In 2021 we helped restore the legendary “La Maison des Musiciens” on the Rue des Tambours. Here you now see the five XIIIth century musiciens playing the flute, tambourine, the kid, the harp and the fiddle.
The Versailles & Giverny Foundation Today
France
Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
The rich bourgeois, his falcon perched on his wrist in the midst of his musiciens.
The Kid Player (French goatskin Bagpipe)
Arch cornerstone detail…
In 2026: at the Paris Opéra-Comique restoration of the gilded steel balustrades in the Front-Foyer. They were designed by the French XIXth Century Silversmith Christofle.
“Les Arts Florissants” founded by Maitre William Christie, an American from Buffalo, NY who revived XVIITH & XVIIIth Century French Court Music.
Every year we help underwrite the renovation of Thiré’s village structures to house the young talented musicians for rehearsals & lodging during the "Dans les Jardins de William Christie" Music Festival.
