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Cruising spots in 18th Century France, from Sodome à Paris: protohistoire de l'homosexualité masculine fin XVIIIe - milieu XIXe siècle

— B.N. Harrison, from “The Unified Theory of Ophelia” (via shakespeareismyjam)

© airbnb

newstead abbey, ancestral home of lord byron

Dress, mid 1870s.

Exeter Cathedral | GarettPhotography

PESELLINO Virgin and Child with a Swallow 1453-57 Tempera on panel, 60 x 40 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

(National Museum of Scotland)

⇀ “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want for a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some or other of their daughters. “ ↽

Maximilien Robespierre, speech on the question of food supplies, 2 December 1792 (via deputy-vania)

Some pictures from Arras, including rue Robespierre, probably the best hidden street in the town. 

The Articles of Confederation was drafted by the Second Continental Congress in 1776 and was eventually ratified by all thirteen states by 1781. It provided the initial structure for our fledgling democracy, but was replaced by our current constitution, which favored a stronger federal government, in 1789.

Photo by me

Bossoli was a Swiss-born Italian painter and lithographer, who spent his early career in Ukraine. He is best known for his landscapes, vedute, historical scenes from the Risorgimento, as well as his depictions of eastern Europe.

1774 Louis-Rolland Trinquesse - The Music Party