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# Frenchman Louis Coulon, with a beard 3.5 metres long, posed for postcards
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/frantsuz-lui-kulon-i-ego-boroda-v-tri-s-polovinoi-metra-v-kotoroi-mozhno-spriatat-koshku/
- Published: 2024-02-28T19:03:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:46:43.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Archive, Mores, People, Humour

The Frenchman Louis Coulon and his beard of three and a half metres, in which a cat could be hidden. And, very likely, a cow. The old gentleman grew his beard and made his living by being photographed for comic postcards

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