Souvenir affectueux d’une projo de presse au Max Linder vers 2002: une copie restaurée de ‘Kagemusha’. On n’était que quatre dans cette salle immense!
Heartbreaking biographical entry for Emile Cohl in the ‘Dictionnaire des illustrateurs 1800-1914’ (Ides et Calendes, 1989): “Il mourut vieux et misérable dans une maison de retraite des environs de Paris, sa longue barbe blanche ayant pris feu à une bougie.”
“He died old and impoverished in a retirement home outside Paris, his long white beard having caught fire on a candle.”
It could be one of Fénéon’s ‘Nouvelles en trois lignes’.
#WorldBookDay
The setting looks better than ever, but it's the collection's staggering wealth of artistry and human understanding that I keep coming back for. Whatever the medium, scale or provenance, this is art that shines with personality and life.
The sweet conceit of a scale #model on show in the building it models. The Panthéon has a mini Panthéon, the Invalides a mini Invalides, the Musée d'Orsay two mini Orsays (not on view). This 13,400-piece #Lego mini St-Sulpice was installed last year in the St-Jean l'Evangéliste side chapel. #Paris
A small selection of the breathtaking masterpieces at the wonderful @museecluny.bsky.social, which I've just revisited for the first time since its big overhaul.
“Beyond France, where it never fully surrendered, I think we’re going to be surprised at how quickly the printed word will come raging back.”
Heartening piece by @iamhurst.bsky.social in @theguardian.com today; h/t @lecrimedia.bsky.social & @revue21.fr.
A #ParisBook for #InternationalWomensDay: ‘Women of the Left Bank’, by Shari Benstock (Virago, 1987)
