1799
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The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1796-99, detail) by Jacques-Louis David
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Art and culture
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Ongoing events
- French Revolution (1789-1799)
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Visual art
- Caprichos by Goya
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Fiction
- The Crimes of Love by Sade
- Lucinde by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Tales of Terror, wrongly ascribed to Matthew Gregory Lewis
- St. Leon by William Godwin
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Non fiction
- Reflections on the Novel by Sade
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Births
- January 31 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. 1846)
- May 20- Honoré de Balzac, French author (d. 1850)
- June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
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Deaths
- February 12 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
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