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Le Temps Des Fleurs: Remembering Dalida

03/05/201518/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1950s

Yolanda Christina Gigliotti was born into an Italian family in Cairo on 17th January 1933. As the first violinist at the Cairo Opera House, her father Pietro Gigliotti instilled her and her two brothers with a appreciation[…]

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Le Grand Jeu: René Daumal’s Peradams

16/03/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1920s

Like his literary hero the poet Arthur Rimbaud, René Daumal was a native of the Champagne-Ardenne region of north-eastern France. His brilliance and tragically early demise, were also shared by his predecessor. In the seventy[…]

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La Plus Belle Femme De France: The Charm Of Agnès Souret

21/01/201519/10/2016 Dr Caroline Potter1920s

Born in Biarritz on 21st January 1902, with her wavy chestnut hair and large dark eyes, Jeanne Germaine Berthe Agnès Souret, known as Agnès, had a charm that encapsulated prevailing European standards of beauty during[…]

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This site takes its name from Virginia Woolf's 1939 memoir. As an historian of the 20th Century, and of the Bloomsbury Group, I hope it not only says what happened, but also, ‘what the person was like to whom it happened.’

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