Old French Crime

Follow for your daily pic of crime, accident or dirigible disaster from French tabloids circa 1890-1920 by @louiegilot thanks to @gallicabnf

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Hi all: After 600+ posts I ran out of pics so I made a Twitter bot to cycle through them one more time at random. Stay on for another round?

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1913 German police watch tango performance as training to enforce new law forbidding the dance https://t.co/2Sjvf4DItd

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In 1894, patience runs out with anarchists. These 6 tried to kill a Spanish general … https://t.co/vasEMzpBBU

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Antisemitic, anti-Dreyfus sympathizers throw bundles of food to their besieged friends, 1899
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A 1914 movie operator named Fritz Schindler is mauled by a lion while filming in Nairobi
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Collapse at the circus, 1901 https://t.co/tNFusbXTzh

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Woman picks up loaded gun to secure it; accidentally fires it into head of guest, 1898 https://t.co/nBEqLVjl5A

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1900 pharmacist loses a small claims case against his neighbors; shoots the judge https://t.co/xYsYyZ0H7R

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Titanic April 15, 1912
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“Death to the ogress!” The crowd tries to lynch serial child murderess Jeanne Weber, 1908 https://t.co/OptnYsc4QF

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Lol! German Emperor Wilhelm II “pokes imperial eye” after minor incident on his yacht, 1897
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Gorgeous giant octopus attack, 1912
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Elderly man stumbles up to his lodger for help saying that three burglars cut his throat 1896
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Escheresque illustration of priest visiting a juvenile detention center in 1896 #panopticon
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Crash between steamboat, ferryboat and towboat towing barge in the Seine, 1897 #cluster
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Tramway jerk starts; father and baby fall off the second floor; baby dies, 1901 https://t.co/TJSrmln1nS

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Fire in the #ParisMetro in 1903; users waste time asking for refund instead of evacuating
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Carnies try to kidnap a school girl but she fights them off and they flee, 1911 https://t.co/6CXkkPCwx0

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Yacht crew abandoned by Jacques Lebaudy, founder of the “Empire of the Sahara,” 1903 (Pt 1)
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He shoots his girlfriend in the head in the subway because she refuses his advances, 1901
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Undertakers ask the government to allow them to update their impractical uniform, 1910
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