 Cuvier's notes and detailed autopsy report provides among the most detail of Baartman, but none of which provides insight of her first-hand encounters as a human freak act in the English provinces, or during her final years spent in Paris under the observation of Cuvier and his research team.Baartman's story has been repeated through other people's historical accounts on her, and Parks responds to their secondary accounts and pseudo-scientific research when she writes "Venus" in a style that is "...questioning the history of history.