Édouard Vincent Joseph Dreyfus González de Orbegoso, 4th count of Premio Real (1876–1941) was a French Catholic businessman of Jewish descent, a lawyer, painter and writer, who was also an amateur composer under the pseudonym of Jean Dora.
Édouard's grandfather Édouard Dreyfus (1788–1866) was a Jewish shopkeeper in
Wissembourg
Wissembourg (; South Franconian: ''Weisseburch'' ; German: ''Weißenburg'' ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
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, who moved to Paris. His father,
Auguste Dreyfus (1827–1897) had ventured to Peru where he became rich from trading in
guano
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and converted to Catholicism. He married twice, his first wife died in Peru, the second time, again in Peru, he married Luisa MarÃa González de Orbegoso, Marquise of
Villa Hermosa
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, who was the mother of Édouard. Édouard graduated as Bachelor of Law (1897), Bachelor of Maritime Law (1897), then Doctor of Law (1903).
He married on 16 March 1907, Anne-Hélène de Talleyrand-Périgrod (1877–1945) and had a son, Luis MarÃa Archibaldo, who never officially received the title of Count of Premio Real.
Paintings
* ''Young Japanese woman''
Essays
* ''Étude sur la condition juridique des artistes peintres en droit romain'' Paris, 1903
Songs
* ''Les indolents'' setting of
Verlaine
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On January 1, 2006, Verlaine had a total population of 3,507. The total area is 24.21 km2 which gives a population density
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* ''Recueillement'' setting of
Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, an ...
See also
*
:es:Marquesado de Premio Real
References
1876 births
1941 deaths
19th-century French painters
French male painters
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
19th-century French composers
French male composers
19th-century French Jews
French male writers
19th-century French male artists
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