Richard Puller von Hohenburg, Françoise Sagan
Died: Richard Puller von Hohenburg (1482), Françoise Sagan (2004)
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Richard Puller von Hohenburg
Twice he escaped charges of sodomy – in 1482 an Alsatian knight and his servant were burned alive in Zurich, in a trial where love and power politics were entangled.
24SepDied 200422nd anniversary of deathFrançoise Sagan
A novelist whose lucid, spare prose made pleasure and emotional uncertainty feel newly direct.