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

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