Sunday, April 20, 2008

Revolutions and other old history

Marie Antoinette's cell in Conciergerie (prison of the revolution)About 16,594 people were sent to the guillotine from 1793-95. In '94 witnesses and any defense was eliminated. The Revolutionary Tribunal decided on your fate, acquittal or death, on the evidence presented by the prosecuting attorney.
The women's courtyard

In the Cluny Museum of the Middle Ages there was an entire room devoted to tapestries of unicorns --looked like a long horned goat to me.

Every large door in Bruges had a door knocker like this. Here in Paris one is in a Museum

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