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Aaron Burr and Goethe — 200 years ago
On January 4, 1810, Aaron Burr met with the poet Johan Goethe in Weimar, Germany. They were rough contemporaries: Goethe was 60; Burr 53. But they were at very different stages in their lives. Goethe was a literary giant in 1810, renowned for The Sorrows of Young Werther, and still producing great poetry as he…
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