Claude Ambroise Seurat: The Living Skeleton
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2022
Freak shows were a very popular medium of entertainment in Europe and the United States of America for the major part of the 19th century. T...
Showing posts with the label France
Pierre Picaud: The Real Count of Monte Cristo
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2022
Alexandre Dumas’s literary classic The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Dumas’s most famous and beloved novels, but this satisfying tale of ...
The Slaves of Tromelin Island
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2022
On the night of July 31, 1761, a frigate of the French East India Company named Utile , captained by Jean de La Fargue, and carrying a contr...
Félicette: The Cat Who Went to Space
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2022
During the early years of space flight, animals were frequently flown into space and their bodies examined to investigate the various physio...
Who Was The Man in The Iron Mask?
Anonymous
Jun 17, 2022
The man in the iron mask has been a historical enigma since the 18th century. Born circa 1658, he became a prisoner that hopped across the t...
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower—Twice!
Anonymous
Jun 6, 2022
Even if you think you know who Victor Lustig is, you don’t. Beyond the charming salutations, the livid scar on his left cheekbone and the ma...
Pont Ambroix
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2022
Pont Ambroix, also called the Ambrussum Bridge, was a major Roman bridge across the Vidourle River connecting the end of Villetelle to Galla...
History’s Strangest Duel Was Fought in Blimps
Anonymous
May 21, 2022
They say that every action arises from either love or hate. Imagine then, what a creative catastrophe would unfold if a man was inspired by ...
The Sculpted Rocks of Rothéneuf
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2022
In 1879 in a small town in the south-east of France called Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, a postman began the construction of a fantastic palace, w...
The Field of Cloth of Gold
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2022
Situated just ten miles south of Calais, Balinghem is an unremarkable little village, but five hundred years ago this quiet countryside play...
Tarrare: The Man Who Ate Too Much
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2022
If gluttony is a sin, then perhaps the worst offender was a man named Tarrare who lived in 18th century France. He had such an insatiable ap...
Giuseppe Fieschi’s Infernal Machine
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 24, 2022
On July 28, 1835, Giuseppe Marco Fieschi positioned himself in front of an open window on the third floor of N. 50 Boulevard du Temple in Pa...
The First Airmail Was Delivered During The Siege of Paris
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2022
When Prussian forces had Paris under siege during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the beleaguered Parisians had only one hope to get messag...
The Pneumatic Clocks of Paris
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 15, 2022
When French-born but London-based civil and electrical engineer, Jules Albert Berly, traveled to Paris for the 1881 International Exposition...
The Giant of Castelnau
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 14, 2022
Legends of giants permeate folklore of cultures around the world. The ancient Greeks had Gigantes who were born of Gaia (Earth) when blood f...
The Longest Sightlines on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 10, 2022
Last year around April, residents in the state of Punjab in northern India were astonished to see the Himalayas from the rooftop of their h...
Eustace The Monk Who Became a Pirate And Inspired The Figure of Robin Hood
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2022
Every good comic book fan will have read some of the adventures of Corto Maltés and if so, will remember that one of the characters that the...
The Burning of Tuileries Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2021
Directly in front of the Louvre, between the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile in Paris, where there is n...
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot And The World’s First Automobile
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2021
The world’s first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, in other words, the world’s first automobile, was built by the largely unknown French i...
The Last Public Execution by Guillotine
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2021
On the morning of 17 June 1939, a crowd gathered outside the doors of the Saint-Pierre prison, in the center of Versailles. They had come to...
