And all thanks to the work of one woman, full of contradictions, which broke all the rules of its time. Despite this, she was ignored by the Europeans and soon forgotten by all. A more ignored and invisible doctor, she participates in that tradition that also prevented us, for example, from seeing t
Eugénie de Montijo de Guzman, Empress of the French, by Édouard-Louis Dubute. 1854. Palace Museum, Versailles • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS At the beginning of the XXth century, it was common to see walking in the West Park, in Madrid, a small and fragile old lady, with haughty elegance. She resided in En
The preventive archaeological excavations for the reconstruction of the sewer network of the Sicilian city have brought to light, in via De Gasperi, the extraordinary remains of two inviolate underground chambers containing the funerary equipment and the remains of buried bodies. To this were
Long-term history, in its motionless slowness, sometimes exasperates men stuck in everyday life, but when the event arises, it swoops down by surprise, like a bird of prey on its prey. It is already too late. The defeat of 40, which could be described as a “debacle”, belongs to these humiliating cat