her entire life. She is known principally as a composer of organ and piano music, vocal works, and pedagogical texts.
Rose Combe, born Marie-Rosalie Bugne, was a French railway worker and writer, viewed as an archetype of Proletarian literature. Born into a poor family, despite receiving little education, she was a voracious reader and memorised one of the few books she had access to, an almanac, by the age of four. She wanted to be a teacher but instead worked for the railway between Ambert and Thiers as a level crossing operator. She continued to write, however, and through the author Henri Pourrat, who lived locally, was first published in 1927. Her work was subsequently printed in L'Auvergne littéraire et artistique and her novel Le Mile des Garre appeared in 1931. She was known as the La Garde-Barrière Auvergnate from her job on the railway. She died in 1932, much of her work still unpublished.
The Dutch and Flemish authors' banquet, was a literary event on August 26, 1933, held at Deerlijk in Belgium, attended by the prominent writers in Belgium and the Netherlands of that era. It was held on the same day as a celebration of the anniversary of the Association of Large and Young Families of Deerlijk. The photo of the event is memorable because it shows an entire generation of Dutch and Flemish writers in one frame. Willem Elsschot met Jan Greshoff at the event, who convinced him to go back to writing, and the album 'Kaas' resulted. Also remarkable is that August Defresne and his secret mistress Anna Charlotte Ruys were present at the event.
