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Tricateuse: Witness to the Execution

Posted on January 4, 2013 by brushedwithmystery

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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