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Paul Dubois was born on the 18 July 1829 in Nogent-sur-Seine, France.He began studying law to please his father who practiced as a notary, but gave this up in order to train as a sculptor; his enthusiasm for this possibly fanned by the admiration he had for the work of his great-uncle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. [1]
Paul Dubois may refer to: Paul Dubois (sculptor) (1829–1905), French sculptor; Paul Antoine Dubois (1795–1871), French obstetrician; Paul Charles Dubois (1848–1918), Swiss neuropathologist; Paul Dubois (diplomat) (born 1943), Canadian ambassador to Germany; Paul Élie Dubois, French Orientalist painter; Paul Du Bois (1859–1938), Belgian ...
Paul Charles Dubois (French pronunciation: [pɔl ʃaʁl dybwa]; 28 November 1848 – 4 November 1918) was a Swiss neuropathologist who was a native of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Dubois studied medicine at the University of Bern , and in 1876 was a general practitioner of medicine in Bern .
Paul Du Bois (French pronunciation: [pɔl dy bwa]; 1859–1938) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist, born in Aywaille, and died in Uccle, a municipality of Brussels . Du Bois was a student of Eugène Simonis and Charles van der Stappen .
Jean-Paul Dubois in 2016. Jean-Paul Dubois (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pɔl dybwa]; born 1950 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a French journalist and author. [1] He won the Prix Goncourt in 2019 for Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon ("All Men Do Not Inhabit This World in the Same Way"), a novel told from the perspective of a prisoner looking back on life.
Paul Antoine Dubois (French pronunciation: [pɔl ɑ̃twan dybwa]; also Paul Antoine Dubis or Paul-Antoine Dubois; [1] 7 December 1795 – December 1871) was a French obstetrician and the son of Antoine Dubois. He was born and died in Paris. In 1823 he succeeded his father at the maternity hospital that later was to become known as the Maison ...
His father, Élie Dubois, was a dentist in Montbéliard and belonged to a religious community known as the Plymouth Brethren. [1]He studied at the Académie Julian, followed by Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and had his first exhibition at the Salon in 1910.
William Du Bois's paternal great-grandfather was James Du Bois of Poughkeepsie, New York, an ethnic French-American of Huguenot origin who fathered several children with enslaved women. [9] One of James' mixed-race sons was Alexander, who was born on Long Cay in the Bahamas in 1803; in 1810, he immigrated to the United States with his father ...