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[mapsontheweb]

The Burgundian state, 1364-1487.

« Atlas historique mondial », Christian Grataloup, Les Arènes/L'Histoire, 2e éd., 2023

by cartesdhistoire

In 1363, the king of France, John the Good, gave Burgundy as an appanage to his son Philippe the Bold. Duke until 1404, he became master of a vast area, including Charolais, Artois, Franche-Comté, Rethel, Nevers and Brabant. His power made Flanders independent and it was a solid base for expansion in the Empire, continued by Duke Philip the Good (1419-1467): Namur, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Luxembourg ( in addition to a nebula of satellites like the ecclesiastical principalities of Liège, Utrecht and even Cologne).

The Burgundian “State” is therefore made up of two blocks of territories, both shared between France and the Empire: Burgundy (France) and Franche-Comté (Empire) are governed from Dijon; from Lille then from Brussels from 1430, Flanders, Artois (France) and the Netherlands (Empire). The frequent meeting of States within the framework of each province allows regular taxation, which makes the Duke one of the richest sovereigns in the West, the bulk of his income coming from Flanders and the Netherlands. The administrative structure is close to that of the French monarchy (aids, Chambers of Accounts, states, Parliament).

Duke Charles the Bold (1467-1477) tried to reunite the two blocks, barely 60 km apart after 1441. He centralized, increased taxes and borrowed enormous sums from banks to obtain an imposing army and artillery. He then aimed for Lorraine and the archbishopric of Cologne but his ambitions united his enemies against him: Louis XI, the emperor, Lorraine, Savoy and the Swiss. In 1475, the Swiss crushed Charles's army at Grandson and Morat then the duke died in 1477, trying to retake Nancy. He is succeeded by his daughter Marie who married Maximilien, son of the emperor. She died on March 27, 1482 and on December 23, the Treaty of Arras divided her inheritance between Valois and Habsburg.

#maps #cartesdhistoire #igsourced #france #14th century #15th century

[kratioed]

𝙰𝙶𝙾𝙶𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚈𝚂: KRATOS X ATREUS OF SPARTA | 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚃 ⸺⸺⸺ "His memory was a comfort in dark times." ⸺⸺⸺

KRATOS: nelward: Never Wanna Fall in Love With U // The Crane Wives: Take Me to War // Paramore: I'm Not Angry Anymore // The Smiths: This Charming Man // EASHA: You Make me Feel // Patternist: Don't You Try // BRONZE AVERY: Only You // Dijon: Skin // BRONZE AVERY: Waste My Time // Dodie: Sick of Losing Soulmates // Daughter: Tomorrow // Lea Michele: Run to You

AOS: Ed Sheeran: Friends // Laufey: From The Start // IDKHOW: Kiss Goodnight // BRONZE AVERY: Faking // Lana Del Rey: Say Yes To Heaven // SVRCINA: Lover. Fighter. // Ruelle: War Of Hearts // Pandora: All I Wanted // Daughter: Smother // MCR: The World Is Ugly // Daughter: Shallows // Arash Buana: Stars

KRATAOS: Hayden James: Just Friends // Planttvibes: One Sided Love // Will Joseph Cook: Be Around Me // dandelion hands: i like you // AJR: Weak // Lord Huron: Brother // BRONZE AVERY: Want 2 // The Irrepressibles: Two Men in Love // The Crane Wives: Little Soldiers // SVRCINA: Meet Me On The Battlefield // The Family Crest: Battle Cry // McCafferty: Bottom // Ivan Torrent: Passage To Eden

This playlist is very inspired from Agapē based on its flashbacks as well as AOS' death in canon compliant. I highly recommend giving it a read to those who viewed Kratos as a bi-disaster! Art belongs to elljwalker (used with permission)!

#Kratioed's Playlist #God of War #Kratos #Atreus of Sparta #gow #gow Kratos #Kratos x Atreus of Sparta #Atreus of Sparta x Kratos #KratAOS #might make a playlist for Agapē

[annoyingblondebracket]

Bonus poll!!

~ Note: This poll is being done out of a genuine love and affection for these types of characters! Please keep that in mind when adding commentary.

This one is just to pit two of my fav obscure blondes against one another :~) and because I know he has genuine haters out there please know I that I think Brother Guy is one of the best characters in the game one of the best in the whole world actually. Vote based on vibes if you'd like!

My propaganda: ~ Hanagata is silly and love with his childhood friend who keeps rejecting him. Somehow he seems to be the only gay man despite the whole premise of he anime being "women do not exist and have been replaced by girl robots"

~ To quote that one post. Brother Guy is the biggest hater in all of Bavaria possibly the entirety of the holy roman empire. he's a 1500s cuntress and the most bitter bitch you'll ever meet

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[jucyfruit]

INTERVIEW: Sarah Goldstone On Touring With Boygenius, Books, and Boston Octobers

by Maya Santow

[…] Since her graduation from Boston University in 2009, Goldstone really has gone everywhere. Her talents on the keyboard, violin, and vocals have taken her across the globe in the past two years, touring internationally with indie artist Lucy Dacus, and now Boygenius—the indie rock supergroup composed of Dacus, Julien Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers.

Sitting in an East Boston café on June 18, just hours before performing with Boygenius at the Stage at Suffolk Downs, Goldstone describes how it felt finding out that she would be joining Boygenius on their tour while she was in Dacus’ band.

“Oh, I was really pumped,” she says. “Lucy had said that she wanted to have me there. Her manager called me and we chatted about it. It was exciting. I just love them as a group and separately.

“Boygenius: The Tour” began its United States run in early June and will be extending overseas to Europe in mid-August. Several of the tour dates, including the Boston show, are a part of the Re:SET Concert Series, featuring supporting acts like Bartees Strange, Dijon, and Clairo, with Boygenius as a headliner.

Although the tour didn’t begin until the summer of 2023, Boygenius’ first full-length studio album, titled “The Record,” was in the works much earlier. Goldstone recalls being told about the album at least a year before its March 2023 release—a powerful secret to have been keeping, given the album’s critical acclaim. “There was definitely a, you know, ‘Don’t put this on the internet’ kind of thing,” she says.

Goldstone’s first time hearing “The Record” took place at a listening party with Dacus’ touring crew in a Northern California AirBnB. With the knowledge that she would be touring with Boygenius, Goldstone approached her first listen to “The Record” from a largely practical angle.

“When you take a record that was recorded with all these different instruments, and you’re trying to squash it down to, ‘Okay, what’s a setup where I can do all of that?,’ there’s a lot of different ways you can do it,” she says. “So when I was listening through, that’s where my brain was going.”

Goldstone’s primary focus while listening was the keyboard. There is more to the instrument than meets the typical listener’s ear, she explains. “I feel like a lot of times people don’t know what keyboard’s role does because people know what piano sounds like, but maybe not the other stuff,” she says. “But there’s a lot of synth parts, there’s organ, there’s something called a Mellotron…all those weird sounds where people that come to hear it are like, ‘I don’t know what that is.’”

“My first reaction was really technical, but then I started listening for real and, you know, some of the songs make me cry as soon as I hear them,” says Goldstone of the 12 tracks that make up “The Record.” “Some of them are so funny, and, like, mean, and you know, that’s fun, too. But it took a minute for me to experience it that way,” she says.

As Goldstone began touring with Boygenius, a few tracks emerged as her favorites to perform live. “I love ‘Not Strong Enough.’ I mean, that’s like, ‘the one,’ right?” she says. “I love ‘Letter To An Old Poet’— not just because it’s the piano song! Actually, ‘Cool About It’ is one of my favorite songs, too. Plus the rockers, like ‘Satanist,’ and stuff like that, it’s just, like, so fun. But every song is good, yeah—no duds,” she laughs.

Goldstone also cites a fan project for Boygenius’ “True Blue”—a track heavily influenced by Dacus’ solo music style—as a favorite memory from the tour so far. “I think they all put blue post-it notes over their phone lights…as soon as they started playing it, blue lights came up,” she says. As it turned out, a similar fan project took place at the Boston show later that night: during the chorus of ‘True Blue,’ the audience raised heart-shaped cutouts of blue paper over their phone flashlights to create a sea of blue for the band to see. “It sounds funny to say, but it made all of us kind of emotional, actually,” she says of the earlier project.

Goldstone notes the synergetic power of Boygenius fans—the fan bases of the three indie rock forces coming together creates something greater than the sum of their parts, she says.

“People are there for the unit,” says Goldstone. “Probably everybody has one of them that they gravitate toward more just in their own personal listening, or someone’s music they’re familiar with more than the others, but you can’t tell that from the show, which I think is really cool. It doesn’t feel like you’re seeing individual fans of the three of them.”

Goldstone cites Boygenius’ closeness to one another as a major draw for their fans, aside from their music. “I feel like people are fans of their friendship,” she says. “Like, we all want that. We all want best friends that we like to make art with.”

Having been on tour together for a few weeks, says Goldstone, the band’s dynamic has begun to shine through even more onstage. “Now that everyone’s comfortable, they’re starting to horse around a little bit, and they’re jumping around,” she says of Dacus, Baker, and Bridgers. “You know, it’s just three friends that love each other so much, and they’re all very funny people. So it’s fun when they’re in the mood to do, like, comedy time during shows, you know?”

Closeness as a band—“tour camaraderie”—is a familiar feeling to Goldstone, who says that Dacus’ band grew very close during their 251 days of touring in 2021 and 2022. “Everyone’s on one bus, and everyone hangs out together on off days, and it does feel like a family road trip sometimes,” she says.

The Boygenius tour took a bit longer to achieve the same effect, says Goldstone. “It is a much bigger group. And everyone just works so hard, so there’s a little bit more distance with just getting to know everybody. I feel like now, a couple of weeks in, I’m starting to be friends with people on our own crew that maybe I didn’t get to hang with before, and that’s great,” she says.

One way in which the group has grown closer, says Goldstone, is through books. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given her philosophy major during her BU days, Goldstone says she always finds time to read while on tour, and exchanges titles with the other band members as well. “We’re all trading books,” says Goldstone.

On Dacus’ tour last year, says Goldstone, the band passed around Joan Didion’s “Play It as It Lays.” In a similar way to which fans of Boygenius bond over the often melancholy tones of their music, the band bonded over the “real bummer of a book,” says Goldstone. “We passed it around, and everyone was like, ‘Ugh, your turn.’ Like, this is brutal,” she laughs.

“So, yeah, there’s some exchange,” says Goldstone. “Lucy and I will exchange books a lot. Like, I’m really into a writer named Shirley Jackson, and Lucy read some last year.” Goldstone’s most recent tour read, Min Jin Lee’s “Pachinko,” she describes as an “instant classic,” and she plans to lend it to Julien Baker to read next.

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#boygenius #sarah g. #interviews #archival #july 2023

[effyeffa]

a comprehensive list of (almost) all of my spotify playlists, sorted by theme

category 1: a bit of everything.

every feeling everywhere all at once opened by brian eno, closed by mitski, in between an eclectic mix of everything to scream cry and dance to  essentials. as the title suggests this is the music that makes up the foundation of my identity. funkadelic, air, spiritualized, y la bamba, weyes blood etc etc multitudes: similar idea but older. more hip hop in there, a little time capsule of 2017

seasonal playlists: these are closed chapters that won’t be altered

forbidden fruit february. self explanatory. aquarius season is for yearning and getting messy, thanks fiona apple idlings of march is when spring begins again, just barely but there’s a careful joy spreading. joyful tunes! this must be the place! spring has sprung and continues springing. instrumental interludes as standalone songs, everything sounds like water. the time that we wasted just hit like a wave begin again, another spring playlist. this time with childish gambino, laura marling, hayley williams, guns’n’roses, the classic combo april flowers. short and sweet, alice phoebe lou meets car seat headrest slowly come the saints of summer. do you remember when st vincent said daddy’s home well i made a whole playlist about it. mika is in there. genuinely no idea what was going on that summer. never ending summer, this IS the season of the witch. we love a strange mix of oldies and french and german new wave  i can’t believe summer is over and oh it’s so sentimental, it’s a cherry-coloured funk winter walking. it’s giving phoebe bridgers in the graveyard, mountain goats, springsteen, mother mother winter fruits: the first big thief singles off their latest album came out and sent me down this particular spiral. frankie cosmos and mitski, niche italian indie pop

playlists i still edit/add to, first: good moods.

still you. skinshape, biig piig, kadhja bonet, julia jacklin autobahn, a roadtrip playlist, best friends laughing, mostly italian 70s/80s many moons ago: it’s pop! it’s happy things! silly goofy times golden hour! an old one. started this in 2018, sylvan esso was big, king krule, her’s, clairo will you always love like this? dream pop. lesbianism. st south.  everyday’s a holiday: okay kaya and rex orange county, steve lacy vibes maybe i wasn’t there: kendrick, dijon, rosalía come on over & do the twist. they’re love songs. aching with nostalgia but happy coffee in bed is teetering on the edge between a lovely warm soup of emotions and desperate yearning clear the fog is where the yearning begins in earnest.

moody moods.

free drinks at the local bar, we’ve got mac demarco, the strokes, girlpool. you know the drill take me for a spin: something of a continuation of free drinks a few years later now including sam cohen, kevin morby. sad-ish music that still works if played in public ring: odes to being happysad on public transport in berlin, short and sweet peel you like a fruit. THEE playlist of psychological warfare.  i would be an electrician: if you enjoy julien baker’s happy to be here, the following ten tracks might do similar damage to your psyche  no more bad news from my jorja smith phase, also greentea peng, arlo parks gloomy. it’s the end of the world, sharon van etten said, and love is a losing game, and there’s stormy weather and love will tear us apart.  calm there’s definitely a flatsound track in there. be warned.  

and here’s three completely new ones, works in progress, not yet categorised:

touch. a very specific moment in time. listening to beach house and rhye with all my friends on a big couch, drifting off together, crying a little, holding on tightly all the in between: the only place that matters is by your side, mama you’ve been on my mind, only the strong survive, don’t think twice it’s alright. songs that transcend time and space transitional. seeing angels in everything

already this post is way too long. i have so many playlists, my god. i have a whole folder sorted by genre, one by decade, more by concepts and themes. i’m currently sorting through everything and thought i’d share my process, maybe you’ll find something for yourself new in my chaos :)

#music recs #playlists #spotify #mine #what if 2023 is the year i go fully tumblrina again. wouldn't that be fun

[redwineconversation]

Olympique Lyonnais - Le Havre OLPlay Postgame Interviews

Better late than never, but some of us have full time jobs and can't be chronically online.

Blah blah standard disclaimers apply; @OL Comms Dept it's cold I need my Starbucks to stay alive; banning stans from stadiums would solve a lot of problems real quick; can Bompastor also take this "journalist" aka academy director with her when she fucks off to Chelsea; y'all know the speech by now.

@Timothee Piron @Coralie Ducher feel like pure shit just want you back. xx

OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEWS

WENDIE RENARD OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEW

Renard: On a personal level it was important to get significant playing time, especially against a team where you can't really hold back. You have to react immediately. So it was important for me in particular. Then as a team it was important for us to really start the game well, to be able to really be on the same wavelength. There was some good, there was some less good. I think that we - the fact that - even if I don't think it was a goal, the first one, but in any case the referee gave it and I think it was good for us. And we were able to create more chances after that and get a greater advantage right before half time. The second half was a bit stagnant I find. We were far from each other. There were too many technical errors. But overall, there are a lot of players who are playing consecutive games, obviously there's a bit of fatigue. It was important for us to win before leaving for the international break, and also to get a big win at that. We did that.

"Journalist": We were saying how the month of March was pretty packed. The international break is coming up as well, it will be a good opportunity to have a change of scenery, and maybe come back refreshed. [news to all teams who are going through Euro qualifiers]

Renard: Yes, I agree, even if there is obviously some tiredness. It's always interesting to meet up with another group. There's also other instructions, other expectations, from the national coaches. But beyond that, March was a difficult month. We used up a lot of energy in the games.. Here pretty much everyone is meeting up with their national teams. And we have an end of the season which is coming up really quickly. It will be up to us to be properly prepared for it. But we have the team to do it. We have the players to do it. Now it's up to us to put forth our qualities from the start of the game. We need to know what we want. And if we want to win, we need to put things in place for it to happen.

"Journalist": Thank you, Wendie.

PERLE MORRONI OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEW

"Journalist": Yes, Perle. Another win. It's always hard to play against teams with a low block.

Morroni: Always difficult even if we're used to it now. Teams often try to trap us into it, to keep a low block and play on a counter. But now we're used to it so we know what we need to do in terms of tactics to counter it. We did our job. We were able to get on the scoreboard, it did us some good. And 3-0, that's a good score.

"Journalist": It's a good score. It's the same score from the PSG game today against Dijon. And there's a pretty exciting second part coming up in April, with the semifinals, with a derby. Some exciting games to play.

Morroni: Yeah, we're getting to the heart of the matter. For the league, I think we just need one or two more wins to finish first. But we're getting to the part of the schedule where we're playing the games we like to play, there's intensity, there's a bit of everything. It's really the top level games. And it's going to be in nice stadiums as well. So it's going to be - that's what we're waiting for, that's what we're working for. And we'll be ready when the day comes.

"Journalist": Thank you, Perle.

SONIA BOMPASTOR OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEW

"Journalist": All the crew at OLPlay are thanking for your professionalism after having thanked all the journalists before coming over for our interview and - [Bompastor laughs] no, no, they're really thanking you. It's good, it's good.

Bompastor: That's really nice of them. I'd like to thank you as well. I'm sorry I left you for last. I made you wait.

"Journalist": It's not a big deal. Just - it's always difficult to play against a low block. We saw it in the first 30 minutes, with the goal - well. It wasn't a goal. [Bompastor nods in agreement] But it's always hard to play against a low block.

Bompastor: Yes. We know that in that context, we know we need to be very efficient in the choices we make, first of all, and also very good in terms of technical efficiency. So I think in the first half I had to adjust in how we were using the ball. I felt that the outside backs needed to be a little bit higher, that would allow the midfield to drop in and be better in the middle. Then I insisted a lot on the combination play, especially out wide, the one-twos, the overlapping runs, or the one-two-three passes for letting players get behind the defense. So it was a game where we were able to work on those scenarios. And indeed sometimes the context is difficult because there is little space, but we need to be better with the quality of the players we have.

"Journalist": In the second half we saw get the center backs more involved so the pace would pick up a bit and quicker transitions.

Bompastor: Yeah, yeah. When you're against low blocks, in order to break it down and create space, you need to play it simple, move the ball a lot with few touches, and have technical qualities as well. But it's especially in the orientation when we release the ball, we need to make the right choices, not force it when it's closed off on one side, be able to switch it to the other side. I also asked the players that as soon as we made a pass between the lines, for the defense to push up as well. That would keep us close and create some good combination play. So yeah, on the one hand, even if we win 3-0 there are still things which can impact the game. So I try to play that role.

"Journalist": We're heading into an exciting month of April. There's an international break, no players recently injured [well we know who to blame for the Dabritz injury]. It's also an exciting month of April with derbies, there are good games to be played.

Bompastor: Yeah, yeah. First it's the international break, I think that will be good for everyone to have a change of scenery, get a bit of a breather. It'll be important to come back recharged because as we just said, April and May will be very intense months and especially decisive. There are decisive games, there's the Champions League, there's the league and notably the playoffs. So we will have to be in great form. And especially there will be interesting games to play when you're a professional athlete.

"Journalist": There's especially that semifinal against PSG. They're obviously a team we know by heart, who also won 3-0 this afternoon, so similar scoreline. That semifinal must be at the back of your head.

Bompastor: Yeah, of course. In any case we don't have a lot of games left between now and the end of the season. I hope we'll go all the way. That means we will have eight games left to play. So we're in the final stretch, the money time as the expression goes. Indeed, the UWCL semifinals against Paris [Saint-Germain], those are the games we want to play. They're an opponent we know really well. It will be a good game. It's a really good match-up because I think the PSG team looks completely different than they did at the beginning of the season. So we're looking forward to it because we know those are good games to play.

"Journalist": First leg at home, second leg away. Does it work for you? It was like that two years ago.

Bompastor: Yeah, exactly. We had this same scenario two years ago. So yeah, I think the first leg can already be decisive. So playing at home is a good thing for us. Beyond that, we have experience playing away games in a hostile environment. In any case we loved the atmosphere at the Parc des Princes two years ago with 44,000 people who really made themselves heard. And when the result is there as well at the end of the game, you remember those moments. So we'll do everything to experience those emotions again.

"Journalist": Before that, there's a quick derby to win.

Bompastor: Yeah, of course. It's true there's that game against ASSE. Yeah, I'm happy. I said it before, I'm happy that ASSE got promoted to the D1 Arkema. They avoided relegation this year. So it's always a special moment in the season, playing these derbies. And we also have the honor of playing in the big stadium, so that's pretty rare it must be said. I think it's Sunday at 9pm. So we're looking forward to that as well.

"Journalist": Thank you, Sonia.

#all good love stories start in the rain #wendie renard #perle morroni #sonia bompastor

[josefavomjaaga]

While several of his future colleagues were half-orphans or otherwise must have had a rather unhappy childhood, Auguste Frédéric Viesse de Marmont for once comes from a perfect background: only, dearly beloved son of a family of landed gentry. His father Nicolas-Edme had married the daughter of a wealthy Parisian civil servant, the spouses were very much in love with each other and would remain so throughout their lives. Auguste’s older sister died at the age of eight, and his parents doted on their surviving child all the more. His father in particular watched over everything, from Auguste’s first teeth to his education, and during his son's childhood illnesses, his father noted down every little thing in a diary (which still exists): Sweating, meals eaten, hoarseness and breathing and consistency of bowel movements.

Franck Favier in his book on Marmont cites a passage from this journal to show the timetable for young Auguste’s education:

Up at 7 a.m., then his prayers, cleaning his ears, washing his hands and mouth with a sponge, and all this within half an hour.

At half-past seven, practice of his violin.

At eight, breakfast; breakfast taking half an hour.

Recreation until 9 o'clock.

At 9 o'clock, ten verses by heart.

At half-past nine, first lesson in drawing circles and ovals.

At a quarter past ten, recreation until a quarter to eleven.

At a quarter to eleven, reading and hairdressing.

At half past eleven, geometry instruction until noon.

Recreation until half-past twelve and after his lunch until three-quarters past one.

At 2 o'clock, drawing instruction for heads…

(Translated from F. Favier, “Marmont. Le Maudit”)

Starting at the age of nine, there’s also a comprehensive physical training with running, jumping and marching. Papa Marmont hired teachers for his son’s early education before sending him to a collège where Auguste would befriend a rather unruly fellow student named Andoche Junot destined to become a lawyer, but already dreaming of soldiering and the glory of arms. A dream young Auguste soon shared. A little grumbling (he surely had not groomed this perfect son to see his talents wasted in the army!) Papa Marmont gave in to his son’s wishes, under the condition that Junior would join the artillery, where he at least had to use his head and even might learn a thing or two that would later prove useful outside the army, in real life… This new career path in the end led Marmont to meeting a certain Napoleon Bonaparte, in Dijon 1791.

Let’s fast-forward a little: Robespierre’s fall, Bonaparte imprisoned, Marmont and Junot planning to free him, Bonaparte in semi-disgrace, Papa Marmont feeding the trio, then 13 Vendémière, Marmont becoming aide-de-camp to general Bonaparte, following him to Italy…

It’s in autumn 1796 when Marmont, in triumph, brings to Paris some flags taken from the enemy. To mark the occasion, the ultra-rich Swiss banker Perrégaux gives a ball in his Paris residence, with the dashing young war hero at the centre of attention. Perrégaux’s daughter Hortense immediately falls in love. Hard.

Hortense (born in 1779) was yet another disciple of Madame Campan’s famous institute of future imperial brides, and a good friend of the other Hortense, Hortense de Berauharnais. (Call me biased all you want but there is a pattern there.) She was also intelligent, witty, strong-willed and her father's spoilt favourite. She proved this strength of will to her father, when the latter began to look for a husband for his daughter over the next few months (a husband who was not called "Marmont", obviously, because a simple soldier was not an appropriate match). Hortense however refused to even look at the candidates. In April 1797, she went so far as to lock herself up in her room for days … and of course she got her way in the end. By May 1797, Papa Perrégaux promised her she could have that nobody of a soldier if she insisted.

Marmont, as to him, had long returned to Italy and was blissfully unaware of the storm he had caused in one of the first families of Paris. As a matter of fact, in that same May 1797 Bonaparte gave him a furious telling-off, for Marmont had returned to headquarters twenty-four hours late. Twenty-four hours that he had apparently spent in the arms of some Venetian beauty. (In his memoirs Marmont claims that Napoleon in July of that year wanted to marry him to his sister Pauline, which seems to be an obvious lie as by the time Marmont claims the proposal was made, Pauline was already engaged to Leclerc.)

It’s only in April 1798 when Marmont and Mlle Perrégaux finally tie the knot. Of course, for Marmont these new family relations are a dream come true. His young wife brings him a million in dowry. Both spouses have beauty, wit and intelligence and are adored by tout Paris.

Difficulties start as soon as the young couple visits Marmont’s family estate in Châtillon-sur-Seine. Living in the province, with only a couple of old-fashioned landed gentry for company, clearly is not to Hortense’s likings. Particularly, as Marmont soon leaves her alone in this hillbilly family circle, in order to follow Napoleon to Egypt. Soon enough, Hortense returns to Paris and lives with her father again.

That’s where Marmont will find her on his return from Egypt, and for some time, all seems fine again (despite Papa and Maman Marmont being decidedly unhappy with that spoilt brat of a daughter-in-law). The couple moves into a house of their own, Marmont starts to show first signs of vanity and shows of his wealth in the style of a true nouveau riche, even somewhat alienating himself from his parents. Hortense, as to her, is often invited to Malmaison, much to Marmont’s chagrin – the new court forming there to him seems a bit too permissive in terms of morals. As a matter of fact, he even suspects the First Consul of having set his eyes on Madame Marmont!

Let’s fast-forward again as things start to turn ugly rather quickly in Marmont’s marriage: He has always been a favourite with the ladies, sees no reason to stop that, and his wife, not used to giving up on any of her whims, will soon start to have affairs of her own. Marmont suspects her of having affairs with Napoleon and with her father’s partner Laffitte.

On 10 December 1807, while Marmont is in Dalmatia, a boy named Jacques Alfred Valberg is born in Paris. Eight months later, an ADC of Marmont’s recognises him as his son, the mother in the papers being named as Marie Perdraux, living in rue de Hazard. - Considering that this boy will be the sole heir of Hortense Perregaux-Marmont’s fortune in 1857, certain suspicions may be allowed…

By the time Marmont receives his marshal’s baton, his marriage is long in shambles. And yet they can’t divorce, they are kept together by – money. Both have grown fond of luxury, both love to overspend, and Marmont’s family relations to the banker’s family are necessary for him to keeo up his life style. He has shares in many of his father-in-law’s business projects.

It’s only during the Restauration, when he has become the infamous »Duc de Raguse« that he will officially separate from his wife (but not divorce). She will live a couple of years longer than him, and it would be interesting to hear her thoughts on her husband’s famous memoirs. He does not treat her kindly in them.

#napoleon's marshals #Auguste Marmont #hortense perregaux-marmont #happy birthday marshal

[5amanthus]

It’s been a while since I’ve done any drawing so I did my normal warm up sphere and then doodled blorbos. This is literally all future stuff 😂 I did Fuchsia/Dijon + the twins as beans, I don’t think I’ve drawn them yet. Lots of development for Fuchsia since her intro fic. Chartreuse and Ender, I think this is the first time I’ve properly drawn them together and in colour. And then Captain Dad (surprisingly I’ve never drawn him), and his future meeting with Rose again, who has changed a lot (And I’ve definitely never drawn him before)

#Among Us #The A-Crew #The V-Crew #MatrixDream Draws! #Sphere #Digital Art

[lindyloosims]

Arian gives birth to another baby boy named Flint Ash!

But a mother's work is never done as she heads downstairs to celebrate the twins aging up!

Sterling and Cinder everybody! A rambunctious scamp and a whiz kid!

They don't seem to be happy to meet little Flint! At least they agree about something!

But as always Storm is happy to have a new sibling and welcomes Flint to the family with a smile and a wave!

And it isn't long before baby Flint grows up into the Not So Berry household's first infant! He's a cutie, and Dijon is in love!

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[twdmusicboxmystery]

New Daryl Dixon Teaser

@galadrieljones

Just watched the new DD teaser. Super interesting, almost a La Dona thing going on. This would ofc make sense since it’s like the last episode in terms of us finding some sort of crazy foreshadowing for the spin-offs.

It looks like the ruin they’re at is also near Arles, so not far frmo Marseille. L’Abbaye de Montmajour

Interestingly, this means that the nun he meets played by Clemence Poesy is down in the south of France, not Paris. Will he escort them north to Paris?

It’s a really interesting setting, dedicated to St. Peter.

@twdmusicboxmystery

Just watched it on YouTube. It’s got a Grady vibe, in the sense that he wakes up in a strange place and there is medical equipment around. We even see one of the roundish trays that are common in medical settings. They had them at Grady, except these are metal and at Grady they were plastic. It looks like they either brand or cauterize something on his arm.

@galadrieljones

I also definitely got a Grady vibe, with the little tray and the knife.

@wdway

Thanks for the link! Thanks for the Montmajour Abbey information. Other than what you guys said about Grady, two things came to my mind in watching the teaser, Daryl giving blood in RIP and learning he is a universal donor (O-). The second thing was a reminder of the branding of the "X" on his and Michonne's lower left side back. You guys know that I want to read into the fact that it appears to be his left arm they're doing whatever it is that they're doing.

I think there might be a silver fire extinguisher on the wall to the right side as we see the gathering of the nuns just before they come at Daryl with the hot poker.

It's not a fire extinguisher.

You can see why I was mistaken.

Here's a few other shots.

Not necessarily in order.

The preview also gave me a bit of a Tales/Davon feel.

@galadrieljones:

Yes, Davon’s flashbacks of waking up to the French women tending to him and cauterizing his leg. It’s SO MUCH like that.

It’s crazy to me how much of Davon seems to have been crafted specifically to foreshadow Daryl’s spin-off

Great shots! I did some quick reading on the white habits, because they did not seem typical to me. They are specific to the Cistercian Order and also Trappist Nuns, which are like very strict observers and modeled in self-sufficiency so as to minimize contact with the outside world. Both orders originated in France, with the Cistercians originating in Dijon, which is in eastern France, and the Trappists, which are a stricter off-shoot of the Cistercians, originating in Orne, closer to Paris.

Neither originates near Marseille, but one could easily argue a pilgrimage took place at some point after the Fall, as they are shacked up in a very old ruin of an unfinished Abbey in Arles. I am not Catholic and don’t know much about these various orders, but I just think it’s super interesting, how they are staying true to these very small details of Catholic history in France

Also, per the Trappists, it would make sense that the order might crop back up among surviving nuns and monks in France, as the strict observance of daily life rituals and isolated, self-sufficiency practice in things like subsistance farming would be very compatible with life after the Fall. Trappists also specifically don’t eat most types of meat.

Sorry if I’m spamming with nun information this type of thing is very interesting to me LOL.

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[lokischaoticbitchwitch]

Ostara Egg Salad

Ostara isn't for awhile, but I thought it would be a good idea to post some things. That way people could get a head start on preparation.

6 eggs

1 cup mayo

1 Tablespoon Dijon

2 tsp lemon juice

2 tsp white wine or rice vinegar

1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper

1/8 tsp salt

Hard boil the eggs. Peel and cut them lengthwise. Add other ingredients to a bowl, mix until smooth. Arrange 12 egg halves on a plate, yolk side down. Place them in a way that the big ends meet in the middle to make a petal design. Spoon the sauce over the eggs. Serve with crusty bread. To really make festive, top with chives, microgreens, or edible flowers.

#ostara #ostara egg salad #ostara recipes #norse pagan #norse pagan witch

[iconicofficesposts]

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[librarycomic]

Graphic Novel Review: New Books in Children's Graphic Novel Series

Cranky Chicken: Party Animals by Katherine Battersby. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2022. 9781534470217. 104pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781534470217?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Three more short stories about Cranky and her friend Speedy (a worm).  The first involves getting over being hangry, in which we find out Cranky is vegetarian and does not eat worms. The second involves a surprise party that's not a surprise (surprises make Cranky cranky). The third involves a trip to the beach which, of course, Cranky is not looking forward to. All ends well because Speedy is an awesome friend. Beautifully drawn and hilarious.

Barb and the Ghost Blade (Barb the Last Berserker Book 2) by Dan & Jason. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022. 9781534485747. 250pp. https://www.powells.com/book/-9781534485747?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Barb has the Shadow Blade (which she acquired in Book 1) and its power makes her awesome. She's taking the new monster zerks she's recruited, including her yeti friend Porkchop, to Maug Horn to try to figure out how to defeat Witch Head. Along the way they encounter bandits and Barb tells the story of how she became a berzerker in the the first place. That's how we learn about the Ghost Blade, which makes Berserkers unbeatable. Of course Barb will need to figure out how to use the Ghost Blade to face her former teammates who have been turned evil and now serve Witch Head. (The fantasy violence in this book is more silly than anything, and most of the monsters are completely kid-friendly.)

Nugget and Hot Dog: S'More Than Meets The Eye by Jason Tharp (Ready to Read Graphics Level 2). Simon Spotlight, 2022. 9781665913294. 64pp. https://www.powells.com/book/-9781665913294?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Friends Nugget and Hot Dog go to camp, where they continue to use K.E.T.C.H.U.P. to help others (See the attached art sample.) Dijon is still evil, but when he and Crouton try to scare everyone at the campfire, their plan goes awry. This is the third book in a fun graphic novel series for early readers.

#bookreview #graphicnovel #graphicnovelreview #kidsgraphicnovels

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Fics Named After Flowers/Plants Masterlist

A Single Orange Rose - phan-panda

Summary: Phil wonders who keeps sending him a bouquet of orange roses each week, but when he finally meets up with the mysterious admirer will it change things forever?

Aloe and Dan (ao3) - ByTheFire

Summary: Your typical tattoo artist flower shop au.

Phil is having trouble working on some new designs when he decides to go to the local flower shop owned by two old lesbians. When he arrives though he realizes it’s changed owners but that might not be a bad thing.

Bluebells (ao3) - worriedpeach (skeletonflowers)

Summary: Dan just really wants to put flowers in Phil’s hair.

calla lillies & sunflowers (ao3) - whiskers (robertmontauk)

Summary: What the fuck?

A long-stemmed flower - just one, who the fuck only buys one flower? - taped to the front of his locker, with a small piece of paper wrapped around the stem, right underneath where the petals end.

(or: dan gets flowers, because he deserves them.)

Daffodil Garden (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Dan Howell is the only ordinary one in a world of remarkable people. Phil Lester is the only one that sees his lack of a power as a power in and of itself.

flowers and moths (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Just outside the dense and green forest, a fallen log made a perfect waiting place. Bright green moss covered most of the woody surface, little mushrooms poking out of the bark. The few trees spotted on the outside of the forest made for just enough shade from the sun, the occasional bird chirping from further within. In one section of the fallen trunk, the moss had been taken away and in it’s wake left the scratched in tattoo of a heart, with D + P engraved in the middle in a delicate, cursive writing of a faun.

(A little faun Dan au for fun)

he kept tulips in the kitchen (ao3) - gremlinhours

Summary: dan doesn't know if he'll ever be enough for anyone, but in the meantime, he tends to his garden, unminding of the world.

phil works at his favourite flowershop.

Iris (ao3) - MiniatureLillies

Summary: So this was just a quick thing I wrote because I didn't want to go to bed and I had this idea. As I said, I write best at night when I should be sleeping.

Lavender Lace (ao3) - Emejig16

Summary: Dan absolutely loves it when dom!Phil gets rough with him. He especially loves it when he chokes him.

Little Lily Pad (ao3) - SimplyUndead

Summary: The one where Dan gets his wisdom teeth removed and Phil helps take care of him.

Or, Dan is just loopy from the meds and talks about how his legs are grape jelly

Marigold and Rosemary (ao3) - AlibiNonsense

Summary: Phil’s a strange child. His first word is ‘why’. He doesn’t speak much and cries a lot and never smiles. His parents take him to doctor after doctor who say that, despite that he’s intelligent for his age, there’s nothing wrong with him. Nigel gives his son fat plastic toy soldiers to wave about in his chubby hands and put into his mouth. Instead, Phil makes a stage out of a baby blanket and has two of the little men carefully hop around it; lines up the rest in rows as an audience and then knocks them over when he’s finished, his face crumpling.

Maybe We Can Be The Garden That The Neighbors Talk About (ao3) - lonelyuchiha

Summary: Dan starts to see people as flowers when he was younger.

Miss Annie's Flowers (ao3) - theoreoqueen

Summary: Dan hates sunflowers, but he really likes the cute guy at the flower shop.

Orchids and Oleanders (ao3) - Mcusekat

Summary: Phil was poisonous whether he had meant to be or not, which is why he brought white Oleanders. They were poisonous, just like Phil:

Beautiful, but poisonous.

Parsley and Pennyroyal (ao3) - Anonymous

Summary: “Phil?”

Phil tears his eyes away from the laptop screen and looks at him. “Yeah?”

“There's something I have to tell you."

(Poison) Ivy (ao3) - jkjm191029

Summary: Some beds of roses also have thorns.

(A song fic about 2012!phan based off 'Ivy' by Frank Ocean)

Poppy (ao3) - dijon

Summary: Poppy. It all started with her.

Rose (ao3) - CruelBeauty

Summary: Phil absolutely knew Dan was teasing him.

The short crop tops. The low rise jeans. The way his shirt would conveniently ride up when he was laying across the couch. Not to mention the way Dan out of the blue changed his simple barbell for a fancy white piece with dangling gems, catching the sun every so often when he shifted.

Sunflowers (ao3) - CruelBeauty

Summary: The truth is, Dan loved having something that was a total secret from their fans. He loved his fans and he liked sharing information about their lives but having this one small thing was so nice to think about. That this one small detail was something only Phil knew. His family didn't even know.

He has a navel piercing.

sunflowers (ao3) - spaceandvinyls

Summary: dan has bad allergies and it's the sunflowers in phil's yard that are causing them.

Sunflowers & Roses (ao3) - obsessivechild

Summary: "I love you. You're perfect. Please change."

The Daisy (ao3) - phangate

Summary: Dan and Phil add a new member to their family: a cactus named Daisy

Thyme after Thyme (ao3) - chisomo

Summary: Dan Howell runs an apothecary shop in the heart of London, a city wrought with rising tensions between witches and normal humans. Dan tries to ignore the daily instances of prejudice towards his kind and keep his magical abilities a secret, but his life is irrevocably changed when a garden shop is opened next door by a certain sky-eyed young human.

Trees (ao3) - skszp

Summary: Phil comes clad in brighter red than Dan has ever seen, brighter than sunset, than cat tongues, than the blood of a baby deer that has gotten lost, been lost to the natural ways of dark forests.

A strange one-shot about a forest.

Tulips and Hyacniths (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Phil was waiting to ask out a client that he had taken a liking to but the conversation turned out a little differently and now he has got himself into a right good situation.

Tulips Are Yellow (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: Phil is a yellow person with a yellow life. He loves his little flower, Susie, like she’s his daughter. But is it possible to love something too much?

Water Lilies (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: (TW) There once was two boys. One was happy, the other was sad. Maybe it was more than just ‘happy,’ maybe it was more than just ‘sad.’ Oh yes, it was much much more. Much more tucked away. Hidden from both of the boy’s own eyes, crammed beneath fingernails to stay hidden.

Nothing could make them see what was really wrong, not words spoken, or assumptions made, not the clearest of windows, not the whitest of water lilies.

White Rose (ao3) - outphan

Summary: “Can you believe that in 35 years we managed to get everything in life?”

“Urgh, 35 years!” Dan groans. “I’m not that old.”

“You are, but that’s okay. I did get to grow old with the love of my life.”

Dan and Phil, later in life, when they become grandparents.

#phanfictioncatalogue #phan #phanfic #phanfiction #masterlists #dan and phil #flowers #flowers masterlist #plants #plants masterlist

[sunbelieved]

[Image Description: image meant to represent Maya Hart and Riley Matthews from the show Girl Meets World. A girl with long dark hair and a girl with long blonde hair sit across from each other on the ledge of a tall window. They both face away from the camera and towards the skyline of the city behind them. The image is surrounded on all sides by reflections of the two in black and white. In the upper left corner is text that reads, "times we've been more than friends" with a blue squiggly line behind. End ID]

times we've been more than friends.

a riley/maya fanmix

1. sunseeker - the naked and the famous // 2. radiant warmth - miki ratsula // 3. when we first met - hellogoodbye // 4. breathless - corinne bailey rae // 5. magic loop - djds, dijon // 6. runnin' - l devine // 7. baby girl - between friends // 8. for you - cavetown // 9. blushing! - between friends // 10. sideways - carly rae jepsen

#riley x maya #girl meets world #mine #*girl meets world