Plaque en hommage à : Tony Tollet
Type : Lieu de naissance, Lieu de résidence
Adresse : 19 rue Bourgelat, 69002 Lyon, France
Date de pose :
Texte : Ici est né et a vécu Tony Tollet, président de l'Académie des Sciences Belles Lettres et Arts de Lyon, portraitiste réputé, 1857 - 1953
Quelques précisions : Tony Tollet (1857-1953) est un peintre français. Atteint tôt dans l'enfance d'une maladie, cette dernière ne l'empêche pas de rejoindre en 1879 l’École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, où il étudie notamment auprès de Michel Dumas. Il poursuit ensuite ses études à Paris et reçoit en 1885 le deuxième Grand prix de Rome. Sa carrière est marquée par l'exécution de nombreux portraits de personnalités lyonnaises (il est entretemps revenu dans sa ville natale). Il fut président de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts de Lyon, et reçut de nombreuses distinctions de son vivant. Une rue de Lyon porte son nom et une fresque située rue Pareille, dans la même ville, lui rend également hommage.
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🌟Wassail | Yuletide🌟
Tom Bennett x Fem!Reader
Summary: A minor indiscretion leads you to chaperoning the yearly children's wassail with none other than Tom Bennett.
Content: Fluff, Language.
Yuletide Masterlist
Spending the evening with a handful of excitable children and Tom Bennett wasn’t too bad, as far as punishment went.
You supposed your father thought the children, full of a night’s sugar after years of rationing, would tire you out with their boundless energy. Perhaps he also thought that Tom Bennett would scare you. A petty criminal that good, honest girls should be frightened of. Well, your father should know that you were far from good or honest. That’s why you needed punishing in the first place.
Word got to your father that you were seen in a compromising position behind the Capital Club with Willie Murphy on New Year’s Eve. You traced the source easily. Your father heard it from that busy-body, Mrs Browning, who heard it from her neighbour. The neighbour’s daughter just happened to be Minnie Goodman, Willie’s on-again-off-again girlfriend. The tale was a tall one, for in truth Willie Murphy snuck his hand up your skirt and you’d given him a smack. If Gossip Goodman wanted that creep all to herself, she was welcome to him.
“Hurry up you!” One of the little lads shouted at you as he made his way to the next house.
“Watch your mouth, Harry Tollet,” you said, coming to stand beside him and the other children. “You won’t be wassailing next year if your mother hears you talking like that to a lady.”
“My mum says you aren’t a lady,” Harry said, knocking on the door. A little girl beside him gasped. Before you could speak, Tom Bennett, who had been silent on the evening’s walk, stepped forward.
“You’ll get a clip round the ear an’ all if you keep on.”
Harry had no time to cower for the red door opened and the children sang a chorus of We Three Kings. Their tin cups were filled with mulled cider by the old lady at the door, and Tom ushered Harry away before his could be filled.
“That’s not fair-”
“Shoulda thought about that before you ran your mouth,” Tom shoved the little boy towards the rest of the group. “Best behaviour.”
One of the little girls whispered in Harry’s ear and gave Tom a wary glance. She smiled awkwardly at you and turned around as the next door of the street opened and the children began their singing once more. The house belonged to old Mr Preston, a widower who lived alone. His only son died in the war. He had no grandchildren. You watched, heart growing as the old man gave the children their cup of mulled apple and presented them each with a mince pie.
Silenced for a while by their full mouths, the children listen to old man Preston telling them tales of Christmases long ago. Enraptured, they forgot all about you and Tom. Thank Christ.
You smiled at Mr Preston and showed him your cigarettes, indicating the pavement on the other side of the street. He nodded knowingly and continued his tale.
Leant against the lamppost, you clicked your lighter and inhaled the heady smoke of the cigarette. Tom Bennett took out his own packets of cigarettes and placed one in his mouth. With his hands safely back inside his pockets, he swaggered slowly towards you, looking over his shoulder in a half-arsed attempt and chaperoneship. You snorted.
He came to a stop before you, clicking his heels together as though he were still in the navy. He looked down his long nose at you a moment, smirking. You weren’t rattled. He brought his long fingers to take the cigarette from your mouth and light his own with it. The end sparkled into life, the tobacco crackling. The low, orange flare of light illuminated his sapphire eyes, which were fixed on yours. That rattled you, just a bit. This was a man who made flirting an artform. He looked at your cigarette as he passed it back to you.
“Lucky Strikes? Very posh,” he drawled in his Manchester burr.
“Got ‘em from a Yank. Better than your filthy Marlboros. Bloody stink,” you took a drag and exhaled the smoke in his face. He didn’t budge, the smoke dissipating to reveal a fully born grin.
“Lucky Strike for a lucky strike?” Tom raised an eyebrow.
“Don’t be jealous,”
Tom puffed out his chest and sniffed the night air. He glanced over his shoulder. You smiled to yourself; you never knew it was so easy to hurt Tom Bennett’s pride.
Across the road, Mr Preston had finished his story and gone inside. The children were walking to the next house, some hand in hand.
“They don’t need us,” you nodded towards them.
“Nah,” Tom said. “War made them different. Self-reliant.”
You hummed in agreement.
“You’re welcome, by the way.”
You stared at him, amusement tugging the corners of your mouth. Tom Bennett always thought so highly of himself.
“What for?”
“Harry.” He stated simply.
“But you didn’t do anything,” you laughed brightly.
Despite himself, Tom smiled. “Hold on-”
“Don’t think I could have handled a ten-year-old myself?”
Tom took a step up onto the pavement and, in doing so, brought himself closer to you. “Oh no,” his voice dropped to a gravelly whisper. “I heard you can handle yourself very well,” One of his hands slipped inside your coat to rest against the slope of your hip.
It wasn’t his hand that made you bristle. It was the assumption that you were easy. Sure, you’d had your fair share of flings, but you didn’t drop your knickers for any fella with a sly grin and foreign cigarettes.
You took his hand in yours, moving it from your waist and dropping it back at his own side.
“I’m only here ‘cause Dadda believed in a load of old hearsay,” You flicked your cigarette to the ground and stamped it out under your heel. Tom didn’t hide the way he stared up the length of your stockinged leg. “I wouldn’t touch Willie Murphy with a ten-foot barge pole-”
“I know,” Tom said simply, idle hands tucked back into the pockets of his jacket.
You stared at him, lost for words. No-one ever believed you. Seemed to think because you’d had three or four Longsight lads, you’d had the whole lot. “Really?”
“Yeah, course I do. He’s an ugly little bastard with more spots than I’ve had hot dinners.” You laughed. Towards the end of the road, the children were singing again, and the lamplights began flickering into life. “I didn’t try it on ‘cause I think you’re easy,” with another step, Tom was pressed flush against you. “I tried it on ‘cause I like you.”
Your smile of genuine happiness turned to one of mischief. “Tom Bennett, are you going soft?”
In the dim light, his blue eyes twinkled. With a wink, he stepped back and began his slow walk towards the gaggle of children. Falling into step beside him, you walked in silence but for the chorus of We Wish You a Merry Christmas and clack of your heels on the cobbles.
Gently, boldy, you tucked your hand into his. “Not so bad, is it, this punishment?”
“Not a punishedment for me. Not a petty criminal anymore.” Tom said, smiling down at you and tugging you closer so that the kids wouldn’t see your entwined hands. “Nah, I volunteered.”
You stood still, mouth agape with amused shock.
“What?” Tom tugged your hand and you kept walking.
“You really have gone soft!”
“War’ll do that to you.” You bowed your head solemnly. “And the prospect of an evening with you.”
“Even with a headache’s worth of kids?”
“Even so.”
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She hadn’t been in America for over five years, let alone seen her half-sister all throughout that time, but she was getting married and her father insisted for her to show up. It definitely felt weird, she had never felt part of the family his father had made only a year after he got divorced to her mother. It felt even weirder to have flown over with Sophia, her daughter. Her father and stepmother knew the little girl, having gone over to visit them back at London, but her step-aunt had never seen her just like she had barely interacted with Dakota ever since she moved away.
An engagement party was always a big event, but her dad had gone all the way this time, inviting well-known people and wealthy businessmen. Charlotte wasn’t marrying just anyone— not like she had ever met him before. So after drinking a bit of champagne, the redhead walked over to the groom, tapping on his shoulders as she intended to greet him. “I guess congratulations are in order, Mr. Tollet!” The wide smile on her lips disappeared as soon as he turned around, his face all too familiar as she fell silent, in complete and utter shock as she realized her sister’s fiancé was someone she already knew, a bit too well for comfort.
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