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The Netherlands' Rijksmuseum says a condom believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, "depicts both the playful and the serious side of sexual health." ...
Guillaume Lethière, Lafayette Introducing Louis-Philippe to the People of Paris, 1830–31, oil on canvas. (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, photo: Tokyo Fuji Art Museum/Bridgeman Images) ...
BARRICADES: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830–1848 Jill Harsin, . . Palgrave, $26.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-312-29479-3 ...
In “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (1830-1900),” biographer David McCullough writes of Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, “Notre-Dame de Paris” — published when the Gothic cathedral ...