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Charles Cros
Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude.
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science · French poet and inventor · poet · photographer · inventor · writer · physicist · librettist · also Charles Cros, Charles Emile-Hortensius Cros, Cros
Born 1 October 1842 · Died 9 August 1888 · Q356575
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1888· 1 entry
Died 1888-08-09.
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1881· 1 entry
And had become the home for the avant-garde art scene of the time
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1876· 1 entry
Contributed to Dizains réalistes, parodying François Coppée, and between 1877 and 1888, he composed humorous monologues, such as Le Bilboquet and L’Homme qui a voyagé, earning him the nickname "the Molière of the cobb
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1869· 1 entry
Published a theory of color photography in which he proposed that a single scene could be photographed through glass filters colored green, violet, and orange
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1867· 1 entry
Cros had a love affair from 1867 to 1877 with Nina de Callias.
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1860· 1 entry
Cros began studies in medicine, but he soon abandoned them for a life of literary and scientific pursuits
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1842· 1 entry
Born 1842-10-01.
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