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Crepet,Jacques (1874-1952). Son of Eugene Crepet, he continued the latter's work in
editing Baudelaire and revising the Etude biogmphique (1906).
Crevel, Rene (1900-1935). Novelist, poet, essayist; among the first Surrealists. He com
mitted suicide in Paris. Author of Paul Klee (1930) and Dedi, au L'Anti-obscurantis1Jle
(1935).
Curtius, Ernst Robert (1814-1896). German classical philologist and a.rchaeologist. As
director of antiquities in Berlin, he oversaw the German excavation of Olympia, Greece
(1875-1881).
Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832). Naturalist and statesman; founder of comparative anat­
omy. He classified animals in terms of four distinct types.
d'Aurevilly. See Barbey d'Aurevilly,Jules.
d'Eichthals, Gustave (1804-1886). Saint-Simonian follower of Enfantin and collaborator
on the newspaper Ie Globe.
Dacque, Edgar (1878-1945). French paleontologist.
Daguerre, LouisJacques (1787-1851). French painter and inventor. Helped develop the
diorama in Paris (1822), and collaborated with ]. N. Niepce (1829-1833) on work
leading to the discovery of the daguerreotype process, connnunicated to the Academy
of Sciences in 1839.
Danae. In Greek mythology, the daughter of Eurydice and Acrisius, and mother of
Perseus. She was imprisoned by her father in a chamber of bronze.
Dartois. Three brothers-Franl!ois-Victor-Armand (1788-1867), Louis-Annand-Theo­
dore (1786-1845), and Achille (1791-1868)-all active and occasionally working to­
gether in theater and vaudeville during the nineteenth century.
Daubrun, Marie (1827-1901). Noted French actress, beloved of Baudelaire. Inspired a
number of poems in Les Fleurs du mal.
Dandet, Alphonse (1840-1897). Novelist who published a series of successful books
from 1866 to 1898. Father of Leon Daudet.
Daudet, Leon (1867-1942). Son of Alphonse Daudet; journalist and writer. Founded,
with Charles Maurras, the royalist journal L'Actionjrallwise (1907). Author of novels,
books on psychology and medicine, political works, literary criticism.
David, Felicien-Cesar (1810-1876). French composer of popular and influential sym­
phonic odes-e.g., Le Desert (1844), Herculanum (1859). Preached Saint-Simonian doc
trine in the Middle East.
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825). French painter sympathetic to the Revolution of
1789; an admirer of Robespierre and, later, Napoleon. His neoclassical portraits of
revolutionary heroes influenced the development of academic painting in France.
Deburau, Baptiste (1796-1846). Acrobaes son who transformed the character Gilles of
commedia dell'arte into the wily chameleon Pierrot. His son Charles (1829-1873), a
star during the Second Empire although without his father's genius, was photographed
by Nadar.
Decembrists. Participants in the unsuccessful plot to overthrow Czar Nicholas I, in
December 1825.
Delaroche, Paul (1797-1856). French portrait and historical painter. Founder of dle
Eclectic school, which united classical line with romantic color and subject matter.
Delatouche, Hyacinthe (1785-1851). Author of a novel about a hermaphrodite,
Frag-oielta (1829).
Delescluze, Louis Charles (1809-1871). Politician and journalist, active in the 1830 and
1848 revolutions . A leader of the Paris Commune, he was killed on the barricades in
May 1871.
Delessert, Gabriel (1786-1858). Prefect of Paris police, 1836-1848.