We will expose for you here, depending on our imagination or (why not?) yours, some various or curious elements, without apparent organization, in order to intrigue, amuse and inform. As for the other headings, do not hesitate to suggest, react and... to come back!
Sorry this page is not translated to good english : if you want to help, please do !! And anyway have a look!
Fan sex (if you are looking fo bawdy materials, you are wrong !)
The same dictionary, in its Fifth edition, 1798, repeats: " There are hardly but the women who carry fans" The repeated drafting of these definitions (whereas the authors perhaps referred to the male use of the fan in the East) lets us think that the men, in occident, used the fan only by exception or eccentricity. However, on a beautiful fan of the end of XVIIème century, we find this gentleman, who seems to be extremely well accompanied by the ladies, while agitating his fan. What to conclude from it? nothing, for the moment, if not that to be fan collector, the sex cannot be a criterion, even if one finds in the family more ladies than Messrs (especially in the States) ! We will also show some day, if you are kind with your teacher, some green fan romantic men use for a while in Paris, or some victorian colonial items ... |
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J'ai pris vostre éventail, Madame, I took your fan, Madam, Mais n'en soyez pas en courroux, But do'nt be angry Songez à mon ardeur, considerez ma flâme, Think to my heat, consider my flame Vous verrez que j'en ay plus de besoin que vous. You will see that I have for it more need than you have.
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Poetical fan
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The "monographs"
In our "monographs", we study very different fans, and add several times a year a new and original study.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=bYAs6LlYVF4
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L'éventail "acoustique"
L'Éventail acoustique. |
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The acoustic Fan
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De remarquables exemples de ces éventails acoustiques sont donnés dans http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/19thcent/spv.htm |
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Several examples of these acoustic fans are given on http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/19thcent/spv.htm |
On this blog (http://eighteenthcenturylit.pbworks.com/w/page/76053578/Fans) you
will find a lot of interesting quotes from poems, newspapers etc. There
are some mistakes, though. For instance, the author thinks that a
Cleone Knox did exist and spoke about the so-called "Language of the
Fan". Alas this is a well known hoax! (see https://talkingbookshop.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/the-diary-of-a-young-lady-of-fashion-in-the-year-1764-1765-by-cleone-knox-magdalen-king-hall/)