Member of the Bibliophiles project Paris Department – Administrator working group LRA Former bank employee, Patrick Boerez has been a collector of books and engravings from the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries for 15 years. Organizer and a curator of exhibitions devoted to books and engraving, he is also president of the Ison cultural association which legally and administratively oversees the Faenza baroque music ensemble directed by Marco Horvat. [FR] dr. Boerez, parlez-nous un peu de vous Né en 1963 dans une famille ouvrière de Flandre française habitant la ville de l’abbé Lemire, mon premier contact avec le livre, dit « savant », outre une histoire sainte illustrée familiale éditée dans les années 1920 (retrouvée récemment) fut l’encyclopédie « tout l’univers » vers l’âge de 6 ans puis quelques numéros de l’encyclopédie « bordas » reçus en cadeaux par l’un des employeurs de ma mère. Ces ouvrages, des professeurs de collège et de lycée attentionnés et disponibles, un grand père i

Member of the Bibliophiles project London Department – Art historian, specialist in antique jewelry and indipendent literary historian. Can you present yourself ? I am an art historian during the day, and an independent literary historian on early mornings and late evenings. As an art historian, I specialise in antique jewellery. As an independent literary historian, I collect, study, translate, and contextualise the works of subversive German women writers of the fin de siècle. As it turns out, they work extremely well in conjunction: I might not pick up on the subtler points of the novellas if I weren’t intimately familiar with etiquette due to studying old fashion magazines for my jewellery research; and I might not understand the sociological significance of jewellery quite as well if hadn’t also studied the literature of that era. How did you start to collect books or to develop an interest for art and culture ? I studied art history for a very simple reason: I knew that a good pa

Can you present yourself ? I’m Julia Martins, and I’m a historian – I’m particularly interested in gender history and the history of medicine and alchemy. I grew up in Brazil and I took my undergraduate studies in history there, before moving to Paris and Bologna for my master’s degrees, in which I analysed the translations of early modern books of secrets. Then I moved to London for my PhD, where I continued to research the topic of how knowledge is reshaped as it is diffused, focusing on the translation of recipes about reproduction and the female body – everything from conception to childbirth! I currently have a YouTube channel and blog, Living History, where I explore the history of everyday life and make academic research accessible. I also run a feminist book club for charity, called My Body, My Book Club. How did you start to collect books or to develop an interest for art and culture ? I grew up surrounded by books; my mother worked as a translator and many of the books in our

Can you present yourself? My name is Laura, and I’m passionate about 19th-century England. This passion comes out not just in my love for books but also through the educational content I create for an Italian audience in many different formats. I host a podcast about 19th-century England (titled Viaggio nell’Ottocento, which means Journey Through the 19th Century, free to listen on Spotify and YouTube), share videos on social media about fun facts and locations tied to Victorian history and literature, speak at events and conferences, and visit schools to make some of the topics students study in class more engaging and accessible. I’ve also worked with British organizations like the British Embassy, Visit Britain, and the Landmark Trust to promote and highlight British locations through media. Recently, I was honored to be named an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society for my work in sharing British history. I’m involved in so many projects that introducing myself is always