Émile Bayard

Émile Bayard, French illustrator and painter (died 1891)

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Born: November 2, 1837
Died: December 10, 1891
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Birth year: 1837

About Émile Bayard

Émile-Antoine Bayard was a French illustrator born in La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Seine-et-Marne. A student of Léon Cogniet, he is known for illustrating Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. Starting in 1853, Bayard was a student of Cogniet for five years, publishing his first cartoons at the age of fifteen, often using the anagrammatic pseudonym, Abel De Miray. Bayard's artwork accompanying From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne is considered among the first Space art of a scientific nature.

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The world when Émile Bayard was born

Émile Bayard was born in 1837. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

Top headlinePanic of 1837 — major economic depression
Technology milestoneSamuel Morse demonstrates electric telegraph
World population~1.17B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderMartin Van Buren
U.S. population15.8M

1837 versus 2026

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Measure	1837	2026
Population	15.8M	341 million

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