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Journée d’étude du GRHAM : « Le marché de l’art dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle : Expertises, négociations et controverses », , 5 juin 2019. Cf. https://t.co/UmYkFW0QGn

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2019-04-29

Thanks to Anne Haworth for her lecture where we discovered the secret of immortality, peento peaches. Shame they only ripen every 3000 years!

Xi Wangmu’s Peaches of Immortality. Yū Hi.

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2019-04-17

From All Things Georgian archives, 'Pretty in Pink' https://t.co/Fw7YniFcdQ

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2019-04-15

For Excerpts from poetry written by the daughter of and Louis XVI while she was imprisoned during the French Revolution:
"I was your king's daughter
separated from all my family..." https://t.co/O5NBvsWFuB

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2019-04-08

"The Swing" is a painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard and one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era. It depicts a young woman on a swing and a smiling young man watches her from a vantage point that allows him to see up into her dress.

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2019-04-02

Eccentric London dentist Martin Van Butchell rode his purple painted pony in Hyde Park on Sundays and displayed his embalmed wife in his surgery. Find out why at https://t.co/viU76fsKxo

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2019-03-01

A great curse and a great article title:
"Pox on Both Your Houses: The Battle of the Romeos"
by Leslie Ritchie (ECF 27.3-4 (2015)
https://t.co/WAbFljPz6b

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2019-02-28

Watercolor created in 1790 by George Moutard Woodward that is titled "Preperations for a New Comedy" or "A Green Room in Town."

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2019-02-21

Born 1717 David Garrick, actor & impresario, a key figure in reviving interest in the plays of

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2019-02-19

The ECF archive is stuffed with fascinating
A curated special issue takes the guess-work out of searching.
The virtual issue on Propaganda is a sure thing:
https://t.co/fgP7Jr2pOj

Today is Family Day in Ontario, so the ECF office is closed.

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2019-02-19

RT : On All Things we take a look at the Isherwoods, an brewing family from
https://t.co/mLJI9nYkea

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2019-02-17

“Thank you... I thought it might be too much...?”

Was there such a thing as ‘too much’ for the eighteenth century gentleman when it came to choosing an impressive outfit?

Find out at our next lecture Tue 19th Feb

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2019-02-13

While authors didn't describe a low mood as "the blues," they did write about melancholy:
At Seventeen: Adolescence in Sense and Sensibility
by Shawn Lisa Maurer
https://t.co/ABi6u4BUhQ
ECF 25.4 (2013)

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2019-02-11

On All Things we take a look at the Isherwoods, an brewing family from
https://t.co/SxcwFbKTfW

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2019-02-11

Getting another post in under the wire:
"The Vehicle of the Soul: Motion and Emotion in Vehicular It-Narratives"
by Sara Landreth
https://t.co/8p5OOreH3c
ECF 26.1, 2013

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2019-02-06