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Adolphe Desbarolles (1801–1886), a celebrated Parisian chiromancer (palm-reader) whose salon was fashionable in the 1860s–70s. Marie went incognito. ↩
The fortress of Plevna (Pleven, Bulgaria) fell to Russian forces on 10 December 1877 after a siege of five months, a major turning point in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. ↩