August 5

On the very same August 5 in 1850...Guy de Maupassant was just being born in a chateau in France...and across the Atlantic Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met each other at a "literary picnic."

Hmm, what would one do at a literary picnic?...


the cover of where de Maupassant's famous short story "The Necklace" was published: