Our series “These gangs who terrorized Paris”
Series produced in collaboration with Retronews, the press site of the National Library of France.
Golden helmet, at the heart of a war between two Apache chiefs
Médéric Chanut, the Apache tattoo artist
A jury of Apaches in the heart of Paris
The scammers, or the pickpockets of the time
“Apache in petticoats” and “triumphant feminism”
“It makes you wonder where triumphant feminism will stop.
The phrase was not uttered on a TV set in a debate show these days, but it appeared on November 26, 1907 in an article in the newspaper L'Événement which recounted a news item that shocked for the time: two women attacked a man to steal his watch and his wallet.
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