Sublime

Its initial, necessary appearance in historical work and research often took the form of a supplement to what we already knew, rather than an examination of women's interactions with their surrounding world.

read The Emperor of Scent, by Chandler Burr,

Pour Gérardine le magnifique ! Gérardine n'avait jamais un sou et ne mendiait jamais. Il se faisait offrir à manger et à boire par les étudiants qui l'aimaient. Il les payait en souvenirs sur les poètes maudits avec lesquels il s'était enivré autrefois. On disait qu'il avait un titre de marquis et qu'il avait, trente ans plus tôt, distribué sa fort

I am interested in how we imagine ways of knowing that past, in excess of the fictions of the archive, but not only that. I am interested, too, in the ways we recognize the many manifestations of that fiction and that excess, that past not yet past, in the present.

The witness, the neighbor, the thief, the traitor, and the rebel never wanted to leave any written record, much less the one they ended up leaving.

Founded before Christ and noted for its pretty women, Aries was until 1997 the home of Madame Jeanne Calment. Her story is a testament to the bracing air of Provence and a warning to all property speculators. She was born in 1875, and had met Van Gogh when she was a girl. At the age of 90, she decided to sell her apartment en viager to a local lawy

History’s subtle advantage lies in the revealing of trajectories through time.

Eventually the morgue exhibitions became too popular with the citizens of Paris, and they were shut down to the public.