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- | *''[[Madame Bovary]]'' | + | '''Year 1857'''was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. |
- | *''[[Les Fleurs du mal]]'' | + | |
- | *Achat D'Une Esclave / Purchase Of A Slave (1857) - Jean-Léon Gérôme | + | |
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- | “The degenerate human being, if he is abandoned to himself, falls into a progressive degradation. He becomes…not only incapable of forming part of the chain of transmission of progress in human society, he is the greatest obstacle to this progress through his contact with the healthy proportion of the population.” [[Bénédict Augustin Morel]], Treatise on the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race, 1857 | + | |
- | ===Literature=== | + | |
- | In 1857, Charles Baudelaire publishes the poetry anthology Les Fleurs du mal (1857), some of the poems are banned by the French government. Likewise, Gustave Flaubert gets in to legal trouble with the publication of Madame Bovary (1857). The French doctor Bénedict-Auguste Morel publishes a treatise on degeneracy titled Treatise on the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race (1857) and in the UK, book censorship is for the first time systematically enforced with the The Obscene Publications Acts. | + | |
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== Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
+ | ===Literature=== | ||
+ | In 1857, [[Gustave Flaubert]] gets in to legal trouble with the publication of ''[[Madame Bovary]]'' (1857). After a trial, he is acquitted. [[Charles Baudelaire]] publishes the poetry anthology ''[[Les Fleurs du mal]]'' (1857). He is less lucky than Flaubert, he is given a fine and some of the poems are banned by the French government. The French doctor [[Bénedict-Auguste Morel]] publishes a treatise on degeneracy titled ''[[Treatise on the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race]]'' (1857) and in the UK, book censorship is for the first time systematically enforced with the first [[Obscene Publications Act 1857|Obscene Publications Act]]. | ||
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+ | Eugène Sue's ''[[Les Mystères du peuple]]'' was also suppressed in toto by censor [[Ernest Pinard]]. | ||
+ | ===Visual art=== | ||
+ | *''[[Purchase of a Slave]]'' by Jean-Léon Gérôme | ||
+ | *''[[Klecksographie]]'' scrapbook by Justinus Kerner | ||
+ | *''[[The Gleaners]]'' by Jean-François Millet | ||
== Births == | == Births == | ||
- | + | *[[James Huneker]] (31 January 1857 – 9 February 1921), American critic. | |
+ | *[[Theodor Kittelsen]] (1857 – 1914) | ||
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==Deaths == | ==Deaths == | ||
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Year 1857was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
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Art and culture
Literature
In 1857, Gustave Flaubert gets in to legal trouble with the publication of Madame Bovary (1857). After a trial, he is acquitted. Charles Baudelaire publishes the poetry anthology Les Fleurs du mal (1857). He is less lucky than Flaubert, he is given a fine and some of the poems are banned by the French government. The French doctor Bénedict-Auguste Morel publishes a treatise on degeneracy titled Treatise on the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race (1857) and in the UK, book censorship is for the first time systematically enforced with the first Obscene Publications Act.
Eugène Sue's Les Mystères du peuple was also suppressed in toto by censor Ernest Pinard.
Visual art
- Purchase of a Slave by Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Klecksographie scrapbook by Justinus Kerner
- The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet
Births
- James Huneker (31 January 1857 – 9 February 1921), American critic.
- Theodor Kittelsen (1857 – 1914)
Deaths