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Michel Pérusse
Location: Montreal Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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Thank you Zach for these photos!
| Jeremy V. Krause wrote: | | Thom Jason wrote: | The catalog is in French unfortunately, and no measurements.
It has pics of all the swords in the exhibit though. |
Do you happen to have the link where the catalogue can be purchased?
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Here: http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/en/shop/produ...boles.html
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Eric W. Norenberg
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Zach,
Thank you so very much for sharing these photos, including the glimpses of the museum's architecture! There is no way I could get over to Paris anytime soon, let alone in time for this exhibition, so I am very grateful for this thread! I hope you enjoyed the City of Light in general as well.
Regarding the "sacrificial" Yeoman:
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I'm afraid it's a lost cause if you consider the number of visitor here per day, including kids...This yeoman will have to be sacrified for the greater purpose of educating people! |
I think it is okay that that the multitudes are able to put their fingers on the blade, it is really the best way to appreciate the complex profiling of a well-engineered sword. I mean, the point is to help dispel the "crowbar with an edge" preconception, right? I suppose the museum could clean the thing more regularly, or supply cotton gloves, but I have another idea...
Let the poor thing get as crusty as it will. Then, assuming the sword is on loan from Albion, when the exhibition is over, Howy and co. can put the sword in the "moat sale" packaged with a copy of the exhibition catalog. A testament to what might be the first major exhibition to treat this group of artifacts with the proper due respect! Now there's a souvenir!
Cheers, All!
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Paul Hansen
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Thanks for the pics Thom, and good to "see" you again. :)
I agree with the idea that pictures like these draw people to the museum rather than keep them away because "they've already seen it."
Personally, now I know that the Childeric sword is on display there, I may have to visit it anyway, where at first I was planning to let it pass.
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Paul Watson
Location: Upper Hutt, New Zealand Joined: 08 Feb 2006
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That Yeoman would be fine at the end of the exhibition if only someone would spend 5 minutes a day maintaining it.
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, but that which it protects. (Faramir, The Two Towers)
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Thom Jason
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It's a must see exhibit.
And good to see you too Paul. :lol:
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Quinn W.
Location: Bellingham, WA Joined: 02 May 2009
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I'm interested in seeing the video they had playing. I hope it will be made available on YouTube once everything is over. Or perhaps you managed to capture it as a part of your 2GB video walk-through?
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth"
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Fabrice Cognot
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Fabrice Cognot
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Hm did I mention the very room in which the exhibit is set is the Frigidarium of the old Roman baths of Lutece, both the oldest stil standing building in all Paris and the place where Emperor Julian the Apostate was raised on the Shield by his Preatorians ? The rest of the Museum being a late XVth century private hotel built for the Abbeys of Cluny...
PhD in medieval archeology.
HEMAC member
De Taille et d'Estoc director
Maker of high quality historical-inspired pieces.
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Zach Luna
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Many thanks for the insider insights, Fab!
I'd say you guys did a spectacular job putting this together. :D
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Fabrice Cognot
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Shahril Dzulkifli
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| Posted: Sun 17 Jul, 2011 4:55 pm Post subject: Photos from "The Sword - Uses, Myths and Symbols" |
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That exhibition looks superb!
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength”
- Marcus Aurelius
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Julien M
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| Fabrice Cognot wrote: |
The exhibit has been open since April 28th, and since then thousands of visitors have flocked to it. As dubious as some might have been in higher places in France, it seems the Sword is attractive to quite a lot of people :). |
Hey Fabrice,
Congrats on this fantastic achievement! I hope you are having a hell of a good time.
I'm not surprised our good masters were sceptical about the point of such an event in France...after all anything remotely related to martial culture is all too quickly disregarded as of little interest these days in the land of the thousand cheeses...
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Well they didn't hire me as such (I'm not getting paid, such is France....) |
Thanks for reminding me why I left my homeland 7 years ago :) (More seriously, that's a disgrace...). Hope that you got the opportunity to document and handle the pieces at least?
| Fabrice Cognot wrote: | | see you there over the summer maybe ?. |
I'll try to make it to the capital before you guys pack away most of these splendid specimens. I'd really hate to miss this (but there is a high chance I will unfortunately).
By the way are you the one responsible for introducing the Oakeshott typololy into a museum environment? That's unheard of!
All the best,
Julien
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Fabrice Cognot
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Hi Julien
| Julien M wrote: | | Congrats on this fantastic achievement! I hope you are having a hell of a good time. |
Merci :)
I'm not doing too bad, thanks. The demos were in fact close to awesome in terms of exposure both to HEMA and to swords generally speaking. I don't have the exact numbers in mind, but every week end more than one thousand people attended the demos, with a ot of them showing real (and I hope, lasting) interest in what we did.
| Julien M wrote: | | I'm not surprised our good masters were sceptical about the point of such an event in France...after all anything remotely related to martial culture is all too quickly disregarded as of little interest these days in the land of the thousand cheeses... |
It seems the numbers of visitors for the equivalent week-ends has increased by 30% this year...can't say it's because of the exhibit/the demos, but I have my own view on the matter....
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Hope that you got the opportunity to document and handle the pieces at least? |
Not really, unfortunately. And as long as the exhibit is on, they're out of anyone's reach.
| Julien M wrote: | | I'll try to make it to the capital before you guys pack away most of these splendid specimens. I'd really hate to miss this (but there is a high chance I will unfortunately). |
Well, let me know, maybe I'll be around.
| Julien M wrote: | | By the way are you the one responsible for introducing the Oakeshott typololy into a museum environment? That's unheard of! |
I guess I must be blamed for that too...
Thanks again :)
Cheers
Fab
PhD in medieval archeology.
HEMAC member
De Taille et d'Estoc director
Maker of high quality historical-inspired pieces.
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Eric G.
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Thanks so much for sharing these pics, Zach!
Eric Gregersen
www.EricGregersen.com
Knowledge applied is power.
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