Revolution à la Mode: Fashion and Music in Revolutionary France - Guided tour of Minneapolis Institute of Art

Join Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) for a tour of the exhibition Revolution à la Mode: Fashion and Music in Revolutionary France with guide Florence Walklet!

Mia’s remarkable collection of 18th-century French periodicals—on view for the first time—document the tumultuous years leading up to and spanning the French Revolution. Regarded as the first modern fashion magazines, they were issued at an unprecedented pace—eventually every 10 days—to keep up with fashions that seemed to change daily. “Revolution à la Mode” showcases their charming hand-colored fashion plates, and demonstrates how fashion, theater, and politics influenced one another as France constructed a new democracy.

From 1790 to 1792, these magazines included musical scores from contemporary theater productions for amateur performances at home. Mia partnered with violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved (London’s Royal Academy of Music) and musicologist Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden (University of North Texas) to make new recordings of these songs long lost to history, allowing visitors to experience the soundscape of Revolutionary Paris.

More information about the exhibition can be found here.

Cost
$10 - Members
$20 - Non-members
Limited to 15 participants.

Tour will be conducting in French or English dependent on the comfortability of the participants.

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OUR GUIDE: FLORENCE WALKLET

Florence Walklet is from Montpellier, France, did her studies there, and finished with two years of study in Paris. She has been in the United States since 1978, and married to an American since 1979. They have lived in Manhattan, Boston, Charlotte (NC), and have been in Minneapolis since 1990. Florence has been a guide at the MIA for 16 years.