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Jul 2022
5h 32m

Toulouse-Lautrec Ep 1: But, First... A T...

MICHAEL ANTHONY
About this episode

Before we begin the Toulouse-Lautrec journey, we of course need a 5 hour fever dream of French history. It only took me one episode in this series for me to lose my mind, so that's pretty exciting :) 

Act I: Entirely Too Many Louis 

Act II: Little Internal Structures

Act III: It's a Family Affair

Primary Sources

Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life, by Julia Frey

Toulouse-Lautrec, by Gerstile Mack

Toulouse-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot

The Unpublished Correspondence of Toulouse-Lautrec

A History of France, by John Julius Norwich

A History of France, by Joseph Bergman

The Industrial Revolution in France (1815-1848), by Arthur Louis Dunham

Dawn of the Belle Epoque, by Mary McCauliffe

Fashioning the Bourgeoise, by Phillip Perrot

The Art of Cuisine, by Maurice Joyant and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 

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