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On 10 November 1642 Boulle was born; I shall not retell his biographical note, only remark that the French for cabinetmaker is ébéniste
On 10 November 1642 Boulle was born; I shall not retell his biographical note, only remark that the French for cabinetmaker is ébéniste. A splendid profession, the ébéniste! In Boulle's case, a vocation
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The French intellectual of the late nineteenth century Henri Vaugeois, known as one of the founders of the monarchist organisation Action Française, was an advocate, as he put it himself, of an “anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic, anti-parliamentary and anti-demo
The French intellectual of the late nineteenth century Henri Vaugeois, known as one of the founders of the monarchist organisation Action Française, was an advocate, as he put it himself, of an “anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic, anti-parliamentary and anti-democratic” nationalism. In short, the full set of an obscurantist
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Armchairs of this type were at the height of Parisian fashion in 1675-85
Armchairs of this type were at the height of Parisian fashion in 1675-85. This very one belonged to Ralph Montagu, who had been English ambassador to France since 1666 and assembled a large collection of luxury objects
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Let us pay our respects to the memory of Marie Antoinette, executed on 16 October 1793, ten months after King Louis XVI
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Nude Henry IV as Jupiter in a sculpture at the Louvre
The Louvre holds a sculpture of a naked Henry IV in the guise of Jupiter. Thanks to the statue, we can learn that the monarch had a well-toned behind, while from the front there is, frankly, nothing to look at
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Jacques Germain Soufflot, architect of the Paris Panthéon and mentor of Bazhenov
The French architect of the eighteenth century Jacques-Germain Soufflot was the author of the Paris Panthéon (the church of Sainte-Geneviève). He interests us because for a time he was the mentor of the Moscow architect Bazhenov
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894-1896
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894-1896. “So how do you like the Kremlin diet?”
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Incidentally, a dollhouse has turned up for Poklonskaya too, in the Museum of Art and History in Saint-Denis
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The body of Henry IV when the Saint-Denis crypts were opened during the Revolution
There is one more detail in this story that I have not mentioned before. When the crypts of the French kings at Saint-Denis were opened during the Revolution, beginning with Clovis, who lived in the fifth century, the body of Henry IV was found in an extraordinarily good state
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There’s a damn’d Love-trick new brought oer from France
There’s a damn’d Love-trick new brought oer from France. In short, John Dryden holds France to be the lawgiver of sex between men. The tragedy “The Duke of Guise” dates from 1683, and the idea is alive and well to this day
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Mirror with a 1944 bullet hole in the Luxembourg Palace and the ruined Peterhof
In the Luxembourg Palace they lovingly preserve this mirror, struck by a bullet during the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944. I should very much like to show them photographs of Peterhof razed to the ground, for example