Le baron.
Women like him, he likes horses, he makes them all run.From La comédie de notre temps (The comedy of our time), written and illustrated by Bertall (Charles Albert d’Arnoux), Paris, 1874.
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Henri Robin and a Specter (Eugène Thiébault, 1863)
“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist
only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. “
Charles Baudelaire
(1821-1867)
Tent Camera Obscura
Paul Renouard, chalk drawing from “The Graphic”.
From Modern illustration, by Joseph Pennell, London, 1895.
wow, amazing.
A Choice by Paul Laurence Dunbar
They please me not - these solemn songs
That hint of sermons covered up.
'Tis true the world should heed its wrongs,
But in a poem let me sup,
Not simples brewed to cure or ease
Humanity's confessed disease,
But the spirit-wine of a singing line,
Or a dew-drop in a honey cup!
Stolen from Africa. Fought for America.
Lord Byron is beaming in heaven. Take note, men. Take note.
Toussaint L’Ouverture. The Slave who defeated Napoleon.
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