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Mariya Bashkirtseva's 1883 painting of a girl with an umbrella
Girl with an Umbrella. Marie Bashkirtseff, 1883
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Nicholas II at the hunting lodge in 1894
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Marina Tsvetaeva on France and a photograph of the poet in Paris
In some respects of history we (France and Russia) coincide; more than that: there are sides of history that we feel upon our own sides. Marina Tsvetaeva on France. In the photograph: Tsvetaeva in Paris
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Napoleon's Height of 168 cm and the Height Requirements in the French Army
The notion of Napoleon's small stature is an English forgery. With the average Frenchman of the time standing at about 164 cm, Napoleon, at 168 cm, was appreciably taller not only than most ordinary men but also than his own soldiers: a recruit could enter the French army
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Vladimir Nabokov Hunting Butterflies
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The Salad-Green Sitting Room of Virginia and Leonard Woolf in Their Seventeenth-Century Home, Monk's House, East Sussex
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Besides the headlines with their droll puns, heirbnb and scarebnb, there is the recent piece in The Sun about the purchase of new property in Portugal by Prince Harry and his in every respect charming American wife, Markle, presumably to let out…
The money comes, remarkably enough, as an inheritance from his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, née Bowes-Lyon. Here is how it came about. The Queen Mother, matriarch of the British monarchy, died in 2002, a very short time before her 102nd birthday. So why was her legacy
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Johann Tischbein's Portrait of Goethe and the Unusual Depiction of the Legs
Johann Tischbein is known largely for having painted portraits of his friend Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Before us is one of the most famous portraits of Goethe, by Tischbein himself. The thinker, in the pose of an ancient Roman, has settled on a ruined Egyptian obelisk beneath an ivory-coloured plaid,
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Émile Zola's photographic legacy and the exhibition of his photographs in Royan
Few people know it, but Émile Zola was a keen photographer. He devoted the last years of his life to this pursuit, creating thousands of remarkable pictures which unquestionably deserve attention as early monuments of the photographic art. Last year the French seaside town of Royan held a large exhibition
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Birds born in cages think flying is an illness
Alejandro Jodorowsky photo: Robert Doisneau
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Gustave Caillebotte walks his dog in Paris in 1892
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