“Eccentricità velocipedistiche”
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Published in La Domenica del Corriere (27 August 1899)
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MORIZ ROSENTHAL IN WORD AND MUSIC (2006)
Dust Jacket (Back)
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Seven Marsupials
No. 6 is the “Tasmanian Tiger” or “Tasmanian Wolf.”
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Irene Castle Treman
Irene Castle (née Foote) and her first husband, Vernon Castle (né Blyth), were the foremost ballroom dancers on stage and on film of the 1910s. Vernon was killed in a plane crash in 1918, and the following year Irene married Robert Treman. The photograph below was taken upon her return to the United States–from France–in 1923.
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Léonide Leblanc, Actress and Courtesan
Not Later than 1873
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France – Timbre – Coq de Decaris
Numéro rouge au verso: 290
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Edouard Drumont
Drumont, author of La France juive and founder of the anti-Semitic daily La Libre Parole, was one of the most poisonous figures in the Dreyfus Affair. Why he was represented as a vendeuse de violettes on this postcard is difficult to say in the absence of further information (the name of the artist, the publisher of the postcard, …). Possibly Drumont’s selling of flowers, which customarily was done by a girl or a young woman à l’époque (G. B. Shaw’s Eliza Doolittle, for instance), was meant to prefigure his selling of newspapers. Wrote Wordsworth: “The Child is father of the Man.” If the image originated with a fellow anti-Dreyfusard, it could have been meant to suggest that La Libre Parole, like a violet, was a symbol of truth, renewal, loyalty, …
An excellent resource for information about the Dreyfus Affair:
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