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 +"The first time that we met [[Charles Baudelaire|Baudelaire]] was towards the middle of the year 1849, at the [[Hôtel de Lauzun|Hotel Pimodan]], where we occupied, near [[Fernand Boissard]], a strange [[apartment]] which communicated with his by a private staircase hidden in the thickness of the wall, and which was haunted by the spirits of beautiful women loved long since by [[Lauzun]]."--[[Théophile Gautier's preface to the third edition of Les Fleurs du mal|Théophile Gautier's preface to ''Les Fleurs du mal'']]
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 +[[Image:The Sphinx by Maxime Du Camp, 1849.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp)]], [[1849]]]]
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- +'''1849''' was the 849th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the [[1840s]] decade.
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
- +*[[November 22]] - ''[[La Vie de bohème]]'', play by Murger staged at the [[Théâtre des Variétés]]
 +*[[Gesamtkunstwerk]]
 +**The conscious act of artistically addressing all the senses with regard to the viewer’s experience in totality made a resounding debut in 1849 when Richard ...
 +*[[Necrophilia]]
 +**[[Sergeant Bertrand]]'s arrest in 1849 came as a shock to his army comrades, for it was alleged, and proved at his trial, that for the past two years he had been in the habit ...
 +*[[Théophile Gautier]] (1811 - 1872)
 +**La première fois que nous rencontrâmes Baudelaire, ce fut vers le milieu de 1849 , à l'hôtel Pimodan, où nous occupions, près de Fernand Boissard, [[Théophile Gautier's preface to the third edition of Les Fleurs du mal|more ...]]
 +*''[[Eccentric and Remarkable Characters]]'' by Frederick William Fairholt
 +*''[[Art and Revolution]]'' by [[Richard Wilhelm Wagner]]
 +*In May 1849 [[William Ewart Gladstone]] began his most active "rescue work" with "fallen women" and met prostitutes late at night either on the street, in his house or in their ...
== Births == == Births ==
 +*[[August Strindberg]] (1849 - 1912)
 +*[[Max Nordau]] (1849 - 1923)
==Deaths == ==Deaths ==
 +*[[Frédéric Chopin]] (1810-1849)
 +*[[Edward Hicks]] (1780-1849)
 +*[[Katsushika Hokusai]] (1760 - 1849)
 +*[[Edgar Allan Poe]] (1809 - 1849)
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"The first time that we met Baudelaire was towards the middle of the year 1849, at the Hotel Pimodan, where we occupied, near Fernand Boissard, a strange apartment which communicated with his by a private staircase hidden in the thickness of the wall, and which was haunted by the spirits of beautiful women loved long since by Lauzun."--Théophile Gautier's preface to Les Fleurs du mal

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