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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Pennsylvania Architectural Field Guide, Art Deco Style 1925 – 1940 | phmc
In 1925 the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris further promoted the popularity of Art Deco style architecture
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Pennsylvania Architectural Field Guide, Beaux Arts Style 1885 – 1930 | PHMC
The popularity of this style was advanced by the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893
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Architectural Style Guide, French Eclectic 1920-1940 | dahp
Known as the French Eclectic style, French Provincial or French Chateau, the style was fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Architectural Style Guide, French Norman 1918 – 1940 | dahp
The French Norman style is modeled after the rural vernacular architecture of the French countryside.
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Architectural Style Guide, Second Empire 1870-1890 | dahp
The style itself was imported directly from France
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Architectural Style Guide, Chateauesque 1880-1910 | dahp
Patterned after the designs of monumental French chateaus of the 16th century
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DETROIT:THE FRENCH INFLUENCE ON AN AMERICAN CITY
For the first century of its existence, Detroit was unabashedly French
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A French Inspired War of War: French Influence on the U.S. Army from 1812 to the Mexican War
This piece examines the influence of French military theory and doctrine on the U.S. Army in the years during and after the War of 1812
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Palace Hotel, Palace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire | Historic England (NHLE)
It was designed by Henry Currey in 1868 in a French chateau style
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City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, Portsmouth | Historic England (NHLE)
One of the best examples of the French Chateau style
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Chateau Impney, Impney Park, Dodderhill, Worcestershire | Historic England (NHLE)
It was built for John Corbett in the style of a French Chateau for his French wife
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Stir It In Well, It Will Give a High French Taste: the Relationship with French Culinary Influence in 18th. and 19th. Century Ireland
Malgré les protestations, les méthodes culinaires, les recettes et la langue françaises ont colonisé le monde anglophone […] l’Irlande n’a pas fait exception.
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History of the Marriner S. Eccles Building and William McChesney Martin, Jr. Building
Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945) submitted drawings that impressed the members of the Board of Governors.
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French mime artist Marceau dies | BBC News
Marceau was credited with single-handedly reviving the art of mime after World War II
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National Memorial Arch | National Parks Service
It was designed by Paul Philippe Cret
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Charles Perrault: the modern fairytale’s fairy godfather | The Guardian
“Perrault’s stories set the standard for the modern fairytale,”
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Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt, French scientist | Encyclopeadia Britannica
It is widely regarded as one of the great works of medieval experimental research and a precursor of modern scientific methodology.
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Bartholdi Park and Fountain | aoc.gov
The park was renamed in 1985
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Democracy Day | UK Parliament
The BBC marks the 750th anniversary of the De Montfort Parliament – England’s first parliament
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Birth of the English Parliament | UK Parliament
The make up of Montfort’s Parliament can be linked to the House of Commons as we know it today.
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SALON LUMIÈRE, AUSTRALIA’S FIRST CINEMA
With the departure of the Sestiers and Barnett and the closing of the Salon Lumière at 237 Pitt Street, Australia’s first cinema closed
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Marius Sestier, and Australia’s earliest film
it is thought to be Australia’s earliest surviving film.
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U. T. Dallas’ Brian Berry to Receive World’s Top Honor for Geographers (University of Texas at Dallas)
“Brian Berry is an integral part of this culture of quality, as evidenced by his being accorded the top distinction in his field, the Vautrin Lud Prize”
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The story od decipherment (maurice pope, ed. 1999)
The great age of decipherment dawned in the mid-eighteenth century, at the time of the Enlightenment, with the Abbe Barthelemy’s solution of the Palmyra script
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dans 4.5.5 Autres regards
We should say ‘Vive la France’ to a pioneering country as it marks its national holiday | Belfast Telegram
although the narrative seems to stress ‘globalisation’ (‘mondialisation’), it all adds up to a paean of praise to France’s influence on the world, and how many modern movements France started.
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Age Of Revolution 1789 -1848 (Eric Hobsbawm, 1962)
If the economy of the nineteenth century world was formed mainly under the influence of the British Industrial Revolution, its politics and ideology were formed mainly by the French
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dans 4.1.7 Musique
François Xavier Tourte | CHRISTIE’S
it took the genius of a French clockmaker turned instrument craftsman to launch the era of the modern bow
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Christine de Pisan, la première femme de lettres française | National geographic
En refusant de se remarier et en choisissant de vivre de sa plume, Christine de Pisan a bouleversé les normes médiévales et ouvert la voie à une réflexion sur le statut et le rôle social des femmes.
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Exploring the Beautiful Birthplace of Sport Climbing | National geographic
The Verdon Gorge in the French Alps is considered the birthplace of sport climbing
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The Great Detectives: Vidocq | Strand magazine
François Eugène Vidocq, the world’s first real life private detective
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (60 years of Heroes) | Time europe
when Cousteau died, aged 87, in 1997, he was widely hailed as one of the fathers of environmentalism for his work as an oceanographer
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The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy and Private Eye
The world’s very first private detective agency.
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AMERICA AND FRENCH CULTURE 1750-1848 (Howard Mumford Jones, 1927)
The choice of the hundred years from 1750 to 1848 as the central epoch for my purpose is, I think, a sufficiently obvious one. By 1750 the American colonies had passed from infancy into something like maturity; and by 1848 the French influence commenced to wane before the German one.
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Auguste Rodin: the father of modern sculpture | Christie’s
French sculptor who revolutionised the medium
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Madame Tussauds London
1835 : With her sons, Madame Tussaud establishes a base in London at ‘The Baker Street Bazaar.’