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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...
Mar 14, 20191 min read
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Cyrano Auditions Completed
Thank you so much to everyone who came out for our Auditions for Cyrano de Bergerac. We had an great turnout: it was humbling to have...
Jan 30, 20191 min read
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Cyrano de Bergerac Auditions
Auditions for Cyrano de Bergerac Co-produced by The Archive Theater and The Austin Scottish Rite Theater Paris in the 17th century is a...
Jan 6, 20193 min read
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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...
Sep 20, 20181 min read
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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...
Sep 18, 20181 min read
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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 8, 20182 min read
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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
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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
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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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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):...
Mar 11, 20181 min read
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