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“The Little Mermaid,” for example, ends with the beautiful half woman mermaid dying alone and transforming into sea foam, while her prince marries someone else.

In post revolutionary France, a fashion emerged amongst the aristocratic women who survived the terror. They cut their hair short to resemble victims of the guillotine whose hair was cut before being beheaded. The style was called ‘coiffure a la victime’ https://t.co/UMYPCbpmWn

Art work of Jean Morisot (1899-1967)

Want to know what people did before texting? This is “Beauty Revealed”
(1828). It is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge. She sent it to statesman Daniel Webster, following the death of his wife - but he decided to marry someone else.

“The Cautious Lover”, by Octave Tassaert, c. 1860.

The woman is inflating a condom, which would have been made of animal gut and designed to be washed out and reused.

Victorian #Easter cards could be very odd.

Although Lautrec was appreciated in his lifetime, his paintings of sexual intimacy between women were not. One anonymous critic in the paper Le Journal called this painting “The kiss of the devil” (“Le Baiser du diable”).

Cha-U-Kao was a famous clown who performed at the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s. She was openly gay & a favourite model of Toulouse-Lautrec. Cha-U-Kao was a stage name & a style of dance similar to the cancan. It derives from “chahut", meaning "noise" and "chaos”.

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Katsushika Hokusai – The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, 1814