Une enfance heureuse. Elisabeth de Hongrie nait en 1211 en Hongrie, au château de Wartburg. D’origine noble, elle y vécut de 1211 à 1228. A quatre ans, ses parents la fiance
au Landgrave Louis IV de Thuringe, qui à lui-même 11 ans à la même période, et ce pour des raisons d’alliances politiques. Ils se marient quelques années plus tard, en
1221. C’est la raison pour laquelle on nomme aussi la sainte Sainte Elisabeth de Thuringe. Elle passe son enfance dans une (...) Read the following
Afin de présenter les deux statuettes du XVIIème siècle mises en vente par Expertissim, il convient de faire un point sur l’art bouddhique en Chine. Le Bouddhisme, venu d’Inde, est
introduit sur le territoire chinois sous la dynastie des Qin. Par sa civilisation, son ancienneté, la Chine ne semble pas à cette époque destinée à recevoir la doctrine bouddhiste et
à l’accepter, étant très ancrée dans la tradition de la philosophie Confucéenne. Cependant, ce nouveau dogme reçoit un très grand succès (...) Read the following
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Expertissim presents a bronze bust of Juliette Récamier after Antoine Denis Chaudet. French sculptor and painter of Neoclassic style, Antoine Denis Chaudet (1743-1810) realized portraits of the most illustrious personalities
of the French Empire such as a bust of Lamoignon de Malesherbes in the Louvre collection. In 1810, his statue of crowned Emperor Napoleon I on a column along the
Grand Army was erected on Place Vendome (replaced in 1863 with a sculpture by Auguste Dumont). However who is this Juliette Récamier (...) Read the following
Expertissim is selling a biscuit-ware of General Desaix made by the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1884. Louis Charles Antoine Desaix was a French Army general who distinguished himself under the
orders of Bonaparte, notably during the Egyptian and Italian campaigns. It is curious that this warrior is still honored after more than eighty years after his death by the Sèvres
Manufacture. In 1884, France was entrenched in the Third Republic headed by Jules Grévy. While the regime's future was still uncertain, (...) Read the following
I was born in Brittany in 1253 into a family of minor Breton nobility who sent me to study literature, law and canon law at the University of Paris then
Orleans. This advanced education allowed me to choose a modern lifestyle that was very charitable and close to humanism. A remarkable lifestyle that contrasted with that of other priests in
my time. I ended my training with a trip around Europe, without forgetting my first love, Brittany, to which I returned (...) Read the following
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