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.

(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.)


