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| From an 1884 edition of Stendhal's The Red and the Black |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Stendhal (1783; died March 23, 1842) French novelist;
Le Rouge et le Noir (
The Red and the Black);
La Chartreuse de Parme (
The Charterhouse of Parma)
Edouard Manet (1832; died April 30, 1883) French painter;
Luncheon on the Grass;
Olympia;
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère;
Young Flautist or
The Fifer
Derek Walcott (1930; died March 17, 2017) Saint Lucian poet and playwright known for epic poem
Omeros and play
Dream on Monkey Mountain
Died on this day:
Giambattista Vico (1744; born June 23, 1668) Italian philosopher;
Scienza Nuova (
New Science)
Thomas Love Peacock (1866; born October 18, 1785) English novelist and poet who wrote
Nightmare Abbey;
Maid Marian;
Crotchet Castle;
Headlong Hall;
The Misfortunes of Elphin; also, satirical verse
Charles Kingsley (1875; born June 12, 1819) English novelist, cleric and professor; novels including
Hypatia;
Westward Ho!;
The Water-Babies
Edvard Munch (1944; born December 12, 1863) Norwegian painter;
The Scream;
Madonna;
The Sick Child
Salvador Dali (1989; born May 11, 1904) Spanish painter;
Persistence of Memory, The Crucifixion
Bonus Classic:
Valmiki (from 5th to 1st centuries) Indian epic poet supposed to have written
Ramayana
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