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The Sleeping Frenchman
James hops in a time-travelling taxi to investigate the strange case of M. Chauffat, the Frenchman who put the snooze in “you snooze, you lose.” After being robbed of a small fortune, he fell asleep in a Soho hotel and didn’t wake up for 19 days, instantly becoming a media sensation.
Then there’s the pea-throwing ghost of Peckham, the monkey who testified in court, and other London oddities torn from the pages of the Illustrated Police News, by way of Jan Bondeson’s book Strange Victoriana (2016).
Credits:
The Loremen are Alasdair Beckett-King & James Shakeshaft.
Featured image from Harper’s Young People, Feb 3rd 1880.
Music from La Lettre De Manon Valse played by Megone’s Orchestra, 1905.