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«Danse Macabre»

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«The moment the first mortal drew breath, death first found its name.»

1376 — Jean Le Fevre mentions the «Dance of Death» in his work Le Respit de la Mort («The Delay of Death»).
1390–1400 — one of the earliest surviving complete literary versions of the «Dance of Death, ” the Spanish poem Dança general de la Muerte, appears.
1424–1425 — the famous fresco „Dance of Death“ appears on the Innocents’ Cemetery in Paris.

«Danse Macabre»
Project created at 03.11.2026
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