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                                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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