#OnThisDay in 1793, French playwright and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
On the night before her death, she wrote: “I die, my dear son, a victim of my idolatry for the fatherland and for the people. (...) I die, my son, my dear son: I die innocent.”
She was executed during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794) for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government and for her association with the Girondists.
In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality:
"Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights."
- Calculate the measurement of Milan and Suburbs
- Find a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio
- Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle
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- Ask Benedetto Potinari (a Florentine merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders
- Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night
- Examine the Crossbow of Mastro Giannetto
- Try to get Vitolone (the medieval author of a text on optics), which is in the Library at Pavia, which deals with the mathematics
- Ask about the measurement of the sun promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese
Every time my very first client reaches out to me, it's like I'm transported back to 2015 when I still had no idea what I was doing but he loved my work and supported me anyway. He has been doing it since.
Grateful is the word.
From the very beginning, one of the things I always had in mind was my responsibility and obligation to show the client that I am grateful for his trust. These photographs are precious to them, and they need to be to me as well, at least while I'm working on them.
And THESE are the people to whom I don't mind doing favors every once in a while, or even going beyond what I'm hired to do and support/promote them/their projects.