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The golden age of French furniture
- December 5, 2020
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No Comments“Some of the most beautiful and refined furniture ever made, displaying the highest level of artistic and technical ability, was created in Paris during the eighteenth century.” Some stunning pieces on view along with a range of background material from the Met Museum – here. ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ -
Dentistry and smiles in 18th century Paris
- November 7, 2020
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“In eighteenth-century Europe, tooth loss after a certain age was the norm. It usually began before one’s forties and proceeded at a steady, unrelenting pace. With teeth vanished good looks. Capacity for speech suffered too, and talking transmuted into an affair of grunts and whistles. Discomfort, inconvenience, problems with chewing food, chronic indigestion, halitosis, -
Palais-Royal
- September 26, 2020
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Among many other things, Casanova was a great travel writer. Here’s his account of a visit to the garden of the Palais-Royal in Paris which was open to the public: After his visit I told Esprit to take me to the Palais-Royal, and I left him at the gates. I felt the greatest
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