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Anne-Josèphe Terwagne, or Théroigne de Méricourt if you insist, attacked by a gang of Jacobins in the Jardin des Tuilleries, today in 1793; read her full tale on the page for the Napoleonic Age
Anthony Shaffer, screenplay writer, and Peter Shaffer, playwright, born within seconds of each other, and completely identical, today in 1926, providing an excuse for a piece on famous twins:
Jacob and Esau (heels and birthrights)
Perets and Zerach (less well-known, but that scarlet thread!)
Romulus and Remus
Castor and Pollux (click here)
Apollo and Artemis (click here)
And speaking of pairs, the female half of that most famously tragic love story, Abelard and Héloïse, died today in 1163 (more on her on the "Mediaeval" page of "Woman-Blindness")
Mike Oldfield, composer of "Tubular Bells", born today in 1953, providing an excuse for a piece on "whatever happened to?"
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