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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:30:04 +0000

pureblog:

retrozone:

mudwerks:

billyjane:

Anonymous~French Acrobats,c.1920

Lartigue Losers at Auteuil races, 1911 all things amazing

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:55:31 +0000

Lartigue

Losers at Auteuil races, 1911

all things amazing

"I have never felt at ease in talking about my work in theoretical or abstract terms. Even if what I..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:08:31 +0000

““I have never felt at ease in talking about my work in theoretical or abstract terms. Even if what I produce seems to stem from a long-worked-out program, from a long-standing-plan, I believe far more that I find my direction by following my nose. From the books I have written, in the order I have written them, I get the sometimes reassuring and sometimes uneasy feeling (uneasy because it is always suspended on a “projected” work, on an incompletion pointing to the unsayable, the desperate object of writing’s desire) that they map a path, mark out a space, signpost a fumbling route, describe the specific staging posts of a search which has by no why but only a how: I feel confusedly that the books I have written are inscribed and find their meaning in the overall image that I have of literature, but it seems to me that I shall never quite grasp that image entirely, that it belongs for me to a region beyond writing, to the question of “why I write”, which I can never answer except by writing, and thus deferring forever the very moment when, by ceasing to write, that image would visibly cohere, like a jigsaw puzzle inexorably brought to its completion.””

- Georges Perec, 1978, re-printed in the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 2009

via airform archives

Boullée The Ingoing

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:07:00 +0000

Boullée

The Ingoing

Louis Stettner

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:57:00 +0000

Louis Stettner

sealmaiden: The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre | Henri...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:48:26 +0000

sealmaiden:

The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre | Henri Rousseau

mundos: foxtrot-echo: Denis Diderot

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:11:56 +0000

mundos:

foxtrot-echo:

Denis Diderot

@roundmyskull René Georges Hermann-Paul (1864-1940) via A...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:52:00 +0000

@roundmyskull René Georges Hermann-Paul (1864-1940)

via A Journey Round My Skull: La Danse Macabre

Strike shuts down Pompidou Centre

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:57:00 +0000

Strike shuts down Pompidou Centre:

crisis at the Pompidolium…but, nearly 40% job cuts? Story hints this might affect those over the age of 50, too.

and more French schoolkids I just bet 2nd from the right and 4th...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:56 +0000

and more French schoolkids

I just bet 2nd from the right and 4th from the right were an item (razzle-dazzle) - and what’s the deal with the clasped hands in the centre, girlfriend(s)?

via jeanlouis.maldant.free.fr

Keep young and beautiful: Beauté Magazine - 1929, via mignonette

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:32:39 +0000

Keep young and beautiful: Beauté Magazine - 1929, via mignonette

marsiouxpial: Anne Vallayer-Coster, Panaches de mer,...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:44:44 +0000

marsiouxpial:

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Panaches de mer, lithophytes et coquilles, 1769 (via Ondra Havala)

via M F’s Posterous

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:02:48 +0000

via M F’s Posterous

The forest of Brocéliande: “Un lieu mythique, entre réel...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:18:00 +0000

The forest of Brocéliande: “Un lieu mythique, entre réel et imaginaire”

via BnF - La légende du roi Arthur

LIVRENBLOG: LE MIME SÉVERIN Souvenirs d’un Pierrot see...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:58:48 +0000

LIVRENBLOG: LE MIME SÉVERIN Souvenirs d’un Pierrot

Pierrot assassin de sa femme was a crucial moment in the development of early twentieth-century theatre in Europe…

illustrator: Félix Lorioux via www.animationarchive.org

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:07:18 +0000

illustrator: Félix Lorioux

via www.animationarchive.org

title-page to Isaac de Benserade’s ‘Les...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:34:00 +0000

title-page to Isaac de Benserade’s ‘Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux’, an adaptation of Ovid’s book in French verses, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1676

Grotesque balloons like these are popular just now with the...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:22:00 +0100

Grotesque balloons like these are popular just now with the fun-loving Parisians (LOC) (via The Library of Congress)

Beautiful old map of Paris ‘Paris depuis Charles V...

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:40:00 +0100

Beautiful old map of Paris

‘Paris depuis Charles V jusqu’a Charles IX, d’après le plan de l’Abbaye St. Victor.’ (via uconnlibrariesmagic)

do click through to the original size

Edith Gerin, Paris, 1960 via all things amazing

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:38:00 +0100

Edith Gerin, Paris, 1960

via all things amazing