Posts Tagged ‘People’
A Regency Era Female Husband – James Allen
The idea of a female husband and that a woman would pretend to be a male was considered shocking in the Regency Era. One woman who perpetrated such a hoax was known as James Allen. The situation came to light when Allen, who was 42 years old and a sawyer, was fatally struck in the…
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Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet and the Bastille
Prior to patriots storming the Bastille on 14 July 1789, numerous prisoners were incarcerated there. As a prison, the Bastille held people considered dangerous by the King and government. Among those considered dangerous was one man named Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, a French journalist sentenced in 1780 because of his caustic attack against the Marshal…
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