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EventDate
Naftel’s paintings go on display 8th December
The Guernsey Tapestry is completed 6th December
Horticultural painter William Caparne was born 17th November
Renoir arrived on Guernsey to paint 4th September
Victor Hugo statue is unveiled in Candie Gardens 7th July
Guernsey poet and painter Denys Corbet was born 22nd May
First publication of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea 12th March
Birth of concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houedard 16th February
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Telex, phones and telegram cables go quiet

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