Born #onthisday in 1837, A. C. Swinburne. Read Julian Barnes on when the poet had Maupassant round for lunch. A flayed human hand, porn, the serving of monkey meat + inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/an-unlikely-lunch-when-maupassant-met-swinburne #OTD

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