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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

Modern Celebrity Began in the Eighteenth Century?

Saturday November 8, 2008
A press release from the University of Warwick explains a new theory on celebrity, explaining how the rise in popularity of obituaries in the eighteenth century developed into our “cult” of celebrity.

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