Love hurts

Paris, December 5, 1830. Hector Berlioz spent the year organizing the premiere of the Symphonie Fantastique, which he composed full of passion for actress Harriet Smithson.

The theater was packed with la crème de la crème bourgeoisie. In the audience, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, among others. Harriet never showed up. But they eventually maried.