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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection
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2 comments:
I think the Times Literary Supplement had better check their sources on the supposed tragedy of De Latude's imprisonment. A quick read of Wikipedia on the subject of Jean Henri Latude shows an outrageous con artist who made repeated escapes from his prisons, ended up in the Bastille because no other facility could contain him, and died rich after victimizing a considerable number of people. Not quite the stuff of which cases of injustice are made, unless you count Latude's victims.
I don't know if that telegram was actually from Eleanor Roosevelt, but I certainly hope it was. A sense of humor is required of all great leaders.
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