Ep. 30 - Welcome to the Cabaret of Death

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Genevieve will be discussing the very macabre ways in which French Victorians would entertain themselves: the death-themed cabarets, horror shows in old gothic chapels, and the very upsetting and morbid curiosities that Parisians would literally trample over each other to get a glimpse of. References for today's episode: https://daily.jstor.org/the-cabarets-of-heaven-and-hell/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Guignol https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing https://dianamarin.com/tag/the-uncanny-cabaret-du-neant/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_de_L%27Enfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_du_Ciel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion,
0:09.1	and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era.
0:19.6	Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing,
0:22.6	creepy, and oddly comforting about horror and mayhem from the 19th century. So, listener discretion
0:30.8	is advised.
0:36.7	Hello, friends, and welcome to this my 30th episode.
0:45.5	Before we get to anything else, they got Jack the Ripper.
0:51.1	I'm recording this on Friday the 14th.
0:53.9	Happy Valentine's Day, everybody, and a listener sent
0:56.9	the news to me this morning that they caught Jack the Ripper. Aaron Kuzminski, a hundred percent
1:04.9	DNA match, thanks to historian Russell Edwards and a descendant of Kisminski's who offered her DNA.
1:14.3	They pulled a 100% match off the bloody shawl that belonged to Catherine Ito's.
1:21.0	I have honestly been avoiding doing a Jack the Ripper episode because frankly, I hate cold cases.
1:28.9	I hate hearing about them.
1:30.7	Few things make me more sad.
1:32.6	So I never really had a great interest in the Ripper case because I thought, like most people,
1:37.2	he could never be found.
1:38.9	But they found him.
1:40.4	And between now and next Monday, I will be doing little else than constructing the most
1:46.3	thorough episode that I can on the Ripper for the following week. So this is really heavy for
1:53.9	me for some reason. I know we have a Leo full moon and I do have PMS but I am finding it
1:59.9	really hard to hold it together about this.
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