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An Elephant and a Drunk Priest – Itinerant Entertainment in the Streets of an Eighteenth-Century Port City
by Tiéphaine Thomason The plywood tables and plastic chairs of the reading room in the municipal archives of Nantes have the feel of a secondary school classroom. Located at 1 rue d’Enfer (‘1 hell street’), the archive nonetheless boasts a handful of fantastic archivists and colourful police records. These records show a persistent concern with…
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