John Gay (1685-1732) was a poet and dramatist. He is best known for writing The Beggar’s Opera, a good humored satire. Gay was a part of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family.John Gay T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CV9MB7H9
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Jean Paul Marat
Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. Marat published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, Marat was a fierce defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice.Marat T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZHL7BT2
Franz Joseph
Franz Joseph (1830-1916) was the emperor of Austria from 1848 to his death and the king of Hungary from 1867 to 1916. He divided his empire into the Dual Monarchy. In 1879 he formed an alliance with Prussian which was led by Germany.Franz Joseph Amazon T-shirts at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVHGLWDN
Pierre Baillot
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (1771-1852) was a French violinist and composer. He was born in Passy, Paris, France he wrote “the Art of the Violin.” He taught at the Conservatoire de Paris along with Pierre Rode and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Kreutzer wrote the Conservatoire’s official violin method. Baillot studied the violin under Giovanni Battista …
Victor Emmanuel II
Victor Emmanuel (1820-1878) was King of Sardinia from 1849 until 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy. He was the first king of an independent united Italy since the 6th century. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was heir to King Victor Emmanuel II. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914) was …
Joseph Gay-Lussac
Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He pioneered investigations into the behavior of gases, established new techniques for analysis, and made notable advances in applied chemistry. The Gay-Lussac’s Law states that the pressure of a given mass of gas varies directly with the absolute temperature of the gas, when the volume is …
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was born in London. He was an English poet, translator, and satirist during the Enlightenment era. Pope is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. He was best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad.Alexander Pope T-shirts …
Ainsworth & bad guys
English bad guys come in all flavors in the Victorian era William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English historical novelist born. As a lawyer, the legal profession held no attraction for him. In 1820, Ainsworth began to publish his writing then later writing plays. Praising Ainsworth as a playwright it was said that he rivaled …
Emily Brontë
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was an English Romantic era novelist and poet. She wrote a single novel Wuthering Heights. It was an imaginative story of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors. The book got terrible reviews when first published. It is now considered one of the English language’s finest novels. The Bronte sisters Emily …
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism. Rostand is best known for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano was a rom-com about a dashing swordsman with a very big nose. The crux of the play is that Cyrano falls for the lovely Roxanne. He …