THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.”

— Ambrose Bierce

BIRTHDAYS:

1717 Jacques Saly, French sculptor.

1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer, cellist, and impresario who pioneered the operetta genre with nearly 100 satirical stage works that critiqued bourgeois society and political figures during the Second French Empire. Can Can from Orpheus in the Underworld, and Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Barcarolle, and “Les oiseaux dans la charmille” (Les contes d’ Hoffmann)

1833 Léon Bonnat, French painter.

1858 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (known for portraits).

1864 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor.

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