The Bride of Glass: The Real Cinderella Experiment
Her shoes didn’t break. She did.
France, 1703 — a scientist named Étienne du Montfort obsessed over the idea that human bones could be replaced with crystal. His muse was a servant girl named Lucienne, rumored to have “feet too perfect to touch dirt.”
He crafted slippers from molten quartz, infused with quicksilver. When heated by body temperature, they tightened slightly — meant to “fit only her.”
At the Duke’s masquerade ball, witnesses described the girl’s entrance as divine: her shoes glowed from within. But halfway through her dance, she screamed.
The slippers had begun to fuse with her flesh.
Lucienne fled, leaving behind one half-melted shoe and a trail of blood so bright it looked like rubies under candlelight.
The Duke spent years trying to recreate the experiment. His descendants kept the glass shoe under lock and key until the Revolution — when a servant dropped it.
It shattered… but the fragments still bled.
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