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The idols of France Alain Delon and Édith Piaf backstage at a concert in 1959
The idols of France Alain Delon and Édith Piaf backstage at a concert in 1959. Édith was small, 147 cm tall; Delon was around 180. There were 20 years between them in age. At that moment Alain Delon had not yet played his most iconic roles, while Piaf was already
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In France, a shocking report has been published following almost three years of work by the Commission on Child Abuse in the Catholic Church
The investigation included interviews with victims and witnesses, and the study of church, court, police and news archives going back to the 1950s. The French report states that around 330,000 children have been subjected to sexual abuse in one form or another over the past 70 years by some
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Armenian Women Pose for a Keepsake Photograph with Their Weapons Before Setting Out for the War with the Ottomans
Armenian women pose for a keepsake photograph with their weapons before setting out for the war with the Ottomans. It is impossible to believe that this picture is 126 years old
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A Letter from the Russian Nobility Assembly Expressing Its Displeasure at Rostislav Rostislavovich Romanov's Proclaiming Himself an Imperial Highness in the Invitation to His Own Wedding
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The morning after the fire at Madame Tussaud's in London in 1925 looks much like the morning after a rave in 2021
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Charlotte Despard, suffragist and anti-fascist, in Trafalgar Square in 1910 and 1933
The Anglo-Irish suffragist Charlotte Despard in Trafalgar Square in 1910 and in 1933. Across a gap of 23 years the woman lost none of her grip, her will to protest or her power to inspire a crowd. First she, a writer, pacifist, tax resister, philanthropist, socialist and vegetarian, stood
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Actress Sabine Azéma beside an old cannon in Paris, photographed by Robert Doisneau in 1986
The actress Sabine Azéma and a smiling cannon, Paris, 1986. Photograph by Robert Doisneau
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Review of the first painting exhibition “Jack of Diamonds” at the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 1910
"This shameless card... recalls an asylum for the insane rather than an exhibition of works of art" From a review of the first Exhibition of Painting, "The Jack of Diamonds", which opened in the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka on 10 December 1910
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Wallis's meeting with the Queen Mother and her burial beside her husband at Frogmore
The Dowager Duchess of Windsor, a.k.a. Wallis Simpson, in England in May 1972, before the funeral of her husband, the former King Edward VIII. Wallis does not merely look lonely but frightened: she could hardly fail to dread a meeting with the Queen Mother, whom she had not
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Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, known for his Euroscepticism and anti-migrant views, has presented Pope Francis with a copy of a letter of 1243 from King Béla IV of Hungary to Pope Innocent IV, in which the king informs the pope…
As is well known, Béla IV warned the pontiffs of the Mongol menace more than once; he wrote to Gregory IX as well, begging for help, but these pleas went unanswered. Nor did any European state respond to the call to defend Hungary, and in the end the whole country
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Two Plus Four Treaty on German unification signed on 12 September 1990
12 September 1990. Representatives of the FRG, the GDR, the USSR, the USA, France and Great Britain at the signing of the treaty on the unification of Germany. The so-called "Two Plus Four" treaty concerned the renunciation by the victor powers of the Second World War of