A Giant Hat and White Plume
RAGUENEAU: A giant hat with triple plume of white And doublet with six oversized peplums, A mantle flying pompously behind, Hiked up over...
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- Mar 14, 2019
- 1 min
Pie Day, French Style
Plum Galette by Jacques Pépin We are celebrating Pie day the French way today by making tartes or "galettes" in this case. Here is a...
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- Sep 20, 2018
- 1 min
Making leather jerkins
Today we learned how to use the industrial leather sewing machine by making two leather jerkins. We created an assembly line process...
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- Sep 18, 2018
- 1 min
A learning process.
Today marks the day that we filed the first piece of paperwork with the State of Texas to bring The Archive Theater into existence. We...
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- Jun 17, 2018
- 4 min
Your nose is big, continued
Good evening friends, For your Cyrano Sunday this week we’ll be continuing the wonderful speech in the first act of Cyrano de Bergerac...
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- Jun 3, 2018
- 5 min
Your nose is… big… It’s very big
Hey friends, Thank you for your patience. My life has been changing a lot recently, and I had to take some time away. However I am back,...
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- May 6, 2018
- 4 min
...and half a macaron.
Modern Macarons Reproduction 17th century Macarons courtesy of Nadia Fermigier in St. Emilion, France. It's been a crazy day full of...
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- Apr 28, 2018
- 4 min
Non Merci!
You are getting your Cyrano Sunday early this week, since I’ll be shooting a film trailer most of the day tomorrow and probably falling...
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- Apr 15, 2018
- 2 min
Ragueneau's Bakery
The Patisserie by Abraham Boss, (1602-1676) from the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon The Bakery by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1638 –...
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- Apr 8, 2018
- 2 min
The Hôtel de Bourgogne
Facade of the theatre known as the Hôtel de Bourgogne at the time it was used by the Comédiens Italiens in the 18th century. Scan from...
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- Apr 2, 2018
- 1 min
In guise of Punchinello
Punchinello Figure by Jacques Callot. French 1616. Etching. 6.4 x 7.8 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cyrano de Bergerac - portrait of...
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- Mar 25, 2018
- 2 min
An Unlikely Package - Philippe de Champaigne and Jacques Callot
Philippe de Champaigne, self-portrait. Museum of Grenoble Portrait of Jacques Callot by Lucas Vorstermanthe Elder after Anthony van Dyck....
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- Mar 20, 2018
- 1 min
La Clorise
Here is a title page from a printed edition of Balthazar Baro's Pastoralle "La Clorise" printed by A. de Sommaville in Paris in 1634 from...
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- Mar 11, 2018
- 1 min
Pay your five sous!
French ecu coin worth 5 sous The play Cyrano de Bergerac begins with a loud argument at the door of the theater. PORTER (pursuing them):...
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