Fun Fact

The word vandal comes from the Vandals, the Germanic tribe that attacked Rome in 455 and destroy the artistic, literary works and public buildings. The tribe's name meant "wanderer," but the word vandal was used in the 1600s to mean "destroyer of what is beautiful." In the end, they moved to North Africa. It was in 1794, that the term Vandalism by Henri Grégoire, bishop of Blois, who used the word to describe the destruction of artwork after the French Revolution. Soon the term was quickly adopted and popularised in the whole of Europe.

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