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Du Camp, Maxime (1822-1894). Writer; friend of Flaubert. Worked with Baudelaire
on La Revue de Paris. Decorated by Cavaignac for service in the Gal'de N ationale
during the June Days . Author of Les Chants modernes (1855) and a six-volume account
of nineteenth·century Paris (1869-1875).
Ducange, Victor Henri (1783-1833). Author of novels and dranlaS during the Restora·
tion. Imprisoned several times for his liberalism.
Ducasse, Isidor. See Lautreamont, camte de.
Dulamon, Frederic (1825-1880). Literary bohemian, an associate of Baudelaire.
Dulaure,Jacques (1755-1835). Deputy during the Convention and active defender of
the revolutionary cause during the Restoration. Author of an influential Hirtoire de
Paris (1821-1827).
Dumas, Alexandre (Pere) (1802-1870). Enormously popular French novelist and
dramatist who, thanks to his fine handwriting, became secretary to the future Louis
Philippe and embarked on a successful literary career in the popular press.
Dumas, Jean (1800-1884). Chemist who founded the Ecole Centrale des Arts et
Manufactures in Paris (1829). Studied vapor density and the composition of the at1no­
sphere.
Dupont, Pierre (1821-1870). Popular lyric poet and songwriter. Author of Les Deux
Anges (1842) and Le Chant des ouuriers (1846). Subject of two essays by Baudelaire.
Duquesnay,Jean (1800-1849). Architect for the original building of the Ecole des Mines
and for the Gare de rEst in Paris.
Duval,Jeanne. French mulatto, a prostitute and actress, who was Baudelaire's mistress
for many years and the inspiration for several of his poems.
Duveyrier, Anne Honore (1787-1865). Playwright who collaborated with Eugene
Scribe and others, including his own brother Charles Duveyrier.
Duveyrier, Charles (1803-1866). French lawyer and writer; disciple of Saint-Simon.
Founded the journal Le Credit.
Ecole des BeauxArts. School of finc arts founded (as the Academic Royale d'Architcc­
ture) in 1671 in Paris, under Louis XIV. Merged with the Academic Royale de Peinture
et de Sculpture (founded 1648) in 1793. Particularly influential in thc field of architec­
tural design during the Second Empire.
Ecole Normande. Group of young poets with a taste for technical virrllOsity; flourished
in the early 1840s at the Pension Bailly in the heart of bohemian Paris. It centered
around Gustave Le Vavasseur, Ernest Prarond, and Philippe de Chem1evieres, and
included Baudelaire. Most members were devout monarchists who, in 1848, became
fierce opponents of the new republic.
Ecole Polytechnique. Engineering school established in 1794 by the National Conven­
tion as the Ecole Centrale des Tr avaux Publics, under the direction of Lazare Carnot
and Gaspard Monge; took its present name in 1795. It was transformed into a military
school by Napoleon in 1804.
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931). American inventor. Invented the Kinetograph, the
first true motion picture camera, in 1889, as an accompaniment to his vastly successful
phonograph.
L'Education sentimentale. Novel by Flaubcrt of 1870, presenting a vast panorama of
French daily life under the July Monarchy.
Eiffel, Alexandre-Gustave (1832-1923). French engineer, a founder of aerodynamics.
Built several 81'ched bridges of iron and, for the Paris Exhibition of 1867, the arched
Galerie des Machines. He was known as "the magician of iron" after his construction
of tile Eiffel Tower (1887-1889).