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| 1775 |
| | Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville | |
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| 1790 |
| | Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel | |
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| 1791 |
| | Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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| 1792 |
| | Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man | |
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| 1830 |
| | Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani provokes a riot in the Paris audience on the first night | |
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| 1830 |
| | French author Stendhal publishes his novel Le Rouge et Le Noir ('The Red and the Black') | |
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| 1831 |
| | Victor Hugo publishes his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which the hunchback, Quasimodo, is obsessed with Esmeralda | |
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| 1835 |
| | French author Honoré de Balzac publishes Le Père Goriot, one of the key novels that he later includes in La Comédie Humaine | |
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| 1842 |
| | Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine | |
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| 1848 |
| | Honoré de Balzac completes publication of La Comédie Humaine, a 17-volume collected edition of his numerous novels and stories | |
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