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CAVERNE_DES_SORCIERES

                                February 27, 2004

"In Spite of Thunder"                    
refers to a minor painter           
of the French quarter of                                     
Geneva that worked the 
gothic horror vein:                                           
                                                          
  "Didn't you ever hear of Jean Janvier?"  
                                      
  "No."                               
                                      
  "He wasn't a very good painter, they say, But he was
  colourful.  He specialized in witchcraft, vampirism, and
  all kinds of sadistic horrors as well.  The work
  fascinated a lot of people.  In the early nineteen
  hundreds there was a little museum of his paintings; but
  some said they were indecent and others lost interest. 
  Janvier pictures were a drug on the market.         
                                      
  "Then, after World War Two, somebody had a brand-new 
  idea.  A man named Lafargue bought up a lot of the lurider
  canvases, and opened a combination restaurant and
  night-club in the street where Janvier lived.  It's 
  mainly an odd kind of night-club ... "      -- p112
                                      
                                      
  Caverne des Sorcières               
  16 rue Jean Janvier                              
                                      
  "off the rue de l'Hotel de Ville    
   in the Old Town."                  
                                      
       The Cave of the Witches:                      I presume this      
                                                     is all authentic... 
       A night club/cabaret,                         
       where the hostesses come                        (Web searches  
       out of the gloom in                             turn up nothing
       "revealing" costume                             about it).     
       and horror masks.       


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