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Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

The one below is from the Met and is from the early 19th century. As you can see in the drawing, the design didn’t change much from Rembrandt’s time. According to the Met, they were called bumpers or pudding caps.

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David Suchet on filming the final shot of Agatha Christie's Poirot

The last episode for Agatha Christie's Poirot tv series was shot on location at Greenway, Agatha Christie's house in Devon, on June 28 2013.

David Suchet improvised his last take to give thanks to the amazing crew, by tipping his hat like Poirot would have done. With crew members cheering and crying, David, too, was moved to tears. "This is the end of something that I have lived with half of my life, the culmination of a dream that has lasted years, the pinnacle of what I had worked towards for so long," he writes in his book Poirot and Me.

The Pléiade edition for Les Misérables is a 2018 novelty, and since I happen to own it, I decided to share a few pics in case the fandom was wondering was it looked like ^^ ( @flo-nelja @pilferingapples I thought you’d be interested!!) For those who don’t know, the Pléiade is a really elegant edition of books considered masterpieces. Only the most praised authors get their works published in the Pléiade! Of course, Victor Hugo is one of them, and Les Misérables finally made it to a stand alone book. The book may look fairly thin when one knows just how long the Brick is, but that’s part of the particularity of a Pléiade: silky soft paper, so thin you feel like a breeze could rip it. It’s the kind of collector edition you don’t just leave in your bag for months! And though it doesn’t look like it, the book is ~1750 pages long! So, what makes a Pléiade so special, you ask? Let me walk you through it! Unfortunately my mediocre skills in photography don’t do justice to the book, so forgive me for this ^^ 

pics 1 to 3: As you can see, it’s a hardcover book, with two green fabric bookmarks bound to the book. Nothing really special to it other than the fact that the text is written quite small, in a font unique to the Pléiade, where a small loop bind the ‘c’ or ‘s’ to the letter ‘t’ when they follow each other.

pic 4 and 5: a handful of black and white illustration pages showcase some of Hugo’s drawings for the story. Here, a drawing entitled ‘Miseria’ made for the “frontispiece of the novel”, Gavroche, and Thenardier, as imagined by Hugo!

pic 6: two manuscript pages written by Hugo; notes taken during his research to write “Waterloo”.

pic 7: there are some pages dedicated to drawings, engravings and photographs of the characters! Here, Cosette.

pic 8 and 9: press drawings!! Complete with a small text to make the reader laugh/react! My two favorite drawings read:

[under the flower] Portrait of Fantine

[under the man blatantly wiping tears with a handkerchief] End of Volume I. Here the reader wipes a tear.

pic 10: an extensive note section!! (there is almost 150 pages worth of notes, written in tiny tiny text!) I personally find the notes very helpful, the section was done with great care.

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