#DeFrance

[detournementsmineurs]

“Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe” biopic de Martin Provost - sur la relation du peintre Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) et de sa muse et ��pouse Marthe de Méligny, de son vrai nom Maria Boursin (1869-1942) - avec Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Anouk Grinberg, Stacy Martin, Stanislas Merhar, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Peter Van Den Begin, André Marcon et Hélène Alexandridis, janvier 2023.

[batmanbeyondrocks]

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[rudy-sport]

here is your sporadic art post, tumblr

[miroir-de-sports]

Deux de l’Ain

Les Aindinois vont par deux. Francis Rigon et Jean Dumont ont en commun d'avoir 80 ans, de résider dans l'Ain et d'avoir participé au Tour de France 1969. Né en Italie, Francesco est naturalisé en 1964 ; après un parcours de coureur amateur il commence une carrière professionnelle en 1969 avec l'équipe Frimatic-De Gribaldy où il fut équipier de Joachim Agostinho. Son fils Franck est président du Comité Départemental Olympique et sportif de l'Ain.

Un Aindinois peut en cacher un autre.

Jean Dumont est né à Ambérieu. Il se distingue dans les courses contre la montre en amateur, au Grand Prix de France et au Grand Prix des Nations amateurs 1964. Il intègre en 1965 l’équipe professionnelle Peugeot - BP- Michelin et ses porte-drapeaux, Eddy Merckx, Tom Simpson et Roger Pingeon né lui aussi dans l’Ain à Lagnieu. Il totalise cinq participations au Tour de France de 1967 à 1971 dont une 16 ème place en 1969.

Francis Rigon et Jean Dumont à l’arrivée de l’étape Moûtiers- Bourg-en-Bresse.

[scottwellsmagic]

741: Steve Aldrich - A Long Strange Trip

This episode is dedicated to those who remember the past and for those who want to learn more about our rich history. This week we travel back in time in our Grateful Dead VW bus and visit with magician and co-founder of the Foan Family Circus, Steve Aldrich. It was a simpler time when magicians were experimenting with new presentations and popular music of the time. It was at the height of Doug Henning’s popularity who was considered by some as a “Hippie Magician”.

Steve Aldrich also performed magic at the famed Tower Bar in Snowmass at a time when Doc Eason was still a waiter Steve and his band of merry men (and a woman) surprised and entertained magicians with their “tongue in cheek” original presentations of their “Foan Family Circus” at many magic conventions during the late 1970’s to early 1980’s. So what happened to the group? That and more will be the topic of discussion in this week’s episode.

Steve talks this week about the formation of the Foan Family Circus, their original presentations and music, their performances at magic conventions (one of which won them the Senator Crandall Comedy Award at Abbott’s Get Together), plus the origins of magic at the Tower Bar starting with Bob Sheets then passed down to Steve Aldrich and Steve Spill.

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[gleaming-glasses]

Don’t think I’m gonna end up finishing this so here it is

The statue is “Water” by Jean-Pierre Defrance

[fdelopera]

Welcome to the 10th installment of 15 Weeks of Phantom, where I post all 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as they were first printed in Le Gaulois newspaper 115 yeas ago.

In today’s installment, we have Part III of Chapter 4: "La Loge N° 5” (“Box 5”), and Part I of Chapter 5: "Suite de « La Loge N° 5 »" ("Box 5 Continued").

This section was first printed on Wednesday, 6 October, 1909.

For anyone following along in David Coward's translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (either in paperback, or Kindle, or from another vendor -- the ISBN-13 is: 978-0199694570), the text starts in Chapter 4 at, “That night, tickets were sold for Box 5” and goes to Mme Giry’s line in Chapter 5, “What happened was that someone went and upset the Phantom!”

There are some differences between the Gaulois text and the First Edition text. In this section, these include:

1) In the Gaulois text, the section starts out with an amusing little interchange between Moncharmin and Richard (highlighted in red in the first column):

"Yes, this is getting old," agreed Armand Moncharmin, as he carefully slipped the Phantom's note into his pocketbook.

"You're keeping that?" asked Richard.

"Out of curiosity," said Moncharmin.

2) In the Gaulois text, Leroux actually named the people who rented out Box 5 on the evening in question, and were summarily escorted out after raucous laughter was heard emanating from the box. This section is highlighted in red in the second column.

In Coward's translation, this text appears between "They immediately started carrying on again and this time I had them ejected for good" and "Send for the security man."

Leroux's text switches between the description from the Inspector, which I have italicized, and Richard’s and Moncharmin's comments, which are “in quotes”:

Before leaving the theatre, they gave their names. Among them, there was a journalist.

"Oh dear! Now we're in for trouble!" cried Richard.

Who stated that he will write an article.

"Egad!" cried Moncharmin.

This journalist is named Maxime Defrance.

"Don't know him," Richard and Moncharmin proclaimed in unison, reassured.

The other four were: M. and Mme Darklay and their daughter, from Rue de la Paix.

"The Darklays, but the Darklays are incapable of conducting themselves in such a manner!" said Moncharmin. "I know the Darklays, they are very respectable people; what does this mean?"

And M. Malpertuis.

"Malpertuis," cried the two Managers. "Let's hope that's not the Malpertuis from the Fine Arts! No... No... He would have requested a seat or a box. Malpertuis would never pay for his seat anywhere... But if he was invited by the Darklays? Good heavens!"

M. Malpertuis stated as he left that he would complain to the Managers.

3) Compare the Gaulois text, highlighted in red above: "ils en étaient ressortis et avaient appelé l'ouvreuse qui leur a demandé ce qu'ils voulaient" to the First Edition: "ils en étaient ressortis et avaient appelé l'ouvreuse qui leur a demandé ce qu'ils avaient".

Translation from the Gaulois:

They had gone out again and had called the box keeper, who asked them what they wanted.

Translation from the First Edition:

They had gone out again and had called the box keeper, who asked them what they needed.

4) Compare the Gaulois text, highlighted above: "L'ouvreuse me l'a assez répété, ce qui prouve bien que tout cela n'est qu'une plaisanterie" to the First Edition: "et c'est ce qui prouve bien que tout cela n'est qu'une plaisanterie".

Translation from the Gaulois:

“The box keeper told me several times, which proves that this was all just a practical joke.”

Translation from the First Edition: 

“And this proves that this was all just a practical joke.”

5) Compare the Gaulois text: "Qu'on aille me chercher l'ouvreuse ! hurla-t-il... Tout de suite ! Tout de suite !" to the First Edition: "Qu'on aille me chercher l'ouvreuse ! commanda-t-il... Tout de suite !" 

Translation from the Gaulois:

"Someone go get me the box keeper!" he roared... "Now! Now!"

Translation from the First Edition:

"Someone go get me the box keeper," he ordered... "Now!"

6) Minor differences in punctuation.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 6 October, 1909. This link brings you to page 3 of the newspaper — Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

[beardedmrbean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lywca3S74vw Cut monsters from the first Silent Hill. Some of them make me wonder if there was going to be a zoo area.

They didn't have my fav

(2016 Tour DeFrance, somehow France winds up having lots of weird llama and alpaca incidents.)

Those beasties look rad tho

[unes23]

Coco Rocha by Daniel Hinz & Gérôme Defrance for L'Officiel Magazine

[mejomonster]

I love reading.

I frequently select novels which are just So Long it takes me weeks to months to finish them. Making speed reading through a couple a week (my dream) unobtainable. I mean, I like reading nonfiction too, and maybe because of old college cramming skills I can read 2-4 400 page nonfiction books a week if Im okay with feeling tired all week.

Which, I have some niche recs if you're into non fiction: Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Bentov, When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate, Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, The Reality of ESP by Russel Targ if youre into remote viewing history, Psychic Discoveries beyond the Iron Curtain by Ostrander and Schroeder on archive.org if youre into parapsychology and looking for other names to look into further since tbh this book is more journalism-entertainment than nonfiction reference also this books fairly old now, Immortal Remains - from a philosophy angle it was okay but frustrating to me except i got some good sources for further reading mentoned... but I prefer the UVA youtube lectures and the research they do since i just tend to prefer reading collected information myself, The Emotion Code - not necessarily informational in a verified sense but if youve ever considered paying money for an emotion code practitioner i liked the book cause i could just Learn the method and try it myself... free... and test and decide for myself regardless of if ifs placebo if its actually helpful to me or not, The Ancient Science and Art of Pranic Healing - this book doesnt have studies sourced as its more about teach The technique but i like that it lists sources for further reading - and its another case of "well i can just learn, test it on myself, see if its helpful or not" also im an absolute nerd about older books and the considerations that went into X book at Their time compared to now... if you ever saw my language learning textbooks collection from 1800s books to 2023 books youd know.

Speaking of here are some Fascinating Language Learning books. If youre curious about the Nature Method as in learn a language IN the lamguage by comprehensible context I recommend Ayan Academy playlists on youtube and the books: English by the Nature Method, Lingua Latina, La Francais Par Le Methode Nature, L'Italiano Secondo il Metodo Natura, Poco a Poco. (I also have many a youtube channel lessons recommendation for this learning method as I prefer it). For textbooks to learn primarily with graded reading materials Ive got: Beginning Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, and Advanced Chinese by John DeFrancis, Spanish for beginners by Charles Duff, French for Beginners Charles Duff, A Japanese Reader: Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language by Roy Miller (steep learning curve but decent preparation for reading actual novels and news which is great because i find a lot of japanese textbooks hover at beginner-intermediate but dont bridge all the way to necessary skills to understand complex texts). Cool books: Chinese Self Taught by The Natural Method by John Darroch (old af and some information is outdated and the pinyin system Hurts so focus on actual hanzi - but the grammar explanations are the easiest ive read and enjoyed reading), Japanese in 30 Hours (its basic japanese but it explains basic grammar understandably and helps you get a basic mental framework for the language making further study, i felt, much easier to adjust to, and its a short quick Study Up Basics book - id especially recommend it to people planning to learn using immersion/comprehensible input asap as it will give them a little bit of a skeleton to lean on), japaneseaudiolessons.com is an interesting introduction to audio flashcard lessons (fun fact glossika is just an expensive version of audio flashcard study which are just... audio in target language then a language you understand so you comprehend the sentence meaning and can learn new words/grammar from it by listening) and the site has a free grammar book to accompany it AND the site makers made kanji teaching books that come the closest to providing prewritten mnemonics for meaning AND pronunciation of japanese kanji in book study form. Something i appreciate since heisig books make you Make Up Your Own mnemonics so i find his books useless, and many japanese kanji teaching books that use mnemonics focus on meaning and skip teaching pronunciations since its harder to include multiple pronunciations in a mnemonic. For Chinese hanzi study, my favorite book is Tuttle's Learning Chinese Characters: (HSK Levels 1-3) A Revolutionary New Way to Learn the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters, the book provides mnemonic stories for pronunciation including tone, and meaning, and example words. Its the backbone of how i learned the first few hundred hanzi and Learned How to personally remember more which made continuing to learn hanzi much easier. Since that Hanzi book, ive been desperate for a similarly written book for japanese kanji and... japaneseaudiolessons.com has the most similar kind of kanji books, but theirs is a drier and therefore harder read.

Anyway wow I got lost ToT back to my older point ayy. I have no time to read these fucking long ass fiction books I keep wanting to read ;-; my focus can resolve to read a nonfiction book in a frantic 6 hours of Research Mode then burn out and lose focus until im up for the next book. But i pick these long ass fiction books, and oddly i seem to read fiction slower so maybe im like savoring it idk. But i took like 2 months to finish Silent Reading by priest so. Yeah i WISH i was getring through these novels a touch faster ;-; i have so many i wanna read. Perplexingly i also read manga super slow, so i guess any fiction i slow down and savor or something

Books im trying desperately to read, to finish, or to get to after finishing my current books: Observations by janon (a fanfic but a great one and im only 30% done after 1 week intensively reading), kamikaze girls (1/3 done then i forgot the book so its been a few months), Old Fashion Cupcake (1/4 thru and the single volume is LONG), Devilman (1/8 through maybe), Sudden Silence (this book is like 200 pages frankly i have no idea why i didnt manage to finish it in a few days), Game of Thrones book 1 (in my defense its an audiobook so im only in like chapter 3 theres a cool youtube guy who does different voices and music for the chapters), The Expanse (i just started), The Dark Forest (book 2 of three body problem series im half done then i forgot it), In The Dark book 1 (1/3 done and its just... not quite getting my attention as well as other stuff i recently read), Little Mushroom (likely to start more solidly once i finish Observations), 2ha (i got volume 4 babey!!), Can Ci Pin (id like to restart and read in earnest im in a sci fi mood lately so i think ill get obsessed with this once i start), Breaking Through the Clouds (my instincts tell me this is most likely the only crime mystery novel thats going to manage to catch my attention after Silent Reading by priest impressed me so damn much its like in my top 5 books i ever read now), discworld (im just reading little snippets as i have time), Final Girl Support Group (1/4 done then i got busy and forgot it - this is by Grady Hendrix and so far ive loved everything they write, I highly recommend My Best Friends Exorcism it was great), Guardian (i have the english translation but im... eternally chugging away at the chinese and at the end of the First Arc which ive reread in chinese like 4 times now i need to just GET PAST THAT PART TO NEW PARTS and i dont really wanna read the english translation until ive read the original so i can compare), so many fucking novels by priest in my to read list... sha po lang, jinse, huai dao, guomen, lord seventh, faraway wanderers, the blue seal, tai sui, liu yao, lhjc, and again Can Ci Pin... then I have Peach Blossom Debt and Imperial Uncle, and Golden Stage on the to read list too... and Thousand Autumns, Peerless. And Wu Chang Jie, and Nightfall (evernight). Oh I also started reading Vampire Hunter D omnibus and that fucker is like 800 pages. Frankly most books i buy are 400-1200 pages. Usually 600 at minimum. Oh i also started reading One Piece manga, got to Sanji's introduction arc, then like most things... i forgot i was reading it and havent picked it back up for weeks. Basically... i try to get through a book but if it takes me more than 3 days (nonfiction usually takes me 1-2 days) then i risk forgetting i was reading it, forgetting for months, picking it back up and having to start over cause i forgot it for too long -.-;

Anyway my point

[detournementsmineurs]

Vincent Macaigne et Cécile de France dans “Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe” biopic de Martin Provost - sur la relation du peintre Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) et de sa muse et épouse Marthe de Méligny, de son vrai nom Maria Boursin (1869-1942) - janvier 2023.

[tam--lin]

I wasn't paying attention when I put in an order the other day so now unfortunately I have a first edition of DeFrancis' "Beginning Chinese" instead of his first Chinese reader.

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

Im seeing Camelot tonight and I’ll fully admit my interest in this is 97% seeing Aaron Sorkin’s rewrite of the book. He’s such a talented writer despite never giving Josh and Donna the resolution they deserved and leaving it up to whoever took over the west wing when he left.

I think Camelot itself is unintelligible for me because I never cared for Arthurian material. Maybe Marie DeFrance in my English lit classes.

[gloop-augustus]

Paris est prêt pour Noël! Photo par Florin Defrance.

[boricuacherry-blog]

Jermain Charlo vanished during the early morning hours of June 16th, 2018. The 24-year-old was last seen that morning in Missoula, Montana around 1am. Jermain had been to a few bars in that area during the evening, and was captured on surveillance cameras through an alley behind a bar called the Barlander. The footage shows Jermain walking east towards the Orange Street Food Farm with her ex Michael Defrance. Said footage is the last known sighting of Jermain, and she has never been seen or heard from again.

Michael Defrance was the father of her two children.

Jermain was an outgoing animal lover. She once had a flying squirrel and two pigs as pets. She always loved to be by the river and fishing. She was an amazing artist:

And her dream was to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. She would even crochet grocery bags to save the environment. She grew up on the Flathead Reservation, and her roots run deep on that reservation. She's a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes, and the descendant of Chief Charlo, known for his peaceful resistance during the 1870s when the tribe was forced to move from their ancestral land in Montana's Bitterroot Valley to the Flathead Reservation.

Jermain lived in this orange house, where she raised her two sons, Jacob and Thomas,

although her relationship with their father - Michael Defrance - was strained. There had been domestic violence in the relationship. Jermain's world revolved around her sons and she wanted to take them fishing, take them to the fair, and give them the best life she knew. She had been working at the Big River Cantina on the Flathead Reservation, while hoping to find work as a seasonal firefighter. She even had an interview scheduled, but she would never show up.

Her ex, Michael Defrance, was arrested in 2023 on unrelated charges. As a result of his domestic violence, he was not legally allowed to buy firearms. But he was caught with them and is serving time now.

According to police, Michael claims he found Jermain's cellphone but threw it away somewhere in Idaho.

Jermain Charlo is still missing.

[thelenazavaroniarchive]

26th July 2024.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. Lena’s single, Ma! He’s Making Eyes At Me was at number 8 in the South African charts.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. The East Kent Times advertised Lena’s Sunday concert at the Winter Gardens, Margate in the 4th August.

Harry Secombe was doing the summer season.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. In the New York Times, John Rockwell notes that every subway station is plastered with adverts for Lena.

The Pop Life By John Rockwell,

New York Times 26th July 1974.

“The Jackson 5 (or six, with the addition of 11‐year‐old Randy), who are performing at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, are hardly the only young group before the public these days. The record racks and the airwaves are full of piping prepubescence.The reasons are several. Not all such singers and groups appeal exclusively to the 8‐to‐16‐year‐old set of course, but most of the young‐teen‐agers and subteenagers have become an increasingly affluent market, and the music business has never ‘been shy about following its nose towards affluence.

Another reason is that lots of pop has gotten pretty fancy. Rock was born as something vital yet simple. But pop stars and their audiences have both grown older, even with infusions from the youthful end of the scale. Where is a panting 12‐year‐old to turn for moon‐June pap if all lie or she can get is profundities from Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Bobby Sherman, Rick Springfield, David Cassidy, the DeFrances, the Osmond Brothers and the Jacksion 5, are the young Elvis Presley and young Beatles of today.

At the moment every subway station is plastered with Pictures of a rather aggressIve‐looking little girl named Lena Zavaroni. Miss Zavaroni is 10, yet she belts out torch songs with a fervor that might make Mae West blush and an assortment of glottal show‐biz squeaks and ornamental flourishes worthy of the aging Judy Garland,

Clearly, some adults can find tot stars cuddly cute, and maybe even look upon their juxtaposition with “mature” material with mildly kinky glee. Miss Zavaroni’s version of “Help Me Make It Through the Night” makes the 15‐year‐old Tanya Tucker’s account of “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)” sound positively innocent.

Miss Zavaroni has a brassy vocal talent, to be sure. But her managers should have their money bags washed out with Of course, in principal there’s nothing much wrong with performing microboppers (to use an Esquire magazine term that never caught on), and a young person trying to sound old is probably no worse than an old person trying to sound young. Some acts, like the Jackson 5, can even make music of a genuinely infectious, appealing kind, and ad of them serve to inject continually new energy into an entertainment form that sometimes threatens to float away in its own cosmic profundity.It’s just that one can’t he quite sure where it will all end.

Rodney Allen Rippy, the 5‐year‐old hamburger‐eating super‐smiler, is, after all heading toward center stage.Some adults think of the world of pop music as a den of dope‐crazed incompetents, amiably ambling about in permanent mental fog. One naturally rejects such slander with righteous indignation, except that recently two rock bands have come along that can’t seem to decide how to spell themselves.The first was 10 cc., an innovative British group that has won both commercial success and critical acclaim for its clever variants of rock formulas. The group’s name has variously appeared — in ads, record covers and publicity material—as 10 c.c., 10 C.C., 10 cc, 10 CC, 10cc and lOCC. A woman at London Records, when quizzed about the discrepancies recently, said, “Gee, that’s a good question, We fight about it here at the office all the time.”The latest instance of nomenclatural confusion is Grinderswitch, a Southern blues‐rocking band that has opened a number of the Allman Brothers summer shows., Grinderswitch has also appeared as Grinder Switch; Grinders Switch and Grindersswitch. Perhaps both bands are making a significant protest against the order freaks of this world. As a certified orderfreak, however, I can only urge them to get it together before my next deadline.

It looks now as if the Bob Dylan‐Band European tour, that had been widely rumored for this fall will take place next spring”.

𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟒. Lena was photographed at home with her friend Senise and her dog Whiskey. (from the long defunct site lena-zavaroni.co.uk).

𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟔. Publicity photograph.

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟖. Lena was at the opening of the new Tesco store at Pitsea, promoting her new LP; Songs are such good things, and signing autographs.

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗. The Stage listed The Lena Zavaroni Show in Bridlington on it’s Summer Shows 1979 page.

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗. An undated newspaper article about how bored Lena was in Bridlington during her 1979 season and how Carla came down to keep her company, the article estimated that Lena earned about £400,000 p.a, - about £2.03 million in today’s money. The photograph was one of a set taken by John Curtis somewhere in the countryside near Bridlington.

𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗. A fan club photograph from a set taken on 30th January.

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐. Record Business reported that Lena had agreed to appear in a February 1983 song festival to aid deprived children.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟔. Lena & Jimmy Crickets show was advertised in The Torbay Express.

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟑. The South Wales Echo listed the coming Sunday's Summer Praise on it's television pages.