1739
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![The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739. Voltaire wrote that "without [...] the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the glory of France." ("Sans...le canard de Vaucanson vous n'auriez rien qui fit ressouvenir de la gloire de la France.") This is often misquoted as "Without the shitting duck, we would have nothing to remind us of the glory of France."](/images/thumb/200px-Duck_of_Vaucanson.jpg)
The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson in 1739. Voltaire wrote that "without [...] the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the glory of France." ("Sans...le canard de Vaucanson vous n'auriez rien qui fit ressouvenir de la gloire de la France.") This is often misquoted as "Without the shitting duck, we would have nothing to remind us of the glory of France."
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Art and culture
- Canard de Vaucanson, 1738-1739
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Literature
- John Mottley's pseudonymous Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wits Vade-Mecum.
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Fiction
- A Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings in a Late A air Between John Swinton and George Baker (1739)
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Non-fiction
- A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) by David Hume
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Visual art
- Francois Boucher, Le Dejeuner, 1739
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- André de Nerciat (1739 - 1800)
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Deaths
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