Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux

Born: February 27, 1857
Died: February 9, 1944 (aged 86)
Bio: Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, born Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.
Known for:
- Margaret of Angoulême, queen of Navarre
- The life of Ernest Renan
- Twentieth century French writers
- The life of Racine
- The French ideal