The similarity between the Buddhist faith and the Roman Catholic churches may be traced even more minutely than this. “Buddhists everywhere have their monasteries and nunneries, their baptism, celibacy and tonsure, their rosaries, chaplets, relics, and charms, their fast-days and processions, their confessions, mass, requiems, and litanies, and, especially in Tibet, even their cardinals, and their pope.”
The one shown here stands on the right bank of the Han river, near Chao-chow-fu, and, like all the best examples of such edifices, the whole ground structure up to the first story is composed of stone.
Prussian army uniforms c. 1870. Franco-Prussian war.
The Capitulation of Sedan. The German-French surrender negotiations on 2 September 1870. The German negotiator is Otto Graf von Bismarck (1815-1898).
Bodices. The modes of the second empire. 1852 to 1870. L’histoire du costume féminin français. Les modes du second empire 1852 a 1870. Corsages – Planche 6.
Caps and Hoods. The modes of the second empire. 1852 to 1870. L’histoire du costume féminin français. Les modes du second empire 1852 a 1870. Chapeaux – Planche 5.
Caps and Hoods. The modes of the second empire. 1852 to 1870. L’histoire du costume féminin français. Les modes du second empire 1852 a 1870. Coiffes, Capuchons – Planche 4.
Manteaux. Les modes du second empire 1852 a 1870. Coats. The modes of the second empire. 1852 to 1870. L’histoire du costume féminin français.
Skirts. The modes of the second empire. 1852 to 1870. L’histoire du costume féminin français. Les modes du second empire 1852 a 1870. Jupes – Planche 7.
Sleeves. The modes of the second empire. 1852 to 1870. L’histoire du costume féminin français. Les modes du second empire 1852 a 1870. Manches – Planche 8.
