Interesting Graphics
07-16-2014, 01:46 PM,
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Interesting Graphics
I was looking online for something related to another subject in which I have an interest (the 1847 Praslin murders in Paris) when I found a wonderful site regarding the Illustrated London News.

http://beck.library.emory.edu/iln/index.html

Here is the British take on Lincoln's Second Inauguration:

   

....and note the guys standing down below the podium - provided you believe that theory!
"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley
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07-16-2014, 03:05 PM,
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I swear that Lewis Powell tends to jump out at you no matter what rendition you see -- and I don't believe that theory.
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07-16-2014, 03:17 PM,
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(07-16-2014, 03:05 PM)L Verge Wrote: I swear that Lewis Powell tends to jump out at you no matter what rendition you see -- and I don't believe that theory.

Were the Kunhardts the very first to promote this theory? Or had it been around prior to the publication of Twenty Days?
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07-17-2014, 08:43 AM,
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Very good Betty! But did you know a person that unwittingly may have had a hand in starting the French Revolution is buried in Massachusetts? Henrietta Deluzy-Desportes (spl)?
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07-17-2014, 09:34 AM,
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RE: Interesting Graphics
Oh, I know all about Henriette, the Duc and Duchess! Another wonderful little known murder mystery....I've been facinated by that story for years as well. I have the original trial transcript for that one as well - but of course it's all in French. I can read a little French (had 3 years of it in high school) and can pick out words here and there, but am not fluent in either speaking or writing!

A fascinating story!
"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley
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