16 février 2009
* Aurélie and sewing, a family history ...
Some time ago we had occasion to mention the great-grandfather of Aurélie, Martin-Gustave Morel, a former renowned tailor from Grenoble. Here is a famous family anecdote ...
(< This is sewing workshop of Gustave Martin-Morel from Grenoble, noted the jewelry Gabriel Gay employing one of his daughters - Me Chaillol)
The slate of Uncle Mickey
Gustave Martin Morel, the great-grandfather of Aurélie Dubois, Me Gervasoni now, was a tailor of Grenoble and enjoy a very good reputation. And when one of Walt Disney girls's married they has appealed for the costume made of the future husband ...
The couple made the journey across the Atlantic for the last fitting and promises to pay upon their return to the USA, but despite several revival remain dead letter the payment will never happen!
It is likely Sharon Mae Disney, the adopted daughter of Disney after his death in 1966 leaves him no inheritance contrary to his sister "organic" Diane Marie Disney. So when Sharon decided to remarry after the death of her first husband in 1967, the couple can not ride on gold and certainly, on balance probably decided not to pay the expensive suit that distant creditor to France. Since Gustave died in turn ...
One can imagine a happy ending or the mouse the most famous of the world finally had to pay this French family the old command!
D.R. "The state of Uncle Mickey" (R), 20 Novembre 2008
14 février 2009
* Who is talking about Valentine's day, we talk about wedding dress ?
The opportunity is now back on a wedding dress worn by Aurélie in 2000 for the character of Lucy Wenstenra in the play "Dracula."
Although the majority of dialogue came from the Coppola film, the atmosphere of the original book by Bram Stoker is very active especially during dark scenes. Coppola worked with Eiko Ishioka and devoted a large budget for costumes and created a dress code: for example, Mina dresses a "vegetal" which symbolizes purity of heart while Lucy keeps a dresses "animal" representation of the underlying sensuality ...
Here, the costume designer took against foot-inverssant styles of these two characters. Mina is a young woman destined to his passion with the Prince when Lucy was a collateral victim in the wrong place at the wrong time, inheriting style "vegetal"...
This wedding dress, a vintage model from 1969 of French trademark Pronuptia was chosen for its simplicity and its grounds marguerite. The collar and cuff tulle had was replaced by the bridal veil original, bouffant at the rear.
Pronuptia celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008.
(^Sadie Frost,1992)
02 février 2009
* Story historic on Castle Bouquéron
Here is a story for the history of French pro...
In 1465 King Charles VII de France who found his son and too unbearable turbulent sent troops in the Dauphiné to make it stop. Knowing they are pursued knowing, louis XI flees and meets the Lord Bouquéron of this time; it offered hospitality, negotiating with Claude Coct for the castle, also accepted despite the consequences that could arise... The soldiers reached the castle, Coct sent Louis XI to hide in a small vaulted room under a staircase. The arches wanting to search the closed room Coct said "Do not enter! This is the room of the devil!" Dissuaded them ! After his coronation the young king did not forget her savior and was appointed Paymaster General of the Dauphiné (Trésorier Payeur Général du Dauphiné, in french) and the right to operate for 15 years forges Allevard.
After this episod, Claude Coct, modifies and expands the castle, and even claimed that he found the famous treasure of the Templars (trésor des Templiers, in French). The mystery remains unsolved, and this is the reality that joins the legend of the Ghost of the Castle of Bouquéron ...
But that's another story !
