Starting the day with French pasteries and meetings about how to reach out to and connect with other historic and literary minded folks...

RAGUENEAU: A giant hat with triple plume of white And doublet with six oversized peplums, A mantle flying pompously behind, Hiked up over...

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...

Today we learned how to use the industrial leather sewing machine by making two leather jerkins. We created an assembly line 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...

Good evening friends, For your Cyrano Sunday this week we’ll be continuing the wonderful speech in the first act of Cyrano de Bergerac...

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,...

Modern Macarons Reproduction 17th century Macarons courtesy of Nadia Fermigier in St. Emilion, France. It's been a crazy day full of...

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...

The Patisserie by Abraham Boss, (1602-1676) from the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon The Bakery by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1638 –...

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...

Punchinello Figure by Jacques Callot. French 1616. Etching. 6.4 x 7.8 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cyrano de Bergerac - portrait of...

Philippe de Champaigne, self-portrait. Museum of Grenoble Portrait of Jacques Callot by Lucas Vorstermanthe Elder after Anthony van Dyck....

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...

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):...