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
Marguerite Yourcenar
Born: June 8, 1903
Died: December 17, 1987 (aged 84)
Bio: Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.
Known for:
- Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
- The Abyss (1968)
- Oriental Tales (1938)
- Coup de Grâce (1939)
- Two lives and a dream (1987)
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