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Large vintage
via Flash & Footle who are one of the few left still posting in my old Tumblr feed – rest have gone dark bar a few art blogs, and of course a few porn blogs which Tumblr hasn’t spotted. Unsurprisingly.
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Another image of Georges Ernest Boulanger.
OH HELLO.
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Georges Ernest Boulanger by Nadar.
Shot himself a few months after his mistress died, Marguerite Bonnemain which wikipedia tells us:
“ She became the lover of the French general and minister Boulanger and died in his arms in July 1891. At his request ‘A bientôt’ (‘See you soon’) was engraved on her tomb. Two months later he shot himself in front of her grave and ‘Ai-je bien pu vivre deux mois et demi sans toi?’ (‘Did I really live two and a half months without you?’) was added to the epitaph.“
Also rumoured to have frequented the infamous male brothel in Cleveland Street, London. He looks the naughty type.
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twelve feet, six inches
“During Abraham Lincoln‘s campaign for the presidency, a Missouri Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and kept his beard growing from November 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet, six inches.”
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Buckingham’s Die for the Whiskers
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Portrait de Manet par Henri Latour
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Last Beard In Marienbad?*
* yes I know awful joke, but not as bad as the film, I watched that. Once. I can never get that time back.