#1860s France

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Blue Silk Corset, 1864, British or French.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Ball Gown

Emile Pingat (Paris, France)

c.1864

The MET (Accession Number:C.I.69.33.12a–c)

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Catacombs, Paris, Nadar, April 1862

[goldenstarprincesses]

How often do we think nations get drunk and wonder around the streets of their modern city's wearing their museum quality historical clothing that they found in their attic

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RENÉ LALIQUE (1860 - 1945) ART NOUVEAU - The Kiss brooch, gold, emanel and ivory. Circa 1900 - 1902 FRANCE. Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, PORTUGAL

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of a young cadet, c. 1860s. On the back, there is a very intriguing handwritten poem:

Cher Paul, objet de mon amour, Objet que j'aimerai toujours, Daigne accorder à l'avenir A ton ami qui t'en supplie, Dans ton coeur, dans ton souvenir L'heureuse place qu'il envie.

Which Google Translate turns to:

Dear Paul, object of my love, Object that I will always love, Deign to grant in the future To your friend who begs you, In your heart, in your memory, The happy place he desires.

Followed by a signature which might read "Ed Charruau" but I have difficulty making out the handwriting from here on. For that matter I am a little unsure whether that's really a "Paul" or a "Saul" or some secret third thing.

And below that, there is a note in a different, much messier hand that is largely illegible to me apart from a few tantalizing words—"amour" (underscored!), "admissible," "nécessités de la" (...what??), "toujours," "après"—dated 1884.

I can say with some confidence based on the style of the photography, the uniform, the photographer's backstamp and the card itself that this cdv dates no later than 1870, which means it is twenty-some years after this love(?) poem that someone writes this addition and I am absolutely dying for even a guess at what it reads! What happened? Did things work out for Ed and Paul(/Saul/?aul)??

Or... is this possibly actually all much less romantically charged in French actually (oh the irony), just guys being guys composing bro poems of platonic duditude to each other, as they do? Or less gay—could Paul/Saul/?aul somehow be a girl's name/nickname?

[princetonarchives]

John van Duyn, Class of 1862, shown here ca. 1862, graduated from Princeton at the age of 18, joined the Union Army as a medical cadet, and earned his medical degree at 21. By the time the Civi War ended, he had the rank of Major and was a full Army surgeon. In 1918, at the age of 73, he went with his son to France, where they helped establish a hospital for the treatment of wounded World War I soldiers. He is the only Princetonian known to have served in both the Civil War and World War I. Reflecting on this experience, he said that methods had changed in the intervening decades, but the brutality of war had not.

Photo from Undergraduate Alumni Records (AC104), Box 122

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Francesca Alexander (American, 1837-1917)

Decorating a Shrine, 1865

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"Buste sur une colonne en marbre (Musée de Cluny)"

Anonymous photographer, 1864, France.

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“Storm at Belle-Isle”, 1886, Claude Monet.

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Blue silk dress, ca. 1867, French.

Designed by House of Depret.

Met Museum.

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Witch or Sorceress masquerade ball dress by Leon Sault, Paris, 1860s

[fashionsfromhistory]

Ball Gown

Emile Pingat (Paris, France)

c.1864

The MET (Accession Number: C.I.69.33.1a, b)

[agelessphotography]

Fontainebleau Forest, Eugène Cuvelier, early 1860s

[old-glory]

Alphonse de Neuville, Sliding Down the Well, 1862

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CARURE, CARTIER PARIS, 1860. Collection Cartier