1895  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Illustration: screen shot from L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat

Loisirs Littéraires au XXe siècle (English: "Literary leasures in the 20th century") from the story "The End of Books" by French writer Octave Uzanne and illustrated Albert Robida. The illustration depicts a female reader of the 20th century, imagined by Robida, who is listening to "12 poètes assortis" (twelve assorted poets) on a balcony overlooking a future city.

Train wreck at Montparnasse (October 22, 1895) by Studio Lévy and Sons

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Art and culture

• The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
• Contes pour les bibliophiles by Octave Uzanne
• Studies on Hysteria - Freud
• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• Birth of cinema
• The Yellow Kid by Richard Felton Outcault
• Oscar Wilde trial
• A Pair of Shoes , a painting by Vincent van Gogh

Births

• Max Horkheimer (1895 - 1973)
• Mikhail Bakhtin (1895 - 1975)
• Frank Raymond Leavis (1895 - 1978)
• Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)

Deaths

• Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 – 1895)
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836 - 1895)