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“A faut esperer q'eu se jeu la finira bentot” (“You should hope that this game will be over soon”), a 1789 caricature depicting the three social class of pre-revolutionary France where the Third Estate (commoner) is carrying the clergy and the nobility on its back

Born on this day: Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland (1630-1685)

“Lady Bate-Dudley” by Thomas Gainsborough (1787)

Born on this day: Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Landgravine consort of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840). She was a daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte

Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaii

Born on this day: English aristocrat and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), known for her accounts on life in the Ottoman Empire, and introducing and supporting smallpox inoculation in Britain

Born on this day: Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742-1798), a daughter of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and an older sister of Marie Antoinette

“Veronica Veronese” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1872). The model is Alexa Wilding

Queen Rasoherina of Madagascar, c. 1865