Gustave Eiffel, 1832-1923

What is there? Brentano’s formal answer is simply: that in which it is fitting to believe. But in what is it fitting to believe? Brentano’s considered answer to that question is de...

Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated in the sport of yachting; collecte...

The Rev. Joseph Romilly (1791–1864) was a bachelor clergyman of the Church of England, a Fellow of Trinity College, and from 1832 to 1861, Registrary of the University of Cambridge...