Press release

Incroyables and Merveilleuses,
virtual exhibition

At the cross road of art, collectibles and history, the Cane and the stick.

"Incroyables and Merveilleuses, Canes and sticks in the French revolution". Ten years that mattered for the democratic renewal of the Cane, from 1788 to 1799. A newly launched virtual exhibition.

The Segas Gallery specializes in antique and rare canes for collecting. Antique canes dealer in Paris since 1975, Gilbert Segas is a history lover. He initiated, in November 2000, a Cycle of Virtual Exhibitions dedicated to the Canes and Walking sticks, at the cross road of art, collectibles and history.

The Gallery's web site (http://www.canesegas.com) now offers us the third online exhibition, that was launched by November 25, 2005: "Incroyables and Merveilleuses, Canes and sticks in the French revolution". Ten years that mattered for the democratic renewal of the Cane, from 1788 to 1799.

This exhibition tells us the story of the Cane in the storm of the French revolution and takes us in the troubled revolutionary times with the Muscadins and the Jacobins. It tells us about the unique fashion and the eccentricity of the Incroyables and the Merveilleuses, the Parisian theaters and the bright parties under the period of the French Directory.

The renewal of the Cane is illustrated through 23 themes, over a period of ten years:

- The Cane in the French revolution.

- The "scabbard" Cane and the sword cane.

- A Rare sword-cane.

- The sabre Cane.

- Gorgeous sabre Cane, with a dagger.

- Rare sabre Canes made of a ray tail.

- And the spyglass Cane?

- The Cane of the Incroyable.

- Rare Canes of "Incroyable"

- High twisted Canes.

- Rare Canes of "Incroyable"

- Palm tree Cane.

- Rare Canes of "Incroyable"

- Ivory pommel stick.

- The Muscadin reaction: the Terror and its contrasts. - The Muscadins and the fashion.

- The dreadful bludgeon stick.

- Rare bludgeon sticks.

- Cranky Directoire. - The Incôyable and the fashion. - Parisian life under the Directoire, Of the use of the stick. - Jacobins, "Jacoquins", said the Muscadins.

- Sculpted revolutionary Canes, The head of saint-Just and a Popular art Cane.

- The Parisian life, Theaters under the Directoire.

- French Directory and Consulate, The women's and men's eccentricity.

- By way of retrospective, A revolutionary song.

Your contact at the Segas Gallery:

Mr Gilbert Segas

Phone: +33 (0)1 47 70 89 65

Galerie 34, - 34, Passage Jouffroy - 75009 PARIS

Close to the Musée Grévin

Your contact for the Website:

Mme Irene Silberstein

Phone: +44 (0)1588 640 815