tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53500482828437318032024-03-14T01:00:26.369-07:00Blythe Dolls' Bon VoyageLillian & Audrey went on a wonderful journey in France and Belgium in the Spring of 2011 and they would like to tell you all about it ...
Please Note: all photos are Copyright.Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-82542003613185732352016-11-08T23:00:00.001-08:002016-11-10T03:42:56.839-08:00Lyon - the Saône & the Rhône<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcrMICiimIqZ-2ByBE4ud4d4N-JRmKISnoE_w_bH8WSkht2qn0-GiZsCPhrMVVCaPDSmK7M-6P1GSdnqxA_dlftHrANhxZELV5kudwYOGYgJc9bQjs9c_FJC9acEes2DoVvruFPYcOqrc/s1600/IMG_0020.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></a><br />
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More nice buildings and - a barge. There is something so lovely about seeing the barges and knowing that these are 'working' rivers - and that some goods are still transported by water instead of by road.</div>
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If you look closely, you can see red poppies growing by the fence ...<br />
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Here they are - so beautiful and fragile and ...<br />
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This dear little bird is a White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) - we saw these pretty birds in the <a href="http://blythedollsbonvoyage.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/versailles-somewhat-random-photos.html" target="_blank">gardens of the Palace of Versailles</a>. The White Wagtail is also the national bird of Latvia. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_I0gupEy2OkuDcocM_IA8NfNaPMnH-IV2-Gze-8zjTL5KLQ5wKAD_Dw2Ue8bapjHWO9BAX92h_lw6SFAR3WMvfudxwGmE1iSO5iVTp-aiaaDgQnKgNRBDzYMZIOz3IxjuqqlCntuH9VEc/s1600/IMG_9497.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_I0gupEy2OkuDcocM_IA8NfNaPMnH-IV2-Gze-8zjTL5KLQ5wKAD_Dw2Ue8bapjHWO9BAX92h_lw6SFAR3WMvfudxwGmE1iSO5iVTp-aiaaDgQnKgNRBDzYMZIOz3IxjuqqlCntuH9VEc/s320/IMG_9497.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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This is the quay near where that birdie was - tracks still in the path and a busy bridge across the river ...</div>
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The guy is catching fish - the lady is catching pigeons<br />
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Nearby was this rather elegant railway bridge - quite practical but look at those lovely curly-ques on the underside ...</div>
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We're not quite sure but that railway bridge is probably called the Viaduct Quarantine.</div>
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In 1944 most, if not all, the bridges in Lyon were blown up. Just another of the crazy things that humans do during a war! </div>
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Lyon, France45.764043 4.835658999999964245.586788500000004 4.5129354999999638 45.9412975 5.1583824999999646tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-70658479779234465592016-01-26T22:12:00.001-08:002016-01-26T22:12:24.186-08:00Basilique de Fourvière / Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière - Lyon<div style="text-align: right;">
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Remember how, when we <a href="http://blythedollsbonvoyage.blogspot.com.au/2015_07_01_archive.html" target="_blank">first came to Lyon</a> Audrey thought there was a castle on top of the hill that overlooks the city - but really it is a Cathedral ...?<br />
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Lillian: "The site was once a Roman forum and that is where the name comes from - an inversion of Vieux-Forum ... becomes Fourvière."<br />
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Lillian: "But 'four' is an English word my dear. Though apparently a local nick-name for the Cathedral is 'the up-side-down elephant' because those 4 towers look like elephant legs sticking up in the air."<br />
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This photo was taken from the <span class="st">Saône</span> River, one of the 4 towers is obscured and the older Chapelle de la Vierge is on the left with the egg shaped dome topped by a golden Virgin Mary - the statue on the Basilica is St Michael, slewing the dragon. </div>
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Entry to the Basilica is from the other side.</div>
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Over the 3 arches are the 4 winged beings that represent the 4 Evangelists - </div>
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There is another winged lion sitting sphinx-like & protecting the entry - but I think this lion represents Lyon itself. </div>
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Audrey: "The Basilique de Fourvière reminded me of Sacré-Cœur in Paris."<br />
Lillian: "Yes, there are similarities. Both are of white stone and are on hills over-looking their cities, both cathedrals were built using private funds and both buildings were commenced in the 1870s following the Franco-Prussian war and the socialist Communes of Paris & Lyon. When the Prussians were threatening to invade Lyon the people promised
to build a big church dedicated to Mary if Lyon was spared. But the
Fourvière site and the Chapelle de la Vierge have previous history of being the place <a href="http://www.fourviere.org/en/history-visits/history/site-construction/" target="_blank">where the Lyonnaise offered thanks</a> for surviving or escaping bad events. In 1638 it was a disease that was affecting the children, in 1643 Lyon escaped an outbreak of the plague, in 1832 they were spared an outbreak of cholera."<br />
Audrey: "And there is a really big painting in the Basilica all about that." <b> </b><br />
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Looking at some of the allegorical painting by (André Jacques) Victor Orsel. The Lion licking its wounds at Mary's feet represents Lyon, as does the lady in green - and Mary is protecting her with her blue cloak. On (our) right are protective Saints, to our left there is Death with scull-face & scythe, a Canut (silk-worker) looking sad because of all the social upheavals & bad times then Cholera with yellow head-dress holding a cup of poison - only an angel has whacked that with his sword ... very allegorical indeed!</div>
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So now let's look at some more of the interior of this Cathedral - and be prepared to be overwhelmed! Looking down the aisle towards the choir or apse ...<br />
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Looking at some of that decoration ...<br />
and we should give some of the dates etc - building the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière was commenced in 1872 and it was consecrated on 16<sup>th</sup> June 1896. <br />
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It was designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bossan" target="_blank">Pierre Bossan</a> and is a mix of Romanesque and Byzantine styles. <br />
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Lillian: "Did you know that the pelican is symbolic of self-sacrifice - in ancient times it was believed that pelicans would wound themselves and feed their babies with their own blood."<br />
Audrey: "Oooo yuk! But this cathedral is full of wings - not just on birds but on Angels too. And lots of the angels had twice as many wings as normal. Are you sure this isn't the Cathedral de FourWings?" <br />
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Lillian: "Oh Audrey! The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière has famous mosaics - <br />
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Audrey: "Perhaps that priest has frightened the little one and mum is having to reassure him. This Cathedral is very feminine and maternal isn't it?"<br />
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Audrey: "So much glittery gold in the mosaic - but let's look to the left of those long trumpets ...<br />
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Lillian: "More glittering gold mosaic, and birds - and now we are looking into the Choir or Apse."<br />
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Detail of the dome ceiling - lots more wings! <br />
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Lillian: "More Ceilings - and there are <a href="http://www.fourviere.org/en/history-visits/history/art-symbolism/" target="_blank">three cupolas</a> which depict Mary united to the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... <br />
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Lillian: "Non-realistic on the outside - the small ones are pelicans, the larger are doves."<br />
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The modern tower on the left is the Radisson Hotel, the <span class="st">Saône</span> River can be glimpsed just beyond the closest trees - the Rhone is at the horizontal row of trees further on. And the patch of orange between the 2 heads is Place Bellecour.<br />
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Swinging to the left, we see the 2 rivers again with old Lyon and new Lyon beyond. <br />
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The Angels on the outside are armed - though they don't look particularly dangerous!<br />
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Lillian: "Me under a column and here I am on the stairs to the Chapelle de la Vierge<br />
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<br />In 1852 the bell tower of that Chapel was crowned by a statue made in golden bronze<br />
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he spent about 6 years in France.<br />
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And here we are looking up at the St Michael statue on the Basilica - with a bit of a contrast with one of the small towers that are part of the Chapelle de la Vierge. <br />
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Audrey: "Gosh that St Michael looks just like the one on the Sacré-Cœur in Paris - I wonder if this statue also stains the white stone to pretty green?"<br />
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Before we go and something we can't show you a photo of - but during our visit to the Basilique de Fourvière we were enchanted by Saori Yamaguchi practicing on the Grand Organ - preparing for a concert. There is something quite wonderful about a grand pipe organ being played well in a cathedral with fabulous acoustics. <br />
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And to end this long post - something very French from the exterior of the Basilique de Fourvière. A lovely Iris - with Fleur de Lis ...<br />
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Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Lyon, France45.764043 4.835658999999964245.586788500000004 4.5129354999999638 45.9412975 5.1583824999999646tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-27762020181215669272015-11-24T07:19:00.001-08:002015-11-24T07:19:20.049-08:00Vieux Lyon and the Traboules<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>No Blythe Dolls in this post - but there is a lot of history and amazing architecture / architectural details. </i></div>
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Vieux (old) Lyon is a wonderful pocket of close set, ancient (many Renaissance-era, some older) buildings, skinny lanes and secret passage-ways (the Traboules). This was the first district in France to get legal protection as a historic site (in 1954).<br />
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If you can, get there early and step down a side street, away from the tourist traps and then - it is really easy to imagine yourself in another time, a very different era, living a very different lifestyle.</div>
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Would you be a silk merchant? or a member of his family? comfortably well off with servants to do the dirty work. Or would have been one of those unfortunate servants?</div>
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Would you be a canut (a silk weaver)? Was this the good times when there was a Louis on the throne decreeing that everyone at court had to wear wonderful silk clothes? Or were you seeing the beginning of industrialisation and fashionable ladies wearing little dresses of cotton from India!<br />
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Did you take pride in your skill at weaving beautiful fabrics for other people to wear? <br />
Or did you resent that loom that you spent so much time at - the precious, clunking loom occupying far more space in your home than you and your family had to eat, sleep and live in! </div>
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Perhaps you took part in the Canut Revolts of 1831, '34 & '48 when the weavers fought for better pay. When I think of the French Revolutions I think of Paris and Versailles but it seems that the Lyonnaise were equally feisty and difficult to govern! </div>
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Like many really old districts in cities, this is a very built up area with tiny narrow streets - an area built by people who had to walk everywhere.<br />
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Most of the old buildings back onto courtyards - and this brings us to the Traboules. </div>
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Secret passages between buildings, originally used by merchants and by the canuts (silk weavers) to transport the silk and keep it dry (rain could cause spots on the fabric). There is a lot of history in them - the Canut Revolts took place in and around some of the Traboules and it is said that the Traboules helped prevent the occupying German forces from taking total control of some areas of Lyon during WW2.<br />
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If you want to see the Traboules and courtyards behind the magnificent old facades then it is best if you have a local guide.<br />
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Tours can be booked - but we were lucky. Standing in front of a locked door / gateway with our map and looking like silly tourists we were 'rescued' by a wonderful local historian - one of the guides not booked that morning. He took us in & around a confusion of courtyards, passages, staircases ...<br />
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Really remarkable spiraling<b> </b>staircases ... especially<b> </b>when you remember how old these buildings are - those architects and stone masons didn't have pocket calculators or power tools.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This 'spine' and spiral stairs ... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">here - looking up into the spiral ...</td></tr>
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The stairs are often in towers that remind you of fairy-tails (and if you scroll up to the photo where we were looking down on the rooftops - you can see the tops of towers among all the chimneys)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Tour Rose in the Quartier Saint-Jean of Vieux Lyon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This tower looked a bit spooky!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The courtyard of </span><span style="font-size: small;">La Tour Rose also had a pair of canoodling bicycles ! </span><br />
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Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Lyon, France45.764043 4.835658999999964245.586788500000004 4.5129354999999638 45.9412975 5.1583824999999646tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-57388270496328267972015-10-07T23:26:00.000-07:002015-10-07T23:26:48.723-07:00Lyon - Musée des Marionettes du Monde<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lillian: The Musées Gadagne are in 2 parts - the History of Lyon museum we saw in the last post - in this post we will see something of the Musée des Marionettes du Monde ... the Museum of the Puppets of the World.<br />
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Lillian: Of course, creepy is in the eye of the beholder - you know, some people find Blythe dolls a bit creepy ...<br />
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Audrey: Well! <i>huff</i> there is no accounting for taste! <br />
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Lillian: These Ballerina marionettes are quite lovely<br />
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Lillian: Our photographer is somewhat obsessed about historical costume and textiles - especially lace. <br />
The lace over-skirt on that marionette is very lovely - possibly hand embroidered on muslin. Of course, puppets' clothes are like dolls' - often made from left-over scraps or cut-down from human sized garments. So they can be a source for fabulous textiles.<br />
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Audrey: Although the camera clicker didn't take many photos of the puppets - she did take some close-up pictures of the lace on their clothes.<br />
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Lillian: This Don Quixote gent had a wonderful outfit - including this lace. Had it been a human's cravat end or a cuff frill? Definitely hand made but we're unsure what type of lace it is.<br />
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Lillian: This gent is wearing a lot of lace - a simple bobbin lace for his cravat and on his coat is some gold lace.<br />
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Now no museum of Puppets of the World would be complete without some Indonesian shadow puppets, Wayang Kulit ... <br />
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Lillian: And this chap is a Kasparek, from Prague, 1928. Kasparek or Kasperle / Kasper is a German / Austrian tradition - he is rather like the English Punch (and Judy). The French have their own version and he originated in Lyon and his name is Guignol. <br />
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All these puppets, Punch, Kasperle & Guignol have their origins in the Italian Pulcinella in the Italian Commedia dell'arte. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte" title="Commedia dell'arte"></a><br />
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Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-8373450850255320232015-08-02T22:09:00.001-07:002015-08-02T22:09:09.350-07:00The Musée Gadagne in Lyon<br />
<i>Lillian</i>: We like to find the museums that tell you about the history of the places we visit - the ones that focus on the town & region. These museums can give you a better understanding of a place - its history & background, its industries and reasons for being where and what it is.<br />
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<i>Audrey: </i>Oh - is that why we went to The Musée Gadagne? It is in the old town, Vieux Lyon, and most of the buildings date from the 1600s.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: There is a wonderful stone spiral staircase ... <br />
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and a truly massive fireplace - this is just part of it, a pillar at the side.<br />
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This museum has 2 collections. One is about the history
of Lyon and the other is a collection of puppets. In this post we'll
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<i>Lillian: </i>We looked at the portraits of notable locals and found lots of lovely costume details ...<br />
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This person wearing a nicely painted ruff is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomponne_de_Belli%C3%A8vre" target="_blank">Pomponne de Bellièvre</a> - born in Lyon in 1529 he was a diplomat during the reign of Henri III and was Chancellor of France from 1599 till his death in 1605.<br />
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And this is <a href="http://www.museemilitairelyon.com/spip.php?article95" target="_blank">Fran<span class="st"><i>ç</i></span>ois de Mandelot</a>, a Governor of Lyon, his ruff is obviously fastened (tied) at the front. <br />
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<i>Audrey:</i> Our camera person was researching lace - and found some paintings with great lace details ...<br />
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This lady is wearing a whole lot of wealth - she was Madeleine de Créqui, marquise de Villeroy, wife of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_de_Neufville_de_Villeroy" target="_blank">Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy</a> and this was painted in 1627 when she was 18 yrs old. <br />
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<i>Lillian: </i>Here is some detail of her lace collar - possibly Reticella or Punto in Aria (both are needle laces). Madeleine also wears pearls and holds the metal <span class="st">aiglets that are on the ends of the ribbon round her waist. </span><br />
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<i>Audrey:</i> This collar was worn by a relative of Madeleine's - Charles de Neuville the marquis de Villeroy et d'Halincourt, another Governor of Lyon. The portrait was painted by a Carmelite Nun so we don't know her name.<br />
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<i>Lillian: </i>But we do know that she had a wonderful eye for detail - look at the hem on this collar, the way the lace is pleated at the corner and the tassels on the ties of the collar. <br />
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<i>Audrey:</i> Some later pieces of lace - a splendid cravat, nattily tucked into his coat ...<br />
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<i>Lillian: </i>The cravat wearer is sculptor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Coustou" target="_blank">Nicolas Coustou </a>(1658-1733) the painting attributed to Jean Legros. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geoffrey Chasseing painted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donat_Nonnotte" target="_blank">Donat Nonnotte </a>in 1755</td></tr>
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<i>Audrey:</i> And this was painted by Anne-Marie Perrache, it is a portrait of her brother Antoine-Michel Perrache (1726-1779) - he was a
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i> </i></span><i>Lillian: </i>Some lovely clothes on lady poets -<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Lab%C3%A9" target="_blank">Louise Labé</a> was born in 1526. She had an adventurous, rather controversial life. </div>
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<i>Lillian: </i>Well, perhaps that is enough of notable Lyonnaise - what else did we see ...<br />
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<i>Audrey: </i>There was The Best Ever Dolls' House ... unfortunately it was in a glass case, so we couldn't move in!<br />
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<i>Lillian: </i>And then we went to the rooms that were about Lyon's industrial history and that means weaving. Lyon was historically known as an important area for the production and weaving of silk.<br />
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<i>Audrey: </i>Wasn't it one of the early King Louises who set up the industry because wealthy French people were spending too much on nice fabric from Italy?<br />
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<i>Lillian: </i>Something like that - it was Louis XI in 1466 and he encouraged spinners and weavers from Italy to come to Lyon to establish the industry there. In 1540, Francois I gave Lyon a monopoly on silk manufacturing and fine silks coming into France had to pass through Lyon's warehouses.<br />
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Weaving was a family business - the canuts (weavers) owned their looms, they took up most of the space in the home and they worked hard to produce beautiful & fashionable fabrics. But it was a living and things weren't too bad until 1685 when many French Huguenots fled the country - many Huguenots were experts
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<i>Lillian: </i>No - by 1797 there were 90% fewer people working in textiles. </div>
But then we get a remarkable development and a forerunner of digital technology - because in 1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard developed a mechanical loom controlled by thick cards with punched holes. (Seeing what this sort of loom could produce inspired Charles Babbage to use perforated cards in his <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage" target="_blank" title="Analytical engine">analytical engine</a> - the first computer.)<br />
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<i>Audrey: </i>Here you can see the cards, all laced together, being fed through the 'Jacquard head' above the loom. <i>"</i>Each position in the card corresponds to a "Bolus" hook, which can
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harness, which carries and guides the warp thread so that the weft will either lie above or below it. The sequence of raised and lowered threads is what creates the pattern." (from Wikipedia<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom" target="_blank"><i> here</i></a>)<br />
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<i>Audrey: </i>The cards then fold under the loom. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxnU-BFavwLrChyphenhyphenlhDRrJZk8ezNJCGDck6yeWuLpNO2HE-0stTqbRWLrnfhvP2X99IKwFh4JimtvQ054PgEVyY3ATZASC-z0wGyMt46S_aOgJj8RoKfOTg48-vpPXYGhEhP1mj-7a3N330/s1600/musee+gadagne+9l+loom+3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxnU-BFavwLrChyphenhyphenlhDRrJZk8ezNJCGDck6yeWuLpNO2HE-0stTqbRWLrnfhvP2X99IKwFh4JimtvQ054PgEVyY3ATZASC-z0wGyMt46S_aOgJj8RoKfOTg48-vpPXYGhEhP1mj-7a3N330/s320/musee+gadagne+9l+loom+3.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<i>Lillian: </i>Lack of demand meant poor prices for silks - this meant even worse pay and there had always been bad conditions for the weavers ... this all led to the <span lang="fr"><i>Révolte des canuts</i></span> in 1831, 1834 & 1848 - these were some of the first worker uprisings of the Industrial Revolution. There was a lot of violence - but despite these uprisings the silk industry in Lyon was booming by the middle of the 19th century. </div>
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<i><i>Lillian: </i></i>And when a city produced wonderful fabric that generated other industries - garment manufacture, millinery, chemicals originally connected to the dying of textiles ... and Lyon still has a large chemical manufacturing industry.<br />
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<i>Audrey: </i>There were some wonderful signs in the museum - this one was huge. <br />
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-50752659895860254712012-12-09T03:10:00.001-08:002012-12-09T03:10:53.303-08:00Nancy - Musée des Beaux-Arts<i>Lillian</i> : In our last post we showed you some of the wonderful collection of Daum glass-work in the <span class="st"><em>Musée des Beaux</em>-<em>Arts. </em></span>Now we will show you a few snippets from the rest of the <a href="http://www.nancy-tourisme.fr/nancy-tourism/discover/museums/fine-arts-museum/">Fine Arts Museum</a>.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : We spent so long looking at the lovely Daum collection we didn't get to spend much time in the rest of the museum - which was a pity.<i><br /></i><br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Our photographer also likes paintings with lots of costume detail - like this. Hmmm I'd like a head-dress like that myself.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : The little chap beside her is singing - and holding the music which is written in a very old style of notation - with square notes.<br />
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The photo is of some details from <i>Le Mariage mystique de Sainte Catherine</i> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joos_van_Cleve">Joos van Cleve</a>, 1514.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Here we have more fabulous costumes - and look at those red boots! <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : They look very pretty looking after the fire and arranging the flowers ...<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Now this little girl is making quite a fashion statement with her collar & muff of leopard fur. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : No, there was no "Acrylicus fakeus" - I'm afraid that fur was real spotted feline. But Adolphe Ulrik Wertmüller had an interesting life - he was born in Stockholm, studied art in Paris, painted Marie Antoinette and George Washington - he ended up migrating to America.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Now our photographer also has a 'thing' for representations of the saints with their attributes. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : ahuh ... and St Lucia / <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy" target="_blank">St Lucy</a> is one of her favourites. In this painting St Lucia holds a palm frond - indicating that she was martyred - and in her other hand ... <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : That looks like a cake stand with a pair of Blythe Doll eye-chips on it! Is she the patron Saint of Blythes?<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Umm I'm not sure if we have one. But the eyes are part of the stories of St Lucy - perhaps not surprising as her name comes from the Latin <i>Lux, Lucis </i>meaning light & you need light to see. In some stories about St Lucy her torturers took out her eyes - in other tales, an admirer praised her beautiful eyes so much that she took them out herself and gave them to him. Anyway, that is why St Lucia is usually depicted with an extra pair of eyes on a golden tray, or holding a pair of eyes like an old fashioned pair of spectacles. Some of Rene Magritte's surrealist paintings have similar pairs of eyes ... <a href="http://media.beta.photobucket.com/user/Camdozer/media/magritte_le_liberateur.jpg.html?filters[term]=magritte&filters[primary]=images&sort=1&o=52" target="_blank"><i>Le Liberateur</i></a> is one such.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : So St Lucy has an extra pair of eyes ... like us Blythe dolls (only we usually have 4 pairs of eyes each). I think she should be our patron saint.<br /><br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Now we aren't sure which saint this painting was of - our photographer just took photos of the fish-in-a-harness,<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Fish are one of the attributes for St Peter but he is most often shown with a key. <a href="http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2078" target="_blank">St Zeno of Verona</a>, patron saint of anglers is often shown with a fishing rod or a fish and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_of_Augsburg" target="_blank" title="Bishop of Augsburg">St Ulrich of Augsburg</a> is usually shown holding a fish. However, all of those saints are usually shown as older gents in flowing robes. The painting here shows a young man, in green hose (green was associated with youth). <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : And looking at all those people dining under the umbrellas made us realise that we hadn't eaten for hours!<br />
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<span class="st"><em><br /></em></span>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com2Place Stanislas, 54000 Nancy, France48.6939061 6.183053748.6729491 6.1435717000000007 48.7148631 6.2225357tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-88896533209231186182012-11-25T00:43:00.001-08:002012-11-25T00:43:51.918-08:00Nancy - Daum Glass in the Musée des Beaux-Arts<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<i>Lillian</i> : As promised in our last post, in this one we will show you some of the utterly gorgeous Daum glass-ware in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy. <br />
<i>Audrey </i>: Apparently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts_of_Nancy">Nancy's Museum of Fine Arts</a> is one of the oldest museums in France. It is in one of the lovely buildings around the edge of the Place Stanislas. But more about that in another post - this one is all about their wonderful collection of <a href="http://www.daum.fr/">Daum</a> Glass.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daum_%28studio%29">Daum</a> Studio is still making beautiful things from glass, and is still based in Nancy. The company was founded in 1878 by Jean Daum and his sons Auguste and Antonin were very active in the Art Nouveau movement and l'Ecole de Nancy.<br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: That lovely tall vase has sweet little birdies flying around it - we call those birds Swallows, the French name is l'hirondelle - and you don't pronounce the H.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : I'll attempt to translate the label for this vase - "blown glass mold, acid etched, enhanced with painting in enamel and gold".<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : We forgot to note what the label said about this dragonfly vase - but the body of the dragonfly looks as if it were applied, and that mottled, dappled look is usually made by sprinkling powdered material onto the hot glass. <br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: I've looked up the French word for the dragonfly - la <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">libellule. Those Art Nouveau artists liked their insects, like this cicada or la cigale.</span></span><br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : That beautiful ewer made us think of the Summer time; with its ears of wheat, delphiniums, poppies and that blue cicada. From the label ... "mold blown glass, multilayer, acid etched, painting with enamel, enhanced with gold and applications".<br />
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Perhaps this tiger-lily vase too ...<br />
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The Daum brothers were very clever - they won a 'Grand Prix' at l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1900. They also collaborated with, and employed other talented artists including <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=jacques-gruber-en" title="J. Gruber">Jacques Gruber</a>, <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=henri-berge-en">Henri Bergé </a>and <a href="http://www.nationalglasscentre.com/exhibitions/artists/amalric-walter.html">Amalric Walter</a>.<br />
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Amalric Walter is most associated with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_casting#Pate_de_verre" title="Glass casting">pâte de verre</a> (glass paste) process, a revival of an ancient Egyptian technique. Daum still use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_casting#Pate_de_verre" title="Glass casting">pâte de verre</a> to make some of their pieces.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Contemporary_Glass_2-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daum_%28studio%29#cite_note-Contemporary_Glass-2"><span></span></a></sup><br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Oh! that's the flower that we found in <a href="http://blythedollsbonvoyage.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/avallon-with-2-ls.html">Avallon</a>
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<i>Audrey</i> : This was my favourite vase - Red Poppies. (you can see the other side in the photo of the Tiger-lily vase above)</div>
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<i>Audrey</i> : Excuse me - you said it was "hammered" ? But this is glass, you can't go about hitting beautiful glass vases with a hammer!<i> </i><br />
<i>Lillian</i> : Well, perhaps the glass is still hot and not quite hardened when they do it ... if you look closely there is a dimpled effect in the glass.<i> </i><br />
<i>Audrey</i> : I wonder how many lovely things didn't quite make it through all the processes and techniques they used in order to make one vase.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Yes - and here are some very <i>Art Deco </i>pieces ...<br />
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This tall vase is encased in metalwork. The yellow lamp is mold-blown and engraved with acid. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : The colour, clarity and sparkle of this mid-century vase was amazing.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : This bowl is quite recent - 1987 - and the cactus (it looks like prickly pear <i>Opuntia</i>) is made with the pâte de verre technique. <br />
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<br /><b> </b><i>Audrey</i> : In our next post we'll be exploring some of the other things in Nancy's Musée des Beaux-Arts.<br />
Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Place Stanislas, 54000 Nancy, France48.6939061 6.183053746.0387951 1.1293427000000005 51.3490171 11.2367647tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-56212403587895573582012-11-16T20:42:00.004-08:002012-11-24T19:58:52.255-08:00Nancy - mostly Gargoyles<div style="text-align: left;">
<i>Audrey</i>: We do like gargoyles, they are such fun and we found lots of fabulous 'goyles in Nancy, on the Basilique Saint-Epvre and, just around the corner, on Le Palais Ducal (it now houses the Musee Lorrain, which we showed you in a previous <a href="http://blythedollsbonvoyage.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/nancy-le-musee-lorrain-in-ducal-palace.html">Post</a>).</div>
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<i>Lillian</i>: <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilique_Saint-Epvre_de_Nancy">St-Epvre</a> is a minor basilica (not a full Cathedral) in the Gothic Revival Style, the architect was <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Morey">Prosper Morey</a> and building was started in 1864. When we saw it in the spring of 2011 the building was being renovated and we did not see the interior.</div>
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<i>Lillian</i>: Yes, this is Euville stone - a limestone famed for its whiteness - t<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">he <a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&ei=6OymUM24DcuRiQeUpIHwBQ&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dnancy%2Bst%2Bepvre%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DvUt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&twu=1&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%25C3%25A9ra_Garnier&usg=ALkJrhjiPH0z6c8n_bEhldPCZ8qcWoJBLg" title="Opera Garnier">Opéra Garnier</a> i</span>n Paris is of the same stone. Unfortunately it does need cleaning frequently - pollution makes it go grey.</div>
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<i>Audrey</i>: Before we look at all the Gargoyles, lets see that tympanum in detail - </div>
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<i>Lillian</i>: They represent the 4 Evangelists; the angel is St Matthew, the eagle is St John, the bull or ox is St Luke and the lion is St Mark.</div>
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<i>Audrey</i>: Ahah - because there are statues of these winged ones out the front of the Basilica. I really liked the cow, but I am glad that cows can't really fly!</div>
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This guy is not being very nice to his dog! And you would think he'd be nicer to his doggy seeing as he seems to be a bit of a dog himself! </div>
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<i>Lillian</i>: We walked all round St-Epvre and up & down some lovely gothic stairs - keeping a good look out for more lions; as not all lions are friendly! </div>
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only from the mid-1800s there had been a church there since 1080 and the
square - the Place et Basilique Saint-Epvre was the major market place
in Nancy until the end on the 19th C. There is a fountain and statue of
Duke René II in the square - these days it is rather dwarfed by the
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<i>Audrey</i>: What have we found out about René No: 2? he is often depicted like this - flourishing a sword aloft like a toothpick in need of a cocktail onion.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_II,_Duke_of_Lorraine">Duke René II of Lorraine</a>, he defeated Charles the bold, Duke of
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<i>Audrey</i>: He was also Duke of Bar, Duke of Calabria, Count of Harcourt, Count of Guise, King of Naples & Jerusalem. Quite a busy person!<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: Sorry to interrupt but - Grande Rue / Great or Big Street ... that is something of a misnomer! It is really narrow, not straight and quite marvelous - we have a photo taken about mid-way looking back at the bell tower of the Basilique Saint-Epvre.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: Back to the <a href="http://www.nancy-tourisme.fr/nancy-tourism/discover/history-and-heritage/nancy-old-town/the-dukes-palace/">Duke's Palace</a> - this fabulousness is over the main doorway. Another statue of a man on a horse, is this Duke René II again?<br />
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His horsey is getting its tummy tickled by a thistle - the thistle is one of the heraldic symbols of Lorraine. These babies have more heraldry ...<br />
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there are lots of fleur-de-lis, the "Crusader's Cross" for Jerusalem, twinned fish for the Duchy of Bar & three flying eagles in the middle. <br />
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Most of the facade of the Palace dates from about 1520, late gothic but it was heavily restored in 1871 and the supervising architect was Prosper Morey - who designed St-Epvre. </div>
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were rain-spouts; meant to send rainwater as far from the walls of the
building as possible. So the original of this gargoyle would once have
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<i>Lillian</i> : We'll leave this post with a funny little monk that we found on the wall of the Ducal Palace.</div>
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<i>Audrey</i> : What will we show people in our next post Lillian?<br />
<i>Lillian</i> : Perhaps we'll go to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, lots of wonderful glassware there.<br />
<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Grande Rue, 54000 Nancy, France48.6966364 6.179944648.694015900000004 6.1750091 48.6992569 6.1848801tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-59485552471110525892012-10-28T00:48:00.001-07:002012-10-28T05:59:09.326-07:00Nancy - the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">
<i>Lillian</i>: Oh dear - this blog has been completely neglected of late. But here we are back again where we left off - in Nancy, visiting some wonderful museums.</div>
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<i>Audrey</i>: We took a lunch break between visiting the Ducal Palace - le Musée Lorrain and the adjoining couvent des Cordeliers (a Franciscan Convent) that now houses the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions ... <br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: This is what we had for lunch - wonderful and really inexpensive slices of yummy 'frittata'.<br />
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Bought from a busy boulangerie and eaten en plein air near this statue.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: His uniform and moustache are most impressive - who was he?<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: The plinth reads Hubert Lyautey - Marechal de France - 1854 - 1934. He was born in Nancy, here is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Lyautey">Wikipedia article</a> about him.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: I would like a great big cape like that - all dramatic and swishy.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Well, after paying our compliments to Hubert we went to the old Cordeliers Convent.<br />
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Now our people strongly recommend visiting this sort of museum - they go under different names - "Folk Museum" "Traditional Life" "Popular ..." and they house displays form the everyday life of the people of the area. They really help you to gain a feel for the history of the region - how people lived, what they harested, what they crafted, what was important to them. Which wars, revolutions, upheavals affected them and how. This really gives you a feel for a place, a much greater & more in-depth understanding of a region. Plus, you get to see some really interesting things.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: SO ... if you are in Nancy, France and visiting the Ducal Palace - do get the ticket that gives you admission to the Convent too, it's not expensive and well worth it - to sample "La vie quotidienne des Lorrains" "Daily life in Lorraine, from the end of the 18<sup>th</sup> century to the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup>
century ... depicted in arts and crafts and in the ethnographic
collection in the Franciscan Convent: regional furniture, popular
faïence and household items shown in highly evocative, traditional
Lorraine interiors."<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Wood in many forms, featured in the life of the area and the region of Lorraine is still famous for its large and diverse forests. A massive sled for getting timber out of those forests in the winter.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: Limestone flags on the floor and by that fireplace there were some cute bits of furniture ...<br />
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The sign on the wall helped to explain the taller one - especially the drawing as it is not in French and we could understand it. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Now we are at home and at a computer so we'll try to do a little translation:<br />
"Lacemaker's Stool"<br />
from around Charmes (Vosges) 19th C.<br />
If they are not, strictly speaking stools, these small pieces of furniture upon which lacemakers placed their cushions [or "pillows" ed.] come close in shape. Some were of excellent quality but many were 'home-made'. They had three legs united by a spacer, the tray is a thick plank with slightly serrated edges." <br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: Our stylist wants to learn how to make bobbin or pillow lace (dentelle de fuseau) so she was delighted by that funny little table. Though we are at a loss to explain what those serrated edges are for - perhaps if the lacemaker dropped a bundle of her bobbins the serrations would stop them getting too tangled up ?<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Our stylist does some hand-spinning - so this old photograph also made her happy.<br />
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Another old photo of an interior shows a similar spinning wheel.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: Here is another old photo but this one made us all a bit dismayed!<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Ironing with a flat-iron - how did women manage to get anything ironed using those things! Heating them on the stove without getting them dirty, judging the heat so as not to burn everything, and they were really heavy. The skill! The patience!<br />
<i>Audrey</i>: And her lovely cap with the neat bow under her chin. The frill is beautifully goffered and they used <a href="http://www.oldandinteresting.com/fluting-goffering-irons.aspx">special goffering irons</a> to do that - this was a very skillful lady.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Well, back to the timber - in the photos above you might have noticed the gorgeous furniture. With all the lovely wood in the region, furniture making was an important industry <br />
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<i> Audrey</i>: Well I'm surprised that Ikea hasn't picked up on that space-saving idea. But there were a couple of fully furnished bedrooms and they all had boxed-in and fully curtained beds. Were people excessively private back then?<br />
<i>Lillian</i>: The curtaining was more about keeping warm - it gets cold in the winter. <br />
<i> Audrey</i>: All the beds were really small too, was this furniture for children?<br />
<i>Lillian</i>: No dear, it's just that people were smaller back then. But this lovely crib with inlay work was for a baby.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: I liked the wall-paper in that room - it would make a pretty dress.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Our people liked the oil lamps - and please excuse the electric light in this photo - ironic and far too bright!<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: And when we both 'star' as sweet country girls harvesting rosy-red apples - we'll wear baskets on our backs like this one?<br />
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<i>Lillian</i>: Here is a carved and painted wooden saint - she carries a palm frond so she is a matyr though we don't know her name.</div>
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<i>Audrey</i>: Love the way she has used a scarf to solve the problem of tiara-slip and to tie up her pony-tails at the same time. Ingenious - I must remember this next time I'm wearing my tiara.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: You have to read it backwards -<br />
"Nourissier - a moittesier - 1750" Eeep that's a long time ago!<br />
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<i>Audrey</i>: The square was designed by <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_H%C3%A9r%C3%A9">Emmanuel Héré</a> (we found a statue of him too) and the fountain is by <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Louis_Cyffl%C3%A9">Cyfflé.</a> It commemorates the alliance signed
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-29177612248363057762012-07-29T08:46:00.001-07:002012-07-29T09:35:43.608-07:00Nancy - le Musée Lorrain in the Ducal Palace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Lillian</i> : We have a touristy tip - when you are in a new place make sure to visit the regional museum - the Museum that focuses on the culture of that particular place. It helps to get a real feel of the history of an area and the culture - what makes that area special.</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="text-align: left;"> : Good tip Lillian, the </span><span style="font-size: normal;"><i style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.ot-nancy.fr/uk/musees/lorrain.php">Musée Lorrain</a><b> </b></i><i style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">is in the splendid <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Dukes_of_Lorraine">Ducal Palace</a> & the ex-Franciscan monastery next door. </i></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOmoEBr0ZLAPkghlyKg8U4ZMUvRbIp0lK-XHJLHo5fTw_LoAZf-FSrYQmwzn4NFynJV41QOENE7bRkPEc_Ou_mb4ZJYnm9VTRid0lBYQhdimIq2udBrojS26aFOUJu_sedGxeO01E1TRt/s1600/Wax+work+Martyrs+of+Treves+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOmoEBr0ZLAPkghlyKg8U4ZMUvRbIp0lK-XHJLHo5fTw_LoAZf-FSrYQmwzn4NFynJV41QOENE7bRkPEc_Ou_mb4ZJYnm9VTRid0lBYQhdimIq2udBrojS26aFOUJu_sedGxeO01E1TRt/s320/Wax+work+Martyrs+of+Treves+.jpg" title="wax figure shown wearing hose & braes" width="242" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDeoDH0dSHA6efgjM5E5iGPWiSgCkZlmsS6YieoygZHGysqG-CY_zqEvK_vcOHoF2Dq2WzGC3n2a513ANXGsnc8lxYWff2YMb55gmpH3HT91UpzosTjCiqWoZJLSMHQPUdlrrRzhyfUfEB/s1600/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Martyrs+de+Tre%CC%80ves+%28Trier%29++cabinet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDeoDH0dSHA6efgjM5E5iGPWiSgCkZlmsS6YieoygZHGysqG-CY_zqEvK_vcOHoF2Dq2WzGC3n2a513ANXGsnc8lxYWff2YMb55gmpH3HT91UpzosTjCiqWoZJLSMHQPUdlrrRzhyfUfEB/s320/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Martyrs+de+Tre%CC%80ves+%28Trier%29++cabinet.jpg" width="243" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lillian</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"> : The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;">Martyrs de Trèves (Trier) - this cabinet was made in Germany in 1759. The subject is horrid but you have to admire the work that went into making it - the wax figures are amazingly detailed - </span><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;">here is some detail - with the reflections off the glass this is the best photo our people could get...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : All those little wax figures - and he isn't wearing very much. Is that his underwear showing over his tights? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"><i>Lillian</i> : Looks like it - perhaps braies (medieval underwear for men) were worn with hose ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : And I thought that showing the top of your undies above your trousers was a recent male fashion.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Lillian</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : Well, fashion has a habit or repeating itself. Let us look at more historical fashions in some portraits.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIpQzctAulgwmlcEnjY50CwiV-lI7Ey_UUjieWPUDfKKCLiZQKdwG30XHNDF9JF3vWUenG1c-W40cLlmZMagQjFtSdIpzWWA9-P4_5CeHLTUcxDmrzTjyUrpXi_QsFzQr4klG3tNc8QSLP/s1600/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Nicole+de+Lorraine,+lace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIpQzctAulgwmlcEnjY50CwiV-lI7Ey_UUjieWPUDfKKCLiZQKdwG30XHNDF9JF3vWUenG1c-W40cLlmZMagQjFtSdIpzWWA9-P4_5CeHLTUcxDmrzTjyUrpXi_QsFzQr4klG3tNc8QSLP/s320/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Nicole+de+Lorraine,+lace.jpg" width="248" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_cv6k6Fo72zFA-rABcofLHVG0cz34zqvzOTsGCml4N4_Wg0p-zE8_kMYA-hvXaG9JccZDx-7Yab-aBK4MmCt7N8Wjq8hzrvjzu8CEjAeoNWsbNH0X1AN9KNA7Vqir63VFHzE66p_oIIGb/s1600/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Nicole+grown+up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_cv6k6Fo72zFA-rABcofLHVG0cz34zqvzOTsGCml4N4_Wg0p-zE8_kMYA-hvXaG9JccZDx-7Yab-aBK4MmCt7N8Wjq8hzrvjzu8CEjAeoNWsbNH0X1AN9KNA7Vqir63VFHzE66p_oIIGb/s320/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Nicole+grown+up.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : That is sweet - 2 paintings of the same person. Nicole de Lorraine at 13months old in 1607 and then all grown up.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Lillian</i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"> : Nicole, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole,_Duchess_of_Lorraine">Duchess of Lorraine</a> was the only surviving child of Henri II Duke of Lorraine, but she couldn't inherit the Duchy because she was a woman. She married the eldest son of the Count of V</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;">audémont<span style="line-height: 18px;"> and he became Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. The marriage was not a happy one and they had no children.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : Oh that's sad - she looks like a dolly in all that dress & lace as a baby - and the collar in the other portrait looks so very Art Deco!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Lillian</i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"> : I guess the collar was very fine and very starched linen. Here are more important people wearing uncomfortable clothes.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSq4MFxCeKoMEIpKEf0e9UXNkKnqk5FdCfXImaaymkBNHQbtSfIhPg4kzz1zwYpQcH9b5ZvdDNQ6vSykkOJ5XGG0c5JzRLRrjt1tAriPUU68uv_KgH0cOMXmFQOQtpPUYVXnQjWFHDLZTu/s1600/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Emperor+Francois+III+lace+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSq4MFxCeKoMEIpKEf0e9UXNkKnqk5FdCfXImaaymkBNHQbtSfIhPg4kzz1zwYpQcH9b5ZvdDNQ6vSykkOJ5XGG0c5JzRLRrjt1tAriPUU68uv_KgH0cOMXmFQOQtpPUYVXnQjWFHDLZTu/s200/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Emperor+Francois+III+lace+detail.jpg" width="150" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyL0UaIFBHUymQQMbW8qFEn0Q1m1AEFNEhuaCqE3niQxHZFAZ4fZwB271GSXHS09eUK23tNMzasjBDOc1aHeLt0CVSLCLrCEPdaFhsz-MnVdOJmI42do0VJ1h1idXeSU4_Ko_VUR6gxkq/s1600/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Emperor+Francois+III.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyL0UaIFBHUymQQMbW8qFEn0Q1m1AEFNEhuaCqE3niQxHZFAZ4fZwB271GSXHS09eUK23tNMzasjBDOc1aHeLt0CVSLCLrCEPdaFhsz-MnVdOJmI42do0VJ1h1idXeSU4_Ko_VUR6gxkq/s320/Nancy+Musee+Lorraine+Emperor+Francois+III.jpg" width="258" /></a><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : Click on the details to see the wonderful lace. His frills are all gold lace - it was bobbin / pillow lace made from gold thread, actual gold - it was sold by the weight. Who was this gent with the 'five o'clock shadow'?</span></div><br />
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<span dir="auto"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : Oh - they are Marie Antoinette's mum & dad.</span></span><br />
<span dir="auto"><i style="text-align: center;">Lillian</i><span style="text-align: center;"> : Yes, Marie Antoinette was the 2nd youngest of their 16 children.</span></span><br />
<span dir="auto"><span style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : A typical over-achieving couple of the 18th Century!</span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><i>Lillian</i> : François</span></span> III was the last Duke of Lorraine. Under the Treaty of Vienna in 1738, Louis XV gave Lorraine to his father-in-law and ex-King of Poland - <span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Leszczy%C5%84ski">Stanisław Leszczyński</a>.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><i style="text-align: center;">Lillian</i><span style="text-align: center;"> : Stanislaw had his court in </span><span style="line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">Lunéville, an area still famous for its <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/351469/Luneville-faience">ceramics & pottery</a>. There are some nice examples in the </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">Musée Lorrain ...</span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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after <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2042064725">Paul-Louis </a><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Louis_Cyffl%C3%A9">Cyfflé</a> </span></span>(1724-1806) <br />
Biscuit de terre de Lorraine</td></tr>
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after <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2042064725">Paul-Louis </a><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Louis_Cyffl%C3%A9">Cyfflé</a> </span></span>Biscuit de terre de Lorraine</td></tr>
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</i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"> : You liked that gazebo - I rather liked this chap -<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2042064748"> </a></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Sebastien_Foy"><i style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;">General</i> Maximilien-Sébastien </span><i style="font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;">Foy</i></a>.</span></span><br />
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Manufacture de Niderviller C.1820</td></tr>
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Pierre Jospeh Michel 1781</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;">And then we found the room full of miniatures ... doll sized portraits of people!</span><br />
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</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Audrey</i><font-family: Times,'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: left;"> : Then we had some lunch and in the afternoon, we came back to explore the other part of the museum - the folk art, regional furniture & traditional Lorraine interiors</span><span style=""> housed in the ex-Franciscan monastery next door to the palace. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Lillian </i>: Let us show you our photos of all that in the next post. </span></div></i>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com064 Grande Rue, 54000 Nancy, France48.6970408 6.179410448.6865588 6.1596694 48.707522800000007 6.1991514tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-20742294348706222142012-07-12T23:48:00.000-07:002012-07-12T23:48:13.381-07:00Nancy - more architectural delights in Saurupt<br />
<i>Lillian </i>: In our last we showed you lots of photos of the
splendid Art Nouveau homes in Saurupt. This suburb of Nancy was
originally planned as a rather exclusive almost "gated community" of
beautiful villas designed by members of the <span class="st">École de Nancy</span>.<br />
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It didn't quite work out and only 6 such villas were built in 6 years -
most of the town-houses and homes in the area were built later and some
are delightful examples of the Art Deco style. Our people are very fond
of architectural detail - so they took plenty of photos. <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : This house was my favourite - "Villa des Colombes"
(doves) it has everything - balconies, lead-light windows, a great
garden and the sweetest tower<i>, </i>straight out of a fairy-tale!<br />
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<span class="st">However, the decoration is very Art Deco. We tend to
think of the 2 "Art" styles as quite separate but in fashion &
architecture (perhaps in other areas too) they sometimes blend, one into
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Here is the "signature" on this building - Masson 1930.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Monsieur Masson must've been busy, we found his name on
lots of buildings. This is dated 1928 with a popular motif of pine
cones.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Ah - Charles Masson, he was the brother-in-law of Eug<span class="st">è</span>ne Corbin. Remember that amazing <i>Salle a manger </i>(dining room) in the Museum? {<a href="http://blythedollsbonvoyage.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/le-musee-de-lecole-de-nancy.html">some photos in this post</a>} well, it was designed for & Monsieur Masson's own home.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : I know, it means "bread" (very strange if you ask me!) Tell us about Mr Bread.</div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : {sigh} <b style="font-weight: normal;">César </b> Pain, best known for a <a href="http://mirabelle.lorraine-cafe.fr/?post/2009/03/03/Nancy-Art-Nouveau-%3A-Rue-Felix-Faure">row of houses </a><span class="textstyle1"><a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philip.lewis100/Nancy,ArtNouveau,Jugendstil,Buildings,Europe.html">along Rue Felix-Faure</a>. Les Clematites and La Tatiana are decorated with pretty, floral Art Nouveau sgraffito</span>. We found his name on this building </div>
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Decorated with ceramic tiles in a 'piano key' design ... and we found this on several homes.</div>
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The lovely doorway (shuttered on the Sunday we were there) flanked by foxgloves.</div>
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<span class="textstyle1"><i>Lillian</i> : Well, perhaps the botanical name gives you a hint, Digitalis. The digitalin heart medicines <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis">were made from foxglove plants</a>.</span></div>
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<i>Audrey</i> : Good idea, we haven't posted any photos of us dollies for a long time.
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="En 1898, le domaine de Saurupt est légué aux Hospices de Nancy à la mort de son dernier propriétaire, Alfred Hinzelin.">Part of the Audio tour took us into the suburbs of Nancy - to </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="En 1898, le domaine de Saurupt est légué aux Hospices de Nancy à la mort de son dernier propriétaire, Alfred Hinzelin."><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurupt">Saurupt </a>to see some really gorgeous Art Nouveau houses.</span></span><br />
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This is the Villa Henri-Emmanuel Lang (1905-1906), the architect was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Weissenburger">Lucien Weissenburger.</a><br />
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Round the side - this bow window with a balcony on top and fantastic wood-work.<br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: Reminds me of a pirate ship somehow ...<br />
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Well the next house we saw was the Villa Marguerite, 1903-05 - the architects were Joseph Hornecker (he also designed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra_national_de_Lorraine">Nancy's Opera House</a>) & <a href="http://lartnouveau.com/artistes/gutton_henri.htm">Henri Gutton. </a><br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : French cyclists ... in front of the next Villa on the tour<br />
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<i> Audrey</i> : Our people looked for this last building for ages and had given up trying to find it when ... there it was!<br />
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</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com1Nancy, France48.692054 6.18441748.671091 6.144935 48.713017 6.2238989999999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-71660232262408258182012-05-17T03:42:00.000-07:002012-05-17T03:42:29.302-07:00Party Time - over 5,000 views<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The girls had a party to celebrate reaching 5,000 views on this blog - they invited all their friends and everyone had a lovely time. Even though the Barbies made fools of themselves again and were a bit of an embarrassment.<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-16191521902210473462012-05-08T06:39:00.001-07:002012-05-14T03:54:16.422-07:00Nancy - rue Henri Poincaré<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilMGm409zZ_3d4pUAUPCQ-9EtPmkbtot8z6hOeO1yyAd0bKq4AnNc7TcJUxs4bSVKB1NxQZm8RHMxdd_Hkpn-PKAeJVxzxWRs4oRL-mHK1XkAc9eECPDq-JjwidMlZPQhMsjJata4wxOsI/s1600/Nancy+Art+Nouveau+Chambre+de+commerce+et+d%27industrie+bldg+-+door.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilMGm409zZ_3d4pUAUPCQ-9EtPmkbtot8z6hOeO1yyAd0bKq4AnNc7TcJUxs4bSVKB1NxQZm8RHMxdd_Hkpn-PKAeJVxzxWRs4oRL-mHK1XkAc9eECPDq-JjwidMlZPQhMsjJata4wxOsI/s320/Nancy+Art+Nouveau+Chambre+de+commerce+et+d%27industrie+bldg+-+door.jpg" width="320" /></a><i>Lillian</i> : In this post we are going to show you photos of 2 rather well known Art Nouveau buildings in rue Henri Poincaré, Nancy.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : This wonderful building is the Chambre de commerce et d’industrie - all pale limestone and teal painted ironwork. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Built in 1908, the architects were <span class="st">É</span>mile Toussaint et Louis Marchal - the marvelous iron work by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=louis-majorelle-en">Louis Majorelle</a>.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : It is a big governmental building - we took photos of some of the lovely details...<br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: Oak leaves & acorns because "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ndC07C2qw">From little things big things grow</a>..."</div>
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<i>Audrey</i> : And that is a thistle made to look quite beautiful, even though really it is a prickly pesky plant - and an industrious agriculturalist would surely be busy trying to rid his farm of thistles! <br />
<i>Lillian</i> : But remember - the thistle is one of the heraldic symbols of Lorraine, and Nancy. The motto is "No one touches me with impunity". <br />
<i>Audrey</i> : Well that is definitely true of thistles!<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : But now back to the building - the Chamber of Commerce & Industry. There are lovely stained glass windows by that remarkably industrious member of l'école de Nancy - <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=jacques-gruber-en">Jacques Gruber</a>.<br />
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And these windows would be much better photographed from the inside - then you could see the details of the staining & painting on the glass. ** edited to add: I've found a photo of <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:ChambreDeCommerce_VitrailChimie.jpg">The Scientist</a> window from the inside ** The first window shows nature - perhaps the edge of a forest near Nancy. <br />
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And a glass blower. Glass making was & still is an important industry for Nancy and the region -<a href="http://www.daum.fr/#/en-eu/"> Daum i</a>s still making beautiful glass pieces and <a href="http://www.studiobaccarat.com/baccarat">Baccarat crystal</a> is still made in the town of Baccarat, just to the Sth East of Nancy.<br />
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and it certainly excels in architecture & interior design! If only one could take a Tardis back in time and see this lovely place full of beautifully dressed ladies & gents from 1911 when the brasserie was brand new. <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Gr%C3%BCber">Jacques Gruber</a>. Delicate ginkgo biloba ...<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Mirabelles are a small yellow plum and a specialty of the Lorraine region - especially Metz and Nancy. Our photographer had a meal with Mirabelles in everything except the entree - as an aperitif a Kir Mirabelle (wine with Mirabelle liquor), the main course was pork with Mirabelle sauce, desert was some wonderful nougat ice-cream with Mirabelle coulis and the coffee had some of that Mirabelle liquor in it. <br />
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</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Rue Henri Poincaré, 54000 Nancy, France48.6912013 6.177375248.688580800000004 6.1724397 48.6938218 6.1823107tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-85313817086227727582012-05-04T04:51:00.000-07:002012-05-04T04:51:44.460-07:00Le Musée de l’École de Nancy - the gardens part 2<br />
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This is the wing of the museum - <br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: All that lovely lattice work and the motifs ...<br />
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At the bottom of the gardens there was a Tardis - surely the most beautiful Tardis ever!<br />
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<i>Lillian (aside)</i> : I haven't told Audrey but it isn't a Tardis - in fact it was a Funerary Monument. A collaborative work by J-M Girard, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Roche">Pierre Roche</a>, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Carot">Henri Carot</a> (prob. the glass) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Bigot">Alexandre Bigot</a>.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : There is a big lily pond and the circular pavilion-aquarium. It dates from 1904 and<strong> </strong>is attributed to the architect <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=lucien-weissenburger-en" title="L. Weissenburger">Lucien Weissenburger</a>.<br />
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<i>Lillian </i>: The wonderfully shaped windows and the door all have fabulous stained glass by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=jacques-gruber-en">Jacques Gruber</a>. See previous posts for more of his wonderful glass windows.<br />
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Here is the door from the outside - <br />
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We could not go inside but our photographer managed to take some photos through the pavilion - from one window to some of the others.<br />
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You can see reflections of the trees and people sitting in the gardens to enjoy the sun-shine ... but you can also see the wonderful
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Here is that door - it is stained glass & there are fish!<br />
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In detail - doesn't it look like an aquarium with real fish swimming about?<br />
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And a fan-light over one of the windows - some lovely water-lilies (<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">nénuphar in French) </span></span>and a frog (<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">grenouille)</span></span>.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : I wonder where Dr Who has gone ...<br />
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Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Nancy, France48.692054 6.18441748.671091 6.144935 48.713017 6.2238989999999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-26947130052129571612012-04-26T08:53:00.000-07:002012-04-26T08:53:49.833-07:00Le Musée de l’École de Nancy - the gardens part 1<i>Audrey</i> : We are writing this post almost a year from when we were actually in Nancy.<br />
<i>Lillian</i> : Wouldn't it be nice if we could spend every Spring-time in France?<br />
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Lilac - <i>Lilas</i> in French. This just doesn't grow in
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<i>Audrey </i>: You look like a lovely Spanish dancer with that red flower in your hair Lilian<i>.</i><br />
<i>Lillian </i>: Thank you, that's very sweet. <br />
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<i>Lillian </i>: A lot of the plants in the garden of the museum are those that inspired the Art Nouveau artists of l’École de Nancy.<br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: Art Nouveau artists and craftspeople were very fond of poppies. <br />
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<i>Lillian </i>: Our people thought that perhaps this bush with all the white flowers was the <i>ombelliféres </i>that is another favourite motif for artists like <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=emile-galle-en">Emile Gallé</a>.<br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: Lucky for me that it was not the Ombrelles - because it seems that the flowers those people liked so much was probably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Hogweed">giant hogweed</a> a very nasty plant indeed! (but please let us know if we have that wrong - and the Ombrelles were some other flower)</div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : Nancy is a wonderful place to see Art Nouveau and a visit to the <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=presentation-men-en">Musée de l’École de Nancy</a> is a delight for anyone interested in the style - <br />
<i>Audrey</i> : Or if you just like seeing beautiful things that have been beautifully made. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Quite! It is lovely to see complete sets of furniture, with paintings, lamps, vases ... all presented in a natural way in the rooms of the house. <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : The painting you can see part of there is by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=victor-prouve-en">Victor Prouvé</a> - it is of 3 lovely ladies in soft, pretty dresses, painted in 1903. The furniture is by<a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=louis-majorelle-en"> Louis Majorelle</a>, his <i>Ensemble aux nénuphars </i>(French for waterlilies) 1900.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Detail of a chair - also by Louis Majorelle - <i>Chaise Pavots</i> (poppies), very elegant. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : This room - <i>Salle a manger </i>(dining room) by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=eugene-vallin-en" title="E. Vallin">Eugène Vallin</a> & <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=victor-prouve-en">Victor Prouv</a><a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=victor-prouve-en">é</a> - was a trifle over-whelming!<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Of course, electric light was a wonderful new thing when these Art Nouveau artistes were creating & designing. They even found wonderfully clever ways to use light bulbs - <br />
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isn't that delightful? I wanted to stand under that light and wait for everyone to give me kisses - but our people wanted to see <i>everything</i> in the museum ...<br />
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This lovely set of lights in glass gourds is by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=emile-galle-en">Emile Gallé</a><i>, </i> 1902.<br />
The foliage is made of iron, and I think that would look wonderful under a verandah.<br />
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And all done in ceramic tiles.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : I think that is what the French call <i>verre américain </i>- opalescent glass, invented by Tiffany & Co.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Let's see more lovely lead-light work... The top of a display cabinet with pretty birds.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : A window with a lovely lady in a garden - hope she is using sun-screen! <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : And this massive window - almost 3.5m long - is by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=jacques-gruber-en">Jacques Gruber</a> 1904 (see our previous post for more of Monsieur Gruber's wonderful works in glass). <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : And a delightful trinket box with tulips and a moth - by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=emile-galle-en">Emile Gallé</a>. Those Art Nouveau artists designed and made everything!<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : In our next post we will show you the lovely gardens of this museum. But now we'll leave you with some details from a large painting that delighted our stylist. Unfortunately we don't know who painted this, our photographer couldn't find a signature and it is not in the big book our people bought from the Musée.</div>
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It shows women working at all sorts of textiles - here we see 2 ladies hand sewing and the lady bent over the tambour frame is busy embroidering or beading. <br />
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In the LH corner there is a lady making lace - bobbin (or pillow) lace <i><span class="SiteTitle" id="PageTitle" name="pageTitle">Dentelle au Fuseau. </span></i>She is using a pillow with a roller (for making long lengths of lace) the French call this a <i>carreau traditionnel </i>and <span class="SiteTitle" id="PageTitle" name="pageTitle">her bobbins don't have </span><span class="SiteTitle" id="PageTitle" name="pageTitle">the beads (or spangles) found on English bobbins - E</span><span class="SiteTitle" id="PageTitle" name="pageTitle">uropean lace-makers use wooden bobbins of different shapes (<a href="http://www.joscolace.com.au/pages%20and%20css/bobbins-continental-pricelist.htm">like these</a>) - no beads. </span><br />
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Nancy, France48.692054 6.18441748.671091 6.144935 48.713017 6.2238989999999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-67296610221341819952012-04-08T01:26:00.001-07:002012-04-08T01:29:58.499-07:00Nancy - Art Nouveau Windows & Crème de Violette<i>Lillian</i> : We did, of course, go to the <span class="st"><i>musée de l'Ecole de Nancy </i></span>and we'll show you photos of that marvellous place in our next post. In this post, we are going to show you some things we saw on the way to the Museum.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Because there is so much lovely Art Nouveau in Nancy that it doesn't all fit into a museum - it is all over the place! <br />
<i>Lillian</i> : Quite - and lovely coloured glass, lead-light windows are quite noticeable examples of Everyday Art Nouveau in Nancy.<br />
<i>Audrey</i> : Most of these windows are 'fan-lights' - small windows over the main door of the building. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : It is difficult to photograph windows from the outside, in daylight - the colours in the glass are actually much prettier. For example, this lovely design with 2 blue flowers, had a sweet contrast in the colours of the backgrounds - pistacchio green behind the flowers, pretty mauve round the edge ...<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : There was a row of very similar buildings - all had fan-lights with this design of 3 petaled flowers but they were done in different colours - here are 2 examples. <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : And here are those 3 petaled flowers again - but this time as panels in a door. The centers of these flowers look just like lollies! (you can click on the photos to see them larger).<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Which is <i>"gulp"</i> quite odd - in French they are <i><span class="st">l'<i>hirondelle. </i></span></i></div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : I think we might have taken the wrong bus to the<i> <i>M</i></i><i>usée de l'Ecole de Nancy</i> because we did have to walk quite a long way - and it was rather hot so this street sign seemed quite apt.</div>
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</div>Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Nancy, France48.692054 6.18441748.671091 6.144935 48.713017 6.2238989999999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-76516002564333230972012-04-02T02:54:00.001-07:002012-04-02T02:54:27.741-07:00Nancy - Art Nouveau Buildings - The Banks<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Several buildings, and some of the more famous ones, are banks - so let us show you those in this post. <br />
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This is known as the Banque Renauld - it is on the corner of rue Chanzy & rue St Jean & was built in 1910. <br />
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<a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=emile-andre-en">Emile André</a> designed furniture & a lot of buildings in Nancy.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : The finial is a stylised thistle. The prickly thistle is one of Nancy's symbols; it is on their coat of arms and the city's motto is <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : It was the Magasin Goudchaux, built in 1907 by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=eugene-vallin-en">Eugène Vallin. </a><br />
In le mus<strong style="font-weight: normal;">é</strong>e de l'<strong style="font-weight: normal;">École de Nancy there is a beautiful bureau by Vallin - and the carving on that desk is almost identical to this. </strong><br />
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<strong style="font-weight: normal;"> </strong>That plant is a favourite botanical motif of the <span class="st"><em>École de Nancy - </em></span>they called it <i>l'ombelle</i>. It could be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_archangelica">Angelica,</a> or the related & quite dangerous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Hogweed">Giant Hogweed</a>. <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : More flowers - this time in glass.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : The Crédit Lyonnais building (rue Saint Georges) has 230 square metres of gorgeous stained glass ceiling by <a href="http://www.ecole-de-nancy.com/web/index.php?page=jacques-gruber">Jacques Gruber</a>. <br />
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The curving sides of this ceiling are in pretty soft mauve glass with blue clematis. <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : And here is Monsieur Gruber's signature - 1920. Although the ceiling dominates with its utter gorgeousness - the rest of the bank is also quite attractive. Here is a peep.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Our last building for this post was not built as a bank - it gets called the <a href="http://artnouveau.pagesperso-orange.fr/en/villes/nancy/Nancy.htm">Immeuble du Dr Aimé</a></div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : Or perhaps like a moth's wings? Like many Art Nouveau buildings, the details are slightly different on each level - the 1st floor has this fabulous ironwork with curling tendrils ...<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Let's leave this post with one more photo of that lovely stained glass ceiling. Perhaps in our next post we'll show you photos of more stained glass & lead light windows that we saw in Nancy.<br />
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Nancy, France48.692054 6.18441748.671091 6.144935 48.713017 6.2238989999999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-65621175896115640582012-03-27T18:00:00.002-07:002012-04-02T03:17:07.961-07:00Nancy - Art Nouveau Architecture<i>Lillian</i> : Nancy is a great place to see Art Nouveau architecture, art, glass-work etc<br />
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: Yes, there is a wonderful museum and you can go on guided walks.
Which we did but in this post we thought we would show you some of the
not-so-famous, not in the guide books, Art Nouveau delights that we spotted on our rambles
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<i>Audrey</i> : This large building has a fern frond motif.<br />
<i>Lillian</i> : Well, Art Nouveau often took inspiration from nature and the École de Nancy<span style="color: black;"> </span>was especially notable for the use of botanical motifs. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Quite probably. The Fern Frond Building also has a square tower and we saw quite a lot of those on Art Nouveau buildings. </div>
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<i>Audrey</i> : The architects signed their buildings and we've tried to find out more about Monsieur Deon without much success. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Here is the door, very decorated.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Let's look at that lovely ironwork<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Ooo beetles - I like them best when they are not flying into my hair! But Art Nouveau artists were quite fond of all insects ... those long antennae can be made to curl in a pretty way.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Let's see some other Art Nouveau buildings.</div>
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<i>Audrey</i> : Now that was a shop being renovated ... new gutter & downpipe but the top floor was still occupied by pigeons!<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Art Nouveau style sitting next to the Art Deco - perhaps the upper floors were built or decorated later but perhaps not. Our stylist says that it is common enough with the clothing of the 1920s & 30s - like the beaded 'flapper dresses' - to find motifts from both 'Arts' sitting side by side. <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : The wood surround is carved with poppy flowers - and here is a detail.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Another shop - the <i>rez de chaussée </i>made modern - but look up! <br />
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Nancy, France48.692054 6.18441748.671091 6.144935 48.713017 6.2238989999999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-30156263585993425842012-03-11T18:22:00.000-07:002012-03-12T02:18:22.414-07:00From Avallon to Nancy and Place Stan<i>Lillian</i> : Well eventually we had to leave pretty little Avallon and our next port of call was Nancy in Lorraine.<br />
<i>Audrey</i> : Nancy, Lorraine - both girl's names but the French do not say Nancy like we do. Anyway to get there was something of an adventure which started early in the morning with a big bus ...<br />
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And then we took a train to Paris ... and here we are in the train at Sens <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : We had to change trains and stations in Paris ... all in a hurry but we had time to take a couple of photos behind <u style="color: black;"><a class="ads-title adsTitle" href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1028527656" id="aw" target="_blank"><b></b></a></u>Gare de l'Est. <br />
This chap has Paris on his Mind ... <br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : The bridge had a hurt and a very kind person had put big band-aids on the ouchy bit. Hope the bridge is feeling better now.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : After another very fast train ride we were in Nancy. Our Hotel was just round the corner from the beautiful central square - Place Stanislas; the locals call it Place Stan. Big & beautiful with lovely buildings all around and everything in very pale limestone.</div>
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<i>Audrey</i> : Very pale and in the morning light - very bright.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : It is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_Stanislas"><span style="color: black;">UNESCO World Heritage Site</span></a> and is completely car free now - but until 1983 it was a car-park.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Glad that's changed as it is a lovely space used by lots of people and by dogs too ...<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Tell us about this Stan person Lillian.<br />
<i>Lillian </i>: Well, Stanisław I Leszczyński was the King of Poland - but he lost his throne ... not once but twice!<br />
<i>Audrey</i> : Ooo Lady Bracknell moment! To lose one throne, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness. Was Stan a very careless person?<br />
<i>Lillian </i>: I'm not sure but he was a lucky person because his daughter Maria had married <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France">Louis XV</a> of France.<br />
<i>Audrey</i> : Ah - Number 15 was the one who reigned for ages and ages wasn't he?<br />
<i>Lillian</i> : Yes, 58 years - 1715 to 1774. Now the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Lorraine">Duchy of Lorraine</a> had quite a turbulent history - in 1737 it became part of France (again) and Louis XV gave the Duchy to his father-in-law on the understanding that it would go back to the French crown when Stanislaw (Stanislas in French) died. <br />
<i>Audrey</i> : I should think that Stan was very happy to go from penniless ex-King (x2) to Duke of a nice place like Lorraine.<br />
<i>Lillian</i> : Guess so - and partly to thank Louis he had this beautiful and grand central square built in front of the existing Hotel de Ville (Town Hall). In the middle of the square there is a statue of Stanislas - here he is with the Hotel de Ville behind. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Ahh but he is pointing to the Arc de Triomphe (or Arc<span class="titres_propositions"> Héré </span>for the architect) and at the top of the Arc is a portrait of Stan's benefactor - Louis XV - with gilded trumpeting Angel (for Victory), Peace as a lady with an olive branch and a baby.</div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : It is Latin but I found a translation <a href="http://stanislas.pagesperso-orange.fr/stanislas/stanislas-arc-de-triomphe.htm">here</a> ... <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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And notice that his Mer-Horse has those finned feet again - like the ones in <a href="http://blythedollsbonvoyage.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/brussels-more-from-grote-markt.html">Brussels</a> & in <a href="http://blythedollsbonvoyage.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/palace-of-versailles-fountains.html">Versailles</a> on another fountain with Neptune.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Ouch! In the other corner the fountain is of Amphitrite, Goddess of the Sea and Neptune's wife.</div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : The gilded wrought iron work is quite a feature of Place Stan. Created by Jean Lamour, there are gorgeous gates with lanterns at all the exits and the gilding shines so pretty in the sun-light. <br />
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Was Stan, the ex (x2) King of Poland being almost More French than the French? The initials SL could be Stanisław Leszczyński <i>or</i> Stan & Louis. </div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : The lights in the square were also prettily gilded - <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : One evening there was dancing in Place Stan, in front of the Hotel de Ville - lots of fun. </div>
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The dolls never miss an opportunity for a party - and as the views on this blog clicked over another thousand - Lillian, Audrey and Violetta had a little celebration.</div>
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-33943705724561692422012-02-28T06:24:00.000-08:002012-02-28T06:24:50.486-08:00Auxerre - the river, canals, trains and an otter<br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: The Cathedral and <span class="rg_ctlv">le pont Paul Bert (that's the bridge).</span></div>
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<i>Lillian </i>: In the shallows, there were so many little fish that in this photo they look like leaves.</div>
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<i>Audrey </i>: There were also lots of ducks and some big swans that you could ride on ...</div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : We went walking over the other side of the river - found a floor mill, the Moulin du Batardeau.<br />
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<i>Lillian </i>: Then while we were admiring that lovely view our Tour Manager spotted an otter!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEili9aAfVR3E1ej5CSIvL872vKx3zkdJN88H7QfODflWumJheYUwWI0uEk7ez-VO4DI3-DkxVS2OTLp-ZdCvPTMTPxeegjcOV6Y9lbKlO1f-EugIlYgBcLCUN_P15OV35boHo3S3p8ZeBs/s1600/Auxerre+yonne+cathedral+otter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEili9aAfVR3E1ej5CSIvL872vKx3zkdJN88H7QfODflWumJheYUwWI0uEk7ez-VO4DI3-DkxVS2OTLp-ZdCvPTMTPxeegjcOV6Y9lbKlO1f-EugIlYgBcLCUN_P15OV35boHo3S3p8ZeBs/s320/Auxerre+yonne+cathedral+otter.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
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<i>Lillian</i> : A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_otter">Common or River Otter </a>(<i>Lutra lutra</i>) - swimming very fast across the river to a little island. </div>
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<i>Audrey </i>: All quite near where the <a href="http://www.burgundytoday.com/flora-fauna/canal-nivernais.htm">Canal du Nivernais </a>joins the Yonne. There is a lock and they were busy.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : A Flan Natur and a religieuse au chocolat.<br />
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<br />Lillian & Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104503910231677961noreply@blogger.com0Auxerre, France47.798202 3.57378147.627325000000006 3.257924 47.969079 3.8896379999999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350048282843731803.post-75863405416213415702012-02-26T05:30:00.000-08:002012-02-26T05:31:04.360-08:00Auxerre - the Église Saint-Eusèbe<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : In this post we'll look at another lovely church - the exterior of the Église Saint-Eusèbe in Auxerre was under renovation when we saw it last April. <br />
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<i>Audrey </i>: The front facade is rather 'wedding cake' and gothic.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : This church has been built and re-built over the centuries and so there are a variety of styles. Most of what we saw of the exterior looked, to our untrained eyes, quite gothic. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Oh Audrey, it's a figure of speech - we are untrained in historical architecture. But here are some links to other web sites if people would like to do further research -<br />
<a href="http://mappinggothicfrance.org/building/1083">Mapping Gothic France</a> &<br />
<a href="http://paroisses89.cef.fr/appoigny/spip.php?article261">this site is in French </a><br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : A close-up of a putti and other ornateness. Let's go inside the church now.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : As you step inside the entrance has gothic cruciform pillars then the main parts are Romanesque - lofty, light and lovely. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : These windows were renovated in 1967 - click on the picture to enlarge & see some of the detail. The pair of windows on the left illustrates the Apocalypse, the next two - the Passion of Christ with the Last Supper, then the Resurrection and the pair to the right that you can't really see in this picture show the story of Solomon and Absalom.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : There were other stained glass 'story' windows too - and I was surprised to see this picture in a church!<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Umm one of the stories about Joseph, son of Jacob and the Joseph of the technicolour coat. <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Well, that window depicts the story of Potiphar's wife ... here is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potiphar">Wikipedia article</a><br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : This beautiful window was in one of the chapels or bays down the side of the church. <br />
<i>Audrey</i> : A lovely chandelier too - but what gorgeous blue and yellow glass! <br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Wouldn't that make a lovely fabric? For curtains or ...<br />
<i>Audrey</i> : In silk taffeta it would make a really nice sun-dress - 1950's style with a great big skirt & matching bolero.<br />
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<i>Audrey</i> : Our stylist likes all the detail of the clothing in these pictures, especially the head-wear ... the young lady in the fore-ground is not about to lose her head scarf, it is tied on around her head & over then under her chin.<br />
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<i>Lillian</i> : Well, enough lovely stained glass perhaps?<br />
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