I was taking a tour around a museum the other day looking at portraits of French war heroes.

The tour guide explained, “Many of the people in these portraits were wounded in battle. A single musket shot could end in an amputation of an entire limb.”

Among the paintings of great heroes was a painting of several severed ears. I asked, “What is this painting doing here?”

The tour guide replied, “Oh! Those are the three musket ears.”

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📅︎ Jul 22 2020
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