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The New York Times1 年
An 18th Century French Watch Brand That Revels in Femininity
Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times That legacy can be traced to the 18th century French watchmaker Jean ... his family’s watch factory in the Jura makes cases for several watch companies ...
Scroll7 个月
How did Surat become the setting for an 18th-century French story?
The first French factory was established in Surat as late ... of the French settlements in India in the beginning of the 18th century. Saint-Pierre’s cast of characters may have found some ...
Mint1 年
Photos: Inside an 18th century French bakery
A employee sorts breads in an 18th-century wood-fired oven built in 1765 during the reign of French King Louis XV, at the Au Petrin Moissagais bakery in Bordeaux, south-west France. (Photo by ...
Los Angeles Times2 年
A new exhibit on how French decorative arts inspired Walt Disney is mostly hollow
Swooping staircases and ormolu furnishings offer bland painted context for a relatively small handful of 18th century French and German decorative objects — teapots, candlesticks, dinnerware ...
Radio France Internationale1 年
French letters seized during 18th century Britain-France war finally opened
It was very emotional," he told French news agency AFP ... they're not unique to France or the 18th century," he added. "They reveal how we all cope with major life challenges.
Ars Technica2 个月
“I cannot wait to possess you”: Reading 18th-century letters for the first time
The archivist gave him permission to open the letters, all addressed to 18th-century French sailors from their loved ones and seized by Great Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War (1756 ...
Smithsonian Magazine12 个月
The Paris Games’ Mascot, the Olympic Phryge, Boasts a Little-Known Revolutionary Past
It’s based on a floppy red cap that became, and remains to this day, an indelible emblem of the late-18th-century French Revolution. (France also debuted the Paralympic Phryge, which has a prost ...