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    Salome with John The Baptist’s Head at the Rijksmuseum
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    Salome with John The Baptist’s Head at the Rijksmuseum

    “A Slight Freshness on the Neck”: Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)
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    “A Slight Freshness on the Neck”: Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)

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    Lustucru: From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

    Lustucru: From Severed Heads to Ready-Made Meals

    By Jé Wilson

    Jé Wilson charts the migration of the Lustucru figure through the French cultural imagination — from misogynistic blacksmith bent on curbing female empowerment, to child-stealing bogeyman, to jolly purveyor of packaged pasta. more

    13 Jun 2019