Etre au lit au Moyen Age
The weekend edition of Le Monde carries a beautiful slide show of paintings of people in bed in the Middle Ages. My favorite is the bed painted like the sky to warn off the dangerous rays of the moon (no. 3).
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Classical Music and Opera
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