Géricault School Life
GLM 2019-2022
Rue de Monsieur, Atlas général de Paris 1807-1821 – Archives Nationales (France) CP/F/31/2, Planche 14 [Fol. 22 & 23]
All articles by Paul Harper on Theodore Géricault’s School Life by publication date. Each entry contains a permanent link to the article which will open in a new window. Some articles are also available at Substack.
September 2024 – Pension Dubois & Loyseau – This article situates Géricault’s first shool on the Rue de Monsieur with plans and illustrations.
September 2024 – Hôtel des Écuries de Monsieur – Géricault’s first school, the Pension Dubois & Loyseau may have expanded south on the Rue de Monsieur. We examine the plans of this structure.
December 2024 – 1796 Johann Roch – the first known public discussion of the Pension Dubois & Loyseau (Loiseau) in the contemporary press, published in Liepzig in 1796 by Johann Roch. Also mentions of key Dubois, Loiseau, and Madame Loyseau in the Paris press.
January 2025 – Plans Rue de Monsieur – a selection of plans of the Rue de Monsieur in Paris, also known as the Rue Bigot, Bigault and the Rue Fréjus.
January 2025 – Hôtel du Roule History of the Hôtel de Roule from 1750 – scandal, prostitituion, prestige – M. Loyseau was one of the directors before leaving to fund the Pension Dubois and Loyseau in 1795, or 1796.
March 2025 – Hôtel de Roule Pt. 2 More detail about the maison d’éducation at the Hôtel de Roule – which, by 1790, had become one of the most important private schools in France, closely connected with Théodore Géricault’s first school.