Before we begin the Toulouse-Lautrec journey, we of course need a 5 hour fever dream of French history. It only took me one episode in this series for me to lose my mind, so that's pretty exciting :)
Act I: Entirely Too Many Louis
Act II: Little Internal Structures
Act III: It's a Family Affair
Primary Sources
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life, by Julia Frey
Toulouse-Lautrec, by Gerstile Mack
Toulouse-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot
The Unpublished Correspondence of Toulouse-Lautrec
A History of France, by John Julius Norwich
A History of France, by Joseph Bergman
The Industrial Revolution in France (1815-1848), by Arthur Louis Dunham
Dawn of the Belle Epoque, by Mary McCauliffe
Fashioning the Bourgeoise, by Phillip Perrot
The Art of Cuisine, by Maurice Joyant and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Jinmaku! Jinmaku! Jinmaku! Go get’em buddy! My dude OWNS the makuuchi division. Also, if there’s one thing people should take away from this episode, is that William-Adolphe Bouguereau is a connoisseu...
Henri, Adele, Alphonse, Dead Gary, Odon, Napoleon III, the Grandmothers, Alix, Amédée, MIT Math Nerd Steve (from Pollock), Charles, Piss Pons, the Black Prince… We. Are. Back! Along with several addi...
Our adventure begins with the Grandmothers, a footnoted sister, more mounted heads than fireplaces (which is saying something), and some thick-ass man-thighs.
As we make our way through French history...