The Arcades Project - Operi

scent. Author of Nouveaux PrincijJes d'iconomie politique (1819), Histoire des Franwis
(1821-1844) .
Solferino. Site of a mor battle between Austrian and Franco-Piedmontese armies,june
24, 1859, in Lombardy. Heavy casualties led Napoleon III to seek a truce with Austria.
Sommerard, Alexandre du (1779-1842). French archaeologist who, during the 1830s,
amassed a collection of French artifacts that was deposited in the Hotel Cluny in 1832.
Soulie, Frederic (1800-1847) . Early practitioner of the serial novel. Author of popular
sensational novels like Memoim du diable (1837-1838).
Soumet, Alexandre (1788-1845). Poet and playwright, concerned witb historical
themes. Pnblished La Divine Epopee in 1840.
Soupault, Philippe (1897-1990). Poet, novelist, and man of letters, associated with
avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. Published a biography of
Baudelaire in 1931.
Spartacus (?-71). Leader of a slave revolt against Rome in the first century A.D.
Spielliagen, Friedrich (1829-1911). Popular German novelist and playwright, and partisan
of democratic movements,
Spitzweg, Carl (1808-1885). German painter oflandscape and genre scenes, associated
with the Biedemleier style,
Stein, Lorenz von (1815-1890), Gennan lawyer and historian, author of works on the
socialist movement.
SteWen, Theophile (1859-1923). French artist and illustrator, well-known for his posters
and lithographs.
Stern, Daniel. Pseudonym of Marie Bavigny, comtesse d'Agoult (1805-1876), historian,
novelist, and playwright who wrote extensively on the Revolution of 1848. Led a salon
in Paris, and was the mistress of Franz Liszt, with whom she had a daughter, Cosima,
later the wife of Richard Wagner.
Stevens, Alfred (1828-1906). Belgian painter, best known for his genre scenes of Parisian
society.
Stifter, Adalbert (1805-1868). Austrian writer who believed that small everyday phenomena
manifest the principles of nature more sublimely than prodigious phenomena.
Author of Die Mappe meines UrgroJJvatm (1842), Bunte Steine (1853). Subject of a short
essay of 1918 by Benjamin.
Strabo (63 B.C.-A.D. 24). Greek geographer and historian working in Rome during the
age of Augustus,
Suchet, Louis-Gabriel (1772-1826). Napoleonic general.
Sue, Eugene (1804-1857). Popular novelist of urban life and leading exponent of the
newspaper serial. A Parisian dandy, he lived in exile after the coup d'etat of 1851.
Author of Les Mysteres de Paris (1842-1843), Le Juiferrant (1844-1845).
Sully Prudhomme, Rene (1839-1907). French poet, a leader of the Parnassians in their
attempt to bring positivist philosophy to poetry.
Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772). Swedish scientist, philosopher, and religious writer.
Author of Arcana Coelestia (1749-1756). His followers organized the New.lemsalem
church.
Trune, Hippolyte Adolphe (1828-1893). French philosopher and historian; leading exponent
of positivism. Professor of aesdletics and dIe history of art at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts (1864-1883). Among his works are Essais de critique et d'histoire (1855),
Hlstoire de la litterature anglUlse (1865), Origines de la France contemporaine (1871-1894).
Talleyrand-.I'erigord, Charles (1754-1838). French clergyman and statesman. Grand
chamberlain under Napoleon and later ambassador to Great Britain (1830-1834),
Helped engineer theJuly Revolution. His Mimoires were published in 1891.
Talma, Franois (1763-1826). Outstanding French tragedian, a favorite with Napoleon.