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danyaleeva
POSTED: Sun, 07/19/2009 - 1:27am
Pure Life
I know we live in the modern age and most cities favor big cities like New York, Paris, Tokyo, or London, where life is all high end shops and short luxury hotel & spa stays...but what about something more? There's this movie starring Maggie Smith (one of my ladies) called My House In Umbria, the characters go 'on holiday' where they stay at a "hotel" or rather a large country house (i.e. mansion) for two months (not a weekend or two weeks) and live in Umbria during their holiday (not tour it). My goal as a hotel (commercial interior) designer is to recapture this vintage style and bring it to the modern age. To do this I have to create a lifestyle for the hotels and their visitors. Sit with me and let's talk this idea into fruition. What do we need? And what should we have?MIREILLE'S CALENDAR
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Cheryl M
POSTED: Sat, 03/27/2010 - 10:05pm
Frenchy...
See the post below about your mother's maiden name...:)frenchy
POSTED: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 9:33am
OMG!!!!!
Oh I hope we are related!!! Here is the history en brief: Family orinially from Champagne France. The name was Terrault de Champagne. From France many went to Montreal and then came into the United States and at Ellis Island the recorders had such a hard time with the full name it was officially changed to Champagne. The box I have has the entire 500-600 years of family history. It is quite rare that someone with the Champagne name is not a relative as it is not a common spelling. Ask your father if he is familiar with Brother Andre as well. I am sooooo curious! Tell me everything and I'll find out if we are related! Wouldn't it be great!? I have photos of Victor Terrault and if we are related I'll send them to you. DeborahCheryl M
POSTED: Tue, 03/30/2010 - 1:01pm
More on Pierre Champagne
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/h/Patricia-Mahlerducote/G... very interesting stuff here :)frenchy
POSTED: Wed, 03/31/2010 - 8:31am
Thank you so much
for both links. I plan on digging through the paperwork later today. I have a retirement luncheon to attend and then a bit of shopping for the NY trip. I'll check back later this evening. I need to cross reference my papers with the website. Hugs! DeborahCheryl M
POSTED: Tue, 03/30/2010 - 12:35pm
This might help you :)
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cynthiadaigle&... According to this website...I have traced us back to France all the way to a Pierre Champagne.Cheryl M
POSTED: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 3:31pm
Interesting :)
I will try to find out as much as I can...will talk to my father and one of his sisters who is familiar with family history. Will get back to you. :)frenchy
POSTED: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 8:50pm
I have so many
questions I don't know where to begin! I can hardly wait! This is like a Christmas gift. Wouldn't it be grand to be related!? I look forward to hearing from you again. :)Cheryl M
POSTED: Sun, 03/28/2010 - 10:55pm
Yes, being related would be grand!
I spoke with my dad this afternoon...the last ancestor he knows of was named Jean Baptiste Champagne married to a woman named Felicite Anaise Beauvais. Their oldest child, Felicien Ouibet (Willy) was born in south Louisiana on 5/27/1869. They had 10 children after Willy. My father tells me I need to speak to one of his sisters who has more family history. I'll phone her this week and see what more I can find. I will keep in touch with you.Cheryl M
POSTED: Tue, 03/30/2010 - 12:54pm
Mistake in this earlier post to you
Jean Baptiste Champagne and Felicite Anaise Beauvais are the parents of Oscar Lezin Champagne and the grandparents of Felicien Ouibet (Willy). I searched the rootweb link posted to you earlier under the Jean Baptiste Champagne name and went all the way back to a Pierre Champagne that I'm pretty sure is the France connection.frenchy
POSTED: Mon, 03/29/2010 - 7:14am
Good Morning Cheryl
I am going to pull out the history and find the names and dates. I will get back with you later today with what I find.Vintage1944
POSTED: Mon, 03/29/2010 - 12:25pm
Cheryl and Deborah
This is fascinating.Please keep us posted.Jeanfrenchy
POSTED: Mon, 03/29/2010 - 12:56pm
Isn't it!?
I am having the time of my life with this! Ok, if we find out we are not related it is still way cool that we share the name. I created a great new sandwich for lunch today and am going to post it in the recipe section...yummy!Vintage1944
POSTED: Mon, 03/29/2010 - 1:09pm
New sandwich ?
Oooh goody.And you are right even if you aren't related this is such fun.Opens whole new worlds.St.TropezChic
POSTED: Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:22am
Picnic Lunches
I love it when places offer a picnic lunch (or early supper) you can order to go. Our place would furnish the picnic hamper packed with glassware, cutlery, china, and cloth napkins; chilled champagne & Pellegrino, and your selection from the seasonal picnic menu. There are also those backpack picnic sets, in case you're inclined to hiking up into the hills for your repast. I could disappear in the morning, and you'd not see me till nightfall... Or till Deborah rang the dinner bell. ;^) Lorrainefrenchy
POSTED: Tue, 08/11/2009 - 5:00pm
You're' on Doll!
I'll take care of the picnic menu as well! You all are not going to believe what I found! A really great article on salons in France. Google in French Salon and there waiting is a pdf article at site www.oup.com. It is 5 pages and some of the best reading about how french women were treated. Such a huge difference from American women at that time. Fabulous material. Even with as far as women have come we still (depending on where you live) have such a ways to go to catch up to the French.frenchy
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 8:27am
Additional room
I say, there must be an additional room added! I am reading the greatest book now...True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris and I just began the chapter on Salons. Oh my goodness what a most wonderful way to spend an evening. I love the idea so much I have thought about starting one.Vintage1944
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:56am
Salon
Would that not be the height of chic sophistication ?Now of course you have added another book to the list.It is beginning to have a life of it's own.So delighted you are back.Jeanmarie19
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 12:05pm
books
Have any of you heard of Penny Vincenzi? She's a British author, and I'm reading a trilogy she wrote, about life in the early 20th century. It's mostly about one woman and how she gets more and more scandalous during the roaring 20s. That's in the first book, then it continues to the lives of her daughters in the second one. Really fabulous. MarieMarilyn
POSTED: Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:45am
Penny Vincenzi
Have read a few of hers but cannot remember the titles as have passed them on to my daughter. If you like family sagas try Paul Henke. The first is called 'A Million Tears'. There are four to date, I'm waiting for the fifth.Our library will need to be huge, light & airy. Marilyn
Vintage1944
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 12:26pm
THE LIST
It will be in the Guiness Book soon.Thanks. Jeanfrenchy
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 6:14pm
An idea
Here is an idea Jean, we take all of our books and put them into the huge...I say HUGE library and turn it into the salon. When I bought True Pleasures I also bought Paris in Mind...will let you know about that one.Vintage1944
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 7:21pm
Perfecto!
Wouldn't it be the most welcoming room?A room filled with books is a fine place to spend time.Imagine the conversations that could arise at such a salon.Heady stuff.Another book !!can't wait for your review. Jeanfrenchy
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 7:28pm
Another thread?
Perhaps another thread? A Book Review Thread? Hi Jean. How are you this fine evening? I need to research the great french salons of the past...I'll let you know what I find.Vintage1944
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 8:41pm
Pouquoi pas?
That would be fun.I am fine,this evening.Spent a quiet day.Did laundry.A household task I like.Alert the media.Jean enjoys a hosehold task.Pictures at 11.;))
Mmm,great French Salons.I want to know more.Jean
Vintage1944
POSTED: Mon, 08/10/2009 - 8:41pm
Pouquoi pas?
That would be fun.I am fine,this evening.Spent a quiet day.Did laundry.A household task I like.Alert the media.Jean enjoys a hosehold task.Pictures at 11.;))
Mmm,great French Salons.I want to know more.Jean
marie19
POSTED: Sat, 08/08/2009 - 11:11am
fabulous job!
Being an interior designer sounds amazing. Really fun. I'm currently obsessed with the 20s and 30s and the whole between the wars period in general. I think that this time period has so much class, romance and sophistication compared to the 21st century. I don't really know much about the interiors during this period, but if the clothes are anything to go by, I would say that the style is classic and simple, like the famous black-and-white clothes only reflected in the furniture, wallpaper, etc. yet very structured and with some touches of flair and suggestions of luxury and glamorous parties, like splashes of red or perhaps chandeliers. (Vintage crystal chandeliers really help, I have one in my living room and it totally changes the ambiance, it's great.) I would love to stay at one of the hotels you design for! Let us know where they are! MarieSt.TropezChic
POSTED: Fri, 08/07/2009 - 9:34pm
Bonsoir, danyaleeva
How have you been? I really miss your postings and the artful inspiration you bring to this forum! LorraineVintage1944
POSTED: Fri, 08/07/2009 - 9:35pm
Moi aussi
Where are you? we miss you. JeanMarilyn
POSTED: Sat, 08/08/2009 - 7:44am
Ou est vous, danyaleeva
Have you gone looking for the hotel site?! Miss hearing from you. Marilynvalerie51
POSTED: Sat, 08/01/2009 - 4:37pm
I love the title of this post
I've enjoyed reading through this thread so much. All my life, in the midst of 6 children, an unhappy marriage, a divorce, and moving away, I've yearned for a pure, simple life. And I think the way of eating Mireille offers fits perfectly. I've been happier since I found this way of eating than I have in years...it is truly pure and simple. After years of being stressed and frustrated over the current diet I was attempting, it is truly wonderful to follow my heart...to know that eating small amounts of whole, real, yummy food is the way to good health and weight loss. I long for a place such as you've all been describing to escape to...and yet with a good meal and a small nook in which to eat and gaze outside...I can escape to that very place in my mind. Thank you for the good descriptions.