“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Wow. I can still conjugate my French verbs? Who’d’ve thunk? Truth be told – I’ve just cheated. LOL :o) Oubliette is…a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling. Just imagine it. Get a good mental picture of what it would be like inside this Medieval Torture Chamber – Out of Sight/Out […]
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I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but… … I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago. Diego Velázquez painting – And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from – I feel that this is a portrait of Marie. She WAS […]
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Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons. The video below just came up in my yt recommended feed. Aha, thunked I. I KNOW that name. Soissons. Let me set the scene for the scene above (?) Richelieu and Louis XIII are in a world of hurt. Louis’ younger brother, Gaston has gone rebel and his second […]
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Yeh. Yeh. I hear y’all shouting…GB’s talking about Brave New World! WRONG. Only an Obsessive, Compulsive Researcher of HISTORY (esp. 17th C history) knows about THIS book by Aldous. Grey Eminence It informed a Massive part of Marie’s story. And gave me the nickname that l’éminence grise gave to Richelieu. And just how much power […]
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As I’m injured mostly on the left side of my body, and I’m right-handed, one of the few things that I can do at the moment is knit and crochet. So…I’m immersing myself in Mademoiselle Sophie’s world. She has been an inspiration for many, many years. But, sacré bleu, she’s elusive! Anyway. I’m feasting my […]
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Sigh. Without the fakery, the “bangs & whistles” this could be A.W.E.some. A beautiful, sad, mysterious place :o(
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Many years ago I researched and wrote a short novel titled Veritas. It centred around Paris, 17th century, the #first theatre there, their pre-police police force and Louis XIII’s brand new (?) Jardin des Plantes. I never published. Veritas became such an over-used word. Which is not a crit of Sean. Just life in general […]
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This’ll bring in the HATERS! Whatever! LOL I’ve stayed in L’Hôtel Ritz, Paris…………………… four times now. And I WILL stay there again :o) Side Note : Have I mentioned that I – might – quite – like Robbie’s voice? I’m not sure (?)
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No matter WHAT! Wiki : 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull Wiki : Computer says NO! We were already in a hotel right beside Heathrow (because of an early morning flight) when this happened and we woke up to the news. What? But? It took about 5 hours to organise everything. No plane? We can drive. We […]
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Ages ago, I found my writing side-tracked as I researched 17th century wax masks. It wasn’t wasted and produced a few lines. Little did I know that this subject would still be relevant today. It seems it Always was though? P.S. Pellicule is the French word for Pellicle.
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If you have No Idea about Football. Man U (him) Arsenal (me) nothing here will make sense. Shush. Don’t tell anyone but…I still have a soft spot for Eric Cantona :o) Le Roi, Cantona and his conquest of Manchester Hearts and Minds :o)
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Four girls in a restaurant in Paris. One of them said to the (quite good-looking young waiter!) Can we have the bill, please? And me, being stupid, said out loud…. I can say that in French. Not realising that the waiter was still there. He asked me to say it. Blush. L’addition s’il vous plaît […]
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