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Duelling doctors

An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.

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  • A ball in the Palais des Tuileries: the Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie (?) take part in a quadrille. Wood engraving by Charles Maurand after Gustave Janet.
  • Fowke & Aston's improved diuretic balls : for swelled legs, grease, cracked heels, gravel, and affections of the kidneys, for removing all obstructions in the urinary passages, and humours of the eyes, or any other part of the body ... / prepared only by Fowke & Aston.
  • A woman carrying a chair sweeps away from a young man who has approached her, indicating her refusal to dance with him; another young woman is sitting on a chair behind him. Etching by James Gillray, 1804, after B. North.
  • A young lady is being asked by a young man to join the other couples on the dance floor. Engraving by S.S. Smith after J. Stephanoff.
  • African American people at a dance: the fiddler sits apart with a puzzled expression. Colour process print after L. Hopkins.
  • A man and a woman face one another on the dance floor as people behind look on with disapproving faces. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter.
  • Majorca: a monk dances with a young woman as others watch, accompanied by a guitarist. Etching.
  • A man is playing a tambourine as couples are dancing in a ballroom. Process print after J.L. Stewart.
  • We are all made of star : samedi 29 novembre de 21 h00 à 2h00 dans un des plus beau lieu de la capitale, avec possibilité de diner sur place ... / Le Kiosque Infos Sida ... [and 27 others].
  • We are all made of star : samedi 29 novembre de 21 h00 à 2h00 dans un des plus beau lieu de la capitale, avec possibilité de diner sur place ... / Le Kiosque Infos Sida ... [and 27 others].
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