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LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE DORE (1832-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 425 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE See also:DORE (1832-1883)  , See also:French artist, the son of a See also:civil engineer, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 6th of See also:January 1832 . In 1848 he came to See also:Paris and secured a three years' engagement on the See also:Journal pour rire . His facility as a draughtsman was extraordinary, and among the books he illustrated in rapid See also:succession were See also:Balzac's Conies drolatiques (1855), See also:Dante's Inferno (1861), See also:Don Quixote (1863), The See also:Bible (1866), See also:Paradise Lost (1866), and the See also:works of See also:Rabelais (1893) . He painted also many large and ambitious compositions of a religious or See also:historical See also:character, and made some success as a sculptor, his statue of See also:Alexandre See also:Dumas in Paris being perhaps his best-known See also:work in this See also:line . He died on the 25th of January 1883 .

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