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Name
  
Alphonse Francois

Role
  
Philosopher

Plays
  
Philosophy in the Bedroom


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Died
  
December 2, 1814, Charenton, Vincennes, France

Movies
  
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis

Books
  
Justine, The 120 Days of Sodom, Juliette, The Crimes of Love, Aline and Valcour

Similar People
  
Jean‑Paul Marat, Georges Bataille, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jesús Franco, Friedrich Nietzsche

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Alphonse François (25 August 1814, Paris - 7 July 1888, Paris) was a French engraver.

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Biography

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Alphonse François and his elder brother Charles-Rémy-Jules François (died 1861) learned engraving at the school of Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont. He did a large number of engravings, from works by contemporary French painters and by old Italian masters.

Alphonse François was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1857 and a member of the Institut de France in 1873.

Works

  • Bonaparte franchissant les Alpes (“Bonaparte crossing the Alps”),
  • Marie-Antoinette au Tribunal révolutionnaire (“Marie Antoinette before the revolutionary tribunal”) and
  • Le jeune Pic de la Mirandole apprenant à lire avec sa mère (“The young Giovanni Pico della Mirandola learning from his mother how to read”), after Paul Delaroche;
  • La vision d'Ézéchiel (“The vision of Ezekiel”), after Raphael;
  • La tentation du Christ (“The temptation of Christ”),
  • Mignon et son père (“Mignon and her father”) and
  • Mignon dans l'église (“Mignon in the church”), after Ary Scheffer;
  • L'épouse du roi Candaule (“The wife of the king Candaules”), after Jean-Léon Gérôme;
  • Le couronnement de la Vierge Marie (“The crowning of the Virgin Mary,” from the chapel of San Jacopo Maggiore in Fiesole), an engraving which won him a medal in 1867.
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    References

    Alphonse François Wikipedia
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