Please join us in a one-hour Zoom presentation: “Paris Goods: Luxury Retailing and the Emergence of les Grands Magasins” with Roger Mummert and the Alliance Française April 9 at 4pm EDT Register: https://www.afusa.org/community/event-rsvp/?event_id=91 Explore luxury retailing in Paris beginning with Medieval times, when travelers sought les articles de Paris, the superior goods produced there by guild artisans. We look at the emergence of new retailing venues: the Arcades, Novelty Store...
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Please join us in a one-hour Zoom presentation: “Paris Goods: Luxury Retailing and the Emergence of les Grands Magasins” with Roger Mummert and the Alliance Française April 9 at 4pm EDT Register: https://www.afusa.org/community/event-rsvp/?event_id=91 Explore luxury retailing in Paris beginning with Medieval times, when travelers sought les articles de Paris, the superior goods produced there by guild artisans. We look at the emergence of new retailing venues: the Arcades, Novelty Store...
bohemianism Living a life of l’art pour l’art, flaunting conventions, embracing poverty and rejecting bourgeois values and comforts. Part 1 Walking a Lobster: Birth of la Bohème In the 1830s, the poet Gerard de Nerval attached a blue silk leash to his pet lobster Thibault and walked him through the gardens of the Palais Royal. It is difficult today to appreciate the significance of this gesture. At the time, de Nerval, a poet’s poet among the young Parisian literati, was (with the part...
Paris: "A City of Ideas"
Please join us in a one-hour Zoom presentation: “Paris Goods: Luxury Retailing and the Emergence of les Grands Magasins” with Roger Mummert and the Alliance Française April 9 at 4pm EDT Register: https://www.afusa.org/community/event-rsvp/?event_id=91 Explore luxury retailing in Paris beginning with Medieval times, when travelers sought les articles de Paris, the superior goods produced there by guild artisans. We look at the emergence of new retailing venues: the Arcades, Novelty Store...
