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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...
Mar 31, 20193 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 17, 20184 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,...
Jun 3, 20185 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...
May 6, 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 28, 20184 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 15, 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 7, 20182 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...
Apr 2, 20181 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 25, 20182 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...
Mar 20, 20181 min read
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