Traces de France
Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
Étiquette : English
illustration : Palais de Noordeinde à la Haye, Pays-Bas, avec la devise « Je maintiendrai » en français
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Edward H. Everett House | Library of Congress
which influenced Beaux-Arts Neoclassicism.
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Edward Julius Berwind House (The Elms) | sah-archipedia
An enlarged copy of the garden elevation from the Château D’Argenson at Asnières
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William Shepherd Wetmore House (Château-sur-Mer) | sah-archipedia
Hunt substantially transformed the Bradford building, making it more Néo-Grec, the fashionable Second Empire style
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Marble House, Newport, RI United States | TCLF
Inspired by Versailles’s garden retreat, Petit Trianon, and an early example of residential Beaux-Arts architecture in the U.S
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SEABOARD CENTER (U.S. POST OFFICE AND FEDERAL COURTS BUILDING) | sah-archipedia
A good example of Beaux-Arts urbanism
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HANDLEY LIBRARY (Winchester, Virginia) | sah-archipedia
The finest examples of Beaux-Arts Classicism in Virginia.
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HORATIO N. CAMPBELL HOUSE (Providence, Rhode Island) | sah-archipedia
Second Empire house
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FEDERAL BUILDING (Providence, Rhode Island) | sah-archipedia
Derived from Ecole des Beaux-Arts architectural
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Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (Covington, Kentucky) | sah-archipedia
Facade modeled on that of Notre Dame in Paris
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Descartes in the Classroom (David Cellamare, Mattia Mantovani, 2023)
Little by little, the Cartesiomania of supporters and detractors alike contributed to turning Descartes into the leader of the novatores and the ‘father of modern philosophy.’
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Blondin’s first tightrope-walk across Niagara Falls | History Today
Richard Cavendish remembers how the daredevil Jean-François Gravelet stunned the world on 30 June 1859
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Joie de Vivre | FOREST PARK STATUES & MONUMENTS
Born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in 1891 in Lithuania, the sculptor of Joie de Vivre changed his name to Jacques Lipchitz when he moved to Paris to study art in 1909
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My Jesus Christ Is Bigger Than Yours | Huffpost
This « tourist envy » battle began in the late 1920s with this famous Art Deco Jesus
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Uncle Louis The Biography Of Louis Campau, Founder Of Saginaw And Grand Rapids (Christopher Mabie 2009)
Louis Campau played an important role in the settlement of Michigan by expanding the fur trade and founding two of the state’s major cities
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Fantastic Four’ find new campus home (Wayne State University)
the 10-foot figures represent the four French pioneers who helped open up the territory of Michigan and establish Detroit
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac – Detroit, Michigan | waymarking
The sculpture was a gift from the French-American Chamber of Commerce in honor of the Detroit 300 Tricentennial celebration
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac | National Parks Service
Fort Pontchartrain, the precursor to Detroit, was established by Cadillac.
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Westminster Abbey church, London, United Kingdom | Encyclopeadia Britannica
The design and plan were strongly influenced by contemporary French cathedral architecture.
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HISTORY OF RIEVAULX ABBEY | English Heritage
The foundation at Rievaulx was carefully planned by Bernard of Clairvaux to spearhead the monastic colonisation of northern Britain.
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Fountains Abbey : History (Cistercians in Yorkshire Project)
La fondation de Fountains n’était pas prévue. Ce fut la conséquence d’une série d’événements imprévus au début des années 1130 qui a forcé un groupe de moines réformateurs de l’abbaye bénédictine de St Mary’s, York, à fuir leur maison à la recherche d’une forme plus pure de vie monastique
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The White Monks The Cistercians in Britain 1128–1540 (G Coppack, 1998)
Within 30 years monks were sent to Britain – to Waverley in Surrey – and by 1160 there were 67 monasteries and 40 nunneries in England, Wales and Scotland.
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William Of Sens French architect | Encyclopeadia Britannica
French master-mason who built the first structure in the Early Gothic style in England
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The Lex Mercatoria (Old and New) and the TransLex-Principles
The Rôles d’Oléron (« Jugements de la mer », also known as « Loix de Layron », « La Ley Olyroun » or « coutumes de la mer ») are the oldest and best-known sea-laws in north western Europe
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Apotheosis of St. Louis | FOREST PARK STATUES & MONUMENTS
This statue served as a symbol of St. Louis until the completion of the Gateway Arch in 1965
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Westminster Abbey architecture and history | Westminster Abbey
The present building dates mainly from the reign of King Henry III
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French Influence on Victorian Architecture | The Victorian web
The French stood behind the Revival too
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Luneta Hotel, Manille (blog)
The hotel itself is the only remaining example of French Renaissance Architecture conjoined with Filipino Stylised beaux arts in the country
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Jean-Nicolas Jadot de Ville Issey (1710-1761) | Oxford Dictionary of Architecture
French architect. Trained by Boffrand, he settled in Vienna under the aegis of Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine (1708–65)
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Paris once again the world’s undisputed fashion capital | Arab news
More than ever Paris remains fashion’s reference point
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Dior + Balenciaga : The Kings of Couture and Their Legacies (fitnyc, 2022)
« Dior and Balenciaga were not only the most important and influential couturiers of their time, they have also remained very relevant today »
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Paris capital of fashion (fitnyc, 2021)
By the 1980s, the haute couture was recognized as part of the unique patrimony of France
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Joseph-Albert Ponsin & Alexandre-Napoléon Bourjois | COTY.com
The iconic compact rouge in its little round pot was launched in 1879 and continues to anchor the Bourjois product line over 130 years later.
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François Coty | COTY.com
François Coty helped to establish the modern luxury beauty market as we know it today.
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Eugène Rimmel | COTY.com
The word for mascara in several languages is “Rimmel.”
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Pennsylvania Architectural Field Guide, Second Empire/Mansard Style 1860 – 1900 | PHMC
Well-attended exhibitions in Paris in 1855 and 1867 helped to spread Second Empire style to England and then the United States
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Pennsylvania Architectural Field Guide, Chateauesque Style 1860 – 1910 | phmc
Popularized in the US by architect Richard Morris Hunt, the first American to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France.