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EVENTS

Académie Française produces new edition of its dictionary of the French Language .

NEW BOOKS

'' Anecdotes Of Painting In England '', volume 1 - Horace Walpole

'' Éloge De Richardson '' - Denis Diderot

'' Émile '' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

'' Le Contrat Social '' ('' The Social Contract ''), also by Rousseau

'' Ollivier '' - Jacques Cazotte

'' Slavonic-Bulgarian History '' - Paisii Hilendarski

BIRTHS

January 11 - Andrew Cherry

September 11 - Joanna Baillie

September 24 - William Lisle Bowles

DEATHS

August 21 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu