Through the Eyes of La Castiglione

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

More than a hundred years before the selfie became commonplace, a woman in France used photographs to immortalize her favorite subject: herself. But as she aged, she became a lighting rod for our cultural conversation about growing old and the power of beauty.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Erin Manky,
0:06.7	listener discretion advised.
0:17.2	Most nights, the woman covered in veils goes out walking under cover of darkness.
0:23.9	It's Paris, 1879.
0:27.6	Sometimes, the woman's dog is on a leash beside her.
0:31.4	Occasionally, a police officer stops her.
0:34.5	She is mullingering with vagrants.
0:37.4	Is she a vagrant?
0:39.0	She scoffs and walks on.
0:41.6	She will name a series of vindictive photos after the area police later.
0:46.7	She promises herself.
0:48.9	With thoughts of this sweet justice in her head, she walks on.
0:54.4	Finally, the dog pulls at the leash.
0:57.6	They are home.
0:58.9	26 bees place vendons.
1:01.8	Fertively trying to keep the veil across her face, the woman opens the first locked door
1:08.5	to her apartment.
1:10.6	Then the second, then the third.
1:13.6	She closes herself in with the dog.
1:17.0	Only once she's safely locked away behind three doors.
1:22.4	As she remove the veils, she doesn't have to worry about seeing what she looks like.
1:28.8	Her walls are painted black.
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