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1801 Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David

Former political leaders going to trial is quite common in democracies.

If you want to learn all about the first Christian martyrs who were eaten by lions in Gaul, listen to the episode by The French History Podcast https://t.co/56yGJAQZfp

#OTD 21 March 1768 Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born. He became an incredibly important mathematician and also discovered the greenhouse effect.

#OTD 26 February 1808 Honoré Daumier was born. He became a painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870.

New episode! Why did the Second Republic only last 4 years? Was it doomed to fail? We talk all about it in this special episode. Hear it 2 months before its wide release & ad-free on Patreon! https://t.co/cmHI5bAFWg

#OTD 11 February 1860 Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, known by the pen name Rachilde, was born. Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author & one of the most prominent associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.

Allegedly.

#OTD 23 January 1832 Édouard Manet was born. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass & Olympia (1/2)

He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment. (2/2)