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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
Roland Barthes
![Roland Barthes](/apics/roland-barthes.jpg)
Born: November 12, 1915
Died: March 26, 1980 (aged 64)
Bio: Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician.
Known for:
- Mythologies (1957)
- Camera Lucida (1980)
- A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (1977)
- The Pleasure of the Text (1973)
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