1854
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"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." --Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau |
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Art and culture
- "Questions sur le beau" (1854) by Delacroix
- Alhambra Theatre music hall opens its doors
- First recorded use of the term erotica in English; originally a booksellers' catalogue heading.
- Gustave Doré illustrates François Rabelais for the first time
- The red splodge representing the reign of Ivan the Terrible in Gustave Doré's The History of Holy Russia
- Poem of the Soul, Nightmare by Louis Janmot
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Births
- March 21 - Léo Taxil, French writer and journalist (d. 1907)
- October 20 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- October 20 - Alphonse Allais, French writer (d. 1905)
- October 16 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
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Deaths
- August 20 - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (b. 1775)
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