Peter Gay the social historian was born on June 20, 1923. In his book, The Bourgeois Experience, he relates this vignette of Victorian England: at the Crystal Palace Exhibition there was a sculpture called "The Lion In Love." By a sculptor named Geefs, the sculpture showed a young lady trimming the claws of a lion. Interesting twist on the old story of man removing a thorn from a lion's paw.
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