The blogger at Annals of Desire asks with regard to this monument:
"Would today's men have done the same? If they did, would today's women condemn them or praise them?"They say the past is a foreign country and that picture affirms it. There is something achingly anachronistic about it, not only in men acting like gentlemen under great stress, but in the expression of gratitude by the women. To be grateful, even if it is for something expected, is as beautiful as it is rare. More here.
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