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  • Women on the floor smoking opium and three eunuchs watching them: Broquin, Max the Eunuch and Footitt
    Art,  Ebook,  English

    The Brown Fairy

    June 30, 2014 / 0 Comments

    Nicknamed ‘la fée brune’ (the brown fairy), opium may be less colourful than its friend absinthe, ‘the green fairy’, but it is no less intriguing. Imported from China by sailors in the 19th century, it became widely used in brothels in the port cities of France. But it wasn’t long before this ‘midnight oil’ became the fashionable drug of choice in the French capital. In the glorious years of the Parisian belle époque and then afterwards in the Golden Twenties (or as the French called them, les années folles, the ‘mad years’) opium use seized the artistic circles of society. Infamous opium users include Charles Baudelaire and André Malraux, who…

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    Beer vs Art; which would you choose?

    November 27, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Picture this: it’s 1876 and you’re a dapper young heir to the Guinness name, fortune, and business – beer! You recently turned 29 years old, just bought your brothers’ shares of the company because you’ve got big plans for it, and you’ve got your whole life ahead of you. When it comes to culture and art, you’ve ensured that you are just as important as the Rothschilds, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick. However, rather than collect a harem of courtesans and countesses, you’ve chosen to collect paintings of such ladies from the Belle Époque.     Is it because you’re an Irishman in England and long to feel closer…

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    La Belle Époque – Eine Hommage auf die Freizeit

    October 20, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Ein gemeinsames Frühstück im Grünen, danach ein Ausritt oder vielleicht eine Kutschfahrt? Zum Mittagessen in eines der schönen Restaurants am Grand Boulevard, dann ein ausgedehnter Schaufensterbummel, ein kurzer Plausch im Café und abends vielleicht ins Theater, in die Oper oder doch lieber zum Ballett? Eine der großen Neuerungen, die die zweite Welle der Industriellen Revolution in Frankreich mit sich brachte, war die „Freizeit“. Die materielle und politische Absicherung des Bürgertums in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ließ die Menschen der sogenannten Belle Époque optimistisch in die Zukunft blicken. Mit dem Wirtschaftsaufschwung ging auch ein kultureller Aufschwung einher: Neue Cafés, Ateliers, Galerien, Salons und Konzertsäle mit einem vielfältigen kulturellen Freizeitangebot…

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