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On 16 October the exhibition "Marie Antoinette, Metamorphosis of an Image" opened in Paris, bringing together hundreds of images of the queen, from the classic portraits of Vigée Le Brun to excerpts from films about Marie Antoinette and the manga "The Ros

Framed drawing of a dancer whirling on stage in a full pale orange skirt, with spectators watching from a box on the right.

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Major Toulouse-Lautrec retrospective on view at the Grand Palais

Toulouse-Lautrec asks me to pass it on. Incidentally, there is a large retrospective of his work at the Grand Palais right now

Two-storey wooden house with dark red cladding and a curved façade with white-framed windows. Lilac branches and other trees in front; a drainpipe runs down the wall.

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Wooden house with a rounded bay among greenery

Poster with black-and-white photos: a large face of a blonde woman, a man in a black cape pointing, and a couple at lower right. Red title with a blood drop, cast names below.

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French poster for Hammer's Dracula Has Risen... "Dracula et les femmes" with Christopher Lee

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Plans for the Evening: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)

Plans for the evening: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968). As for the posters with Christopher Lee, they fully merit attention in their own right.

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And what shape are you in today?

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And a Word About the Weather

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Incidentally, elephant dung is still found on the Alpine passes, and it is this that allows the route of Hannibal's fifteen-day advance to be pinned down more precisely

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That Really Hurt

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Mood: The Holy Roman Empire

A turquoise dress with gold lace on a mannequin, beside a film still of a woman in the same dress and a gold headband.

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Exhibition in Boston marking the release of the film “Downton Abbey” closes

The bombshell exhibition marking the release of the Downton Abbey feature film closes tomorrow. All that remains is to bite one's elbows for having failed to get there. But what is one to do? The exhibition was in Boston, after all! 😣

A wooden board marked clear and rain, with a thin twig fixed to a log reaching towards it.

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Willow twig barometer at a reindeer farm in Shebalino in the Altai

A barometer on a reindeer farm at Shebalino in the Altai. The secret is that the "barometer" uses a willow twig. As the humidity rises, the twig loses its springiness and droops. Photograph by the American Dean Conger, who travelled in the USSR in 1966-75.