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In 1900 she took part in much publicized stunt during which she entered a lion cage and played cards with the lion tamer while inside, as legend has it, scaring the lions in the process. In 1904 she received special permission from the authorities to wear men's clothes at her leisure, at a time when
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By all accounts, she was very proud of her beard and took great care of it. Charles
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According to later accounts, Clémentine Delait was hirsute from an early age, but shaved regularly. This changed in 1900, when she visited a carnival and saw a bearded woman with an unimpressive stubble and boasted that she could grow a better beard herself. Her husband bet 500
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took care of that beard, she washed it, she clucked over, she brushed it every day".
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