Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, born today in 1732, she died on May 23 1776, leaving behind the most extraordinary last will and testament, whose detail you can read here.
She left behind a most extraordinary life too, as one of the great salon hostesses of the Enlightenment, and sixteen hundred pages of letters - there were significantly more, but she marked each one, as part of her will, for saving or burning, and the lawyer did as lawyers must.
Her full bio here
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Russian author, born today in 1818
Anne Gray Harvey (Sexton), Robert Lowell's "other student", born today in 1928 (click here for Nov 17 to understand that moniker better)
The first issue of "Rolling Stone" published, today in 1967, with John Lennon as a soldier on the cover - how deliciously subversive!
And two events that it gives me great delight to juxtappose, because the second confirms the end, the failure, of the first; and the end, the failure, of the other great catastrophe that Europe inflicted on itself, the 20th century. Quite simply, no need for commentary:
Today in 1938, Kristallnacht (for more details, see March 19, May 7 and July 14)
Tonight, on the stroke of midnight, in 1989, the authorities in Berlin gave permission to open the gates and end the epoch of the Berlin Wall
(which is why my piece about it can be found tomorrow, on Nov 10, the day when the Charlies crossed the Checkpoint in huge numbers, and the serious demolition took place)
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