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Marie-Josèphe Bossan. The Art of the Shoe
Introduction. The Shoe: Object of Civilization and Object of Art
From Antiquity up to our days
Prehistory
Antiquity. The Shoe in Ancient Eastern Civilizations
Ancient Egypt
The Bible: The Shoe in the Old Testament
The Shoe in the New Testament: The Sandals of Jesus
Antiquity – The Copts
Greece
The Etruscans
Rome
The Gallo-Romans
The Byzantine empire
The Middle Ages
The Legend of Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian
The Renaissance
17th century
18th century
19th century
Shoes and Poverty
From shoemaker to head of a company
The Shoe in the 20th century
Shoemakers of Yesterday and Today
Hellstern
Pierre Yantorny. The Most Expensive Shoes in the World
André Perugia, Last of the Great Renaissance Artists, First of the Moderns
Ferragamo
Alfred Argence
Julienne, Female Shoemaker
La Maison Massaro. A Shoemaking Dynasty
Sarkis Der Balian. The Immortal Shoemaker
Berluti. Three Generations of Artists
Roger Vivier. Couturier of the Shoe
François Villon (1911–1997)
Andrea Pfister. Happy Feet
The rise of the Shoe Industry Romans is he city of fine shoes. The two great names of the 20th century: Joseph Fenestrier Robert Clergerie
Charles Jourdan. From a workshop on Côte Macel (Butchers’ Hill) in Romans to the Empire State Building in New York
Stéphane Kélian. Specialist in Elegant Hand Braiding
Jean Tchilinguirian. Tradition and Know-How
John Lobb
Weston
Babybotte Baby Booties
Pompeï, Shoemaker for the Stage and Screen. The Pompeï workshop was a family affair
Le Salon Midec. International Footwear Fashions
L’Escarpin de Cristal (The Crystal Pump)
The C. I. D. I. C. Grant
Shoes from Around the World
The Ottoman Empire
Persia
India
China
North America
Shoes Worn by Celebrities
Shoe of Henry II de Montmorency
Madame de Pompadour’s Shoes. Or the triumph of the heel under Louis XV
The Shoe of Marie-Antoinette
Shoes of Saint-Jean-Marie Vianney, Parish Priest of Ars
Gœthe’s Slippers
Sissi’s Shoes
Shoes of the Countess of Castiglione (Florence 1837-Paris 1899)
Shoes Worn by Louis Pasteur
Ankle Boots of La Belle Otéro, a Belle Epoque Beauty
Boots Worn by Opera Singer Ninon Vallin. Once upon a time, there was a voice: “Mârouf, the Shoemaker of Cairo”
Shoes Worn by Maurice Chevalier “The Symphony of the Wooden Soles”
Shoes Worn by Charles Trenet “Y a d’la joi!” (“Life is good!”)
Studio Shoes Worn by César (1921–1998) Donated to the International Shoe Museum, Romans, by the artist
Shoes Worn by Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Painter and photographer (1894–1986)
Mouna Ayoub: The journey of a Haute Couture collector
Shoes Worn by Paul Bocuse and Pierre Troisgros
The Stories Shoes Tell
Theresa’s Doll Shoes
The Well-Digger’s Boots
Zoya’s Shoes
Mathilde’s Ankle Boots
Toine’s clogs
The Shoe in Literature
The Papyrus of Herodas Mimes
Mainard – La Bruyère – La Fontaine
Restif de La Bretonne
Chateaubriand, Atala “The Mocassins of Chactas”
Gustave Flaubert, Salammbo
Emile Zola, Au bonheur des dames (Ladies’ Delight)
Gérard de Nerval, Sylvie. Alain Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes (The Wanderer) “Shoes of Yesterday”
Pierre Loti, Madame Chrysanthème “In Japan: Introductions…”
André Chamson, Les hommes de la route (The Road Workers) “Shoes and Work”
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Pearl S. Buck, East Wind, West Wind, “Peony”
Charles Perrault
Cinderella
Puss in Boots “From the Mill to the Castle”
Petit Poucet (Little Thumb)
The Countess of Ségur, Good Little Girls “The Shoe of Madame Fichini”
Carlo Collodi: The Adventures of Pinocchio “Feet and Shoes”
Marcel Aymé, Les contes du Chat Perché (Tales of the Perched Cat) High Heels Oh!
The Shoe and Art
Henri Terres
Appendix
The story of Rhodopis
Empress Foot
The Outlawed Poulaine
Bertrade with the Big Feet
The Legend of Bethmale’s Boots (from the Saint Girons area, county Foix in Ariège)
Shoemaker Brothers after Saint Crispin. In the footsteps of Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian
The Origin of the Godillot Shoe
Shoemakers and Shoe Repairmen. A Brief History
The Swann Club. Olga Berluti’s Lessons in Polishing
René Caty
The Continuity of Myths. Cinderella in China
Glossary
Bibliography
Note of Thanks
