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[retrogeographie]

Quillan, la Pierre Lys.

#quillan #languedoc #architecture #trente glorieuses #retro géographie #la pierre lys

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Thoughts On Frederic Malle Leaving His Own Brand -- And Reviews Of Some Of His Classic Scents

Frederic Malle has announced he's leaving his own brand -- some thoughts from me, followed by reviews of a few his classic releases

— The speculators I alluded to above are theorising about all manner of likely (and less likely) reasons and scenarios. Take your pick from whichever of the following you fancy: i) thwarted creative freedom, ii) clashing and disagreeing with the marketing strategies employed by a multi-national monolith, iii) not wanting to put up any longer with his perfumes being cheapened, iv) the end of the…

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Come Through ୨୧ George Russell x Rockstar! Reader

Is rockstar the right word? idk I just know bro is crazy bts, the white boy with Excel persona is fooling NO ONE Georgie boy. Also, Reader has vibes of the Weekend song, hence the fic name.

Lando thinks it's all a joke. He hadn't been crying, screaming and manifesting for the past three years only for his celebrity crush to be dating someone else, another driver that too.

"WHO-" He yells as he storms into Max's room, where most of the drivers had collected, they hadn't decided but they all just gravitated towards the blonde with sweet blue eyes who listened to the vent and gave the best hugs, "AFTER ALL WE WENT THROUGH- WHO IS DATING Y/N L/N?"

All eyes were on him, Max lying on his bed, Charles, Carlos and Daniel with him. Lance, Esteban and Pierre were on the sofa, playing FIFA on Max's PS5, George and Alex were sharing the smaller two-seater, Zhou and Yuki were passing a tennis ball to each other and Logan and Oscar were sleeping, cuddling close on the floor surrounded by pillows, but were now woken up by Landos yelling.

"Lando stop screaming," Charles yelled back.

"No," he simply replied and made his way to the bed where he jumped on top of Carlos and Daniel, the older of whom groaned and grumbled something about his back, but Lando didn't care, he pushed his phone in Max's face, blurring his face in Carlos's neck.

xoxof1

xoxof1 Y/n l/n an infamous British rockstar most famous for her multiple dating scandals and most recently an arrest is rumoured to date a F1 driver.

username MOTHER WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE 😭😭😭

username girl... knowing her it's like Lewis or someone

username fr like hasn't she 'dated' a dozen older guys not to mention her record with women username girl why are you hating like a man, she's iconic and we all know it

username just lost my wife to a vroom-vroom man no one talk to me

Max began laughing, looking up from the post to the distraught Lando currently getting his hair played with by Carlos.

"Mate, I don't think you're her type," he threw the phone back to the whining boy.

"Yeah? And how would you know? I look exactly like Edward!" He pointed to the bassist of the band you were a part of.

"Kelly loves her music..." he muttered, looking away much to the younger man's amusement.

"HAH!" He shrieked, "SHE'S NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND ANYMORE!!" He laughed to which Carlos pushed his head down, eliciting an 'oomph'.

"I've been told many times," Max muttered to himself and turned to Lando to hear the rest of his rant, though loud and fast, the boy was the best source of entertainment they had.

"Max, look at her band, she's so coooool," he groaned, passing the phone to him again.

Cupidd

Cupidd THANK YOU LA!! We'll be back with 'young, numb and brunette' after this short break!!

y/nl/n My old man said I had to be in Shangai this weekend 🫡 but trust- I will be back to piss y'all off with Eddie asap

edwrdnotcllen MY WIFE HAS LEFT ME FOR A TWINK HELP y/nl/n shut up Eddie your the twinkiest twink I know username I love that they have had multiple partners in the past yet still always call each other husband and wife username I pity her boyfriend 😭 imagine having to compete with a man who looks like Edward

username SHES GOING TO A RACE????

username nooooo pls my parents

username girl they have never dated, both y/n and Edward have had multiple partners and relationships with men and women in the past. Leave them alone, they're adults username FOUND Y/N'S BFS ALT GUYS!!!

"She's coming to China?" Max asked no one in particular but Lando took it as an invitation to freak out.

"Bro please, please, please let me win this one, I'll owe you forever, bro please," Lando tried his puppy eyes on Max but Max jumped out of bed calling his girlfriend, walking out the room trying his best to convince the older woman to not attend the race.

"I have so much work to do," Lando gasped and followed Max out the room.

The race was one to remember, with Max winning but George a close second and Lando barely a tenth away on the third.

He hadn't been able to find the girl anywhere but at least he got points for the team. He went to the McLaren team party and forgot about the other celebration taking place.

xoxof1

xoxof1 The unexpected couple have been revealed in a series of leaked pictures of the private f1 party after the driver George Russell had a podium finish for his Shangai race.

username Mr.Russell I was unaware of your rizz, forgive me sir.

username WHITE MAN DOES IT IN ONE DAY 😭😭😭

landonorris When i catch you george when I catch you

username LANDO??? username he's one of ussssss username bbg you get me 😮‍💨 in ways no man ever has

George woke up with the worst headache he ever had in his life, he was sure he'd never get over this hangover but then he saw y/n next to him, hair tussled wearing the white shirt he was wearing last night.

"Y/n, darling, wake up," he pressed a kiss on her shoulder.

"mmhm," the woman groaned, turning to the blonde next to her and kissing him, the taste of vodka still fresh in her mouth.

She melted into his touch as he deepened the kiss, " Mornin' G," she whispered to him, voice hoarse from the night before.

He smiled in return, placing one last kiss on the corner of her lips. She searched around for her phone, finding it fallen amongst their haphazardly discarded clothes and opened Instagram to thousands of notifications.

She was used to it by now, it was quite fun.

y/nl/n

y/nl/n If I speak... @/georgerussell

edwrdnotcllen @/yn/ln you are so welcome for not squealing as soon as I knew

y/nl/n girl you asked me if you could kiss him after??? edwrdnotcllen And I still am?? username WHAT-

username I just know Lando is fuming rn

username y'all need a third? a dog? a maid?

username it should be me instead of him!!!

username god I see what you've done for others 😭

"Darling, did you post-" George had just begun but his room was rudely broken into, running in he saw a hyper papaya-coloured blur followed by a very hungover Max Verstappen.

Lando gasped looking at the woman next to George, screeching at an inhuman pitch, "HOW'D THIS PIECE OF VANILLA FRAPPUCCINO WOO HER??!?!?" He pointed at Y/n, making the woman laugh.

George offended, scoffed at the boy, "Well if you must know, I met her at Nando's party-" he was cut off once again, this time by the Dutch man.

"That makes sense actually," he said and immediately grabbed Lando by the collar and dragged him out, "Sorry guys!" he yelled after himself.

"I like your friends," Y/n said smirking making the taller man blush and push the woman slightly, before collapsing back into bed, making a silent promise of never trying to out-drink the woman again.

#f1 #formula 1 #max verstappen #f1 fanfic #f1 x reader #f1 imagine #george russell x reader #george russell #george russell imagine #george russell x you #lando norris x reader #lando norris #max verstappen x reader #george russel x reader

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CLARA BOW // charles leclerc - pt. 4

charles leclerc x figureskater!reader

part 1 part 2 part 3

summary: you're an aspiring olympic gold medalist who just wants to compete and have fun. on the way there, a handsome monegasque f1 driver slides into your dms and changes the trajectory of your life.

note: pt. 4 bby! i'm so excited to finally get into the main part of this story with you guys! you have no idea of the devilry i have planned 😈

cassievilleneuve

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cassievilleneuve we weren't cool enough for the amex lounge 🥲

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carolinevilleneuve sleepy bears 🧸💙

y/n l/n at least my ass looks nice 🤷🏻‍♀️

cassievilleneuve speak for yourself i look like a potato 😭 thanks care

carolinevilleneuve anytime 😁

leclerclover43 y/n is so unserious i love her 😄 "at least my ass looks nice"

y/n l/n well it does, doesn't it?

leclerclover43 you're so right queen ofc it does 🤧

leclerclover43 also, any reason why you might be traveling?

y/n l/n 👀🤫

leclerclover43 oH

isabeau.levito vacation without me? 🥲

y/n l/n bby issy you have school!

isabeau.levito australia >>>>>>> school

isabeau.levito also, where did all these people come from? what did i miss?

carolinevilleneuve you missed the y/n x hot driver saga!? dm NOW

callsignice am i the only one wondering why y/n's going to australia literally like 4 days after the olympics ended? didn't she just get back home?

y/n l/n

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y/n l/n cassie's man crush treated us to... whatever that is 😄

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cassievilleneuve i do NOT have a crush!!

y/n l/n bro be so fr i know more about him than i know about my own crushes 😭

sainzismysign don't be shy y/n, tell us, who's your crush 👀

y/n l/n i don't kiss and tell 😝

charles_leclerc Whatever that is it looks like a lot of sugar 😳 can i have some?

y/n l/n i'd get you some, but i don't need your trainer up in my dms threatening me 😔

charles_leclerc Andrea's an angel, I promise 🙏🏻 no threats

pierregasly Andrea, an angel? LMAO

charles_leclerc Pierre, fermez-la!

emmalechair yeah pierre let our boy shoot his shot!

carolinevilleneuve ...where did this picture come from? i don't remember going to a restaurant?

y/n l/n neither did i 😄 the man crush sent it to me

carolinevilleneuve @cassievilleneuve YOU WENT ON A DATE!?

cassievilleneuve IT WASN'T A DATE

y/n l/n liar 😆

mclaren

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mclaren Live footage of @landonorris lying straight to our face after going on a date and consuming his weight in sugar.

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alllyyyssson ehem eXcUsE ME!? LANDO WENT ON A DATE!?

cecelewis ADMIN TELL US WHAT YOU KNOW

jazzyruiz admin rlly thought they could slip the "lando went on a date" at the beginning of the caption and we wouldn't notice 😭

landosleni my husband is cheating on me!?!?!

landonorris IT WASN'T A DATE

mclaren Sure it wasn't, buddy 😛

danielricciardo why you lying

neonorangepapaya LMAO dragggg him daniel!

y/n l/n ✓ 2m

Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit Melbourne, Australia

"Are you sure this is even a good idea?" Y/N bit her lip nervously, letting the hometown hero - Daniel Ricciardo - drag her down the paddock.

"Bit too late for second thoughts now, isn't it?" Daniel quipped, nodding his head at a passing mechanic.

"I'm not having second thoughts, I just... he didn't even invite me here."

"Which is the whole point of a surprise," Daniel pointed out. He turned back to look at her briefly, "By the way, where's your friend?"

At that, Y/N giggled, "With Lando. Those two have been joined at the hip ever since he picked us up from the airport."

"So it was a date!" Daniel crowed triumphantly.

"Obviously!" Y/N snickered. "What else could it have been?"

"He was telling everyone you were there too after the McLaren admin made that post."

Y/N scoffed, "Now, that's a lie! I was dead asleep in our hotel room. Cassie snuck out and I didn't find out until I woke up and saw that Lando sent me that picture, saying she was in good hands."

"I'm not surprised. I wouldn't want to be caught dead on a date with Lando either." Daniel nodded, mock thoughtfully.

Y/N giggled again, "I don't think that's why she didn't tell me."

He hummed, but refrained from saying anything else as they reached the Ferrari garage, bustling as it was with mechanics, engineers, and strategists.

Y/N came to a full stop as he called out, "Oi! Frenchman! Over here!"

An accented voice yelled back, "I'm Monegasque!", as Charles Leclerc emerged from the sea of red, clad in his own scarlet racing gear.

"Same thing," Daniel grinned, but Charles' attention was no longer on him.

"Y/N?" He blurted out in shock.

Y/N lifted a hand nervously and waved, "Hi?"

Charles stood there, staring at her like he'd seen a ghost, until someone behind him shoved him forward and he snapped out of his reverie.

"Uh, hi! Hi!" He laughed, hovering in front of her uncertainly. "What are you doing here?"

"Lando and Daniel invited me," Y/N bit her lip, cheeks reddening. "They, um- we thought it might be a nice surprise."

He didn't say anything for a moment, but just as she was getting ready to backtrack, his face broke out into a beaming smile and he pulled her into a half-hug - an uncertain one, the kind you give someone if you know them, but you don't know them enough to give them a full hug.

"Welcome to Ferrari," he stated loudly as camera flashes went off, pictures and videos recording the moment that would go viral on Twitter and Instagram for the entirety of that day. "The best team on the grid!"

tag list: @1655clean, @norwayxo, @thecubanator2, @theendofthematerialgworl, @c-losur3, @lightdragonrayne

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[pazzesco]

The Great Binge: The Drug-Fuelled “Belle Epoque”

The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque; French for "Beautiful Epoch" is a period of history, usually considered to begin around 1871–1880 and to end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It was a period characterized by optimism, peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations. In this era of France's cultural and artistic climate (particularly within Paris), the arts markedly flourished, and numerous masterpieces of literature, music, theatre, and visual art gained extensive recognition.

The Bar At Maxim's, Vintage Artwork By Pierre-Victor Galland

The Great Binge refers to the same period spanning 1870 to 1914 in North America. It was coined by modern historian Gradus Protus van der Belt to describe a time when drugs like cocaine, heroin, opium, absinthe, laudanum, and many more were freely available not just from your local pharmacy, tobaconists or the neighbourhood bar, but also from the barbershop, the stationers, and even confectioners.

Morphine by Albert Matignon - 1905

Georges Moreau de Tours - Les Morphinees The Morphine Takers - 1886

Between 1827 and 1842, over 27,000 pounds of opium came into the ports of the United States alone, where the drug found an unexpected distribution network of businessmen, presidential parents, and even Ivy League schools, which all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century.

The Illustrated London News print of the clipper steamship Ly-ee-moon, built for the opium trade, c. 1859

“Princeton’s first large benefactor, John Green, funded his contribution through the opium trade […] Yale University’s infamous Skull and Bone society was funded by the most successful family of opium dealers in America,” reveals Harvard’s magazine, The Crimson, adding that as America’s gateway institution for the drug that soon spread to other Ivy Leagues along the East Coast, “Opium once pervaded campus life at Harvard […] throughout the 1800s, its black smoke kept the university’s veins flowing with green and its faculty and students perpetually dazed.”

The term “pipe dream” actually originates from the opium dens of turn of the century America where people smoking an opium pipe would come up with ideas, theories and fantasies whilst hallucinating.

In 1908, President Roosevelt appointed Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner in the United States to begin targeting opium dealers. The irony here is that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s grandfather, Warren Delano, was an opium peddler, and his drug trade was responsible for the bulk of the family’s fortune. Roosevelt’s mother, Sara Delano, travelled to Hong Kong with her family to join her opium-trading father in the 1860s.

Warren Delano (FDR's grandfather & Opium King)

Sara (FDR's mother) & Philippe Delano in 1864, following their return home from Hong Kong. (Franklin Roosevelt Library)

The crackdown on the Great Binge inevitably began with the signing of the 1912 International Opium Convention to suppress opium smoking and to limit it to medicinal purposes. In the 1920s, in the US, an anti-drug crusade also saw heroin cough drops and cocaine tablets to slowly disappear from stores and bathroom cabinets.

In the 1920s, in the US, an anti-drug crusade also saw heroin cough drops and cocaine tablets to slowly disappear from stores and bathroom cabinets.

During the Great Binge, the most notable drink in circulation was the Vin Mariani, an alcoholic beverage that combined both wine and cocaine.

Angelo Mariani, a French chemist who invented a very popular beverage in 1863.

Mariani tonic Wine — lithography by Jules Cheret

The French "Tonic" Wine received endorsements from Pope Leo XIII as well as many of the Belle Epoque’s most famous names, Sarah Bernhardt, Jules Verne and even Queen Victoria were all fans of the drug-infused cocktail.

Pope Leo XIII even allowed his face to be used in Vin Mariani’s marketing campaign. He was very much a brand ambassador, citing that it strengthened him “when prayer was insufficient”.

Mariani's "Tonic" would spent the following century cleaning up its act & rebranding itself to become the world’s most iconic household brand: Coca Cola

#belle epoque #Beautiful Epoch #paris #Great Binge #cocaine #opium #Morphine #Albert Matignon #Les Morphinees #Georges Moreau de Tours #ivy league schools #Ivy League #Opium trade #princeton #yale #harvard #pipe dream #franklin d. roosevelt #fdr #Warren Delano #Sara Delano #Angelo Mariani #Vin Mariani #Pope Leo XIII #jules verne #queen victoria #coca cola

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Sexiest Hugo characters: survey results

1. enjolras [les miserables]

2. esmeralda [notre dame de paris]

3. montparnasse [les miserables]

4. djali [notre dame de paris]

5. gwynplaine [l’homme qui rit]

6. la pieuvre [the toilers of the sea]

7. cimourdain [93]

8. bahorel [les miserables]

9. gilliatt [the toilers of the sea]

10. javert [les miserables]

11. hernani [hernani]

12. phoebus [notre dame de paris]

13. gauvain [93]

14. feuilly [les miserables]

15. courfeyrac [les miserables]

16. josiana [l’homme qui rit]

17. marius pontmercy [les miserables]

18. don carlos [hernani]

19. dea [l’homme qui rit]

20. combeferre [les miserables]

21. homo [l’homme qui rit]

22. cosette [les miserables]

23. fantine [les miserables]

24. bishop myriel [les miserables]

25. valjean [les miserables]

26. don ruy gomez de silva [hernani]

27. grantaire [les miserables]

28. claquesous/le cabuc [les miserables]

29. dona sol de silva [hernani]

30. jehan frollo [notre dame de paris]

31. ursus [l’homme qui rit]

32. eponine [les miserables]

33. prouvaire [les miserables]

34. claude frollo [notre dame de paris]

35. joly [les miserables]

36. ebenezer caudray [the toilers of the sea]

37. houzarde [93]

38. fleur de lys [notre dame de paris]

39. sister simplice [les miserables]

40. pierre gringoire [notre dame de paris]

41. fauchelevent [les miserables]

42. clopin [notre dame de paris]

43. bossuet [les miserables]

44. michelle flecharde [93]

45. david dirry-moir [l’homme qui rit]

46. radoub [93]

47. mabeuf [les miserables]

48. col pontmercy [les miserables]

49. fibi [l’homme qui rit]

50. azelma [les miserables]

51. quasimodo [notre dame de paris]

52. barkilphedro [l’homme qui rit]

53. hardquanonne [l’homme qui rit]

54. babet [les miserables]

55. vinos [l’homme qui rit]

56. gillenormand [les miserables]

57. thenardier [les miserables]

58. deruchette [the toilers of the sea]

59. lethierry [the toilers of the sea]

60. mme thenardier [les miserables]

61. gudule [notre dame de paris]

62. lantenac [93]

63. mlle baptistine [les miserables]

64. clubin [the toilers of the sea]

if i mispelled anything no i didnt

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[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Is there a list of frev figures who claimed to be at the storming of the Bastille? The people I know who said they at least witnessed it is pretty eclectic like Herault, Léon and Saint-Just.

I found all the (official?) ”vainqueurs de la Bastille” listed in alfabethical order here (1889). However, according to Michael J. Sydenham’s Léonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807, who’s subject of study claimed to belong to this group, simply holding this title was not a guarantee that you had actually taken part in the storming itself:

The only people found on the list that I myself recognized were those of the dantonist Louis Legendre, the girondin Claude Fauchet and the general Antoine Joseph Santerre. I therefore don’t know if the people claiming to have participated in the storming here below are just lying (saying you played a role in it after all being something that would easily better your patriotic reputation) or if their participation just wasn’t recorded (which doesn’t sound particulary hard to be true either):

Stanislas Fréron claims in a letter to Lucile Desmoulins dated October 18 1793, that both he, Barras and La Poype ”besieged” the Bastille.

Pierre Nicolas Berryer wrote in his memoirs that the Convention deputy Bourdon d’Oise participated in the storming of the Bastille, and still kept the blood stained coat he had worn during it five years later:

At the same time, and as if he felt the need to convince me even more of the strength of his mind, [Bourdon] took out from under his bed an oblong casket, in which was tucked the coat he had worn on the day of the storming of the Bastille… […] He took great care to point out to me that his coat was still covered with stains from the blood he had spilled at the Bastille. 

Albert Mathiez summarized in the article La vie de Héron racontée par lui-même (1925) a memoir the Committee of General Security spy François Héron wrote while imprisoned after thermidor. In it, he would have claimed to have participated in the storming of the Bastille, as well as the women’s march on Versailles, the demonstration of June 20 and the Insurrection of August 10.

According to Dictionnaire des parlementaires français (…) de 1789 à 1889, Jacques-Alexis Thuriot took part in the storming.

Regarding some more well known guys and their Bastille activities, Desmoulins, in a letter written to his father written July 16, leaves a rather detailed description of the storming. Through the following part, he does however indicate that he himself missed it:

Then, the cannon of the French Guards made a breach. Bourgeois, soldiers, everyone rushes forward. An engraver climbs up first, they throw him down and break his legs. A luckier French guard followed him, seized a gunner, defended himself, and the place was stormed in half an hour. I started running at the first cannon shot, but the Bastille was already taken, in two and a half hours, a miracle that is.

Camille also adds that, on July 15, he was among the people who scaled the ruins of the stormed Bastille:

However, I felt even more joy the day before, when I climbed into the breach (montai sur la brèche) of the surrendered Bastille, and the flag of the Guards and the bourgeois militias was raised there. The most zealous patriots were there. We embraced each other, we kissed the hands of the French guards, crying with joy and intoxication.

On July 23 1789, Robespierre wrote a letter to Antoine Buissart telling him he had gotten to see the ”liberated” Bastille, but he had of course not participated in the storming himself:

I’ve seen the Bastille, I was taken there by a detachment of the brave bourgeois militia that had taken it; because after leaving town hall, on the day of the king's trip, the armed citizens took pleasure in escorting out of honor the deputies they met, and they could only march among acclamations from the people. What a delightful abode the Bastille has been since it came into the power of the people, its dungeons are empty and a multitude of workers work tirelessly to demolish this odious monument to tyranny! I could not tear myself away from this place, the sight of which only gives sensations of pleasure and ideas of liberty to all good citizens.

According to Danton: le mythe et l’histoire (2016), Danton did not take part in the actual storming of the Bastille, however, the following day he went to the abandoned prison and took the provisional governor hostage:

Absent from the storming of the Bastille, it was on the night of July 15 to 16 that Danton took action. At the head of a patrol of the bourgeois guard of his district, of which he proclaimed himself captain, he claimed, we do not know in what capacity, to enter the "castle of the Bastille,” placed under the control of the elector Soulès, as provisional governor. Without worrying about his powers, Danton has him kidnapped and taken to City Hall, surrounded by a threatening crowd. But Soulès was released the next day upon the intervention of La Fayette; Danton's initiative was openly disavowed and blamed by the assembly of electors.

According to Clifford D. Connor, Marat wrote the following about his activities on July 14 1789 in number 36 of l’Ami du peuple (12 November 1789):

#lots of thermidorians who were involved in the storming… #french revolution #frev #bastille #danton was really unhinged here…

[lisaalmeida]

Il nous faut la vie sauvage pour nous protéger de notre propre violence.

Il nous faut la nature sauvage pour contrer cette culbute dans le noir, infinie et tourbillonnante, où c'est précipitée une démocratie branlante.

Il nous faut la force des lys, des fougères, des mousses et des éphémères. Il nous faut la virilité des lacs et des rivières, la féminité des pierres, la sagesse du calme, sinon du silence.

Le livre du Yaak,

Chronique du Montana,

Rick Bass.

[lovelytsunoda]

misc. masterlist

instagram au masterlist

f1

violent delights have violent ends (mick schumacher, daniel ricciardo, pierre gasly, nico hulkenberg) 🌹

mick, danny and pierre knew they would need to fight for seats in 2023. they just didn't know that otmar szafnauer was going to take it literally.

the motorsports fiction recommendation list (part two)

the cedric diggory f1 driver au that nobody asked for but i wrote anyways

tokyo drift

the day you kissed a writer in the dark ,, han lue 🌹🍑🌩

she's stood by his side for years. his loyal mechanic, the brains behind his brawn. but she'd be lying if she said that it didn't hurt to watch him flirt with those other women in his club, when he came home to her every night in secret.

see also: proud mary ( han lue ) from tina!: the series

the night agent

take one down ,, francisco jenkins 🌩

the fix-it fic we all deserve, and the ending that cisco should have had.

top gun (1986)

tell me something girl (are you happy in this modern world) ,, tom kazansky 🌹🌩

after thirty years of marriage, heather kazansky reflects on the time she spent and the love she shared with tom as she prepares to write her eulogy and say goodbye to her husband.

take my breath away ,, tom kazansky 🌹

temporarily stationed in nevada, tom and heather decide to take a weekend in las vegas to see their favourite new wave band. all the while, all tom can think about when to ask heather to be his wife.

top gun (2022)

sunday in heaven ,, jake seresin 🌹

jake’s favourite afternoons were spent with his fiancée and his dog, with hot drinks and a good book. nice and calm, different from his every day. but tell anybody that and he’d have to kill you.

uptown girl ,, mickey garcia🌹

she would do anything for her nerd boy. except maybe meet his friends in a crowded bar with a pool table where she can make a fool of herself in front of all of her boyfriend's friends. it's a good thing that mickey is a good teacher.

#f1 imagine #top gun imagine #top gun x reader #han lue x reader #tokyo drift imagine #tom kazansky x reader #the night agent fanfic #the night agent x reader #lovelytsunodas masterllist

[tina-aumont]

I found this beautiful photo and is new for me!

Here is the article in french language:

 https://www.cinematheque.fr/article/1976.html

🌟Thank you very much for these great findings Andrea, you are great!!🌟😍💜

A new Home Movie by Frédéric Pardo has been found and it will be shown the 9th March 2023 at 19:30h at Cinema Reflet Medicis

                        Home Movie : New York

Frédéric Pardo

France 1968  / 20 min  

With Tina Aumont, Nico, Jackie Raynal.

Jackie Raynal and Tina Aumont in Central Park. Views from an apartment, from a car, Nico at the window above Tina Aumont. Jackie Raynal, pregnant, gets dressed in an apartment, Tina is lying down in bed. Walks in the streets of NYC at dusk.

2K digitization at the CNC laboratory by the Cinémathèque française, from the 8 and 16 mm copies kept in the collections.

Three Home Movies, from a collection deposited at the Cinémathèque. Three previously unseen films, which show, in their simplicity of family films, an artist in love: Tina Aumont is permanently at the center of Paris Home Movie With Tina, a candid poem shot mostly in the alleys of Luxembourg and Pardo New York, where the couple joins Viva and Michel Auder in Central Park, and where we also see Nico at the window of a room in the Chelsea Hotel. Here again, Tina magnetizes the painter’s gaze. What he does with her and the light has no other aim than to translate into images an intimacy that obsesses and delights him. Different, because devoted to the group – in this case the Zanzibar band, Philippe Garrel, Serge Bard, Patrick Deval, Jackie Raynal, Michel Auder, Daniel Pommereulle and Sylvina Boissonnas – Home Movie Marrakech begins in Venice. Tina contemplates the Grand Canal from her room before continuing in a boat, then it’s Morocco, crossed in a large American car. We recognize Sylvina Boissonnas, producer and patron of the group, Caroline de Bendern, Auder, and others (it could be, it is to be confirmed, Jean Mascolo, Babethe Lamy and Pierre-Richard Bré). It is a prolegomena to the Home Movie that Pardo will do in the wake of the filming of Garrel’s Le Lit de la Vierge. It is notable that these films were not listed in the catalog of Zanzibar productions. Pardo obviously had no intention of showing them. Discovering them today, however, leads us to place them (all things considered) alongside certain films by Pierre Clémenti, Warhol, Mekas or Garrel: a whole crest line of a cinema that fuels the intimate, the couple, to the band, and to the meeting. In the psychedelic paintings that Pardo was doing at the same time (from his initiation, by Klarwein, to the ancestral tempera method), the princes, the sponsors were replaced by friends, loves. It was an idea he held dear. When we know the influence (aesthetic in all) that Pardo had on the Zanzibar group, we understand better in what perspective Garrel, at the time of Le Berceau de Cristal (where he films Pardo at work) needed in turn to gather his “ family” in his films. To repopulate an imaginary in exile, caught in a perpetual flight.

Philippe Azoury

#submission #Tina Aumont #actress #muse #Frederic Pardo #painter #filmmaker #artist #the artist and his muse #the painter and his muse #Home Movie #1968 Home Movie #Home Movie: New York #1968 Home Movie: New York #Cinematheque #16 mm #16 mm film #collaboration #Nico #Jackie Raynal #1968 Tina Frederic Pardo #2006 Tina forever

[josefavomjaaga]

Murcia, 1812

The edition of Soult’s memoirs occasionally in the footnotes quotes excerpts from other books, relating to the subject. In some cases, it’s the “Historia del levantiamento, guerra et revolucion de Espagna” by the Conde de Toreno. So, the scene below (from Volume 4) is a double translation, from Spanish to French and then from French to English. It’s about French troops entering Murcia on 26 January 1812.

All these [Spanish] forces were assailed at the same time, not only by those of Suchet and general Montbrun, but also by a part of the French Army of the South, which ran to take part in the spoils.

Or rather, as usual, Soult’s Armée du Midi, had been called in order to help Suchet conquer this rebellious province. It’s funny how the Armée du Midi, while never receiving any resources in men or money, because all that came from France was intercepted in Madrid at the latest and distributed elsewhere, was always the one everybody ran to if they wanted support.

The latter arrived on the 25th of January in sight of Murcia, and on the 26th General Soult, brother of the Marshal, entered at the head of six hundred horses. He had been preceded the day before by a detachment of troops, and both imposed on the inhabitants heavy contributions impossible to meet. To all these burdens, the French general wanted to add a new one, and ordered that a rich and splendid banquet should be prepared for him the same day in the archiepiscopal palace, where he was lodged. He was already savouring the delicacies which were served to him, when he was interrupted in this sensual occupation by a voice which cried out: "The Spanish troops have entered; the enemies are lost."

In fact, Don Martin de la Carrera, who was stationed not far from there, with a large part of the cavalry of the second and third armies, after having assembled a large body of cavalry in Espinardo, half a mile from the town, had just entered it through the Castilian gate at the head of a hundred horses. Other corps had orders to attack at the same time on the other points. Carrera's design was to surprise the enemies, who were hardly expecting this attack, to take them prisoner, or to drive them out, and thus to deliver the city from such a dangerous host.

Caught unawares, General Soult rose from the table in alarm, and, in his haste, he stumbled and almost rolled down the stairs. Although badly hurt by his fall, he nevertheless mounted his horse, and all his men followed him. Unfortunately, the same was not true of the people of Carrera's party, who, with the exception of those whom he led in person, either did not enter the town or soon retreated through error or lack of courage.

“Thanks, but I think we’ll pass this one.”

Don Martin was consequently obliged to face, alone with his hundred men, the forces of the enemy, which were so superior to him. He did not let himself be defeated, however, and before he was surrounded, he went through the streets and squares, slashing and killing as many of the enemy as he could get his hands on. The melee was sustained for a long time. It cost the French blood to put an end to it; but finally, Carrera [... plenty of heroic resistance later ...] fell lying in the street of San-Nicolas, where he died.

As horrible as this story is, I can’t help but laugh, both at the idea of Soult’s little brother Pierre rolling down those stairs, and that Spanish general running through the streets, killing Frenchmen left and right, calling for his men to follow him, until he looked over his shoulder … "Uhm… where are you guys?"

#napoleonic era #pierre benoit soult #peninsular war #napoleon's generals #murcia 1812 #me ignoring the dread

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Accident de la circulation le 10 février 2023 sous emprise de drogue. L'accident de voiture impliquant Pierre Palmade s'est produit à 18h45. Concrètement, deux véhicules se sont percutés en pleine face sur la route départementale 372 reliant Melun à Dammarie-les-Lys. Le choc a eu lieu vers le centre commercial Carrefour de Villiers-en-Bière

#pierre palmade #palmade gate

[leseigneurdufeu]

Can you please when you have time ofc, write a list of the books any French high-school graduate should have read? Like the baccalaureate curriculum for example. I'm seeking to catch up my general knowledge of universal literature + attempt to read directly in French

Sure!

Now curriculum may vary and there was a reform of education since I left high school so it might have changed but what any french graduate should have read: (authors in bold, titles in italics)

Poetry (middle ages and early Renaissance):

Any three poems from Joachim du Bellay or other poets from the Pleiade. Most important is Heureux qui comme Ulysse.

Also look up who the Pleiade were.

16th and 17th centuries novels:

La Princesse de Montpensier, by Madame de Lafayette. 90 pages but very, very antiquated language.

Gargantua, by Rabelais. It's NOT cheating to take the modern-french translation. Native speakers do it. It's not cheating either to just dump it half-way through because you don't understand half of it. Native speakers do it too.

La Belle et la Bête, by Madame Leprince de Beaumont.

Any fairy tale by Perrault.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Choderlos de Laclos. Please. Do. Not. Read. It. It's awful, the protagonist rapes a 15yo girl but it's ok because him loving her is making him into a better person (Yikes), the whole thing is about the protagonist and his long-time on-and-off girlfriend (who's married to someone else) teaming up to dirty/perverse two (maybe three?) innocent young ladies. It's studied because it's a classics, not because it's good. Please. Don't subject yourself to it.

Les Lettres Persannes, by Montesquieu. letters from a bunch of fictional characters to the others, two iranians (but at the time Iran was called Perse) visit France and criticize everything (way for Montesquieu to criticize but be able to say "nah it's my characters saying that not me"). TW of suicide and incest iirc. Not something too graphic either, since it's always second-hand testimonies or third-hand.

Theatre of the 17th and 18th centuries:

Le Cid, by Pierre Corneille.

At least one play by Molière. Can't recommand because I don't remember much of it. Do read summaries for a few of his plays though because some characters names have passed into common language to mean the type of characters they were (a Harpagon is going to be a greedy man, a Tartuffe a guy pretending to be devoted but being a hypocrite...)

Le Mariage de Figaro, by Beaumarchais. It's a political satire but also people are jumping from the window so that the husband doesn't find them in the lady's room. Basically.

If you fell in love with theatre at that point, you can look up Racine but fair warning, all of those have old language but Racine (along with Corneille) have very old language.

19th century novel:

Short version of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo. I'd recommand the long one but only the short one is required and also the long one has 40 pages of description of the parisian sewers system with no relevance at all to the story and that's not the only long digression so... Do what you want.

A book by Honoré de Balzac, whichever you'd want. If you want to read the whole series, it might be best to look up the order on wikipedia, they'll know better than me. Basically him and the next author on the list had a bibliographic universe before Marvel made it cool. 60-or-so books with common characters but not the same protagonists. I'd recommand you simply go with Le Lys de la Vallée, slightly royalist and apparently the easiest to read? (so i've been told but i didn't read it myself so...)

Any book by Emile Zola. I'd recommand Au bonheur des dames because it has to be the only one with a happy ending and a cute romance out of the 40-and-more books by Zola.

Bel-Ami, by Guy de Maupassant. The protagonist has no morals but it's funny. Kinda.

Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. A tad bit depressing. Not the most interesting either. But it's one of the few that have been studied more than once in my schooling so I know it's an important one.

19th century theatre:

Hernani, a play by Victor Hugo. Tragedy, so a bit sad. But do look up the Battle of Hernani (sorry there's not a big choice of languages for this one on wikipedia). Basically founded the french romantic genre. Quite a scandal.

If per chance Hernani was love at first reading for you, you might also like Ruy Blas, still Hugo, although i found it a bit less good. If you want a ridiculously overdramatic, over-the-top movie freely inspired by Ruy Blas but in which no one dies, you've got La Folie des Grandeurs, a comedy with Louis de Funès.

Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, and if the style of the author makes you want to read more, go for l'Aiglon, which is about Napoleon's son but is a bit sadder.

19th century poetry:

Les fleurs du mal by Baudelaire. Awful. Simply awful. I mean you can try a few. I hated them all. Not necessary to have read all of them by any mean.

20th century:

A Ionesco play, either La Cantatrice Chauve or Rhinoceros, for the Theatre de l'Absurde. La Cantatrice Chauve is funnier I think.

Actually I won't give you any novels from that century because most of the ones studied suck and also it's for post-bac (after graduation) studies so it doesn't fall under the ask.

Now if I had to give you a few classics to read, what I'd recommand:

Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, (ibidem). Luckily this one is on substack format at the cristo account.

Notre-Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo.

I think that's all. If you've got any more questions, about books or about whether or not it's worth reading That Book instead of watching an adaptation or reading a summary, or which adaptation of, for example, Les Miserables, is the best, I'm here to answer them.

#books #history #long post

[sky-kenobye]

Last, Current, Next reads

@palfriendpatine66 tagged anyone who wanted to play so here I am !

Last: Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao. Amazing book, I had a blast reading it, couldn't put it down, I can't wait for the next one to come out! One critic described it as a mix between Pacific Rim and The Handmaid's Tale, which is what really sold me on it, and they weren't lying. Also it's very queer so that's always nice.

Current: I have a bunch of books that I started and still haven't finished but the most recent is The Story Of Silence, by Alex Myers. It's the story of a nonbinary medieval knight, which is a pretty great idea, unfortunately I find it a bit slow to start so I'm struggling with really getting into the story for now. (Also very queer, obviously)

Next: Option 1: I'll re-read La Quête d'Ewilan, Les Mondes d'Ewilan, and Le Pacte des Marchombres, by Pierre Bottero, which are three trilogies that follow each other. It's a french fantasy book series that is unfortunately not translated into English (which is a damn shame because those books are amazing, I've read them many many times).

Option 2: I'll start reading the Wayfarers books, by Becky Chambers, which is a space opera and looks pretty great so I can't wait to read it! (<- I say while reading fanfictions instead of opening a book) (not sure how queer it is but it apparently talks about gender issues, and the author is wlw so I have good hopes)

[papillon82fluttersby]

Famous Five Art Nostalgia #10

Introductory post

Five on a Hike Together – Le Club des Cinq en randonnée

Original publication date: 1951 (UK), 1958 (France)

(Original cover art by Simone Baudouin, 1958)

This book is the last one illustrated by Simone Baudouin whom I quite like as an illustrator, despite her unfortunate habit of switching Dick and Julian’s hair colour. On a personal note, my opinion of this book changed drastically over time: it started as one of my least favourites in the series – as I recall, I used to be a bit spooked by the, well, spooky atmosphere of the tolling bells in the stormy night, the gloomy feel of the abandoned house, and the somewhat scary illustration of Maggie and Dirty Dick that you will see below; but upon further re-readings and as I grew up, this book actually turned into one of my top favourites – I love how the action is tightly packed over five days, with each event leading smoothly to the next, and how the Five get to show their ingenuity figuring out the mystery, outsmarting and showing better sense than the adults. And I just generally enjoy a good "treasure hunt" trope with clues to decipher!

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Plot summary (adapted from Wikipedia):

Siblings Julian and Dick Kirrin have been given a four-day weekend from their boarding school, coinciding with the mid-term break of their sister Anne and cousin George, so they arrange to go hiking together. Julian plans to spend their first night at a bed-and-breakfast called Blue Pond Farm [la ferme de l’Etang-Bleu]. On the way, George's dog, Timmy, injures his leg when being pulled out of a rabbit burrow. Consequently, Julian and George go to the residence of Mr Gaston [M. Gaston], a local expert on animals, while Dick and Anne head for Blue Pond Farm. Mr Gaston treats Timmy's injured leg and Mrs Gaston then insists Julian and George stay for a meal, after which they walk to Blue Pond Farm.

(Anne tries to retrieve Timmy who got a bit too enthusiastic chasing a rabbit down its burrow)

Dick and Anne have taken a wrong turn and are confused by ringing bells. They head towards a light, where they encounter an elderly deaf woman. Assuming they have reached Blue Pond Farm, Dick and Anne go in but the woman, Mrs Taggart [Mme Tagard], tells them to leave because her son would not accept them. She eventually agrees to let Anne sleep in a loft, whilst Dick makes do with sleeping in a barn. During the night, Dick is awakened by a voice calling his name. He is given a cryptic message, "Two Trees. Gloomy Water. Saucy Jane. And Maggie knows too". He is also given a piece of paper.

(Dick receives a bewildering message at night!)

The next morning, Mrs Taggart’s son is back and chases Dick away. He and Anne get directions to Blue Pond Farm. Reunited with Julian and George for breakfast, Dick and Anne tell the story of the bells and the message. Julian says the bells signalled an escape from a local prison, and the escaped prisoner meant to meet “Dirty Dick” Taggart [Mick-qui-pique*] at the barn.

(The Five study the strange piece of paper Dick was handed the previous night) [Note: Anne is so fashionable in this book, I love her outfit!)

The children report the incident to a village policeman, but he accuses them of lying and informs them the escapee has been caught. Julian decides they should hike to a ruined house called Two-Trees [les Deux-Chênes], located at Gloomy Water (les Eaux-Dormantes], a marshy lake higher on the moors. That night, Julian deduces that Dick's message is instructions to find stolen goods from a robbery by a prisoner called Nailer [Hortillon] and that the loot is hidden in a boat called the Saucy Jane [la Belle-Berthe].

The following day, Maggie and Dirty Dick come to Gloomy Water to search for the loot and are annoyed to see the children there.

(Unwanted visitors 😡)

The Five paddle into the lake on a raft but do not find anything. They conclude that “Tall Stone” [Haute-Pierre], one of the clues written on the paper given to Dick, is a landmark that will help guide them to the location of the Saucy Jane.

(Julian spots the “Tall Stone” landmark)

The next morning, they locate the Saucy Jane at the bottom of the lake, at which point Maggie and Dirty Dick appear in a boat but row back to shore after Julian says the children will be returning to school tomorrow. Julian dives to the bottom of the lake and finds a bag of loot, but cannot remove it. The Five return on the raft near midnight, and Julian and Dick dive to the boat to haul up the loot, which is jewellery stolen from the Queen of Fallonia.

(A nightly dive to retrieve the treasure)

After recovering the jewels, the Five evade Maggie and Dick and walk to the village of Reebles [Poncret] to call Mr Gaston, who then drives them to a police station, where the children hand over the jewels and tell their story. Maggie and Dirty Dick, stuck in the marshland, are arrested. The police promise to drive the children back to their schools by a 3pm deadline.

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*A note on Dirty Dick’s French alias: “Mick-qui-pique” sounds really weird and lame as a nickname, even for a bandit’s name from the 1950s. Honestly, even Mick is a weird shortening for Michel (our boy Dick), I have never heard it used anywhere else. I can only assume that the original translator wanted a shorter form similar to the English version. It does sound more energetic than the full form Michel.

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Cover art through the ages:

(Disclaimer: This is not an exhaustive list; sometimes the dates are difficult to pinpoint; and I have purposefully not included editions that re-used similar cover art, with differences only in layout and font style.)

(Fishing for treasure! Original cover art by Simone Baudouin, Hachette, 1958)

(An autumnal ambiance brought to us by, I assume, Jeanne Hives, Hachette, 1969)

(On the raft with Jean Sidobre, Hachette, 1981)

(On the raft with Umberto Nonna, Edito Service, 1981 – the kids look like they’re rowing on a turbulent river rather than a placid lake here. This looks like fun, wooh!)

(On the raft with Yves Beaujard, Hachette, 1988)

(On the raft with Paul Gillon, France Loisirs, 1995 – under a moonlit sky for a change!)

(On the raft with Frédéric Rébéna, Hachette, 2010 – the life jackets are back! 😂😂)

(Everyone is soaked and miserable – except for Dick who’s apparently enjoying himself and smiling like a loon… 🤪 Auren, Hachette, 2019)

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Thanks for reading and see you next time!

#papillon82 reads #famous five art nostalgia #famous five #le club des cinq #illustrations #simone baudouin #enid blyton #please note how Baudouin and Gillon are the most generous among the illustrators regarding the size of the raft :D #the update to FF Run Away Together is in the works! it should be up sometime this week :)

[pazzesco]

Berthe Morisot🎨

Berthe Morisot - Shepherdess Resting, 1893

Berthe Morisot - La cruche d'eau [The water jug], 1893

The Artists' Daughter Julie With Her Nanny, 1884

Le Flageolet (The Flute Player), 1890

La Coiffure, 1894

After Lunch, 1881

Berthe Morisot - Bergère nue couchée [Nude shepherdess lying down], 1891

Berthe Morisot - Julie rêveuse, 1893

Woman with a Fan

The Cradle, 1872

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She joined the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.

She was described by art critic Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" (The three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.

#berthe morisot #morisot #art #photography #portraits #Paul Cézanne #Edgar Degas #Claude Monet #Camille Pissarro #mary cassatt #Marie Bracquemond #impressionism #impressionist