12 January

Born in 1849 – Jean Béraud, Russian-French painter.

Above: Les funérailles de Victor Hugo, place de l'Étoile (1er juin 1885), c. 1885

Also, born in 1929, Scottish-American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre.

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.