Blowing & Drifting

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.

Muttonchops

Now this is facial hair. Too bad it didn't keep this guy, Paul Poirrier, from dying horribly from yellow fever or an intestinal parasite in a French colonial outpost.
Paul Poirrier
(I'm working with an emeritus prof at Carleton to find funding for the Esternay Project, an effort to digitize a huge trove of letters and other materials relating to this guy's brother, a mid-level bureaucrat in Third Republic France. It's an amazing project that could, ultimately, occupy an important role in teaching the history of France, not to mention French language and literature.)