And thank you Théo Gazeu, for the French. À la folie.

Bibliography

In writing Coming Up for Air, I relied very much on the insights and richness gleaned from several resources, particularly:

Death in Paris: Records of the Basse-Geôle de la Seine, Richard Cobb (Oxford University Press, 1978)

Fighting With Crib Gloves: My Battle with Cystic Fibrosis, Richard Keane (Tate Publishing, 2014)

History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe, Jacques Gélis (Polity Press, 1991)

How Have I Cheated Death? A Short and Merry Life with Cystic Fibrosis, Tim Wotton (Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, 2014)

In Paris: A Handbook for Visitors to Paris in the Year 1900, Katherine and Gilbert Macquoid, 1900

My Parisian Year: A Woman’s Point of View, Maude Annesley (Mills & Boon Ltd, 1912)

Stiff, Mary Roach (Penguin Books, 2003)

Undying Faces: A Collection of Death Masks, Ernst Berkard (Hogarth Press, 1929)

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