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DORE, LOUIS AUGUSTE GUSTAVE (1832-1883), French artist, the son of a
civil engineer, was born at Strassburg on the 6th of January 1832. In
1848 he came to Paris and secured a three years engagement on the
Journal pour rire. His facility as a draughtsman was extraordinary, and
among the books he illustrated in rapid succession were Balzac's Contes
drolatiques [Droll Tales] (1855), Dante's "Inferno" (1861), Don Quixote
(1863), The Bible (1866), Paradise Lost (1866), and the works of
Rabelais (1873). He painted also many large and ambitious compositions
of religious or historical character, and made some success as a
sculptor, his statue of Alexandre Dumas in Paris being perhaps his
best-known work in this line. He died on the 25th of January 1883.
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