#severine

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That’s it. After half a year I’ve finished my tribute to Raoul Silva, this triptych!!

All the pictures separately are below!

The Musée Carnavalet is a free museum, dedicated to the history of Paris. There are exhibits from major eras of the city's history beginning with prehistoric artifacts, moving through the Roman and Medieval periods, the Revolution, and all the many phases the city has gone through to arrive at the 21st century.

My friend @shinyfire-0 told me the exhibit on the 1871 Paris Commune was something I needed to see.

I wasn't able to to make it to Père Lachaise to see the wall but I was very glad to make it to the Carnavalet. As someone interested in the Commune, it was very much worth seeing.

Portrait of Gustave Courbet. Many of his, and other Communards', paintings are on display at the Musée d'Orsay.

Portrait of the journalist Séverine. Auguste Vaillant is mentioned in the notes - I wonder if she ever crossed paths with Gaston Leroux while covering Vaillant's trial in 1893?

Text: Caroline Rémy, also known as Séverine (1855 - 1929), companion of the Communard Jule Vallès, was the first female journalist to make a living from her writing. She was published in a number of newspapers such as Le Gaulois, La Libre Parole, L'Eclair. An advocate of the abolition of the death penalty, she also campaigned in favour of Auguste Vaillant, an anarchist who set off a bomb within the Palais Bourbon in 1893.

Portrait of Louise Michel, the Red Virgin heself.

Text: During the days of the Commune, teacher Louise Michel (1830 - 1905), nicknamed a posteriori "the red Virgin", led the Women's Vigilance Committee of Montmartre. She was deported to New Caldonia but returned to France in 1880. At the instigation of deputy Georges Clemenceau, one of her friends dating from the Siege of Paris, she was granted full amnesty for the crimes and offenses committed in relation to the Commune.

The Medusa door to the Hôtel de Ville, which somehow survived the rest of the building's demise in 1871.

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The door of the town hall: In 1652, during revolts against the monarchy in Paris, the door of the town hall was destroyed. The new oak door was decorated with bronze Medusa heads. In mythology, Medusa had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone. This door survived the fire at the town hall during the Commune, on May 24, 1871. 

The gift shop had lots of memorabilia of the Revolution, but nothing about the Commune (no books, no posters).

I did get this Mai 68 magnet though:

Name: Severine Type: Synthetic Blood Substitution Beverage Flavor: Diet/Electrolyte taste Purpose: Several years ago, while working on her research on supernatural physiology, Viv shifted her focus to the one thing that gives vampires their power and livelihood, blood. While she researched the chemical, biological, and magical structures of various blood types and it's effect on the vampiric body, she stumbled upon something that at first seemed trivial, but would later prove insurmountable in its application. It was a complicated formula of different biological and magical compounds that, when interacting with vampiric cells, led to a chemical reaction, and it was found in all blood variants. What she'd found was the core structure of what makes blood tic in vampires... and if she could find it, maybe there was a chance she could replicate it.

Over the last year, Vivian has finally perfected her synthetic blood recipe. Ethically, of course. She's spent much of her time between her lab and traveling for research, and has recently returned to propose her idea to Vievecor City’s supernatural community as the beverage, now called Severine, is ready for mass production. With Artemis' demands for more ethical treatment for humans, it's Vivian's hope that this will ease tension in the city and assist with inter-species cooperation.