Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Georges Cuvier
Born: August 23, 1769
Died: May 13, 1832 (aged 62)
Bio: Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "Father of paleontology".
Known for:
- Le Règne Animal (1817)
- Essay on the theory of the earth