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In 1600s France, This Sword-Fighting Opera Singer Burnt Down a Convent to Rescue Her Gay Lover
Much of her life is shrouded in mystery as a consequence of poor historical record-keeping from the 1600s, but here’s ... sent far away to a province of France soon after their union.
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Rare 1,600-year-old purple fabric — woven with gold threads — found in France. See it
It turned out to be a 1,600-year-old fabric fragment ... Autun is a city in central France and a roughly 180-mile drive southeast from Paris. Google Translate was used to translate the news ...