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
Hippolyte Taine
Born: April 21, 1828
Died: March 5, 1893 (aged 64)
Bio: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
Known for:
- History of English literature (1872)
- Notes on England
- The Ancient Regime (1876)
- Les origines de la France contemporaine (1855)
- The Philosophy of Art (1870)