That's how I started building the space in which we travel in Visites Possibles.
Away from the Comédie-Française, Duchaussoy played in Shakespeare, Shaw, Pirandello and Pinter in Paris and in the provinces, and created the role of a gay man dying of Aids in Une Visite Inopportune (An Inopportune Visit) by the playwright Copi (Raúl Damonte Botana) in 1987.
But perhaps the most delightful moment is in "Yvonne en Visite," in which the poor young Yvonne is forced to play the piano in public and succumbs to a case of the jitters.
Silvy took the carte de visite, in which one put a face to one's name, and turned it into a mass-production industry.
Lincoln's photograph appeared frequently in carte de visite albums, often on the first page, as if to title it, other times tucked into an album's pages as if he were just one among many relatives held dear.
But his principal contribution to the history of Brazilian photography is his photographic record of the different social classes in Brazil in the 19th century: portraits, usually in the carte de visite format, taken of the nobility, of rich tradesmen, of the middle-class, and of black people, either slaves or free, in a period before the Lei Áurea.
Alexander Gardner's portraits of the conspirator Lewis Payne were also printed as cartes de visite; placed in the family album, they marked the betrayal of a prodigal son.
In private, carte de visite portraits were commemorations of domestic affections, but they also mark a visual and political claim to national belonging.
In 1863, when an unknown Union soldier was found dead on the fields of Gettysburg clutching a photograph of his children, the volunteer physician J. Francis Bourns was so touched by the story he commissioned cartes de visite copies in hopes of identifying the soldier.
Cartes de visite had a precedent in the antebellum interest in portraits and collecting, which Mathew Brady synthesized with the emerging technology of photography in the 1840s.
