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Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French writer, author of Madame Bovary.
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Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891), French artist.
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Mary France Scott Siddons (1844-1890), well-known English actress, performing Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem.
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Cowes, on England’s Isle of Wight, is a yachting resort; Baden is a German town renowned for its thermal baths.
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In mythology, a monster with live serpents for hair; anyone who looked at a Gorgon turned to stone.
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Jules Michelet (1798-1874), French historian of the French Revolution.
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English actress (1846-1880), famous for playing Juliet.
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Duke Charles-August de Morny (1811-1865), French speculator who aided a coup d‘état that made his half brother Emperor Napoleon III; he became a deputy of France.
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Eugène Verboeckhoven (1798-1881), Belgian painter.
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Henry Poole, well-known tailor on London’s Savile Row.
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The typewriter had been invented in various forms.
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Club devoted to the collecting and preservation of finely made books.
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French composer.
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Name of a convent school in Paris. Marguerite in Gounod’s
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is assumed into heaven, as was the Virgin Mary in Catholic doctrine.
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Titian (1488/90-1576), great Venetian School painter during the Italian Renaissance.
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Jules Hardouin-Mansard (1646-1708), French architect favored by Louis XIV.