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sapphireshorelines · 2 years

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Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much.

Vita Sackville-West, letter to Virginia Woolf, 28 February 1926

Her fingers had left a line of fire.

Violette Leduc, Thérèse et Isabelle

I had four dreams in a row / where you were burned, about to burn, or still on fire.

Richard Siken, Unfinished Duet

David de las Heras, The Red Cloud / Leo Plaw, Burning Desire

I am scared to death of arousing physical feelings in her, because of the madness. I don’t know what effect it would have, you see: it is a fire with which I have no wish to play.

Vita Sackville-West, letter to her husband Harold Nicolson about Virginia, 17 August 1926

Understand me / when I say I burn best / when crowned / with your scent: that earth-sweat / & Old Spice I seek out each night

Ocean Vuong, Footnotes

“I admit it, my delicate, I admit it, my little burning flower.”

Violette Leduc, Thérèse et Isabelle

Christian Schloe, Portrait Of A Heart

I think of Vita at Long Barn: all fire and legs and beautiful plunging ways like a young horse.

Virginia Woolf, letter to Vita Sackville-West, 31 March 1928

I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire.

Casey McQuiston, Red, White and Royal Blue

I hoped to burn out, through Hella, my image of Giovanni and the reality of his touch—I hoped to drive out fire with fire.

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

The burning was hurting me, our limitation hurt even more.

Violette Leduc, Thérèse et Isabelle

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash.

Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

I daresay the old fires of Sapphism are blazing for the last time.

Virginia Woolf, from her diaries, 16 June 1930

Above all, we will no longer find the thing that first pushed us toward one another that day. That singular moment. The pure urgency of it. There were circumstances—a series of coincidences and simultaneous desire. There was something in the atmosphere, something in the time and the place, that brought us together. And then everything broke—like a firework exploding on a dark night in July that spirals out in all directions, blazing brightly, dying before it touches the ground, so that no one gets burned. No one gets hurt.

Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

Francisco De Zurbarán, detail of Allegory of Charity/ Phillipe de Champaigne, detail of Saint Augustine

Then came that July Sunday afternoon when our house suddenly emptied, and we were the only ones there, and fire tore through my guts—because "fire" was the first and easiest word that came to me later that same evening when I tried to make sense of it in my diary. I'd waited and waited in my room pinioned to my bed in a trancelike state of terror and anticipation. Not a fire of passion, not a ravaging fire, but something paralyzing, like the fire of cluster bombs that suck up the oxygen around them and leave you panting because you've been kicked in the gut and a vacuum has ripped up every living lung tissue and dried your mouth, and you hope nobody speaks, because you can't talk, and you pray no one asks you to move, because your heart is clogged and beats so fast it would sooner spit out shards of glass than let anything else flow through its narrowed chambers. Fire like fear, like panic, like one more minute of this and I'll die if he doesn't knock at my door, but I'd sooner he never knock than knock now. I had learned to leave my French windows ajar, and I'd lie on my bed wearing only my bathing suit, my entire body on fire. Fire like a pleading that says, Please, please, tell me I'm wrong, tell me I've imagined all this, because it can't possibly be true for you as well, and if it's true for you too, then you're the crudest man alive.

André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

How should we like it were stars to burn / With a passion for us we could not return? / If equal affection cannot be, / Let the more loving one be me.

W. H. Auden, The More Loving One

Little Women (2019)

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postcard-from-the-past · 7 months

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Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle of Orléans, first Queen consort of the Belgians

Belgian vintage postcard

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gogmstuff · 2 years

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It’s 1841:

First row: 1841 Honourable Julia Henrietta Anson (1819-1866), Lady Brooke by Alfred Tidey (Royal Collection). From pinterest.com/msnelly1/romantic-era-dresses/ 854X1134 @72 1.3Mj.

Second row left: 1841 Karolina Lizius by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloss Nymphenburg - München, Bayern, Germany). From Wikimedia 2077X2493 @96 1.5Mj.

Second row right: 1841 Katerina Rosa Botzaris by Joseph Karl Stieler (Schönheitengallerie, Schloss Nymphenburg - München, Bayern, Germany). Probably from Wikimedia 1694X2197 @72 1Mj. According to rrayedingold.blogspot.com/2011/11/gallery-of-beauties.html “Katharina was Greek beauty from Janina. Her father was a Greek freedom fighter named Markos Botzaris. He died in battle against the Ottoman Turks in 1820. Katharina's brother, Demetrius, was educated in Munich, and was an aide and war minister of King Otto I of Greece. Katharina became lady-in-waiting to Queen Amalie of Greece, and married Prince George Karadjas in 1845, a general in the Greek army. In 1841, Amalie, Otto, and their aides visited King Ludwig in Munich. While Amalie was climbing out of her carriage in Munich, Ludwig spotted Katharina assisting her. Both Otto and Amalie suggested Katharina for the Gallery of Beauties, and Ludwig agreed. She was portrayed here wearing the traditional Greek costume.”

Third row: 1841 Königin Therese von Bayern by Heinrich Wilhelm Vogel after Joseph Karl Stieler (Schloss Nymphenburg - München, Bayern, Germany), From Wikimedia; expanded to fit screen 1141X1400 @300 375kj.

Fourth row: 1841 Lady by Apollon Mokritsky (Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts - Kaluga, Kaluga Oblast, Russia). From Wikimedia 87)X1130 @96 279kj. There is considerable artistic talent practicing in Russia.

Fifth row left: 1841 Lithograph of Victoria Duchess of Kent by Pierre Émile Desmaisons (British Museum). From their Web site 2001X2500 @300 1.1Mj.

Fifth row right: 1841 Maguerite, Countess of Blessington by Alfred, Count d'Orsay (location ?). From hhistoryandotherthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/12; enlarged to fit screen 2284X2876 @144 6.8Mp.

Sixth row: 1841 Louise Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans, reine des Belges by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon - Versailles, Île-de-France, France) From WikiArt 1226X1500 @72 433kj.

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comtessezouboff · 1 year

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Louis XIV's Gallery of Beauties

A retexture by La Comtesse Zouboff — Original Mesh by @thejim07

This set of 20 portraits was comissioned by the king himself in the 1650s to Charles and Henri Beaubrun (except for a portrait of Henrietta Anna of England, Comissioned to Nicolas Mignard) The portraits comprises the queen, royal princesses and ladies of the court. They hanged at the king's appartments at Versailles. In the 1670s the paintings were progressively relegated to the king's minor residences, but in 1837, Louis-Philippe, King of the French turned Versailles into a museum and rejoined the paintings, in the Louis XIV Rooms, where they remain.

The set includes 20 portraits, with the original frame swatches, fully recolorable. The portraits are of:

Anne Genèvieve de Bourbon, Duchess d'Estouteville and Longueville

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart (later, Marquise de Montespan)

Anna Martonozzi, Princess of Conti

Anne Louise Boyer, Duchess of Noailles

Anne Marie Gonzaga, Countess Palatine

Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess de Soubise

Catherine Henriette d'Harcourt, Duchess d'Arpajon

Catherine de Neuville, Countess d'Armagnac

Charlotte Catherine de Gramont, Proncess of Monaco

Charlotte Isabelle Angélique de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Elizabeth of Orléans, Duchess of Guise and Joÿeuse

Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (née de Valois) Duchess of Savoy

Françoise Mignot, Mareschalle of l'Hospital

Françoise de Neufville, Duchess of Chaulnes

Gabrielle-Louise de Saint-Simon, Duchess of Brissac

Henrietta Anna of England, Duchess of Orléans

Madeleine-Charlotte d'Albert-d'Ailly, Duchess of Foix

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Marguerite-Louise-Suzanne de Béthune-Sully, Countess of Gyche

Marie Thérèse of Austria, Queen Consort of France and Navarre

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Retextured from the "portrait of Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans", found here

Table, torcheres and floor by @thejim07

Rest of the decor by @joojconverts

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marbleluvrofliberty · 10 days

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Grantaire, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac's polls:

https://www.tumblr.com/marbleluvrofliberty/747892434137202688/les-amis-people

https://www.tumblr.com/marbleluvrofliberty/747893533832331264/continuing-the-poll

https://www.tumblr.com/marbleluvrofliberty/747893844933263360/more

#reblog for a bigger sample size #enjolras #les amis de l'abc #my writing #Head Cheerleader-verse

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pacifymebby · 8 months

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Do you have any fave LGBTQ+ literature, tv, movies, content creators?

Okay so I'm still trying really hard to find queer books that I like because beyond Allen Ginsburg in college we weren't taught any LGBTQ+ authors/poets (except Carol Ann Duffy but the only thing I'd recommend about her work is to stay away because I hate it haha)(I probably hate it because of school tbh, sorry Carol) so anyway yeah, when it comes to this I've had to do all the searching myself and I don't really know how well I've done.

But for books:

🍂 Orlando / Virginia Woolf

I kind of can't believe Virginia Woolf wasn't on my other recommendations because The Waves is one of my favourite books (again I think you have to have a lot of patience but it is beautiful) and this one is brilliant too. A man wakes up in a woman's body and gender roles are revealed to be a little bit silly.

🍂 Thérèse and Isabelle / Violet Leduc

Erotic novella about two girls at boarding school, low-key spoke to me as a bi girl who kind of started realising her bisexuality when exploring sexuality was sort of thrust upon me by female friends at school I guess. It's just a good example of feminine sexuality and desire written by someone who knows.

🍂 Chelsea Girls / Eileen Myles

I'm very into Eileen Myles as a poet and these stories are so so so so so fucking good too!!!!

🍂 In The Dream House / Carmen María Machado

I got into this because it's what Google recs when you finish The Dangers of Smoking in Bed / Mariana Enriquez and honestly, I didn't enjoy it as much but it was still amazing. It's gothic horror af but also a really important work on abusive relationships within the queer community which the author has personal experience of and thinks isn't spoken about enough. Its really haunting, did fuck me up a bit but ultimately in a good way. But be careful because it does chronical abuse and that can be upsetting.

🍂 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous/ Ocean Vuong

Another one where I love their poetry and think they can do no wrong tbh, I haven't finished this yet (I keep getting distracted but don't be put off by that I'm just really easily distracted!!) And I think it's wonderful idk. It's also written in quite a cool style which is always a bonus I find.

🍂 Our Wives Under the Sea / Julia Armfield

I actually only read this because I read an essay on the Exorcist and body horror by the author where she talks about her experience with having a cyst that had to be operated on twice. The essay was so stunning that I was like damn, gonna have to read that book everyone's talking about now and bestie, was worth it. The books class also.

🍂 Sister Outsider / Audre Lorde

I just think everyone should read Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde should have been on the curriculum instead of endless Simon Armitage idk. I read this and Your Silence Will Not Protect You as a 19 year old and they changed the course of my life idk.

🍂 Communion / bell hookes

Read this and broke up with my shitty ex boyfriend. It's not entirely about lesbianism but more kind of, love in general, platonic, romantic, what it really means to love. She talks about the feminist choice to choose lesbianism which was a phenomenon in the 70s and also discusses a lot to do with how misogyny impacts womens ability to love and be loved. It was a really important read for me, made all the more important because when I picked up the book my boyfriend ripped into her name and tried to be like lol what would you read her for...and then I read it and was like oh HE'S the problem.

Poetry:

🐇Howl / Allen Ginsburg

I know he's problematic but for me Howl was the prototype, the first massive poem I read and loved as an adult, the first one where language really sounded musical to me, the first poem I heard that Hurt. If you can you should listen to the YouTube of him reading it in San Francisco,that's amazing.

I also really like A Supermarket in California.

🐇 Sappho

Just all of it I guess, I think we're all eventually pushed towards Sappho and for good reason.

🐇Emily Dickinson

Read her letters to Sue, Open Me Carefully. I read these one summer between school years and I think they changed me. Her poetry in general is wonderful, some of it occasionally comes off as very old fashioned (shock horror our girl was born in the 1800s) but there's much to savour there. Also apparently there's a TV series about her life on Apple TV, I don't have Apple TV though so I haven't seen it.

As for TV and movies I don't think I have anything at all. I don't watch a lot of TV and I mostly only watch the same 5 old man movies on repeat. I think books have always been my thing, I can concentrate on reading in a way I can't concentrate on TV and also just the fact you can put your book in your pocket and get it out on the bus, in the staff room, at school, at the pub when you're waiting for your pals etc... I was always a headphones and books gal so I don't really have any recs for TV. Sorry :/

EDIT: Kill Your Darlings!!!! As in the movie, if you're into the beats you should watch it, it's very good and a real insight into what was in reality a pretty nasty little scene.

#pacifymebby recs #pacifymebby books

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nanshe-of-nina · 7 months

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Kushiel’s Legacy GIF sets || Dominic Stregazza & Thérèse de la Courcel

“Now, which one of the Stregazza is Thérèse?” I asked, when I gauged that he was no longer paying attention to me. “Is she the firstborn? Prince Benedicte’s daughters are House Courcel, I thought.” “They’re of the Blood by birth, like Lyonette de Trevalion, but Thérèse married a Stregazza cousin. Dominic.” I had caught his interest; his voice ran a little ahead of his thoughts. Alcuin had always been better than I at royal genealogies. “A bad match, by all reckoning; he’s a minor Count, but then she was second-born. First is Marie-Celeste, who wed the Doge’s son. It’s her son stands to inherit La Serenissima. Once Prince Rolande died, I wager Dominic Stregazza thought to poise his family near the D’Angeline throne, though.” “And found his path blocked by House L’Envers,” I mused. “How disappointed he must have been. But why would Delaunay care who killed Isabel L’Envers? By all counts, she was his enemy.”

#kushieledit #dominic stregazza #therese de la courcel #house courcel #house stregazza #terre d'ange #la serenissima #kushiel's legacy #kl graphics #kl gifs #nanshe's graphics

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89rooms · 5 months

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I realised that I had been missing her even before we met.

Violette Leduc - 'Thérèse and Isabelle,' tr. by Sophie Lewis

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pium · 1 year

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MUNDO URBANO EPISODE 60 (26/08/2022) AIRED ON RADIO QUÂNTICA

THE BEGINNING:

01. Panagiotis Mina - Ιούνιος - Αδελφές Αγησιλάου, Κοιλάνι Τροόδους (pyrgatory studio) 02. Mort Garson - Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant (Sacred Bones Records) 03. Precipitation - II (Jungle Gym Records) 04. Precipitation - III (Jungle Gym Records) 05. Oleksandr Demianenko - Segment 7 (enmossed) 06. Ondness - Torres e Baldios II (Discrepant) 07. ΨΥΧΟΤΕΚ - Κοινοβιο Τελος (Phormix) 08. Rolande Garros - French Open (MMODEMM)

09. Rolande Garros - Wimbledon (MMODEMM) 10. Rolande Garros - Australian Open (MMODEMM) 11. Rolande Garros - Flushing Meadows (MMODEMM) 12. Dominic Voz - Right To The City I (Beacon Sound) 13. Dominic Voz - Right To The City II (Beacon Sound) 14. pinkcourtesyphone - but it felt / in other dreams (excerpt) (helen scarsdale) 15. Mareld - Pale Outlines (Janushoved) 16. Mareld - All That Was Green (Janushoved) 17. Isabel del Bosco - Visita Nocturna (Self Released) 18. Jake Muir and Evan Caminiti - Immured in Twilight (Dust Editions) 19. Radagast & KletTtermax - Wizard warp (Personal Uschi Records) 20. Peter Kris - False Tranquility (FLOPHOUSE) 21. Angelo Harmsworth - Aerosol (enmossed) 22. Light Asylum - Dark Allies (Pablo Bozzi edit) (Self Released) 23. Modeste - Thérèse (Nouvelle Gaze) 24. ΨΥΧΟΤΕΚ - Ειπες να 'μαστε Φιλοι (Phormix) 25. Radiant Futur - Forgiveness (Muscut) 26. Ian Wellman - Raven Calls Before Dusk (Room40) 27. Terror Cognitive Dissonance - Inverted Cross (S H I S H I) 28. Bbarb - 3 Cornered Leek (Avon Terror Corps) 29. Iury Lech - Ukraïna (Wah Wah Records) 30. Panagiotis Mina - Αποδυτήρια (pyrgatory studio) 31. Morah - Sirines (Vanila) 32. Anatolian Weapons - Immersion (Tocca il futuro) 33. The Hydra - Lysergic Imminent (_phinery (catalogue) 34. YAI - Fata (Not Not Fun) 35. YAI - Mirage (Not Not Fun) 36. Angelo Harmsworth - The Impossibility Of Listening (enmossed) 37. Cucina Povera & Ben Vince - Muurahaiskeko (Ecstatic) 38. Dania - Fire Dash (Geographic North) THE END...

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#radio quantica #mundourbanoblog

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annarcenciel · 2 years

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Quand on aime on est toujours sur le quai d’une gare.

C’est Violette Leduc qui l’écrit, dans Thérèse et Isabelle, je crois. J’ai souligné cette phrase des dizaines de fois. Je l’ai écrite dans une petite dizaine de carnets. En la lisant pour la première fois je pense à mon premier amour, aux heures passées à se tenir la main dans la salle d’attente de la gare de la Part-Dieu, aux remarques homophobes qu’on fait semblant de ne pas entendre dans la gare Saint-Roch, aux sanglots solitaires sur le quai vide de la gare TGV de Montpellier, aux tentatives de réconfort dans les escaliers de Perrache. Je pense à d’autres amours ensuite. A des histoires ratées, à des trains qui ne font que se croiser sans jamais s’arrêter dans les mêmes gares. A des courses effrénées pour ne pas devoir attendre le train suivant et retarder l’heure où on me prendra dans ses bras. Aux trains de nuits entre Moscou et Saint-Petersbourg, à l’élan vu par la fenêtre dans la taïga au lever du soleil en allant vers Iaroslavl, au train qu’on prend pour l’aéroport, aux six heures entre Francfort et Lyon et à ma main sur une cuisse, sous le manteau. A une silhouette adossée à un pilier m’attendant avec un bouquet de tulipes, en face du Starbucks, à côté du piano.

Elle le dit métaphoriquement, Violette Leduc. Il n’existe pas, son quai de gare. Les rails c’est l’espace entre les deux coeurs qu’on ne peut pas, qu’on ne doit pas franchir. On est dans son corps comme sur son propre quai. On fait le choix de monter ensemble dans le train ou de regarder l’autre le prendre et partir. Ou alors de sauter sur les rails. Je ne sais pas trop ce qui est mieux. Des fois on est juste sur deux quais différents, il faut accepter que chacun prenne le train dans l’autre sens. Mais c’est long, d’accepter. On revient sur le quai et on regarde passer les trains en espérant apercevoir un visage connu, aimé, par l’une des fenêtres.

En ce moment quand je suis dans une gare je ne regarde que les rails.

Je me demande ce que ça ferait si je sautais là, d’un coup, dans le fameux espace entre le marchepied et le quai auquel il faut toujours prendre garde.

Je sais très bien ce que ça ferait. Incident voyageur. Le train est arrêté en pleine voie. Mesdames et messieurs, veuillez nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée. Votre train partira avec un retard d’une durée indéterminée. Je me demande si, dans Anna Karénine, les passagers se plaignent d’un énième suicide sur les voies, ou s’ils sont un peu émus, quand même. Je crois que oui, mais seulement parce qu’à l’époque il y avait moins de trains. Elle nous embête, quand même, Anna Karénine, avec son chagrin. Je me rappelle qu’en lisant le livre j’étais contente qu’elle meure à la fin. Comme si elle le méritait, comme si sa mort était un spectacle cathartique, quelque chose comme ça.

Je ne ferais pas comme elle. J’imagine, c’est tout. La pensée des mes entrailles répandues sur les rails me suffit en terme de catharsis, pour le moment.

Je pense toujours à cette phrase sur l’amour et sur les quais de gare. Je pense que les gares sont un lieu beaucoup trop propice à la mélancolie. Sur le quai je ne sais plus trop ce que j’aime. En tout cas pas la vie.

#jen suis à écrire des trucs sur des rails de train #sur tumblr #hashtag cry for help

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sapphireshorelines · 2 years

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“We clasped each other for last time after last time, we fused two tree trunks into one, we were the first and last lovers as we are the first and last mortals when we discover death.”

Thérèse et Isabelle × Portrait of a Lady on Fire

#thérèse et isabelle #violette leduc #portrait of a lady on fire #celine sciamma #french cinema #french literature #portrait de la jeune fille en feu #parallels #dark acadamia aesthetic #***

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lolitalempicka · 2 years

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January - May reads

ottessa moshfegh - eileen, my year of rest and relaxation

fyodor dostoevskij - the gambler

yukio mishima - the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

carl jung - the archetypes and the collective unconscious

georges bataille - literature and evil

sigmund freud - introductory lectures on psychoanalysis

jean paul sartre - no exit

alina reyes - the butcher

violette leduc - thérèse and isabelle

tennessee williams - the night of the iguana

Reread:

thomas mann - death in venice

sylvia plath - the bell jar

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gogmstuff · 1 year

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More Images of Queen Louise Marie d’Orléans, first Queen of Belgium (from top to bottom) -

1838 Louise, Queen of the Belgians with Leopold, Duke of Brabant by Franz Xaver Winerhalter (Royal Collection). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion 1911X2250 @72 994kj.

1840 Miniature of Louise of Orléans by (Royal Collection - RCIN420880. From pinterest.com/titanicfaces/royal-miniatures/; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 962X1224 @72 292kj.

1841 Louise Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans, reine des Belges by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon - Versailles, Île-de-France, France) From WikiArt; fixed cracks & spots w Pshop 1226X1500 @72 433kj.

1846 Louise d'Orléans, Queen of the Belgians by William Charles Ross (Royal Collection - RCIN 420418). From their Web site; cropped & fixed spots & lft edge w Pshop, exp +25% shadows 40% 1130X1652 @72 619kj.

1851 Louise-Marie d'Orléans by Alexandre Robert (Musee de la Dynastie, Brussels - Belgium). From meisterdrucke.jp/fine-art-prints/Alexandre-Robert/292494/ルイーズ・マリー・ドルレアン（1812-50）.html; fixed spots & cracks 692X.973 @400 pixels/cm 238kj.

1854 La reine Louise-Marie de Belgique by Henri Hendrickx & Henry Brown after Paul Lauters. From Wikimedia 1445X2047 @72 1.8Mj.

1856 Louise Marie d'Orléans-de Keyser (Belgian Senate - Brussels, Belgium). From Wikimedia; removed extensive spotting, esp. in center and lower right 16637X2834 @300 3.1Mj.

1850 Louise Marie d'Orléans, Queen of the Belgians by Joseph Anne Jules le Roy (Royal Collection of Belgium - Brussels, Belgium). From Wikimedia; spots removed throughout image and black background blurred w Pshop 1599X2236 @144 7.6Mp.

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ditesdonc · 14 days

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Les vacances au Chollard. 1959 1960 1961

Texte de Jean-Claude Long

(Dans le numéro 3, Jean-Claude Long avait partagé ses souvenirs d’enfance à Curtin. En voici la suite.)

Le Chollard est un hameau dans un chemin de terre, entre les routes Vézeronce-Morestel et Morestel-Curtin. La maison est plus petite, on plante un acacia, les toilettes sont au fond du terrain et servent de villégiature aux araignées. Des vacanciers occupent la maison voisine, une brunette, Colette, fait de la balançoire. Au Chollard, ce n’est plus pareil, l’enfant est à l’école primaire. Sept ans, « l’âge de raison », dit-on. Il fait maintenant partie du monde qu’il observait à Curtin, c’est l’action qui compte, moins la féérie contemplative. La grande affaire, au Chollard, c’est l’agriculture ! La ferme d’Alexis Meunier est toute proche : vaches, chevaux, poules, canards, canetons duveteux qui ne se gênent pas pour faire caca dans mes mains, une chèvre irascible liée à un piquet au fond d’un pré, où elle me traine un jour. Charrettes, machines étranges et fascinantes. Monter sur un char, comme un Romain, c’est amusant ! L’enfant a vu au cinéma Ben-Hur et la fameuse course.

Il suit l’agriculteur et sa fille Marie-Thérèse, quinze ans environ, dans les champs de tabac et de maïs.

Quel vacarme, quelle poussière, du saucisson, du vin, des gâteaux, c’est le jour de la batteuse !

Un matin, juché sur une charrette, l’enfant, suivant les instructions du fermier, conduit le cheval, Blond, et passe devant la maison où sa mère sa grand-mère et sa sœur prennent leur petit d��jeuner.

J’ai rarement été aussi fier dans ma vie, peut-être le jour de ma « Médaille d’or » au Conservatoire. Des années de travail contre dix minutes de merveille.

Le tabac sèche au grenier, l’odeur est enivrante ; on égrène le maïs à la veillée.

Nous fréquentons les enfants de la famille Desvignes, qui habitent à côté de la ferme Meunier. Chantal, Isabelle, adolescentes, viennent à la maison pour jouer aux petits chevaux, au cinq-mille, ou au bouchon. René grimpe avec moi dans les charrettes du père Meunier et se fout un peu de moi, parce que je ne suis « pas bien leste ». J’aime bien Monique, une fille de mon âge, qui court vite dans ses jupettes, « les jambes à l’aise », comme dans une chanson d’Anne Sylvestre que je découvrirai quinze ans après. Un jour de retour à Lyon, je veux absolument lui dire au revoir en l’embrassant. Elle ne veut pas, et je la poursuis sous ses moqueries gentilles. Comme on rigole ! Je joue à l’amoureux désespéré, elle est pliée !...Monsieur Desvignes a une traction avant Citroën 15 et nous trimballe parfois. Des garçons, Guy Escomel, Christian Riboult, viennent voir ma sœur, ils montrent leur habileté et leur vaillance en moulinant le café le plus vite possible. Drôle de parade nuptiale !

Mémé Louise suit le Tour de France à la radio. Anglade, trahi par l’équipe de France, Bahamontès, Graczyck, Rivière, sont nos chevaliers. La carte et le tableau des vainqueurs d’étapes, ainsi que les maillots jaunes, sont affichés dans la cuisine. Un jour à la sieste, l’enfant découvre dans un tiroir des articles de journaux avec les photos des coureurs suant, grimaçant, poussiéreux, dans des paysages inconcevables de précipices et de neiges éternelles à l’arrière-plan. Fascination absolue ! Je garderai longtemps cette passion, jusqu’aux tristes années Armstrong.

La vie, la mort, avancent. Mémé Louise nous quitte en février 1961, le dernier été au Chollard se passe sans elle. Hassenforder, Cazala, Darrigade, ont perdu une supportrice, André Bourrillon une auditrice. Le Chollard, c’est la fin de la petite enfance, ce sont les années Ecole primaire : vélo sans roulettes dans le chemin, pétanque avec des grosses boules de couleur, en bois, badminton (on dit « volant ») Tonton Maurice n’a plus la quatre chevaux mais une Dauphine. La grande table accueille les repas familiaux, les jeux de société, ce qui rend ma mère si heureuse ! L’enfant devra affronter le CM2, « préparation à la 6ième »sans les encouragements de mémé Louise.

Je voudrais avoir des nouvelles de Marie-Thérèse Meunier, Chantal, Isabelle, Monique Desvignes. Christian Riboult. L’acacia !

"Le Printemps", Sandro Botticelli, 1478-1482

#Chollard #souvenirs d'enfance #tour de France #jeux #années 60 #vacances d'été

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reveriesetpoesie · 9 months

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Son prénom ma dévotion*

Sa jeunesse la rend fougueuse Sa présence paraît lumineuse Elle a le sourire enjôleur Et le regard charmeur Son prénom ma dévotion Insouciante et envoûtante Ses gestes la rendent éblouissante Éclatante en tout temps Elle brille par son apparence Son prénom ma dévotion Son assurance lui donne des ailes Sa candeur la révèle superbe Rayonnante et impétueuse Elle sait se faire audacieuse Son prénom ma dévotion Sa beauté dépasse celle du ciel Son visage cache des merveilles Espiègle et insouciante Elle irradie par sa prestance Son prénom ma dévotion Son innocence est empreinte de mystères Dans la lumière elle semble immortelle Malicieuse et splendide Dans la nuit elle scintille Son prénom ma dévotion *Extrait du livre "Thérèse et Isabelle" de Violette Leduc. Le texte est un hommage à la Isabelle de Violette.

#poeme #poesie #poemes #poetry #ecriture

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morebedsidebooks · 10 months

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FrenchLit Roundup

French literature is a passion of mine. So I thought I’d post a roundup of reading challenges and notable titles from the French I’ve covered over the years.

Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas, translated by Moshie Black

From a respected writer and historian this reflective historical novel, also adapted to film, views troubled days of the Court at Versailles in July 1789 through a devoted servant to Marie-Antoinette, as the revolution will eventually come to knock at the gates.

Lie With Me by Phillipe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald

Somewhat autobiographical, this best-selling novel contains the over twenty years later mature reflections of a verbose writer on first love as a teen in 1984 rural France.

The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray

A slim book composed of wandering recollections congregating around the affair straddling multiple boundaries of a French teenager whose family was persuaded to settle in Cochinchine (now Southern Vietnam) but finds no fortune, and an older affluent Chinese heir in 1929. Also, containing some of my favourite lines among the famous author’s many works.

Plus Belle que Fée by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force

Translated in English as Fairer-than-a-Fairy or simply Fairer first by James Robinson Planché then Laura Christensen, this tale with beautiful people particularly a princess so known, and as so boldly named as to incur the anger of a Faerie Queen also has a Sapphic reading from Associate Professor Marianne Legault. (See Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature)

Sphinx by Anne F. Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan

Taking its name from the song by Amanda Lear, this genderless novel charts the relationship between a disillusioned theology student who becomes enamored in the Paris club scene, through extraordinary circumstances discovering a love in DJing and for a cabaret dancer from Harlem.

Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc, translated by Sophie Lewis

Taking decades to appear in an uncensored form this steamy tale of a tryst between schoolgirls, from another well-known 20th century French writer, was also adapted to film.

Three by Valérie Perrin, translated by Hildegarde Serle

Inspired in part by another reflective novel Lie with Me, a lengthy tome of three childhood friends over decades and the haunting disappearance of an 18-year-old girl they knew.

We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm by Lola Lafon, translated by David and Nicole Ball

A truly melodic piece of feminist literary fiction as it keenly weaves three women’s experiences along with a deteriorating political back drop.

Over the Millennia of French Literature Reading Challenge

A year worth of reading taking a #FrenchLitTimeTravel through French writing from before the 10th century to the 21st.

Francophone Writers From 50+ Lands

Coincidentally marking 50 years of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie in 2020, this challenge with hashtag #Francophone50 highlights the depth of writing in French from around the world.

#french literature #littérature française #reading roundup

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