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René Basset
French linguist and orientalist.
Born July 24th, 1855 in Lunéville.
Died January 4th, 1924 at 68 years old in Algiers (disease).
Occupations
collector of fairy tales, folklorist, linguist, translator, university teacher
Wikipedia
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde