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Tricateuse: Witness to the Execution
It is French for knitting woman, but the word tricoteuse has far greater significance than that. As the guillotine slices off another head of the French aristocracy during the Revolution, a tricoteuse sits in morbid calm watching the proceedings, returning … Continue reading
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Tagged 1789, 1793, French history, French Revolution, guillotine, history, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Paris, tricoteuse, Versailles, Women's March on Versailles
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Brushed With Mystery 