May
5th
Mon
5th
Apr
30th
Wed
30th
All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome “absinthism”.
Apr
14th
Mon
14th
Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque, 1925 edition.
Cover by Jeran-Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950). Published in Paris by Émile-Paul frères, 1925.
“On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry entered an existential crisis. It became known as ‘The night of Genua’, and it made such a big impression on Valéry that he decided to give his career as an author a new direction: he stopped writing poetry. … For nearly twenty years, Valéry did not publish a single word.
Not until 1917 did Valéry break this ‘Great Silence’ with the publication of La jeune Parque, a poem of 500 lines of verse on which he had worked for approximately four years.”
From the collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National library of the Netherlands
Journalists at Le Monde, one of France’s most highly respected daily newspapers, went on strike for only the second time in the paper’s history on Monday in protest at heavy cuts in newsroom staff.
Apr
2nd
Wed
2nd
Poster for “Rififi” (1955), perhaps the classic heist movie of all time, directed by the late Jules Dassin, 1911-2008.
Mar
29th
Sat
29th
A nocturnal country lane in France, by Lucien Rudaux, spotted by Woolgathersome.
The poetry is by Johannes Bobrowski, but it could equally well be by Philippe Jacottet.
Mar
25th
Tue
25th
L’Arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat, (Lumière Brothers, 1895).
This is the footage that supposedly made the audience that first saw it rush from their seats in panic.
Feb
22nd
Fri
22nd
Yorkshire’s answer to Georges Brassens, Jake Thackray, with the man himself. By way of announcing an eight-day sojourn in the Yorkshire Dales, during which this tumblelog will be rollin’ and tumblin’, but just more slowly than usual.
via the always-excellent World Of Kane
Feb
14th
Thu
14th
Portrait of Madame Regnault de Saint-Jean d’Angely
Francois Pascal Simon, Baron Gerard
