July 2

In literary history

• 1789The Marquis de Sade, imprisoned in the Bastille, improvised a megaphone and shouted to the street below that warders were slaughtering the prisoners. He was transferred to an asylum that night; twelve days later, the crowd stormed the very walls he had just vacated.

Writers born on July 2

• Hermann Hesse (1877)

The Daily Canon for July 2

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922).