{"id":20662,"date":"2021-04-27T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T08:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cos.projet-client.com\/un-homme-des-lumieres\/"},"modified":"2022-03-27T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T22:30:09","slug":"un-homme-des-lumieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estournel.com\/en\/home\/cos-chronicle\/un-homme-des-lumieres\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man of Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Arts and Travel” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator][vc_column_text]What kind of artistic education did Louis-Gaspard d\u2019Estournel receive? Where did the passion for travel, faraway places, the sophisticated, the exotic and the unbelievable that defines his universe come from? What was it that fueled the singular originality and audacious creativity that distinguish every aspect of the estate\u2019s buildings?
\nGiven the lack of a written account of his youth, his education and his discovery of the world, we are left to look to history for clues. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”9560″ img_size=”810×810″ add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”23225″ img_size=”810×540″ add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Louis-Gaspard was born during the glorious Age of Enlightenment, at a time where Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire and others were championing the sovereignty of reason, openness to the world and individual liberty, in opposition to obscurantism and ignorance.<\/p>\n

Throughout the eighteenth century, new ideas and books were circulating in Europe, and some of these volumes found their way into Louis-Gaspard d\u2019Estournel\u2019s library, alongside works on agriculture, geography and grammar, dictionaries and narratives of travels to foreign lands, including Commerce des europ\u00e9ens dans les deux Indes<\/em> by Guillaume-Thomas Raynac, Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont avec sa famille et ses amis pendant son voyage dans l\u2019Inde<\/em> and Voyage en Chine<\/em> by Lord Macartney.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”30″ accent_color=”#a30b34″][vc_custom_heading text=”Louis-Gaspard was born during the glorious Age of Enlightenment.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”custom” el_width=”30″ accent_color=”#a30b34″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]An inventory of his possessions includes musical scores and a pair of violins that were entrusted to the care of Vuillaume, one of Paris\u2019s great luthiers; indeed, Louis-Gaspard d\u2019Estournel, born only decades after the deaths of Vivaldi, Bach and Couperin, was a musician himself. He also owned all the materials necessary to the art of painting. Beyond that, an exploration of his lands and life\u2019s work reveals hints of his passion for nature as well as for techniques and architecture, Asian curiosities and beautiful things of all kinds. The estate\u2019s majestic pagodas, a tasteful blend of Mud\u00e9jar, Chinese, classical and Indian styles, serve as striking testimony of his love of the exotic and his open-minded spirit.<\/p>\n

More so than a formal written biography, the relics of the cultivated life of Louis-Gaspard d\u2019Estournel tell the story of an erudite, curious man of excellent taste and great learning, an enlightened individual who remained true to his nature throughout his life. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”23219″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born in the dazzling Age of Enlightenment, Louis-Gaspard d\u2019Estournel received an education that revolved around the arts, travel, curiosity and an openness to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1749,"featured_media":9560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal-de-bord","category-article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t