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Théophile Gautier, 1866 The interior deserves inspection, but it can hardly be called a specimen of ancient Roman domestic architecture, as the plan of villas differed considerably from that of ordinary dwelling-houses. Baedeker's Paris, 1878 The Maison pompéienne ("Pompeian house"), sometimes called the Palais pompéien ("Pompeian palace") was the hôtel particulier of Prince Jérôme ...
1. Madame Grès (1903–1993), also known as Alix Barton and Alix, was a leading French couturier and costume designer, founder of haute couture fashion house Grès as well as the associated Parfums Grès. [ 1] Remembered as the "Sphinx of Fashion", Grès was notoriously secretive about her personal life and was seen as a workaholic with a ...
Women in the Paris Commune. The Paris Commune was an insurrectionary period in the history of Paris that lasted just over two months, from 18 March 1871 to the Semaine sanglante that ended on 28 May 1871. This insurrection refused to recognize the government of the National Assembly of 1871, which had just been elected by universal male suffrage.
t. e. Haussmann's renovation of Paris was a vast public works programme commissioned by French Emperor Napoleon III and directed by his prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870. It included the demolition of medieval neighbourhoods that were deemed overcrowded and unhealthy by officials at the time, the building of ...
The 1920s classic tubular fashion was born. Parisian fashion house Madeleine-et-Madeleine design, January, 1922. Actress Louise Brooks in 1926, wearing bobbed hair under a cloche hat. Paris set the fashion trends for Europe and North America. [5] The fashion for women was all about letting loose. Women wore dresses all day, every day.
The comments section was just as stunned. "Wolf tried to sneak into Granny’s house and she turned him into a pet," joked one commenter. "Ten bucks says she found it as a baby and it knows no ...
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/File. First lady Dr. Jill Biden will host a fundraiser while she’s in Paris leading the US delegation to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris later this month ...
Jeanne Paquin was born Jeanne Marie Charlotte Beckers in 1869. Her father was a physician. [1] She was one of five children. [2]Sent out to work as a young teenager, Jeanne trained as a dressmaker at Rouff (a Paris couture house established in 1884 and located on Boulevard Haussmann [3] [4]).