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A diarist in France’s Belle Epoque

Did you write a diary as teenager? Don’t you think that teenagers are using social networks nowadays in the same way that young diarists did when the genre became popular in the 19th century?

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Jacqueline Dubois
Dec 07, 2012
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Did you write a diary when you were a teenager? Don’t you think that teenagers are using social networks nowadays in the same way that young diarists did when the genre became popular in the 19th century?

I personally believe that the young ladies of the second half of the 19th century who wrote their diaries would have been amazing bloggers. Philippe Le…

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