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Versailles (1899)
Colourized photograph of a male prostitute, taken during the latter years of the Third Republic, posing with unabashed enthusiasm after a performance in one of Versailles' myriad illicit brothels.
According to the personal account of Jean Gusteau, the photographer, "he was the only one that day who, I figured, sincerely smiled that day."
Three days after being published in the Parisian Gazette, the revolution would begin.
