"On the 4th of May, 1897, a priest attended a charity bazaar in Paris. He met the organiser, blessed the event, and stayed a while to chat with the guest of honour: the Duchess d'Alençon..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Background
04:40 The Bazar de la Charité Fire
11:34 The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
► "Underworld" by Myuu

SOURCES:
► "Remembering a Belle Époque inferno in Paris" by Mary Blume, published by The New York Times, April 2008. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/ar...
► "The Paris Bazaar Fire" published by The Evening Star, June 1897. Available via: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/new...
► "The Fire at the Charity Bazaar" by Michel Winnock, published by L'Histoire, June 1978. Link: https://www.lhistoire.fr/lincendiedu...
► "Cowardice of Paris Men" published by The New York Times, May 1897. Available via: https://www.nytimes.com/1897/05/16/ar...
► "The Paris Disaster" published by St James's Gazette, May 1897.
► "Charity Bazaar Fire: Result of the Trial" published by Liverpool Mercury, August 1897.

CORRECTIONS:
► In this video I state that many women at the bazaar were wearing hoop skirts and other voluminous dresses that made it difficult to move. In fact, by this time, hoop skirts would largely have gone out of fashion. The main issues caused by clothing during the disaster related to the flammability of materials used rather than the space they took up.

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