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Discover La Gazette Bleue
Gain access to La Gazette Bleue, a blog styled as a contemporary salon in motion. Here, reflections on ongoing research mingle with creative meditations on seventeenth‑century French design, storytelling, and the art of eloquence. Each post opens a small blue door into the imaginative rooms of the Grand Siècle—spaces adorned with embroidered ceilings, emblematic objects, and forgotten voices. Step inside and rediscover fragments of a world remembered today only through its fairy tales.
Meet Your Hostess
Dr. Jennifer Davis Taylor is a scholar and creative practitioner whose work explores the entanglement of visual culture, literary form, and gendered meaning in early modern France. Merging archival research with poetic insight, her interdisciplinary practice moves between scholarly writing, long-form poetry, and embodied critical methods. Her upcoming book, Designing Women: The Iconography of Charles Perrault, reframes Perrault not merely as a fairy tale author but as a theorist of design whose collaborative studio practice staged radical allegories of female agency. Whether animating seventeenth-century ceilings, reimagining cinematic ghosts, or tracing sacred archetypes through myth and material culture, Taylor’s work reveals how ornament, rhetoric, and narrative become sites of power, memory, and transformation.
Our Inspiration
La Chambre Bleue is inspired by the intellectual salons and aesthetic experiments of seventeenth-century France—spaces where literature, art, and philosophy met in conversation. Grounded in Jennifer Davis Taylor’s research on material culture and the visual poetics of storytelling, the salon reimagines this tradition for a contemporary audience. Here, scholarly inquiry and sensory beauty converge to spark ideas, cultivate delight, and honor the enduring power of eloquence across media.
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