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Show Casls of Famous Frenchmen. Robespierre and Marat are enigmatical enigmat-ical characters. Their deeds were horrible, hor-rible, but the casts of their heads taken after death are of ineffable sweetness. In both the cerebral development is poor, particularly in the coronal region. The skulls, each of which goes up into a point, may have pressed there on the brains. Phrenological development, or lack of development, taken with facial traits, betokens ill balanced minds. Marat's Ma-rat's face, in David's portrait of him, is in all but complexion that of a red Indian. In-dian. Robespierre's sister, on the other hand, is sweet, serene, pensive and of a lovely purity of expression. Charlotte Corday, according to Dan-loux, Dan-loux, one of her portraitists, was a rather good looking young woman, more the peasant than the lady. She had a hard, quick, willful glance. Tallien was another an-other ill balanced creature. He had the profile of an Egyptian dog god. Contemporary Con-temporary Review. |