Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Barthes, Roland

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Expected to live only a few weeks due to his advanced tuberculosis Metesky had to be carried into the hospital. After a year and a half of treatment, his health had improved, and a newspaper article written fourteen years later described the 68-year-old Metesky as "vigorous and healthy looking".
(18 April 1957)

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		Literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and semiotician Roland Gérard Barthes 12 November 1915 (+) is born in Cherbourg, France. 25 February 1980 (x) is hit by a laundry van in Paris, France. 26 March 1980 (-) died from chest injuries he sustained in a collision with a laundry van in the Rue des Écoles on 25 February 1980 in Paris, France.
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