Charles Le Gobien was a French Jesuit writer, founder of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, a collection of reports from Jesuit missionaries in China. It is a major source of information for the history of Catholic missions and life in China in those times.
Charles Le Goffic was a Breton poet, novelist and historian whose influence was especially strong in his native Brittany. He was a member of the Académie française.
Alexandre Charles Lecocq was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed considerable success in the 1870s and early 1880s, before the changing musical fashions of the late 19th century made his style of composition less popular. His few serious works include the opera Plutus (1886), which was not a success, and the ballet Le cygne (1899). His only piece to survive in the regular modern operatic repertory is his 1872 opéra comique La fille de Madame Angot. Others of his more than forty stage works receive occasional revivals.
Charles Lemert is an American born social theorist and sociologist. He has written extensively on social theory, globalization and culture. He has contributed to many key debates in social thought, authoring dozens of books including his text Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life, 5th edition. From 1982 to 2010, he taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his family.
Charles Leonard Moore was an American poet and essayist, born in Philadelphia. He became a lawyer and in 1878–79 served as United States Consul at San Antonio, Brazil. Besides contributing critically to the Chicago Dial, he published:Atlas (1881)
Poems Antique and Modern (1883)
Book of Day Dreams (1883)
Banquet of Palacios (1889), a comedy
Odes (1896)
The Ghost of Rosalys (1900), a political drama
The Red Branch Cresta - A Trilogy (1904)
