‘Let us not search further for the mythological animals,’ said Cuvier. ‘The mantichore or destroyer of men which carries a human head on a lion’s body terminating in a scorpion’s tail, or the guardian of treasures, the Griffin, half eagle– half lion … Nature could not combine such impossible feature...
I had heard good things about this book, and in the end I am glad I read it. Being an American, when I head chocolate bar, I think Hershey's. I never had Cadbury and even though I now in a country dominated by Cadbury, I still prefer Hershey's. And now I know why,The book was a very good historic...
More than a little disturbing, considering that I have two nephews just the age that Louis-Charles was when he was in the Temple. Stomach-turning might be a better word. A sacrifice to the machinations of the various factions of the French Revolution (the republicans, the royalists and everyone in b...
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