Don’t get another air conditioner. Make your own (and prettier) breeze with these, antique hand fans from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

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Cabaret du Rat Mort at Pigalle Hand-fan. Wooden sticks and guards with printed paper leaves printed with reproductions of 18th century paintings. ca. 1900-1920. Published by Chambrelent. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3986-cabaret-du-rat-mort-eventail-vers-1900-1920.html
Ecole militaire de Saint-Cyr, Premier Bataillon de France hand-fan.
Wooden fan, the paper leaf printed in blue with the students and teachers of the Saint-Cyr military school, with the sun rising over the institution in the background and inscribed “Premier bataillon de France”. ca. 1899. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/3979-ecole-militaire-de-saint-cyr-premier-bataillon-de-france-fan-circa-1899.html
Large hand-fan, the silk leaf embroidered with sequins and painted with colorful dahlias and two portraits, possibly Vigée-Lebrun’s renditions of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Yellow-green tinted mother of pearl sticks and guards. Late 19th c. French. Duvelleroy, maker. Maker’s marks: sepia stamp of the fan-maker Duvelleroy on the reverse. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3984-duvelleroy-celebrates-queen-marie-antoinette-fan-circa-1900.html
Two advertising fans for Paul Poiret’s Rosine perfumes. “Les Parfums de Rosine, Paris.” Wooden sticks and guards Wooden sticks and guards. The leaves are made of illustrated printed paper, decorated with flowers after designs by Ateliers Martine, and on the reverse are the names of the perfumes created by Paul Poiret with a label indicating the fragrance used to perfume the fan. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3972-parfums-de-rosine-paris-perfumed-fans-by-paul-poiret-art-deco-period.html
Hand-fan with wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf engraved with a song and three monuments to the glory of Napoleon: the Obélisque de la Concorde (brought back from Luxor in 1836 and recalling the Emperor’s campaigns in Egypt), the Arc de Triomphe (designed and built from 1806-1836), the Colonne Vendome (erected from 1806-1810). ca 1830-1840. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4002-paris-in-the-glory-of-napoleon-fan-circa-1830-40.html
Souvenir of the Exposition Universelle of 1855. Hand-fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guards applied with gold leaves and a chromolithographed paper leaf. Signed , dated and inscribed J. Hervy 1854 and Alexandre Boul. Montmartre n°6 Exposition 1855. Hervy and Alexandre, makers. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3968-souvenir-de-l-exposition-universelle-de-1855-eventail-d-apres-hervy-pour-alexandre.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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