The fire that started a Victorian gender war (long read)

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Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men?

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Isabelle Roughol - Host

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• (00:00) - Intro

(00:35) - Member shout-out (01:55) - Upcoming guests (03:04) - This week's story (04:25) -  Tuesday, May 4th, 1897: A fire at a Catholic charity sale. (08:13) - Cowardly Gentlemen and Working Class Heroes (10:43) - The "Knights Jitters" (11:54) - Heroes and martyrs in a political storm (14:32) - And women in all that? (16:41) - Did the behaviour of men cause more women to die? (17:56) - An intimate tragedy (18:46) - Outro

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