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Vieuxtemps, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Vieuxtemps, Henri äNrēˈ vyötäNˈ [key], 1820–81, Belgian violinist and composer. He toured Europe and the United States and taught in St. Petersburg (1846–51), where he was also court violini...Cartan, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Cartan, Henri: see under Cartan, Élie Joseph. ...Troyat, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Troyat, Henri ŏ–rēˈ trôtäˈ [key], 1911–2007, French novelist and biographer, b. Moscow as Lev Aslanovich Tarassov. He and his family fled the Russian Revolution and settled (1911) in Paris. ...Bergson, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Bergson, Henri äNrēˈ bĕrgsôNˈ [key], 1859–1941, French philosopher. He became a professor at the Collège de France in 1900, devoted some time to politics, and, after World War I, took an inte...Breuil, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Breuil, Henri äbāˈ [key], 1877–1961, French archaeologist, paleontologist, and cleric. He taught at the Institut de paléontologie humaine, Paris, after 1910. During much of his lifetime, Breuil ...Rousseau, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Rousseau, Henri äNrēˈ ro͞osōˈ [key], 1844–1910, French primitive painter, b. Laval. He was entirely self-taught, and his work remained consistently naive and imaginative. Rousseau was called L...Dufour, Guillaume Henri
(Encyclopedia)Dufour, Guillaume Henri gēyōmˈ äNrēˈ düfo͞orˈ [key], 1787–1875, Swiss general. He served in the French army under Napoleon I, and in 1847 he led the Swiss federal forces to victory against ...Dunant, Jean Henri
(Encyclopedia)Dunant, Jean Henri zhäN äNrēˈ dünäNˈ [key], 1828–1910, Swiss philanthropist and founder of the International Red Cross, b. Geneva. In 1862 appeared his Un souvenir de Solférino (tr. The Orig...Daguesseau, Henri Françis
(Encyclopedia)Daguesseau, Henri Françis: see Aguesseau, Henri François d'. ...Clouzot, Henri-Georges
(Encyclopedia)Clouzot, Henri-Georges äNrēˈ-zhôrzh clo͞ozōˈ [key], 1907–77, French film director, master of the Gallic noir cinema. His career spanned 40 years, but he was plagued by ill health and complete...Browse by Subject
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