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DOUBLE VISION: Louis XVI Period Commode

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:00:00 +0000

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Traditional Home
Bill Brockschmidt and Courtney Coleman, Interior Designers
Tria Giovan, Photographer

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18th Century French Louis XVI Period Walnut Commode
Item #LFALO1212

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: Antique French Butcher Block

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:30:00 +0000

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Traditional Home
Judith Nadler Ellerman, Interior Designer
Werner Straube, Photographer

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Item #LFA241
Antique French Butcher Block

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000

Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!

Brown is the New Black
Image via Architectural Digest

1. The Antiques Diva's 2016 Interior Design Predictions (via TheHighboy)

2. Buy Birkin (via Harpers Bazaar)

3. Hotel hospitality at home (via WSJ)

4. The art of artists (via Huffington Post

French 75
Getty

5. Classic Cocktails (via marie claire)

6. Peony Perfection (via Town&Country)

7. Social media marketing for interior designers (via Forbes)

8. Create your dream home...digitally (via Vogue)

9. Top travel destinations for 2016 (via T+L)

#catstyle
Photo by miaouandco on Instagram.

10. Furry Friends for 2016 (via Design Sponge)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: BOUILLOTTE

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:30:00 +0000

BOUILLOTTE

bouil•lotte [boo-yot]

noun [boo-yot]

1. an 18th century gambling card game that was so popular in France that a special table was created for play. Based on Brelan, it is regarded as one of the games that influenced open-card stud variation in poker.

Origin:

< French bouillotte card game, equivalent to bouill (ir) to boil + -otte noun suffix

"La Bouillotte 1798" by Jean Francois Bosio

The gambling game Bouillotte was introduced during the French Revolution as a regulated form of a popular card game known as Brelan, which had been played since the 1600s. The standard game included four players using a piquet pack (20-card pack) by removing the sevens, tens and Jacks, with the cards in each suit ranking from high to low A-K-Q-9-8. The best hand was a brelan carré, being four of a kind made with the aid of a turned card, followed by a simple brelan or three of a kind. When no one had three of a kind, the winning hand was that with the highest card of the suit of which post points were in play. See rules here.

"Le Suprême Bon Ton No. 4"

Bouillotte, said to be one of the card games that led to the development of poker, became such a favorite past time that drawing rooms or card rooms had to accommodate the needs and comforts of the players. Playing became so en vogue during the reign of Louis XVI that special tables (and lamps) of the same name were created specifically for the game. Although neither the table nor the lamp were required to play the game, both were created to meet the needs of the popular card game.

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Item #LFALO948
French Louis XVI Style Marble Top Bouillotte Table

The small marble topped card tables, created in the Louis XVI neoclassical style, were often made of mahogany and raised on four tapering legs ending in sabots or fitted with casters. They were usually round, having a pierced brass or bronze gallery that made it possible to place a bouchon (felt-like cover) securely on top of the marble when the table was being used for the game.

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French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bouillotte Table

Below the marble top was a paneled frieze typically fitted with two drawers and two tirettes (pull-out utility slides). Chips were used as wagers during the game and the raised gallery helped keep the playing pieces on the table. The felt cover was removed to reveal the marble top when the game wasn't being played, and the table functioned as a side table or server.

Embossed leather tirettes

Today, bouillotte tables mix wonderfully with both traditional and modern decors and continue to function perfectly as side or end tables.

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: Painted Directoire Daybed

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:56:00 +0000

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"The Aerie" San Francisco Decorator Showcase, 2010
Benjamin Dhong, Interior
David Duncan Livingston, Photographer

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Item #LFALO1135
19th Century Painted Directoire Style Daybed with Neoclassical Urn Carving

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 21:00:00 +0000

Jamie Drake's New York apartment
Marco Ricca, Photographer

1. A perfect blend of styles (via InteriorDesign)

2. Pretty in Pink – Pantone's Color of the Year 2016 (via societyletters)

3. Can't miss music venues in the South (via Garden&Gun)

4. 15 Up + Coming young artists (via goop)

Happy Cassoulet Day!
Photo courtesy of Benoit Bistro

5. French Fave has its own day (via Town&Country)

6. Priciest Pets (via Veranda)

7. Get swept off your feet with these cleaning tools (via WSJ)

8. Best-Dressed Movies of 2015 (via Vogue)

9. Can chocolate cure coughs? (via HouseBeautiful)

10. Marie Antoinette's scandalous love letters (via Harpers Bazaar)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: Painted Buffet Deux Corps

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:30:00 +0000

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House Beautiful
Nancy Price, Interior Designer
Eric Piasecki, Photographer

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Item #LFALO1103
19th Century French Painted Louis XV Style Buffet Deux Corp

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

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WELCOME 2016

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 21:14:00 +0000

Wishing you PEACE+LOVE+LAUGHTER in the New Year!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:30:00 +0000

Auberge du Soleil deluxe suite
Photo, Trinette Reed Photography

1. Auberge du Soleil's "suite" makeover (via San Francisco Chronicle)

2. 8 must see castles (via Veranda)

3. Step up the stairs (via apartment therapy)

4. Artists on how to hang art (via WSJ)

Jane Sigal's Bistronomy cookbook
Fredrika Stjärne, Photographer

5. Reinvention of French cuisine (via ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST)

6. So, you want to study in France? (via thelocal.fr)

7. Quoting Coco (via marie claire)

8. Chinoiserie painted pumpkins (via Town&Country)

9. Room portraits from the 19th century (via HYPERALLERGIC)

10. Bibi la Chèvre (via Country Living)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: TAMBOUR

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 20:30:00 +0000

TAMBOUR

tam·bour [tam-boo r, tam-boo r]

noun [tam-boo r, tam-boo r]

1. Music. a drum.

2. Architecture. a wall that is circular in plan, such as one that supports a dome or one that is surrounded by a colonnade.

3. Furniture. a flexible shutter or roll front, made with narrow mouldings or strips of wood that are transversely glued onto a heavy canvas or linen backing, the ends of which fit into grooves on the inner sides of the piece of furniture. It may be used as a vertical rolling or horizontal sliding door on a cabinet or chest.

Origin:

1475-85; < Middle French: drum ≪ Arabic tanbūr lute < Medieval Greek pandoúra

The tambour was first used in France in the 1760s when King Louis XV commissioned Jean-François Oeben, Ébéniste du Roi (Cabinetmaker to the King), to create a new type of writing desk for the king's private study that could be shuttered and locked. The desk's appearance and functionality were important to Louis XV, but security was his main concern. Confidential, diplomatic papers would be kept inside the desk's secret drawers and compartments, so a great deal of time was spent making sure the rolling top and mechanical locking devices were theft proof. There was only one key and the King had it in his possession at all times.

Louis XV's Bureau du Roi, Château de Versailles

The desk, known as the Bureau du Roi (King's Desk), is one of the most famous pieces of furniture ever crafted and one of the most opulent creations of the 18th century. Oeben didn't live to see it completed, unfortunately. He died in 1763 and his protégé, Jean Henri Riesener, was left with the task of finishing the work Oeben had begun. The challenging design and royal history of the iconic desk assured its fame and many 19th century ébénistes attempted to create similar versions.

Lolo French Antiques et More
Item #LFA276
Pair of Louis XV Style Chevets with Tambour Doors

This pair of chevets with tambour doors is a perfect solution for accessible storage when space is an issue and hinged doors don't work.

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Item #LFALO1011
Louis XV Style Bureau à Cylindre

And this lovely desk is finished on all sides and can float in a room. Imagine all the letters written with pen and paper at this desk. How long ago did you write your last proper letter?

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Origin:

1610–20; New Latin, Latin < Greek ákanthos bear's-footACANTHUS a·can·thus [uh-kan-thuh s] noun [uh-kan-thuh s] 1. Plants. any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers. 2. Architecture. a design patterned after the leaves of one of these plants, used especially on the capitals of Corinthian columns. Origin: 1610–20; New Latin, Latin < Greek ákanthos bear's-foot

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ACANTHUS a·can·thus [uh-kan-thuh s] noun [uh-kan-thuh s] 1. Plants. any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers. 2. Architecture. a design patterned after the leaves of one of these plants, used especially on the capitals of Corinthian columns. Origin: 1610–20; New Latin, Latin < Greek ákanthos bear's-foot

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DOUBLE VISION: French Louis XVI Fauteuils

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:00:00 +0000

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Architectural Digest
Bruce Shostak, Interior Designer
William Waldron, Photographer

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Item #LFALO958
French Louis XVI Style Fauteuils

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 20:30:00 +0000

1920s Art Deco French Villa
Patrice-Besse, Photographer

1. 1920's French Style (via Curbed)

2. Designer Lunchbox Doodles ( via NY Times)

3. Harvesting fleur de sel in France (via Saveur)

4. A day in the life of QEII (via Veranda)

Transition your home from Summer to Fall
Photo © Lonny

5. From Summer to Fall (via Lonny)

6. Dear John (via Town&Country)

7. 8 RSVP Faux Pas (via PureWow)

8. The power of music (via brain pickings)

9. Chanel's new arm candy (via Vogue)

10. Bretagne, the last surviving 9/11 search and rescue dog, has a birthday (via Bark Post)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: French Longcase Clock

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:00:00 +0000

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Veranda
Charles Spada, Interior Designer
Alexandre Bailhache, Photographer

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Item #LFA191
French Longcase Clock

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:00:00 +0000

Expert advice to make you the perfect weekend guest
Gaelle le Boulicaut, Photographer

1. Best guest practices for this Labor Day weekend (via Elle Decor)

2. Designer du Jour (via WSJ)

3. Top 10 Fall Antique Shows (via The HighBoy)

4. Hermès Monthly Mystery Box (via Town&Country)

Slow-cooker Beef Sliders with Pickled Peppers
Hector Sanchez, Photographer

5. Fan Favorites (via Southern Living)

6. Map out a fall foliage trip (via HouseBeautiful)

7. Be a better passenger (via Veranda)

8. Canine Connection (via Huffington Post)

9. Objets de désir worth reading about (via 1stdibs)

10. Are you ready for some football? (via bamahammer.com)

Roll Tide and Happy Labor Day!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: French Leather Club Chairs

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 21:50:00 +0000

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Elle Decor
Patrick Printy, Interior Designer
Laura Resen, Photographer

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Item #LFALO649
Pair of French Leather Tufted Wing Chairs

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:00:00 +0000

The living room of Jacques Grange's Paris apartment – once home to the novelist Colette

1. Take a look at how 27 designers and architects live (via ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST)

2. French gardens that Contrary Mary would love (via Veranda)

3. Puppy Love (via BuzzFeed)

4. Sleep like a king (via Harpers Bazaar)

Game Day Bloody Mary
Peter Frank Edwards, Photographer

5. Tailgate Toddies (via Garden&Gun)

6. Pick a parquet (via Remodelista)

7. Curated subscription box for your home (via JWS Interiors)

8. Home buyer checklist (via apartment therapy)

9. Monogram Etiquette (via Vogue)

American soldiers watch as the the bleu-blanc-rouge flag flies from the Eiffel Tower again
August, 1944
Image: National Archives

10. Liberation of Paris (via brain pickings)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: ACANTHUS

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:30:00 +0000

ACANTHUS

a·can·thus [uh-kan-thuh s]

noun [uh-kan-thuh s]

1. Plants. any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers.

2. Architecture. a design patterned after the leaves of one of these plants, used especially on the capitals of Corinthian columns.

Origin:

1610–20; New Latin, Latin < Greek ákanthos bear's-foot

The origin of the Corinthian Order, illustrated in Claude Perrault's Vitruvius 1684

Of all the decorative designs inspired by nature, the acanthus leaf is the most iconic. With some resemblance to thistle, poppy and parsley leaves, it is one of the most widely used and popular motifs in architecture, furniture, interior design, and textiles. It can be found on everything from Corinthian capitals to manuscripts.

Acanthus Leaf
Illustrations by Nan Richards for Lolo French Antiques et More

The motif was particularly popular in the court appointments and furnishings of King Louis XVI, however stylized carvings are found in all King Louis styles. The conception and treatment of the margin and shape of the leaf, is the principal characteristic of the different period styles.

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Item #LA259P
Pair of Dagobert chairs with acanthus ornamentaion

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Item #LFASS101
Louis XV style chandelier with crystal fruit and acanthus motif

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Louis XIV style buffet d'appui with acanthus ornamentation

What style is your favorite?

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: Louis Philippe Mirror

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 21:46:00 +0000

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Amy Morris Interiors
Amy Morris, Interior Designer
Emily Followill, Photographer

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Item #LFA256
Grand French Louis Philippe Period Giltwood Mirror with Cartouche

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 21:27:00 +0000

Warehouse-turned-workspace on the set of Nancy Meyers' comedy The Intern
Francois Duhamel, Photographer

1. Designing Director (via Traditional Home)

2. Parisian fête to welcome bebe (via Style Me Pretty)

3. Debut novel filled with social satire (via The New York Times)

4. Whitewashed (via REFINERY29)

The fruits of summer
Johnny Autry, Photographer

5. Pomme d'amour, the apple of love (via Garden&Gun)

6. Pickin paints and furniture – there's an app for that (via Elle Decor)

7. Celebrating 7 decades of the Series 7 chairs (via design milk)

8. Art of the game (via Architectural Digest)

9. Is Instagram killing originality? (via domain)

10. Dapper Designer (via quientessence)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: Arthur Smith Boxing Painting

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:30:00 +0000

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Traditional Home
Michael Abrams, Interior Designer
Werner Straube, Photographer

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Item #LFA300
"The Count" Boxing Painting by WPA Artist Arthur Smith

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:29:00 +0000

Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!

Peter Copping's vacation home in Normandy, France
Richard Powers, Photographer

1. A delightful French chateau (via ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST)

2. By the seashore with Coco Chanel (via Veranda)

3. Warby Parkered (via Huffington Post)

4. Summertime Blues (via Vogue)

Iced Lavender and Vanilla Almond Milk Latté
Bess Friday, Photographer

5. A tasty and refreshing iced latté (via APARTMENT34)

6. Tea Time (via Houzz)

7. Dog Days of Summer (via moderndog)

8. Picasso painting returned to France (via theguardian)

9. Languostines are the new foie gras (via bon appétit)

The Rise and Fall of Versailles

10. Watch the rise and fall of one of the world's most opulent palaces (via hulu)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

DOUBLE VISION: Trestle Table

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 02:28:00 +0000

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Birmingham Home & Garden
Jan Ware, Interior Designer
Jean Allsopp, Photographer

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Item #LFA266
Antique Spanish Trestle Table with Iron Stretcher

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: PANIER

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 22:30:00 +0000

PANIER

pan·ier [pan-yer, -ee-er]

noun [pan-yer, -ee-er]

1. a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.

2. one of a pair of baskets to be slung across the back of a pack animal.

Also called pannier.

Origin:

1250–1300; Middle English panier < Middle French < Latin pānārium breadbasket, equivalent to pān (is) bread + -ārium -ary; see -ier

Marchand de Paniers, Carle Vernet, 1820

The French have fancied paniers (baskets) for centuries, even before the art of basket making was formally recognized as a trade in France during the 15th century. Baskets have been used to gather flowers, fruits and vegetables from the fields, to present or display breads in village boulangeries, to transport live chickens to be sold to or brought home from the village markets, to harvest grapes for champagne making, and to carry the daily marketing home.

Antique French Winnowing Basket

By the 13th century, the village of Vallabrègues, alongside the Rhône River near the town of Arles, was the largest basket producer in France. Most of the vanniers (basket makers) living there were wandering artisans that settled on the riverbank because the soil was perfect for growing willow used to make baskets. At one point, when baskets were the main source used for the gathering, storing, drying and transporting of fruits, vegetables, breads and produce, 450 out of a population of 1,818 were vanniers. Basket makers from all over France gather every August in Vallabrègues to celebrate La Fête de la Vannerie (Festival of the Basketry).

Guy Barbier, Vannier at Fête de la Vannerie à Vallabrègues
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Fête de la Vannerie à Vallabrègues
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With the emergence of wooden crates and the introduction of cardboard and plastic in the 1950s, however, the basketmaking industry virtually disappeared in France. Today, there are only about 200 vanniers left in France, making antique baskets even more collectible.

Antique French Gathering Baskets

French baskets come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Originally rustic and created out of necessity, paniers are now functional as well as decorative. They're perfect for storing toys, magazines, blankets, laundry and so much more. Gathering baskets can easily hold firewood or fresh laundry. A French oyster basket looks great filled with towels in a powder room or toys in a playroom. Open sided baguette baskets make wonderful umbrella stands, and French banettons look beautiful when displayed in the kitchen as a centerpiece for dried flowers, fruits or vegetables. Simply line one with an antique French towel and use it to serve a warm baguette.

Antique French Bannetons

Whether large or small, simple or fancy, French baskets always add a touch of warmth and Country French flair to any decor. How do you use or display your favorite panier? Let us know!

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

BASTILLE DAY: LE QUATORZE JUILLET

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 04:17:00 +0000

Bastille Day, or La Fête Nationale as they say in France, is celebrated to commemorate the importance of the storming of the Bastille, an ancient royal fortress in Paris.

On the morning of July 14, 1789, the people of Paris confiscated weapons from Les Invalides and then marched towards the medieval prison. After a bloody encounter, the crowd broke into the Bastille and released the seven prisoners held there. This event symbolizes the end of absolute monarchy and the beginning of the French Republic.

La prise de la Bastille by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel

The Fête de la Fédération (Feast of the Federation) was held the following year on July 14, 1790, to celebrate the first anniversary of the insurrection.

Today, the national holiday is celebrated in France by everyone. The festivities include food, music, dancing, fireworks and the grand military parade down the Champs Elysees with French jets flying overhead. The parade is the oldest and largest military parade in the world and is led by the President of France. It starts at the Arc de Triomphe and ends at the Place de la Concorde.

Families and friends then gather together for a lavish midday feast and conclude the celebrations with fireworks and dancing. Villages across France host their own parades and street parties with plenty of champagne and fireworks.

Fireworks in Paris
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Joyeux Quatorze Juillet!

Lolo & MImi

BOATLOAD OF BEAUTIFUL: NEWEST SHIPMENT FRESH OFF THE BOAT

noreply@blogger.com (Mimi Montgomery) — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:30:00 +0000

Summer has definitely arrived, and with it a boatload of beautiful French antiques! Our newest shipment is fresh off the boat from France and we've unboxed, sorted and tagged almost 200 pieces.

1. French Winnowing Basket 2. French Country Jam Holder 3. Louis Philippe Weathered Pine Buffet d'Appui

4. Napoleon III Table 5. Henri II Style Washed Oak Cushion Mirror 6. Palissy Style Majolica Trompe l'Oleil Crab Plate 7. Palissy Style Majolica Trompe l'Oeil Homard Lobster Plate 8. Palissy Style Majolica Trompe l'Oeil Langouste Plate

9. French Faience Oyster Plates and Master Server 10. Louis XIII Style Washed Oak Buffet

If you haven't had a chance to stop by yet, now's the perfect time. Our 10,000 square foot shop is filled to the brim with beautiful French antiques.

Late 18th Century Louis XIV Style Washed Oak Armoire

Antique Country French Pine Cheese Table

If you're busy having a little fun in the sun, please take a look on our website. We're adding new pieces weekly. And be sure to sign up for our newsletter so you're the first to know when new shipments arrive!

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi