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La Mode illustrée, no. 17, 28 avril 1867, Paris. Toilettes de Foulard et de soie de la Compagnie des Indes, 129 Boul.d. Sébastopol. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Jupon en taffetas violet clair, garni de biais en satin violet, disposés en lignes droites et en losanges. Robe courte en poil de chèvre, relevée sur le jupon par des bandes recouvertes de biais de satin, terminées par des losanges; paletot pareil à la robe, garni de la même façon. Chapeau en crêpe violet clair, garni de pendeloques en perles blanches et de petites plumes violettes, disposées en bordure.
Robe en poult-de-soie nuance tendre. Le bord de la jupe est garni avec un volant plissé, découpé de chaque côté; un galon de perles blanches à pendeloques sépare ce volant, de façon à former une tête; sur chaque couture se trouve un léger galon de perles blanches; depuis le col jusqu'aux pieds de gros boutons ferment la robe; sur le corsage de la robe, coupée en forme de fourreau, un galon frangé en perles blanches dessine une berthe carrée; la partie supérieure du corsage (jusqu'à la berthe) et les manches sont brodées d'un semé de perles blanches. Chapeau de paille jaune, garnie de plumes bleues et de rubans bleus.
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Light purple taffeta petticoat, trimmed with purple satin bias, arranged in straight lines and diamonds. Short goat hair dress, raised on the petticoat by bands covered with satin bias, ending in diamonds; overcoat similar to the dress, trimmed in the same way. Light purple crepe hat, garnished with white pearl pendants and small purple feathers, arranged at the edge.
Soft shade poult-de-silk dress. The edge of the skirt is trimmed with a pleated ruffle, cut out on each side; a braid of white pearls with pendants separates this ruffle, so as to form a head; on each seam there is a light braid of white pearls; from the collar to the feet large buttons close the dress; on the bodice of the dress, cut in the shape of a sheath, a fringed braid of white pearls outlines a square bertha; the upper part of the bodice (up to the bertha) and the sleeves are embroidered with a scattering of white pearls. Yellow straw hat, trimmed with blue feathers and blue ribbons.
#La Mode illustrée#19th century#1860s#1867#on this day#April 28#periodical#fashion#fashion plate#color#description#rijksmuseum#dress#coat#Modèles de chez#Compagnie des Indes
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Le marin
#collage#paper art#artists on tumblr#land art#ocean#sea#fisherman#tropical#britain#celtic sea#Morbihan#Lorient#compagnie des indes
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Rhum West Indies de la Compagnie des Indes. C'est un assemblage de quatre rhums, deux de type anglais (Barbade et Guyana) et deux de type espagnol (Panama et République Dominicaine), il est vieillit huit ans en barrique de chêne 🥃
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Stuart Turton, L'etrange traversée du Saardam
Résumé 1634. Le Saardam quitte les Indes orientales pour Amsterdam. À son bord : le gouverneur de l’île de Batavia, sa femme et sa fille. Au fond de la cale, un prisonnier : le célèbre détective Samuel Pipps, victime d’une sombre affaire. Alors que la traversée s’avère difficile et périlleuse, les voyageurs doivent faire face à d’étranges événements. Un symbole de cendres apparaît sur la…
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Robespierre in power was, externally, the same polite and proper provincial lawyer who had come up to Versailles in the wonderful springtime of 1789. Colchen found him "extremely polite" and dressed "in a suit that came from an earlier time." His hair was carefully combed and powdered. "He called me Monsieur and not citizen, and refrained from using the familiar you (tu)." Robespierre listened carefully to Colchen's report, without interruption, for forty-five minutes. The division chief remarks, with obvious satisfaction, that he had been heard "with interest and pleasure." A second interview was then arranged, and it, too, passed with politeness, attention, a flattering interest directed to the reporter, and a formal yet easy sociability made a bit charming by the manners of the ancien régime. The information thus gathered from Colchen, as well as others, would serve as the basis for Robespierre's formidable Rapport of November 17 (27 Brumaire) on "the political situation of the republic". The episode also reveals the conscientiousness with which he worked...
(Jean-Victor Colchen, head of a division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a functionary of the ancien régime who stayed on to serve both the Revolution and Napoleon faithfully - had an interview with Robespierre in November 1793).
...By early December, after nearly five years of struggle, he was in a position to oversee the creation of a republic. Part of the act of creation was returning the government to a constitution, replacing the emergency government he had helped create with the government men had dreamed of, certainly since August 10, perhaps from the beginning of the Revolution. The Revolutionary Government declared by Saint-Just and Robespierre he now conceived as the instrument for the transfer of sovereignty to the people. But the times were not right, the omens were inauspicious. The Revolution had passed, unnoticed by those guiding it, into a juggernaut phase. Its course was determined less and less by the will and reason of men, more and more by la force des choses, complex circumstances set in motion and bound to run their caourse. When this shift occured is a matter of dispute. From the point of view of Robespierre's revolutionary career, October 12, 1793 is a plausible moment.
Shortly after the Convention had determined to try the Girondin deputies long under house arrest in Paris - those who fled would be condemned in absentia - and Marie Antoinette, but before the trials began, Fabre d'Eglantine, a poetaster (and one of the creators of the new revolutionary calendar with its heavy natural symbolism), a dandy, a figure of some importance on the left, a friend of Danton's, and, in Robespierre's bitter characterization, "that artisan of intrigue," began unfolding a "Foreign Plot." Much of the plot derived from Fabre's imagination and exaggeration, much of it from his growing fear that he himself would be found out, his thefts and pettifoggery and connivance at the wholesale misuse of funds belonging to the Compagnie des Indes, the old trading company being dissolved by the Revolution, discovered. If caught, he would go to the guillotine. Rather than lose his own head, Fabre was willing to see others killed, and he provided, through his vile fabrications, a good deal of the fatal evidence. His disclosures inaugurated the war between the factions and, more significantly, revealed the Mountain - the sacred Mountain, in the exalted language of the day - as riddled with scandal. These revelations were profoundly shocking, especially to Robespierre. The discovery of corruption on the Mountain deprived the Revolution of virtue. The people, of course, remained virtuous, but their virtue was passive and dependent upon the Montagnard vanguard for realization. Enlightenment and education and the creation of a democratic republic were the necessary means for releasing this vast potential. Now Fabre had undermined the vanguard.
(Extracts from the book The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre by David P. Jordan)
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One of the most interesting things to me is the reason I can (usually) tell point de gaze and Alençon needle lace apart is not because of the difference in stitches (which there *are*)—but the difference in designs. Alençon frequently uses a cohesive pattern featuring one, maybe two, types of motifs. Point de gaze tends to value ‘fineness’ or ‘opulence’ over ‘cohesion’. I’m somewhat curious how that would’ve impacted point de gaze’s development if it had more time to evolve (it’s heyday only lasted a couple decades).
(There was a third point de gaze example but I couldn’t figure out how to describe it)
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Vidal [...] emphasizes the close relationship that existed between the Louisiana settlement [at New Orleans] and the Caribbean island [Haiti, the colony of Saint-Domingue] during the former’s French colonial period (1718-69). It has become a bit of a popular adage to describe New Orleans as the northernmost port of the Caribbean, but Vidal’s Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society demonstrates the substance behind these claims. [...] New Orleans is the missing link, a late-forming city that largely inherited its founding ideas, practices, peoples, plants, and laws from its longer-established imperial neighbors [France, Spain, Britain, and what would become the United States]. It thus offers the ideal case study in which to consider how colonies around the Americas developed in conversation with one another [...].
Vidal convincingly argues that New Orleans was a “slave society,” or a settlement in which racialized slavery informed every part of everyday life from its inception, whose physical construction was done alongside the “construction of racial categories” (p. 1).
This is an important shift within Louisiana historiography, which has long stood by [...] [the] argument that early New Orleans offered the semi-unique example of a “slave society” devolving into a “society with slaves.” Abandoned by the French following the spectacular failure of the Compagnie des Indes, the standard story goes, New Orleans became an isolated backwater until the 1770s, struggling to survive and permitting, out of sheer need, less disciplined contact between residents of European, Indigenous, and African birth and descent. [But] Vidal, in contrast, shows that, while Louisiana struggled to create a full-fledged plantation economy during the French era, this did not prevent its capital from organizing itself along the highly stratified lines of the Caribbean islands.
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Furthermore, she argues, because New Orleans did not see many new residents after 1731, free or enslaved, and because it was a smaller settlement, white inhabitants were able to build upon these ideas in a relatively stable environment - focusing much of their energies on surveilling, containing, and disciplining the enslaved and free persons of color (p. 26). [...]
Vidal especially points to the 1729 Natchez attack and ensuing Natchez Wars [against Indigenous peoples] as pivotal moments in the militarization of white New Orleanians [...].
Subsequently, a scrupulous supervision of racial boundaries became the norm for the rest of the French era and fostered “a sense of community among white urbanites” (p. 141). Chapter 3 takes readers to the streets, levees, and other public spaces of New Orleans, where whites sought to sculpt the privileges of “whiteness” against both residents of African birth and descent as well as one another. Elite men and their wives scuffled over the best seating at church in an effort to recreate France’s ancien régime culture; socially lower [...] nonslaveholders, meanwhile, carefully guarded their weaker claims at mastery through street violence [...]. Beginning with a careful reading of census categories, Vidal traces how distinctions between European settlers [...] were increasingly replaced with those centered exclusively on race by 1763. [...] [Vidal then] follows the ways in which the demographically diverse workforce of the early colony made up of white indentured servants, convicts, and soldiers in addition to enslaved Africans - gave way to associations of difficult and degrading labor limitedly with the enslaved. [...]
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French Louisiana inherited racial categories from the Caribbean but adjusted them to fit local needs, experiencing “not so much a loosening, but a more complex transformation” of its racial regime, largely through violence (p. 371).
Vidal documents how the Superior Council utilized targeted prosecutions and punishments to increasingly “imprint terror and instill obedience” on the enslaved (p. 390). [...] [The book] thus details a society in which racial hierarchies were asserted and supported through both top-down and bottom-up policies and practices, as “no social institution or relationship was left untouched by race” (p. 504).
To this end, Vidal speaks to important conversations by historians of enslaved women in the British Caribbean, including Jennifer Morgan and Marissa Fuentes. These authors have used a similarly wide range of sources [...] [and] archives to underscore the invasive nature of colonial racism. [...] [I]n part [...] Vidal’s [chapters work] to decouple lower Louisiana history from the fur traders of New France [Ontario, Quebec, and the watershed of the Mississippi River] and to reattach it to the planters of Saint-Domingue [in Haiti and the Caribbean]. [...] Combing through administrative papers, censuses, laws, parish registers, correspondence, and judicial records from both sides of the Atlantic, readers will get a sense that there is little Cécile Vidal has not seen or considered. [...] Her book [...] hopefully will convince an even wider audience [...] [to engage with] comparative, cis-Atlantic, and transatlantic studies of imperialism, race, and slavery.
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All text above by: Kristin C. Lee. "Review of Vidal, Cécile, Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society". H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews. January 2022. URL at: h-net dot org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56913 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]
#tho american louisiana 1805ish to 1865 was obviously brutal slave society and an epicenter of US slavery vidals book makes case that#earlier french new orleans also fundamentally slave society in own distinct ways despite citys reputation as relatively cosmopolitan#and today louisiana now home to cancer alley pollution y fossil fuel pipelines y industrial chemical refineries y prisons built on plantati#300 years of violent racial hierarchy in louisiana wearing different masks#her footnotes are extensive y detailed enough to be a whole other book quite the synthesis#tidalectics#abolition#archipelagic thinking#geographic imaginaries#caribbean#black methodologies#indigenous#indigenous pedagogies#debt and debt colonies#agents of empire
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Dix Pirates Néerlandais Célèbres
S'il y eut des pirates et des corsaires de toutes nationalités, certains navigateurs néerlandais furent particulièrement gênants au début de la période moderne, ciblant en particulier la mer des Caraïbes, mais aussi la navigation dans l'Atlantique Est et l'océan Indien. Connus sous le nom de zee-roovers, ces pirates et corsaires agissaient souvent pour le compte de consortiums privés, de la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes occidentales, voire du gouvernement néerlandais, et étaient financés par ces derniers. Voici dix Néerlandais qui sévirent en haute mer aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles.
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La "Demeure de Corsaire" visite-guidée de l'hôtel particulier de François Auguste Magon de la Lande, corsaire de Louis XV, directeur de la Compagnie des Indes et armateur (1725) , Saint-Malo, Bretagne, septembre 2023.
#expos#conferences#demeures#xviiie siècle#Bretagne#HotelMagon#DemeureDeCorsaire#MagonDeLaLande#CoutancesSaintMalo#LouisXV#MaisonArtiste#SaintMalo#Chateaux
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Miniaturiste, Jessie Burton
En 1686 alors qu’elle est âgée de 18 ans, la jeune Nella quitte le domicile familial pour rejoindre à Amsterdam son futur époux, Johannes Brandt. Homme d’âge mûr, il est un des marchands les plus prospères de la VOC (la compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales), et il vit avec deux domestiques et sa sœur Marin, qui accueille Nella de façon plus que froide. Pour l’occuper lors de son absence due à ses nombreux voyages, Johannes offre à Nella la réplique miniature de leur demeure, qu’elle va se faire une joie de meubler auprès d’un miniaturiste de la ville. Mais très vite, ses commandes vont mettre au jour de dangereux secrets…
J’ai adoré ce roman ! Une ancienne collègue m’en avait vanté les mérites et m’avait assuré que j’allais aimer, et maintenant que je l’ai (enfin) lu, je peux dire qu’elle avait raison ! D’abord, j’ai adoré l’histoire : cette jeune fille d’à peine 18 ans, propulsée dans une nouvelle et grande ville, qui est accueillie de façon très étrange dans sa nouvelle demeure. Qui ne comprend pas pourquoi l’ambiance reste sombre et cachottière. Ça m’a beaucoup rappelé Rebecca, j’ai vraiment aimé l’aspect gothique et incertain qui se dégage de Miniaturiste. Surtout lorsqu’entre en scène l’artiste, avec son envoi mystérieux et indésirable ; d’autant plus quand Nella commence à découvrir les secrets de sa nouvelle famille… J’ai beaucoup aimé la suivre ! Tout m’a vraiment plu, je le recommande chaudement. Je l’ai dévoré, et passée la moitié, je l’ai englouti, je voulais vraiment avoir le fin mot de l’histoire. (Et au moment où j’écris cet avis, je suis déjà à la moitié de la suite 🤭)
19/12/2023 - 28/12/2023
#livres#books#livre#book#littérature#jessie burton#miniaturiste#the miniaturist#coup de cœur littéraire#éditions folio#éditions gallimard
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Vue des magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pondichéry, de l'Amirauté et de la maison du Gouverneur.
18ème siècle
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Le Figaro-modes : à la ville, au théâtre, arts décoratifs, no. 8, août 1903, Paris. Les arbitres de l'élégance. Interview de Mlle Marguerite Deval du Théâtre des Mathurins. Photo Reutlinger. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
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Couturier: VOYEZ… TAILLEUR. Modiste: UN RIEN DE CHEZ LEWIS. Tailleur: OLD ENGLAND, UNE HEURE AVANT LE DÉPART DU TRAIN. Lingère: UNE TOILE D'ARAIGNÉE. Corset: QU'EST-CE QUE C'EST QUE ÇA? Dentelles: LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES. Fourreur: GRUNWALDT. Chapelier: LÉON. Chaussures: COSTA. Éventails: JE N'EN JOUE JAMAIS. Ombrelles: CHEZ BRTGG. Magasins de Nouveautés: L'HOTEL DES VENTES. Parfumeur: MA PEAU. Dentifrice: BÉNÉDICTINS DE L'ABBAYE DE SOULAC. VIVE LA LIBERTÉ! Ameubl: LA VENTE LELONG. SI J'AVAIS PU! Orfèvre: ROUKHOMOVSKI. Objets de Voyage: TROIS SACS, 15 MALLES DE CHEZ LOUIS VUITTON ET 3O CARTONS A CHAPEAUX. Carrossier: LES CERCLES. Automobiles: JE COMPTAIS SUR MA DE DION-BOUTON DE LA REVUE DES FOLIES-BERGÈRE. Restaurant: MON BON POT-AU-FEU. Champagne: DU KATINKA BRUT. Confiseur: J'AI HORREUR DES BONBONS. Où goûtez-vous? JAMAIS.
A Marguerite Deval
ENVOI
Menue, effrontée, aguichante, Du rêve… et du geste à la fois, Dans sa toute petite voix C'est tout le grand Paris qui chante.
Francis de Croisset.
Petite, cheeky, alluring, Dream… and gesture at the same time, In her tiny voice It's all of great Paris that sings.
#Le Figaro-modes#20th century#1900s#1903#periodical#fashion#fashion plate#photograph#portrait#masquerade#Forney#dress#interview#theatre#poetry#Reutlinger#one color plates
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Source : Google photo Merci de m’avoir rejoint ! Une bonne compagnie dans un voyage rend le chemin plus court. — Izaak Walton Je vais vous raconter une histoire qui s’étendra sur une période de plus de 50 ans et vous emmènera dans 9 pays où cette histoire se déroulera en détail. Elle commencera en Inde et se terminera aux Philippines et vous donnera le récit à la première personne d’Anil qui…
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Découvrez le nouveau modèle de plaque funéraire personnalisée par Renaud Gravure 👨🎨✨ - Honorez vos animaux de compagnie avec élégance et respect 💜 https://www.plaque-funeraire.fr/granit/20x30-cochon-d-inde-hamster-1732379591111.php
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Agatha Liévin-Bazin & Charlotte Duranton (aut.), Nicolas Galkowski (ill.) : Message reçu ! Quand les animaux communiquent
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"Sais-tu que les abeilles montrent le chemin d'un point d'eau en dansant dans la ruche ? Que les lycaons votent en éternuant, avant de chasser dans la savane ? Tout comme les humains, les autres animaux communiquent. Ce livre truffé d'exemples scrute la communication d'animaux issus de milieux naturels variés."
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"Le texte est très accessible et richement documenté, écrit par un duo d'éthologues (spécialistes du comportement animal), Agatha Liévin-Bazin et Charlotte Duranton, et sublimé par les somptueuses illustrations réalistes de Nicolas Galkowski. Message reçu 5 sur 5 ! Une communication sensorielle riche
Cet ouvrage explique aux enfants comment les animaux communiquent grâce à leurs sens, comment ils s'adaptent à leur milieu (dans le noir, sous l'eau, à distance, dans un environnement perturbé par l'humain, par exemple), quels types d'informations ils échangent... Selon les espèces, la communication passe aussi par des moyens que les humains ne peuvent pas percevoir : infrasons et ultrasons, rayons ultraviolets, et même par de l'électricité ! Des espèces différentes communiquent même entre elles pour s'entraider ! En Inde, des cerfs, au sol, et des singes dans les arbres, s'alertent mutuellement de la présence de prédateurs. D'autres animaux peuvent aussi « tromper » des congénères en propageant de fausses informations pour obtenir de la nourriture... Une invitation à l'observation Au début de l'ouvrage, deux personnages enfants présentent au jeune lecteur comment les humains communiquent. Ils guident ensuite le lecteur dans sa balade à travers les différents milieux naturels traversés dans l'ouvrage. De nombreux exemples portent sur des animaux que l'enfant croise au quotidien : de compagnie, insectes du jardin, pigeons urbains... et peut observer autour de lui !"
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