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Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]

… of social interactions. Practices > Dance, Music & Songs Mots-clés Commodity Bodies Theatre Dancers Ballyhoo John Weaver Marie Sallé Jean-Georges Noverre Drury Lane ballerina gentleman patron Arising out of the French court, the ballet during the … for choreographers and dancers from the tumultuous after-effects of the French Revolution. Prior to the Revolution, Marie Sallé, famously recognized as the first female ballet choreographer and a somewhat controversial dancer, visited …

Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… européens sont désormais régulières, comme en témoigne cette lettre du marchand et collectionneur français Jean-Pierre Mariette, écrite le 4 juillet 1727 à Arthur Pond, peintre, collectionneur et marchand d’art londonien, dans laquelle il … almost no connoisseurs whose delight in their possessions is as much for others as for themselves’. 11 11 . Jean-Pierre Mariette to Arthur Pond in London, 1727, in Michael Jaffé, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth (London: British Museum …

Flora Tristan [ Travel / Art and Literature ]

… qu’elle croisa sur son chemin. 3 . À Paris elle fréquenta Eugénie Niboyet, Pauline Roland, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Marie Dorval ou encore George Sand. En 1826, à vingt-trois ans, Flora Tristan traversa pour la première fois la Manche en …

Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]

… all kinds of wine and beer, and many Io-players [...], a game which is forbidden in London. (Haydn 255, 257) 19 . Marie-Madeleine Martinet, ‘Vauxhall’, The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century. …