Marie-Denise Villers  

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Zeichnende junge Frau vermutlich Selbstbildnis von Marie-Denise Villers 1801

In 1859 the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860) posed Ney for this bust[1] in his home town Frankfurt am Main. She finished the bust (marble) in the same year in her studio in Berlin.

Schopenhauer and Indian philosophy

"because our chin and their chin make a desirable combination" see Schopenhauer on genetics

In the second volume of The World as Will and Representation Schopenhauer elaborated on his theory of genetics: he argued that humans inherit their will, and thus their character, from their fathers, but their intellect from their mothers and he provides examples from biographies of great figures to illustrate this theory.

• Roy Skelton, 79, British actor (Rainbow, Doctor Who), stroke.

Le crime leur semblait une jouissance aiguë

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Mon goût, si l'on veut, est dépravé

Le naturalisme (1882)

• Josephine Hart, 69, Irish-born British novelist and poetry promoter, ovarian cancer.

• Jorge Semprún, 87, Spanish writer and politician.