odd history things
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let's share some odd/unusual history objects (art, toys, etc)
>Thomas Edison talking doll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bgXH7U2Ja0
A mourning teddy bear that some company made about a month or so after the Titanic sank
Anatomy doll, I forget the century.
So during the French Revolution, there was a period (I think the fall of 1793) where groups suddenly decided to desecrate the royal tombs at Saint Denis. This involved opening and then destroying all of the tombs, as well as scattering the bodies of the dead royalty into mass graves. There was an artist who drew some of the more significant corpses as they were laid out.
This is the corpse of Louis XV in 1793. He died in 1774.
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Henri IV
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Louis VIII
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Turenne.
Last one I have. I read years ago in a book about the Saint-Denis desecration that the artist (Alexandre Lenoir, who later went on to save a lot of French artwork during the revolution by convincing the revolutionary government that some should be preserved for museums) saw the body of the eldest child of Louis XVI--the boy, 7 years old, had just died in 1789--but wrote a friend that he could not bring himself to draw it.
An early handgonne from Sweden.
Chinese Buddhist sculpture containing the self-mummified body of a monk who lived around 1100 AD.
A classical Mayan 'eccentric' flint blade.
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Here he is at a doctor's appointment
