#french students

[mask131]

Live report from French student: 3, the actual crime

So, I woke up to discover those students had blocked the “mother Sorbonne”. A group was inside and had prevented the classes from happening. Alright, noted. But then I also heard that the staff and direction of the university had decided to block all entries and exits of the mother Sorbonne site. I was a bit confused... They closed the other sites nearby to avoid the “fire spreading” and other manifestations blocking other buildings, okay that I got, smart move because it is what screwed us over before. 

[And in fact, an aside here, but a lot of students are unhappy with these blockings because this was our last week of study and classes before the exams, so all the good advice, last-minute reviews, before-the-exams warning we could have had are now taken away, and the time we could have had to train with teachers ig one - notably because due to the blocking spreading over several days, and the students intending to manifest until the next election round, the whole week was cut off. LOTS of students unhappy.]

But yes I was a bit confused by the fact people kept saying “the students blocked the Sorbonne” and “The Sorbonne blocked the students”. It was unclear who had blocked who, who was keeping the doors and entries closed. 

Turned out, it was both. Students had sneaked up in the Sorbonne Wednesday afternoon to make their block. But by Thursday, the Sorbonne staff had decided to block all entries and passages not only to prevent students from going in the Sorbonne, but also to prevent the students inside from going OUT. It was a true siege, the blocking students stuck inside the building, with no way to supply themselves on food or drinks, until they gave up. (Mind you there’s plenty of food inside, after all it is a university, but still). I was quite a bit surprised - though I do understand why the reaction would be so vivid and violent. The mother Sorbonne is a historical building, a true monument, and you don’t just do anything you want with it. Reactions are bound to be harsher than on other side-sites much more recent and less valuable. 

Ultimately the students were evacuated when they surrendered (I think it was the night between Thursday and Friday). But it was only then we actually discovered what had happened that actually pissed off so much the people of the Sorbonne, and even other members of the student manifestation. Heavy, heavy degradations.

You see, when the blocking group first got inside the Sorbonne, they were quite big, and there was a wide mix of left-oriented political ideologies. But soon the most extreme members of the group stood out by their desire to destroy everything they found. It went to the point that most of the left-oriented and moderate students left the blocking in disgust (before the university put the whole siege situation). So the ones that blocked through the night and led the siege were actually a group of full-blown anarchists, and proud to be so. In fact there were people among there that clearly were not students and did not belong in any ways to the Sorbonne, who were just here to pass a political message by using and hiding among the students.

And the results of the university blocked actually forced the staff of the university to block it for reparations (one site got hit so badly it won’t finish the year and will only re-open next year). We are talking about lots of windows smashed ; we are talking of computers thrown out of the window that needs to be repaired ; we are talking about thesis stolen from offices and shred to pieces ; we are talking about graffitis and buckets of paints thrown over centuries-old walls and furnitures, we are talking about hallway littered with garbage. And even worse than that... they got into the library. The oldest, biggest university libraries of Paris. Being extremists and hard anarchists with no actual interest or care for academies and studies, you can guess what happened. A lot of rare editions, a lot of precious books, were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. 

One person pointed out yet again the self-destructive irony of this kind of behavior. Those anarchists and extreme-leftists claimed they manifested to have “the little people be given rights and a better lfe”, to defend the “common people’s too harsh conditions and menial jobs”. But guess who will be forced to clean up all the garbage you threw in the halls? Guess who will need to scrub and scrub your graffities and paintings? Guess who has now to clean up your shit behind you. The very same people I see every day at the Sorbonne emptying the trash cans, washing the floors, cleaning the rooms. They made life a lot harsher and harder for a group belonging to the same class of people they try to defend.

So yeah, this is why I am honestly quite pissed off. I don’t care if they stupid or what kind of ideology they represent. But when you start degrading and breaking down cultural monuments for no good reason, and worse, when you start destroying books that will never be found anywhere else, well there’s clearly something wrong with you. 

And this morning, it pissed me off SO MUCH to see a so-called “representant” of the student manifestation movement saying on television “The universities were closed because they don’t want the people to speak! The university staff pretends it wants to help the life of students, but in truth it refuses democratic dialogue! If they close the university sites, it is just so we can’t express ourselves!”.

No you idiot. They close the sites because a bunch of crazy anarchists was destroying centuries-old treasures and just wanted to break down everything they touched. They shut the doors because there’s already a lot of euros worth of damage and the hard work of a lot of people was entirely lost. They don’t want you to not speak, this has nothing to do with “shutting youth up”, you self-centered little prick. Even worse: this has nothing to do with democracy, you shithead. Blocking a university because your candidate didn’t get enough vote ; destroying books because French people favor one political wing over another ; screwing with the studies of thousands and thousands of teenagers and young adults just because you want the world to know you’re angry, that’s not democracy. This has nothing to do with democracy at all.

But what can I say... as a student among students, it is very sad to see that all “political” students in big French cities actually tend to be extremely dumb, and to not understand the own words they speak. Nowadays, whenever someone is prevented from breaking stuff down, they scream that “democracy is not respected”. They don’t get that democracy is entirely working on respecting the most popular opinions and working to change them - it is not about throwing a destructive tantrum because people don’t agree with you. 

Anyway I just needed to get my bile out of there. Honestly it is the books that got me. The rest I could have just endured with the usual bitterness and angriness I keep for those kind of events. But the library books being destroyed? This just supports what I could observe in my five years at looking at university students: those that shout the loudest are also the stupidest of them all. 

#my life in france #sorbonne #french students #angry rant #rant of the day #now I will return to hibernation

[fieriframes]

[And our four-chili hot sauce we just made. Uh-huh. Some of that crispy garlic, crispy shallots, green onions. Beauvoir on French students: POL, 180. The best part. There's more part? We like to top it off with some of that lovely cheese sauce.]

#s28e27 far east flavorfest #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #four-chili hot sauce #lovely cheese sauce #green onions #french students #crispy garlic #best part #beauvoir

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Monday, November 5

Text ID: —I have so much love in me that I would like to cry;

#simone de beauvoir #diary of a philosophy student: volume 2 1928-9 #quote #diary #journal #french literature #lit #miscellanea #αἰνελένη

[learnelle]

(9/30) How I write assignments -> For both Psychology and French I always start with chaotic drafts to try get loads of work done without worrying too much about everything being perfect. Then I chisel down the mess into a neat french creative piece or paste my best psychology work into a premade apa 7 template word doc. My work may not be amazing, but I will never lose marks on presentation 📖✨

#I’m not crafting a paper to publish but this is my assignment writing process 😊 #30dop #30nym #studyblr #light academia #studyspo #cottagecore #dark academia #psychblr #Psychology student #psychology studyblr #Psychology #french #langblr

[larstudy]

🧪 19.02.2024 // I went to my 4 lectures this morning before going back home to study a bit (I also asked questions to my professor and I'm pretty happy about it ahah).

I ended up studying 3 more hours: I studied pharmacology and medchem and I'm happy because I managed to do (almost) all the things I had to do! I also had the results of an "optional course" I was in and they're great but I'll talk about it in another post :))

Moreover my parents came back from their trip and I decided to stay with them one more week. I know it's gonna be really tiring as I'll have to mask 24/7 but I don't have any better choice for the moment :// At least I'll be able to unmask when studying.

Anyway this explain why I'm pretty tired after this day ahah

I also did some groceries but nobody cares expect me ahahah

#dailylar #studyblr #french student #french studyblr #study #pharmacyblr #studyblr community #pharmacy student #pharma student

[myebi]

dandelion blooms, spring is here 🌼🌿 (the DTIYS for this is currently happening on my insta!!)

#dtiys #draw this in your style #french illustration #french illustrator #french artwork #french artist #french art student #ocs #oc #barn owl #barn owls #barn owl oc #owl oc #aheran #dmsi #dreamers i #myeart

[pagansphinx]

Gustave Jean Jacquet (French, 1846-1909) • The Cello Player • c. 1890 •

#art #painting #fine art #art history #gustave jean jacquet #french artist #student of bouguereau #classical painting #academicism #oil painting #portrait #female portrait #beautiful dresses in paintings #19th century european art #art blog #pagan sphinx art blog #art detail #art lovers on tumblr #musical instruments in artworks

[nojaloart]

totally normal nona

commission me!! so i can go watch a play

#nona the ninth #nona the 9th #art tingz #tlt #the locked tomb #have been away from my tablet and also wayyy too swamped to draw digitally for fun #but i’ve been doodling while watching survivor quebec for french class lol #theres an r&gad production in toronto next year ft. the actors of merry and pippin from lotr so funds from commissions go towards that <333 #or like. regular uni student living expenses ig 🙄

[princessmacabre]

day 11/100 days of productivity

first day of in-person university is in the books. 🥂

woke up at 8am

morning tea & french poetry (and How To Be A Parisienne)

read on the train Le Murmure

French class

finished the first version of my poetry eBook

prepared my stuff for tomorrow (another day at university…)

#100 days of productivity #booklover #books & libraries #books and writing #studyblr #book blog #student life #study blog #studygram #bookblr #student #university life #university #university library #french #french literature #french class #parisienne #parisienstyle

[diogenes867]

This tweet is peak French culture lmao

"We're not even hyped up for the sports we just want to see how catastrophic it's gonna be, it's gonna be peak entertainment lmaoo"

#I'm so proud of whoever said this #they basically summed up what most French people think about thr Olympics #like Paris is already bad enough as it is are you sure you want to host the Olympics there ?? #i kinda want to spend the summer holidays in Paris now so I can witness the absolute chaos that it's gonna be #also fuck the government for forcing the Parisian students to move out of their dorms #i hope everything fails miserably #frenchblr #croissant baguette #french posting #olympics #olympic games #paris #paris france #twitter #tweet

[tiredmagicalwarrior]

I think one of the things I appreciated the most about Nocturne was the protagonism on the Haitian Revolution.

This was a revolution that didn't just change Haiti, it changed the world. This was the revolution that would make the first black state. The first slaveless state. That would make every slave nation tremble with fear, from Europe To America to Asia to Oceania to Africa. It was what was never meant to happen, but did.

It's the nation that would defeat Napoleon and the British marine. Nobody could take down Haiti. You know why Napoleon went to colonize Europe? Haiti. That's why. He couldn't take down Haiti. Couldn't make it french territory again. So, he turned towards Europe.

We are talking about an undefeated nation.

AND! AND! A largely Vodu nation!

I was SO happy to see Vodu be portrayed as the wonderful religion it is, sacred and divinely intertwined with the Haitian revolution. The revolution was noted to start with Vodu chants and ritual.

White people refused to understand the link between the two worlds that could bring ancestors to meet their descendants. They created zombies as a horror trope. They made vodu dolls as a horror gimmick. They took a sacred religion and reduced it and vilanized it.

And I'm so happy to see it being positively portrayed in such a famous media. Vodu practicioners have already made media of the like. But I was positively surprised with what Nocturne had to present to us.

Of course, the knowledge that the french revolution was incomplete, that it was NOT FOR EVERYONE, is then again, something I really appreciate as a history student and a person. The french revolution killed mostly peasent and established the bourgeoisie, but did it end the Noir Code? No. Did it establish women's and black people's suffrage? No. Did it make a agrarian reform? No. Was it for the people? It had it's importance. But it was, at the very least, not for all the people.

And let's not forget that the french revolution's main intellectual current would birth biological racism, an unscientific current that claimed evidence of "different sized skulls" for example to prove humans possessed different races based on phenotypes.

Last, but certainly not least: it is absurd to see people claim that "all indigenous people have been killed". Acknowledging multi-ethnic indigenous genocide HAS to go along with the respect that there STILL are indigenous people and they continue their fight for their lives and land.

You know who the show demonstrates as such? Olrox.

While I don't appreciate the show claiming "all of his people were slaughtered" as that is historically inaccurate, I was most happy to see an Aztec vampire present and very alive, connected to his culture, protagonizing the show. The Nahua are still very much alive and kicking and I appreciated that the show took that into account.

And Annette! Sweet Annette being one of the leads makes me most joyful. I can't stand idiots that claim her presence.on France was """historically innacurate""", check again, dumbasses, free black people were all over France (especially the children of black Caribbean elites, for example, from Haiti back then known as Saint-Domingue, which did not possess universities and would sent their children to study in Europe.)

Anyway. To see her star as one of the leads made me so incredibly happy. She's a wonderful character and I appreciate how they let Annette be unapologetic and direct, especially during a moment between revolutions were she was very aware the french revolution didn't mean shit to her people.

But she was so lovely and to see her afro-caribean religion present AND source of her power made me emotional more than a few times.

Castlevania Nocturne really did hit this nail on the head.

Anyways. To make sure I give people answers to "but where's the evidence to x thing you said?" Here are my sources:

THYLEFORS, Markel; “Our Government is in Bwa Kayiman:”A Vodou Ceremony in 1791 and its Contemporary Significations, 2009

DUBOIS, Laurent; Avengers of the New World : the story of the Haitian Revolution, 2004

BUCK-MORSS, Susan; Hegel, Haiti and universal history, 2009

#Castlevania nocturne #Haitian revolution #French revolution #castlevania annette #richter belmont #castlevania netflix #maria renard #tera renard #castlevania edouard #olrox #castlevania olrox #castlevania spoilers #I'm just a history student who really likes Haitian history #and who's sick and tired to see people glorify the french revolution #like if you wanted a revolution that was truly liberating and radical and you know REVOLUTIONARY #the Haitian Revolution is RIGHT THERE #like HELLOOOOOO #and i'm so sick of seeing Vodu religion demonized #it's a beautiful religion and it shouldn't matter what you think of it #it deserves to be respected #we all have a responsibility in anti-racism and anti-religious oppression #so work

[eurazba]

Another comic for @thosetrollkids' French Abroad Student au since we watched the Miraculous Movie together this week :3

#raz drew #raz comics #french abroad student au #tikki #marinette dupain-cheng #jim lake jr #trollhunters #mlb #miraculous ladybug

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Tuesday, October 9

Text ID: I find myself back in the obscure sweetness of fall nights,

#simone de beauvoir #diary of a philosophy student: volume 2 1928-9 #quote #diary #journal #french literature #lit #miscellanea #waiting…

[eso-studies]

31 March 2023 || réussir (Fr): to succeed

why do they make everything due at the same time?

#studyblr #study aesthetic #aesthetic #eso studies #studyspo #student aesthetic #academia aesthetic #study space #desk aesthetic #french #history student #history

[larstudy]

🌼 07.04.2024 // It's the beginning of my two-weeks revision period before my exams and I started with 3 hours of pharmacognosy (even tho I hate that subject). It went slowly but surely and I reviewed the basics.

I made pancakes to motivate me to study on a (rainy) sunday (and it worked, they were delicious!!) and took some pictures of the flowers in my garden :))

#dailylar #studyblr #french student #french studyblr #study #studyblr community #pharmacyblr #pharmacy student #pharma student #stem student #stem studyblr #study blog

[myebi]

i stayed at a mill with friends for a week 🌱

#figure study #observation drawing #dessin d'observation #french art student #french illustrator #french illustration #french art #myeart