Make your own breeze on a hot day. Fans for June from Fan d’Éventails. Many of these celebrating royal and imperial people but not all. All fun.

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Bal des mines hand-fan, the paper leaf printed with a design showing a group of miners throwing their picks and lamps to scare off Turkish and Russian soldiers. Wooden sticks and guards. 1913. Stamped Bail Cotillon Paris on the back. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3566-bal-des-mines-fan-1913.html
Brienne’s disgrace and Necker’s praise revolutionary fan. Bone sticks and guards with the paper leaf printed in intaglio and enhanced with gouache, announcing the dismissal of Brienne and the recall of Necker by King Louis XVI in 1788, to redress public finances. There is a song to the tune of Vaudeville des deux morts on the back. ca. 1788. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3554-brienne-s-disgrace-and-necker-s-praise-revolutionnary-fan-circa-1788.html

Bone fan, with fabric windows painted Hand-fan in bone with fabric windows painted with fanciful coats of arms. Late 19th c. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3570-fanciful-coat-of-arms-late-19th-century.html
Jacobitism hand-fan, the chromolithographed paper leaf printed with a romantic evocation of the Jacobite rising of 1745, led by Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”). Made ca. 1860 with the sticks and guards pierced, printed and varnished in the 18th century style. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3539-idees.html
Napoleon and Marie-Louise fan leaf. Engraved paper fan leaf with gouache, depicting the union of the imperial couple, Napoleon and Marie-Louise. ca. 1810. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3555-napoleon-and-marie-louise-fan-leaf-circa-1810.html

Hand-fan, the skin leaf painted with the marriage of Leopold of Hapsburg-Lorrraine (1747-1792), future Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the Infanta of Spain, Maria-Luisa de Bourbon (1745-1792), daughter of Charles III of Spain and Marie-Amélie de Saxe, celebrated in Innsbruck on August 5, 1765. ca. 1765. Pierced, painted and varnished sticks and guards. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Éventails Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/3556-the-wedding-of-leopold-ii-of-austria-and-marie-louise-of-spain-fan-circa-1765.html

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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