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diary - Columbia Encyclopedia article about diary (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Diaries are of particular interest to historians because they depict everyday life in a particular place and time, often illuminating important historical events. |
 | | Examples of such diaries are the Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris, written by an anonymous French clerk from 1401 to 1431; accounts of daily life in the American colonies by William Bradford Bradford, William, 1590–1657, governor of Plymouth Colony, b. |
 | | A particularly unusual diary is that of the painter Eugène Delacroix Delacroix, Eugène (Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix) (fĕrdēnäN`-vēktôr`-özhĕn` dəläkrwä`), 1798–1863, French painter. |
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