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PCT4260642: Winemakers revolt 1907: Secret message sent by the Apotre des vignerons Marcelin (Marcellin) Albert on August 6, two days after his release from Montpellier prison. The text was hidden under the postcard stamp. It reads: Tomorrow arrives in Carcassonne at 3 o'clock. I spend the day there. Come to the station. The next day I go to Paris. / Bridgeman Images
PCT4261014: Engraving of the book of Ambroise Pare: Monsters and Prodiges (1573) - Text: “” This present monster depicted here was found in an egg with the face and face of a man, all the hair of small snakes all alive, and the beard is fashionable and in the way of three snakes coming out of the chin: and was found on the fifteenth day of March last passed 1569 with a lawyer named Baucheron, in Authun in Burgundy, by a chambriere who broke eggs to put them in butter, between which he was: who was broken by her, saw the said monster come out, having human face, hair and beard of snakes, of which she was wonderfully frightened.” / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263172: Original photograph signed Vane Tong Sane (late 19th-early 20th) depicting two French colonial soldiers in Inochina, near Lang son, amidst a group of Indo-Chinese. A young woman brought a bowl of tea to one of the militia who holds a gun in the other hand. Two dogs are sitting at their feet., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images