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Daumier
French painter, sculptor, and caricaturist. He was born into a family of artists. From age 13 he worked for a bailiff in a law court and later as a clerk in a bookstore, where he observed and analyzed the appearance and behavior of people of different social classes. In 1829, after studying lithography, he began contributing cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-cent. French politics and society to periodicals, and came to enjoy a wide reputation. He produced over 4,000 lithographs and 4,000 illustrative drawings. His paintings, drawing on literary themes and documenting contemporary life and manners, were executed in a vigorous, sketchy style; they were rarely exhibited, and he remained unknown as a painter. In sculpture he specialized in caricature heads and figures; some 15 small clay busts occupy an important place in the history of sculpture.
Daubigny
French landscape painter of the Barbizon school. He was trained by his father, also a painter. He began by painting historical and religious works but soon turned to landscapes, painting rivers, beaches, and canals from a boat. His images were notable for their uncrowded composition and accurate depiction of natural light. One of the earliest proponents of painting directly from nature, he is considered the link between mid-19th-cent. naturalism and Impressionism.
Gautier
French poet, novelist, critic, and journalist. He lived most of his life in Paris, where he initially studied painting. He insisted on the sovereignty of the beautiful in such works as the novel Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835). He developed a poetic technique for recording his exact impressions of works of art, as in the formally perfect poems of É maux et camé es (1852). Travel inspired some of his best poetry, in Españ a (1845), and finest prose, in Voyage en Espagne (1845). He also wrote copious art and drama criticism. His works inspired such poets as C. Baudelaire, whose Fleurs du Mal was dedicated to him, and his prodigious and varied output influenced literary sensibilities for decades.
Laurier
Prime minister of Canada (1896-1911). Born in St.-Lin, Canada East (now Quebec), he studied law at McGill Univ., where he was a leading member of the liberal Institut Canadien. He served in the Quebec legislature (1871-74) and the Canadian House of Commons (1874-1919), where in 1885 he delivered a plea for clemency for L. Riel. He led the Liberal Party to victory in the 1896 election and became prime minister, the first French Canadian and Roman Catholic to hold that office. He advocated unity between English and French Canadians, development of the W territories, protection of Canadian industry, and an expanded transportation system. He championed Canadian autonomy and helped shape the British Commonwealth of independent states. His support for a reciprocity treaty with the U.S. contributed to his government's defeat in 1911. He is remembered as ...
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