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Jun
20th
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Tricycling by Electricity

The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times, Saturday, June 11, 1881; pg. 371

via the British Library’s British Newspaper archive

Tricycling by Electricity

The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times, Saturday, June 11, 1881; pg. 371

via the British Library’s British Newspaper archive

Jun
18th
Thu
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“we all love France”

Postcard, c.1914-1918

“we all love France”

Postcard, c.1914-1918

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Leg of Eiffel Tower

Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection, University of Michigan

Leg of Eiffel Tower

Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection, University of Michigan

Jun
16th
Tue
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‘The Man Who Saw The Devil’
mundos:

(via bigfun)

‘The Man Who Saw The Devil’

mundos:

(via bigfun)
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Jun
10th
Wed
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Jun
9th
Tue
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French Machinery, 1855 

photograph by Charles Thurston Thompson 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Napoleon III and Paris)

French Machinery, 1855 

photograph by Charles Thurston Thompson

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Napoleon III and Paris)

May
28th
Thu
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May
25th
Mon
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Events in Ballooning History, 1783-1883

Tissandier Collection, Library of Congress

Events in Ballooning History, 1783-1883

Tissandier Collection, Library of Congress

May
21st
Thu
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Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, another detail.

Never noticed these green feet before, so thank you, florizelle!

Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, another detail.

Never noticed these green feet before, so thank you, florizelle!

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Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882 (detail)
Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882 (detail)
May
18th
Mon
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Les Jeux des jeunes garçons: Le Cerf-volant (via Past Times « Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities)
Les Jeux des jeunes garçons: Le Cerf-volant (via Past Times « Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities)
May
16th
Sat
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Nadar, le Neptune, place Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, 1870

via vintagephoto

Nadar, le Neptune, place Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, 1870

via vintagephoto

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May
15th
Fri
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“…Colette always wrote only about what she knew about, including the characters in her novels. She invariably borrowed them from the limited life she already knew, mostly in a provincial setting. This left her free to utilize her literary gift for perfecting her style of writing rather than in creating imaginary human beings.”
- from the Afterword to The Cubical City by Janet Flanner, New York, G. P. Putnam: 1926, reprinted 1974. (via THE BLUE LANTERN: Translating Colette)
“…Colette always wrote only about what she knew about, including the characters in her novels. She invariably borrowed them from the limited life she already knew, mostly in a provincial setting. This left her free to utilize her literary gift for perfecting her style of writing rather than in creating imaginary human beings.”
- from the Afterword to The Cubical City by Janet Flanner, New York, G. P. Putnam: 1926, reprinted 1974. (via THE BLUE LANTERN: Translating Colette)