The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times, Saturday, June 11, 1881; pg. 371
via the British Library’s British Newspaper archive
Leg of Eiffel Tower
Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection, University of Michigan
(via ubuweb)
Recitations of French poetry from the 14th to the mid-20th century played with the Lary/Baschet electronic sonore structures:
- Villon - Ballade des dames du temps jadis
- Clement Marot - De sa grande amie
- Louise Labé - Sonnet
- Ronsard - Sonnet à Hélène de Surgères
- Lamartine - Automne
- Musset - Tristesse
- Nerval - Fantaisie
- Hugo - Bons conseils aux amant
- Verlaine - Gaspard Hauser chante
- Baudelaire - La mort des amants
- Rimbaud - Roman
- Laforgue - Complainte de l’oubli des morts
- Apollinaire - Salomé
- Valéry - La fileuse
- Cocteau - Un ami dort
- Mallarmé - Hérodiade
- Eluard - Le couvre-feu
- Aragon - Excuses pour en finir
RELATED RESOURCES:
Lasry-Baschet on UbuWeb Sound
French Machinery, 1855
photograph by Charles Thurston Thompson
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Napoleon III and Paris)
Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, another detail.
Never noticed these green feet before, so thank you, florizelle!
