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Show The Fan in Europe. The fan made an almost simultaneous simultane-ous appearance throughout Italy and FTance, in England and Spain. Its most artistic flights have been achieved in France; but not even to France will Spain yield in its use of the fan as "an important weapon in the mimic warfare of coquetry and flirtation." Whether the Spanish lady is in church or a place of amusement, whether visiting or walking, it .is always al-ways in her hands, frequently portray, ing the horrors of the bull-fight, Corresponding Cor-responding with these, certain French revolution fans represent Charlotte Corday carrying a dagger in one hand and a fan in the other! |