of the work sold at Sotheby's was German chicory and coffee mogul Arthur von Franquet, a patron who also owned Munch's 1892 painting "Girl by the Window...
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with the French aviso Bouvet commanded by capitaine de frégate Alexandre Franquet. After an artillery exchange and an attempts by the Bouvet to ram the Meteor...
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André Fouqué, French geologist, petrologist (d. 1904) June 28 – Alexandre Franquet, French admiral (d. 1907) July 9 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian...
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25 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist (b. 1861) Alexandre Franquet, French admiral (b. 1828) August 30 – Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American...
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