The bric-a-brac of the old regime: collecting and cultural history in post-revolutionary france

Stammers, Tom

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“…These private collectors and state museums appraised images of the Procession of the League among the plethora of relics of the Old Regime circulating in the decades following the revolution. 43 Reproductions of this scene support one another in confirming the royalist idea that Quick to follow the latest trends, Faeneste replies in his most courteous Gascon 'I ask you, Monsieur, to acquire for me a copy of these paintings, which I want to send to my mother to decorate the gallery, if only for appearance's sake'. 47 Aubigné used the chaotic details of the paintings to enliven this dialogue in a way that confirms Faeneste's vanity and ignorance.…”

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The Procession of the League: Remembering the Wars of Religion in Visual and Literary Satire

Hamilton¹

2016

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This article examines the famous series of images known as the Procession of the League in order to explore how memories of the Wars of Religion were formed in the early modern period and with what consequences. Following the Edict of Nantes, the cumulative production of royalist painters, engravers, historians, poets, publishers, and collectors turned one of the strengths and defining features of Catholic League piety-its enormous popular processions-into a target of satire. New discoveries concerning the commissioning, copying, and circulation of these pictures reveal how Catholics and Protestants after the religious wars could be surprisingly united by memory when it served a political purpose. Ultimately this shared memory could not conceal the changing nature of confessional relations in France throughout the seventeenth century when, amid renewed religious controversy, artists reimagined the scene with polemical intent. Museums throughout France prominently exhibit paintings from a series known as 'The Procession of the League'. These images commemorate an armed procession through the streets of Paris in May 1590 by a band of nobles, clerics, monks, friars and militiamen-all partisans of the Catholic League-who march in solidarity against Henri de Navarre, heir to the French crown by hereditary descent as Henri IV following the assassination of Henri III on 1 August 1589. Paris at this moment is the crucial battleground in Reformation Europe. Navarre's armies lay siege to the capital, with faltering financial and military support from Elizabeth I of England and German Protestant princes. Against Navarre, the League fights for a Catholic succession under the leadership of the Guise family alongside the papacy and the Spanish monarchy. Yet all of this action takes place elsewhere, as the picture is dominated not by political leaders but by religious fanatics.

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The Procession of the League: Remembering the Wars of Religion in Visual and Literary Satire

Hamilton¹

2016

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“…14 Ibid., p. 14. 15 La notion de bric-à-brac et de collectionnisme bourgeois des objets pour le XIX e siècle français a été travaillée par (Charpy, 2007 ;Stammers, 2008 ;Fureix, 2019). d'un puissant anthropocentrisme (Bertrand, 2019, p. 31-33).…”

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« Un vaste local pour y étaler ses richesses » : inaugurer la Galerie de zoologie à Lyon en 1837

Dubald¹

2021

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En 1837, une galerie de zoologie flambant neuve est ouverte au sein du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon. Le discours inaugural de ce nouveau lieu de savoir lyonnais est prononcé par le Premier adjoint au maire, M. Chinard. L'événement de l'ouverture de la galerie marque une étape dans l'histoire du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, en projet depuis l'époque révolutionnaire. En confrontant le discours d'inauguration empreint d'idéal à la fabrique concrète de la Galerie, cet article met au jour les modalités d'inscription d'une collection naturaliste dans un espace d'exposition tout en montrant le passage du lieu de savoir idéal au milieu de savoir et son universalité fabriquée.

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The Purchase of the Past

Stammers¹

2020

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The bric-a-brac of the old regime: collecting and cultural history in post-revolutionary france

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The Procession of the League: Remembering the Wars of Religion in Visual and Literary Satire

The Procession of the League: Remembering the Wars of Religion in Visual and Literary Satire

« Un vaste local pour y étaler ses richesses » : inaugurer la Galerie de zoologie à Lyon en 1837

The Purchase of the Past

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