Mothers have been particularly inclined to endow their daughters with their best dresses and clothes. For instance, Arnauda, resident of Montpellier in 1478, gave to her daughter Agnès, for her future marriage, 10 livres tournois, her purple gown lined with fur, her rosaries in coral, certainly one of her belts […]
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – He was born Issur Danielovitch, a ragman’s son. He died Kirk Douglas, a Hollywood king. Douglas, the muscular, tempestuous actor with the dimpled chin, lived out an epic American tale of reinvention and perseverance, from the riches he acquired and risked to the parts he took […]