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
Pierre Bayle
Born: November 18, 1647
Died: December 28, 1706 (aged 59)
Bio: Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1697.
Known for:
- Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1697)
- Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet
- Bayle--political writings
- Pensées diverses sur la comète