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Decorative Sunday

This Sunday we present our 1811 copy of Promenade ou Itinéraire des Jardins D’Ermenonville, with aquatints by J. Marigot. Born Jacques-François Mérigot II (1760-1824) to the Parisian publisher and bookseller Jacques-François Mérigot (c. 1720-1799), the younger engraver and printer spent much of his career in London working under the name James Merigot. Promenade ou Itinéraire des Jardins D’Ermenonville was first published in 1788 by the elder Mérigot. Our 1811 printing also lists Merigot as publisher; by that time the business was most likely under the direction of Jacques-François’s younger brother, Jean-Gabriel Mérigot (c. 1738-1818). Also listed as publishers are (Claude) Brunot-Labbe and Le Normant, both of Paris, and M. Richard of Château d’Ermenonville. Printing was completed by L’Impimerie de Belin. 

The book features twenty-five aquatints of views from D’Ermenonville, now known as Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Located about an hour by car from the center of Paris, the gardens were cultivated by René de Girardin as an illustration of his ideal philosophical relationship between man and nature. Giradin was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s last pupil and Rousseau spent the last six weeks of his life there, and was laid to rest in the park’s l’Ile des Peupliers. His remains were later relocated to the Panthéon; his empty tomb (or cenotaph) remains as a monument to the great French philosopher. 

In addition to select aquatints, featured above is the book’s lovely Turkish-patterned marbled endpapers and two leaves of music for a song written by Girardin’s son Louis Stanislas de Girardin, titled “Du Berger du la Grotte Verte” or “Shepard of the Green Grotto.” Also included is a handwritten note written on the flyleaf, copied from the British newspaper The Sphere, dated September of 1914. 

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

Fotógrafos Franceses del Siglo XIX - François Rousseau, nacido en Bergerac,

François Rousseau, nacido en Bergerac, Dordogne el 14 de septiembre de 1826, fue un fotografo frances. Es fotógrafo en Cusset, Allier y se casó en esa ciudad con Marie Labry en 1856. Se trasladaron a Saint-Étienne, donde 

nacieron sus hijos, tuvo un estudio en Mi-Carême.

Sus dos hijos se convertirán en fotógrafos. Su esposa murió en Saint-Étienne el 25 de enero de 1869 a la edad de 35 años. Realizo su carrera casi exclusivamente en Saint-Etienne. Produjo muchas postales de la región, retratos y fotografías de las caricaturas de Étienne Carjat. Chéri-Rousseau, además de sus retratos y cartes de visite, se interesó en la vida local.

Publica postales de la ciudad y produce imágenes en grandes formatos sobre temas que se combinan en álbumes, dos de los cuales se conservan, Ouvrages d'art des chemins de fer de Firminy à Annonay et du Pertuiset à Saint-Just-sur-Loire y La cavalcade de Saint-Chamond, Loire de 1885. Obtiene varios premios, 6 Medallas de Oro en varias exposiciones, Diploma de Honor de la Academia de Bellas Artes, Médaille d'Or Exposition Universelle de Paris 1878,

Fuera de concurso Exposición Universal París 1889, miembro del jurado, Fuera de concurso Exposición Universal de Fotografía Ginebra 1893, miembro del jurado. Registro una patente en 1876 para la aplicación de la pintura en fotografías. Publicó en 1893 un trabajo: Método práctico para la impresión de motivos en pequeña escala por el proceso de carbón

. Construye y opera Aléthorama, un dispositivo cinematográfico de movimiento continuo patentado por Paul Mortier. Su hijo, Guillaume Marie Charles nacido en 1859, continuo la actividad de su padre. Murió en Saint-Just-sur-Loire el 1 de diciembre de 1908, pero como resultado de la actividad de su hijo reina cierta confusión sobre el final de su carrera, existiendo atribuciones a François hasta 1914.

Nota: La propiedad intelectual de las imágenes ... ( todo) que aparecen en este blog corresponden a sus autores y a quienes éstas las han cedido. El único objetivo de este sitio es divulgar el conocimiento de estos pintores, grabadores, fotógrafos... a los que admiro y que otras personas disfruten contemplando sus obras. No son todas las que son, pero si son todas las que están

Dertig jaar geleden: Florian Rousseau is (zogezegd) de eerste wereldkampioen op de kilometer

Volgens de Wielersite was de Fransman Florian Rousseau (foto) in 1993 de eerste wereldkampioen op de kilometer met staande start. Dat kan ik bijna niet geloven. Alleszins was hij in 1992 al wereldkampioen geworden op die afstand bij de juniors en dan stel ik vast dat deze titel al sinds 1977 (de Oost-Duitser Rainer Hönisch) werd toegekend. Bovendien was er in 1906 al een Olympische kampioen over…

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Note contemplative - François Jullien, Dialogue sur la morale

Note contemplative - François Jullien, Dialogue sur la morale #Philosophie #MardiCestPhilosophie #Contemplation #Morale #Mencius #Confucius

Notes contemplatives de lecture – Note contemplative n° 32 Aucune explication verbale ne remplace jamais la contemplation. Saint-Exupéry, Pilote de guerre. Notes de lecture Fonder la morale, ce n’est pas en fixer des principes, mais établir sa légitimité possible. Dire au nom de quoi elle est justifiée – autrement que comme commandement de Dieu ou par son utilité sociale. […] Nous ne nierons…

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François Rousseau

Golden Eighties (1986)

Golden Eighties by #ChantalAkerman starring #DelphineSeyrig, "this charmer has plenty of the hallmarks of her meditative style"

CHANTAL AKERMAN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB Belgium/France/Switzerland, 1986. La Cecilia, Paradise Films, Limbo Film AG, Ministere de la Culture, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.  Screenplay by Pascal Bonitzer, Henry Bean, Chantal Akerman, Jean Gruault, Leora Barish. Cinematography by Gilberto Azevedo. Produced by Martine Marignac. Music by Marc Hérouet.…

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Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands. Edited by Sarah Turner, Annuska Derks, and Jean-Fracois Rousseau. Published in 2022 by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press. Part of the series NIAS Studies in Asian Topics.

Open access e-book available. (All blurbs, quotes, and reviews in this post are excerpted from: niaspress.dk/book/fragrant-frontier)

Publisher’s “about the book” blurb:

“Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The ‘magical’ qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of childhood events or specific festivals. Although spices are frequently found in our kitchen cupboards, how they get there has something of a mythical allure. In this ethnographically rich and insightful study, the authors embark on a journey of demystification that starts in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands with three spices – star anise, black cardamom, and cassia (cinnamon) – and ends on dining tables across the globe. This book foregrounds the experiences of ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, highlighting nuanced entanglements among livelihoods, environment, ethnic identity, and external pressures, as well as other factors at play. It then investigates the complex commodity chains that move and transform these spices from upland smallholdings and forests in this frontier to global markets, mapping the flows of spices, identifying the numerous actors involved, and teasing out critical power imbalances. Finally, it focuses on value-creation and the commoditization of these spices across a spectrum of people and places. This rich and carefully integrated volume offers new insights into upland frontier livelihoods and the ongoing implications of the contemporary agrarian transition. Moreover, it bridges the gap in our knowledge regarding how these specific spices, cultivated for centuries in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese uplands, become everyday ingredients in Global North food, cosmetics, and medicines. Links to online resources, including story maps, provide further insights and visual highlights.”

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NIAS Press also provides “about the author” blurbs:

“Sarah Turner is Professor of Geography at McGill University. She is a development geographer specializing in ethnic minority livelihoods, agrarian change, and everyday resistance in upland northern Vietnam and southwest China. She also works with street vendors and other members of the mobile informal economy [...] in urban Southeast Asia. [...] [S]he is also an editor of the journals Geoforum and Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Annuska Derks is an [...] is a social anthropologist interested in social transformation processes in Southeast Asia, in particular in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Also widely published, her research focuses on migration, labor, gender, as well as the social lives of things [...]. Jean-François Rousseau [...] is a development geographer with research focusing on the relationships between agrarian change, infrastructure development – especially hydropower dams and sand-mining – and ethnic minority livelihood [...].”

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NIAS Press quotes a couple of book reviews. From Janet Sturgeon of Simon Fraser University:

“This compelling study – one of the best integrated volumes I have read – traces the precarious livelihoods of ethnic minority farmers producing spices under two related processes. The first is global commodity chains, which the chapters follow from node to node along long-standing relations of trust. The second is misguided state-driven interventions to limit farmers’ land and get them to produce monocrops. These combined processes threaten farmers in the borderlands between Vietnam and China, while international traders of these lucrative spices become rich.”

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Available to read, for free, at NIAS Press.