#CyranoSundays

Mar 31, 20193 min read

Cyrano Sunday: Translating the Untranslatable or Impossibly Obscure.

Screenshot of Cassell's Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green Today’s Cyrano Sunday is all about what happens a translator runs into a...

Jun 17, 20184 min read

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...

Jun 3, 20185 min read

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,...

May 6, 20184 min read

...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...

Apr 28, 20184 min read

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...

Apr 15, 20182 min read

Ragueneau's Bakery

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

Apr 7, 20182 min read

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...

Apr 2, 20181 min read

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...

Mar 25, 20182 min read

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....

Mar 20, 20181 min read

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...