TRADE IN SKELETONS.
In a narrow street in the Latin Quarter in Paris are two rooms on an upper floor stacked with human bones and skulls. It is the home of M. Henri Lavalette. the world’s strangest craftsman. He prepares skeletons for museums. M. Lavalette, an alert little man, aged sixty-seven, exports mounted skeletons everywhere. The average price is £l2, but for a really good specimen he charges £6O. His twelve-year-old daughter returns from school every day and settles down to her homework in a space cleared on a table laden with human skulls. “ Why should I mind them?” she says. “ I cannot hurt them,| and they cannot hurt me.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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110TRADE IN SKELETONS. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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