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Births: Théodore Géricault - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Eugène Delacroix - Honoré de Balzac
Literature: Justine (1787|1791) - Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795) - L'Histoire de Juliette (1797) - The Monk (1796)
Non-fiction: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
French Revolution
French Revolution (1789 - 1799). It is considered to have effectively ended on November 9, 1799 when a successful coup d'état places Napoléon Bonaparte in control of France. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790s [Dec 2004]See also: French Revolution
Semaphore
French inventor Claude Chappe first demonstrates a practical semaphore system (1792). Use of the system will eventually expand to include the whole of France. This is considered to be the first practical telecommunications system. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790s [Dec 2004]Dandy
A dandy is a man who rejects bourgeois values, devotes particular attention to his physical appearance, refines his language, cultivates his hobbies. A dandy emulates aristocratic values, often without being an aristocrat himself, thus such a dandy is a form of snob. The practice of dandyism was a counter-cultural habit that began in the revolutionary 1790s both in London and Paris. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy [Sept 2004]
See also: dandy
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