#Francois Deschamps

[themagnustournament]

Round Two Part Seven - Match 56

Nesting Instinct and that guy with a bug wife. Y'know what, we stan a guy who knows what he wants. But can he beat out Martin's Lonely Mansion Extravaganza? Recollection had 193 votes last round.

MAG 102 - Nesting Instinct | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of François Deschamps, regarding the family and presumed marriage of Benoît Maçon.

MAG 170 - Recollection | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

The recollections of Martin Blackwood. Recorded in Situ.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant “Mélusine”

Nonesuch Records, 2023 Po ubiegłorocznym, genialnym “Ghost Song” mało kto spodziewał się tak szybkiej premiery kolejnej płyty Cécile McLorin Salvant. Tymczasem miesiąc po wydaniu nominowanego do tegorocznych Grammy (i moim zdaniem zasługującego bezdyskusyjnie na otrzymanie nagrody) albumu, Artystka pojawiła się w nowojorskim The Bunker Studio na Brooklynie by zarejestrować nowy…

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Chris Sutton reveals France’s TWO weaknesses ahead of England clash

Chris Sutton reveals France’s TWO weaknesses ahead of England clash

France are favourites to overcome England. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images) Chris Sutton believes England can exploit two weaknesses within the France team when the two teams face off in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. Didier Deschamps’ side are favourites to progress to the last-four in Doha, given their status as World Champions. Added to that, the French have arguably the world’s…

[sunnieworms]

okay hear me out... corruption

specifically in the Francois Deschamps, corrupted to love the unlovable. melded into something Other by an unknowable existance.

or slaughter

or flesh

This is a question that ALWAYS bugged me. If Will Graham was in The Magnus Archives universe, which entity do you think he would belong to?

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"Too old for his poorly dyed hair" do not disrespect our beloved Gerry like that Monsieur Deschamps

[kirikiri1]

Hoop for Episode 102 - Nesting Instinct, for @est.mendacium, who kindly donated to Food Not Bombs. Thank you!!

"Benoît himself, there seemed to be movement from the ring finger of his right hand. A slight shudder, a shifting of the skin beneath his fingernail. A small patch of darkness seemed to grow just below it, expanding until it resolved itself into the shape of an insect. It pushed itself smoothly and quickly out from below his fingernail and dropped down onto the bar, scuttling away and out of sight so quickly I lost it almost immediately."

Gosh I love this episode <3 big Corruption feels.

[thetorivor]

Everybody ShutUp the actual funniest part of the Magnus archives is the guy who fucked a beetle send tweet

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Inspired by this post and relistening to Hive, an AU where the Corruption and Lonely avatars/victims are switched:

Jane Prentiss, so very lonely, abandoned by her friends for being toxic, finds that gradually she starts seeing her world through a fog. She’s noticed less and less by others, and slowly she stops bothering with trying to interact with others completely, locking herself inside her house.  She sits in her fog, starting to find it comforting even, the apathy the fog gives her leaves her no room to feel anything else.  By the time Arthur Nolan comes by to demand her late rent, she’s embraced her coat of invisibility and detachment, and he finds no one inside the house.  Jane even thinks that her apathetic fog of nothingness is so comforting, that she wants others to share in it too.  If other people no longer feel, they don’t have to face all those awful negative emotions either.

Naomi Herne was always alone, and she thought she liked being alone, but then she met Evan, and soon she felt loved and loved and loved. She met his family, and they welcomed her into their fold as if she were their own. There was something just the slightest bit off with them all though, a smell that always seemed to follow them, the odd crawling movement underneath their skin when she looks at them out of the corner of her eye. She doesn’t notice it at first but the longer she gets to know Evan and his family, her skin itches more and more. There’s anticipation in their eyes but she’s not sure for what. She’s constantly itchy now, she thinks she even starts to notice odd bumps under her skin that seem to appear, move, and then go away, but that’s nothing compared to how warm and loved she feels with this family.  Evan says the head of the family wants to meet her tomorrow. There’s a finality in his statement that makes her think once she meets the head, there’s no going back. She’s not sure she wants to.

Francois Deschamps notices his coworker Benoit has become increasingly bitter about being alone, instead of just sad. No longer does he lament about not having a wife, or cry in the back at the sight of other people’s children, but instead now he’s glowering at those talking about family. And soon the people who come into the bar regularly no longer seem to talk about their children? Their spouse? Did that person have a sister? No, of course not, Francois thinks he would remember that... Benoit has stopped glaring, he seems to stop emoting completely. No bitterness anymore, just a constant flat affect. A customer is talking to Benoit about their bro-. A customer is talking to him.

Andrea Nunis loves traveling. She gets to see so many new sights, new experiences, see the world. People ask about if she ever feels lonely since she’s always by herself when she travels. And she laughs them off, saying she’s never alone, but doesn’t elaborate. She picks up a new passengers wherever she goes. She’s practically her own biome, she thinks to herself amusedly. So many different species, rarely any two alike, and you would think there would be competition between them and that some would try to subsume another, but she is Enough for all of them to have their own niche within her. So no, she laughs, placing her hand on her chest. I’m always with friends when traveling, feeling the termites crawling through her bronchi, the mayfly larvae swimming and being pumped around her body by her ventricles, the carrion beetles feeding on the flesh attached to her ribs.  Andrea is their home, and they are her dearest traveling companions.

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Artists’ book display for the week of December 10th, 2018

Son Histoire by Andre Kreft- 1993

Return of the slapstick papyrus by Francois Deschamps- Rochester : Visual studies Wksp., 1988

Theatre arts works notebook by Tom Graff - Vancouver, BC :1972

On Translation : Culoarea by Antonio Mundtadas- Romania: Muzel de Arta Arad, 1998

Panache by Richard Kostelanetz-New York; Panache Magazine, 1971

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american: julia montauk

italian: simon fairchild

attracted to white boys: stephen walker

stan any white male celebrity: martin blackwood

think tiktok humor is funny: georgie barker

will put yoshikage kira on the tl: oliver banks

hello kitty says acab mfs: john sims

likes hyperpop: michael distortion

listens to 100 gecs unironically: helen distortion

speak “french”: francois deschamps

hawks stans: daisy tonner

armys: john amherst

keep up with youtuber drama: melanie king

listens to melanie martinez: not!sasha

listens to pop punk: jennifer ling

harry styles fans: the anatomy class

tiktoker stans: whoever gave adelard dekker his statement in 156

minecraft youtuber stans: gary boylan

kins from any bnha villain: jane prentiss

kins from jojo: lee rentoul

kins from nge: mike crew

weezer fans: jan kilbride

oasis fans: timothy hodge

corpse stans: tova mchugh

listens to white male classical rock: gerard keay

kirishima stans: hezekiah wakely

like any dudebro anime: ross davenport

filmtwt: neil lagorio

harry potter stans: lucy cooper

actively use snapchat: tessa winters

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 56

Nesting Instinct has come with 164 votes from Round Two! The Great Beast comes from Round One with 104 votes!

MAG 102 - Nesting Instinct | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of François Deschamps, regarding the family and presumed marriage of Benoît Maçon.

MAG 174 - The Great Beast | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An examination of scale. Recorded by The Archivist in situ.

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TMA Statements In Chronological Order

But, not by when the events happened, by the order when the Statements were entered to the Institute. Because that wasn’t on the wiki timeline. 

Below the cut because i’m not a monster. 

Format is:

Episode // Entity // Statement Giver// Statement Given // Event Date

   • #140 The Movment of The Heavens // The Dark // John Flamsteed // 1715    • #116 The Show Must Go On // The Stranger // Abraham Janssen // 2 November 1787    • #23 Schwarzwald // The Eye // Albrecht von Closen // 31st March 1816 // Winter 1815    • #127 Remains to be Seen // The Eye // Jonathan Franshawe // 21 November 1831 // April – November 1831    • #152 A Gravediggers Envy // The Buried // Hezekiah Wakely // 1837 - 1839    • #50 Foundations // The Buried // Sampson Kempthorn // 12th June 1841 // 1836    • #58 Trail Rations // The Flesh // Mrs. Carlisle // 10th November 1845 // October – November 1845    • #105 Total War // The Slaughter, The Eye // Charles Fleming // 1862    • #98 Lights Out // The Dark // Algernon Moss // 14 May 1864    • #138 The Architecture Of Fear // The Eye // Robert Smirke // 13 February 1867    • #7 The Piper // The Slaughter // Clarence Berry // 6th November 1922 // 1917-18    • #133 Dead Horse // The Hunt // Percy Fawcett // 27 June 1930    • #99 Dust to Dust // The Buried // Robert E Geiger // 20 February 1952 // April 1935    • #137 Nemesis // The Slaughter // Wallis Turner // 3 July 1955 // Winter 1942    • #29 Cheating Death // The End // Nathaniel Thorp // 4th June 1972 // 17th June 1775    • #60 Observer Effect // The Eye // Rosa Meyer // 12 July 1972 // April – July 1972    • #95 Absent Without Leave // The Slaughter // Luca Moretti // 2 November 1977    • #44 Tightrope // The Stranger // Yuri Utkin // 2nd March 1979 // November 1952    • #85 Upon the Stair // The Spiral // Unknown // 1980 – 1990    • #86 Tucked In // The Dark // Benjamin Hatendi // 2nd March 1983    • #84 Possessive // The Corruption // Adrian Weiss // 1 December 1990    • #125 Civilian Casualties // The Slaughter // Terrance Simpson // 19 July 1993    • #77 The Kind Mother // The Stranger // Lucy Cooper // 15 September 1994 //August 1994    • #93 Contaminant // The Corruption // Lester Chang // 5 March 1995    • #96 Return To Sender // The Stranger // Alfred Breekon // 15 May 1996    • #53 Crusader // The Eye // Walter Heller // 5th September 1997 // November 1941    • #2 Do Not Open // The Buried, The Stranger // Joshua Gillespie // 22nd November 1998 // 1996 -1998 (?)    • #46 Literary Heights // The Spiral, The Vast // Herbert Knox // 21st December 1998 // September 1997    • #17 Boneturners Tale // The Flesh // Sebastian Adekoya // 10th June 1999 // 1996    • #66 Held in Customs // The Buried // Vincent Yang // 22 February 2000 // January 19 2000    • #78 Distant Cousin // The Stranger, The Web // Lawrence Moore // 12 June 2001    • #21 Freefall // The Vast // Moira Kelly // 20th October 2002 // 3rd-5th or 7th June 2001    • #35 Old Passages // All // Harold Silvana // 4th June 2002 // June 2002    • #9 A Father’s Love // The Dark, The Hunt // Julia Montauk // 3rd December 2002 // 1990-95    • #155 Cost of Living // The End // Tova McHugh // 3 December 2002    • #68 Tale of a Field Hospital // The Corruption // Joesph Russo // 3rd June 2003 // 1st June 2003    • #27 A Sturdy Lock // The Spiral // Paul Mckenzie // 24th August 2003 // July 2003    • #146 Threshold // The Spiral // Marcus Mackenzie // 1 September 2003    • #88 Dig // The Buried // Enrique MacMillian // 4 November 2003    • #70 Book of the Dead // The End // Masato Murray // 9th December 2003    • #52 Exceptional Risk // The Dark // Phillip Brown // 9th April 2004 // 1st November 2002    • #24 Strange Music // The Stranger // Leanne Denikin // 17th Jan 2005 // August 2004    • #59 Recluse // The Web, The Desolation // Ronald Sinclair // 29th November 2005 // Early to Mid 1960’s    • #134 Time of Revelation // The Extinction // Adelard Dekker // 22 January 2006 // 2005, 1867    • #75 A Long Way Down // The Vast // Stephen Walker // 7 November 2006 // Early October 2006    • #139 Chosen // The Desolation // Eugene Vanderstock // 30 November 2006    • #115 Taking Stock // The Flesh // Michaele Salesa // 4 January 2007 // Autumn of 1999    • #8 Burnt Out // The Web, The Desolation, The Spiral // Ivo Lensik // 13th March 2007 // November 2006    • #67 Burning Desire // The Desolation // Jack Barnabas // 18 March 2007 // October – November 2006    • #3 Across the Street // The Stranger, The Web // Amy Patel // 1st July 2007 // 7th April 2006    • #51 High Pressure // The Vast, The Buried // Antonia Hayley // 7th January 2008 // August 2006    • #106 A Matter of Perspective // The Vast, The Eye // Jan Kilbride // 10 February 2008    • #49 The Butchers Window // The Flesh // Gregory Pryor // 11th March 2008 // June 2007    • #62 First Edition // The End, The Eye // Mary Keay // 3rd July 2008 // 1955    • #154 Bloody Mary // The Eye // Eric Delano // 21 July 2008    • #130 Meat // The Flesh // Lucia Wright // 19 December 2008    • #18 The Man Upstairs // The Flesh // Christof Rudenko // 12th December 2008 // 22nd October 2007    • #156 Reflection // The Extinction // Adelard Dekker // 4 January 2009    • #5 Thrown Away // The Flesh etc. // Kieran Woodward // 23rd February 2009 // 8th August 2008    • #97 We All Ignore The Pit // The Buried // Jackson Ellis // 3 March 2009    • #57 Personal Space // The Lonely, The Vast, The Dark // Carter Chilcott // 4 April 2009 // September 2007    • #145 Infectious Doubts // The Desolation // Arthur Nolan // 2 February 2009    • #114 Cracked Foundation // The Web Shtranger or Extinction // Anya Villette // 22 April 2009 // 23 April 2009 or 9 April 2009    • #37 Burnt Offering // The Desolation // Jason North // 6th August 2009 // August 2009    • #108 Monologue // The Lonely, The Stranger // Adonis Biros // 20 August 2009 // August 2009    • #144 Decrypted // The Extinction // Gary Boylan // 3 October 2009 // August 2009    • #126 Sculptor’s Tool // The Spiral // Deborah Madaki // 11 October 2009 // Spring 2004    • #72 Takeaway // The Flesh // Craig Goodall // 20 October 2009 // 27 September 2009    • #107 Third Degree // The Desolation // 1 February 2010 // January 2010    • #48 Lost in the Crowd // The Lonely // Andrea Nunis // 25th March 2010 // September 2009    • #10 Vampire Killer & #56 Children of the Night // The Hunt, the Web // Trevor Herburt // 10th July 2010 // 1959 (first event), Winter 2009    • #69 Thought For the Day // The Web // Darren Harlow // 18th November 2010    • #31 First Hunt // The Hunt // Lawerence Mortimer // 9th December 2010 // 30th November - 1st December 2010    • #33 Boatswain’s Call // The Lonely // Carlita Sloane // 2nd January 2011 // Late November 2010    • #45 Blood Bag // The Corruption // Thomas Neil // 9th February 2011 // Spring 2010    • #148 Extended Surveillance // The Eye // Sunil Maraj // 3 April 2011    • #14 Piece Meal // The Flesh // Lee Rentoul // 29th May 2011 // Early 2011    • #19 Confession & #20 Desecrated Host // The Spiral, The Web, The Desolation (Hilltop Road) & The Spiral, The Flesh // Edwin Burroughs // 30th May 2011 // November 2006    • #112 Thrill of the Chase // The Hunt // Lisa Carmel // 13 November 2011    • #113 Breathing Room // The End // Adelard Dekker // 2012    • #12 Page Turner // The Desolation, The Eye // Lesere Saraki // 11th February 2012 // 23rd December 2011    • #153 Love Bombing // The Corruption, The Flesh // Barbara Mullen-Jones // 2 March 2012    • #110 Creature Feature // The Web // Alexia Crawley // 14 March 2012    • #1 Anglerfish // Stranger //Nathan Watts // 22nd April 2012 // March 2010    • #38 Lost and Found // The Spiral // Andre Ramao // 6th June 2012 // March 2012    • #36 Taken Ill // The Corruption // Nicole Baxter // 19th November 2012 // August – September 2011    • #136 The Puppeteer // The Web // Alison Killala // 1 December 2012 // 2012    • #124 Left Hanging // The Vast // Julian Jennings // 11 December 2012 // 2012    • #149 Concrete Jungle // The Extinction // Judith O’neill // 13 May 2013    • #54 Still Life // The Stranger // Alexander Scaplehorn // 23 June  2013    • #4 Page Turner // The Vast, The Spiral, The End // Dominic Swain // 28th June 2013 // 10th November 2012    • #90 Body Builder // The Flesh // Ross Davenport // 7 August 2013    • #157 Rotten Core // The Extinction, The Corruption // Adelard Dekker // 14 August 2013    • #30 Killing Floor // The Flesh // David Laylow // 1st September 2013 // 12th July 2013    • #129 Submerged // The Buried // Kulbir Shakya // 4 September 2013 // July or August 2013    • #83 Drawing a Blank // The Stranger // Chloe Ashburt // 19 October 2013 // September – October 2013    • #42 Grifter’s Bone // The Slaughter // Jennifer Ling // 3rd November 2013 // Autumn 2013    • #32 Hive // The Corruption // Jane Prentiss // 23rd February 2014 // Pre-2014    • #63 The End of the Tunnel // The Dark // Erin Gallagher-Nelson // 31st March 2014 // 26th March 2014    • #102 Nesting Instinct // The Corruption // Francois Deschamps // 4 June 2014    • #103 Cruelty Free // The Flesh // Dylan Anderson // 2 July 2014    • #135 Dark Matter // The Dark // Manuela Dominguez // 14 July 2014 // 2007    • #87 The Uncanny Valley // The Stranger, The Desolation // Sebastian Skinner // 10 October 2014 // September 2014    • #15 Lost Johns’ Cave // The Buried // Laura Popham // 9th November 2014 // 14-15th June 2014    • #150 Cul-de-sac // The Lonely // Herman Gorgoli // 9 November 2014    • #6 Squirm // The Corruption // Timothy Hodge // 9th December 2014 // 20th November 2014    • #122 Zombie // The Stranger // Lorell St. John // 1 February 2015    • #11 Dreamer // The End // Antonio Blake (Oliver Banks) // 14th March 2015 // 12th March 2015    • #16 Arachnophobia // The Web, The Corruption // Carlos Vittery // 9th April 2015 // Early 2015    • #25 Growing Dark // The Dark // Mark Bilham // 19th April 2015 // January – March 2015    • #64 Burial Rites // The End // Donna Gwynne // 20th May 2015 // 2012    • #74 Fatigue // The Spiral // Lydia Halligan // 8 June 2015    • #123 Web Development // The Web // Angie Santos // 1 August 2015 // January 2015    • #13 Alone // The Lonely // Naomi Herne // 13th January 2016 //30th & 31st March 2015    • #22 Colony // The Corruption // Martin Blackwood // 12th March 2016 // March 2016    • #26 A Distortion // The Spiral, The Corruption // Sasha James // 2nd April 2016 // 1st April 2016    • #28 Skintight // The Slaughter, The Stranger // Melanie King // 17th April 2016 // January 2015    • #34 Anatomy Class // The Stranger // Lionel Elliot // 12th July 2016 // January – March 2016    • #39 Infestation // ATTACK ON THE INSTITUTE // 29th July 2016    • #40 Human Remains // Post Attack Debrief// 29th July 2016    • #41 Too Deep // Buried and Dark suspected // 2nd September 2016 // mid-august – September 2016    • #43 Section 31 // The Desolation, The End // Basira Hussain //19th September 2016 // August 2011 and 18 July 2014    • #47 The New Door // The Spiral // Helen Richardson // 2nd October 2016    • #55 Pest Control // The Corruption, The Desolation // Jordan Kennedy // 3rd November 2016 // 2011 & 2014    • #61 Hard Shoulder // The Hunt, The Stranger, The Buried // Daisy Tonner // 1st December 2016 // 24th July 2002    • #65 Binary // The Spiral, Extinction // Tessa Winters // 7th January 2017    • #71 Underground // The Buried // Karolina Gorka // 25 January 2017 // 6 January 2017    • #73 Police Lights // The Dark // Basira Hussain // 11 February 2017 // 10 February 2017    • #76 The Smell of Blood // The Slaughter // Melanie King // 13 February 2017    • #79 Hide and Seek // The Stranger, The Spiral // 16 February 2017    • #80 The Librarian // All // Jurgen Leitner // 16 February 2017 // 1994    • #81 A Guest for Mister Spider // The Web // Jonathan Sims // 18 February 2017 / 1995    • #82 The Eyewitnesses // The Eye, the Slaughter // Daisy Tonner // 18 February 2017    • #89 Twice as Bright // The Desolation // Jude Perry // 24 April 2017    • #91 The Coming Storm // The Vast, The Spiral // Michael Crew // 28 April 2017    • #92 Nothing Beside Remains // The Eye, The Lonely // Elias Bouchard, Barnabas Bennett // ? [Possibly 28 April 2017]    • #94 Dead Woman Walking // The End // Georgie Barker // 29 April 2017    • #100 I Guess You Had To Be There // The Desolation, The Dark, The Spiral, The Web, The Lonely // Lynn Hammond, John Smith, Robin Lennox, Brian Finlinson // 2 May 2017 – 26 May 2017    • #101 Another Twist // The Spiral, The Stranger // Michael // May-June 2017 // October 2009 – 2011    • #104 Sneak Preview // The Stranger // Timothy Stoker // 14 June 2017 // August 2013    • #109 Nightfall // The Dark, The Hunt // Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert // 29 June 2017 // July 2010    • #111 Family Business // Multiple, The End // Gerry Keay // 30 June 2017 // September 2008    • #117 Testament // The Eye // Jonathan Sims, Basira Hussain, Melanie King, Martin Blackwood, Timothy Stoker, Daisy Tonner // 2 – 4 August 2017    • #118 The Masquerade // The Stranger // The Unknowing Begins // 6 August 2017    • #119 Stranger and Stranger // The Stranger // The Unknowing Ends // 7 August 2017    • #120 Eye Contact // The Eye // Elias Bouchard // 9 August 2017    • #121 Far Away // The End, The Web // Oliver Banks // 15 February 2018    • #128 Heavy Goods // The Stranger // Breekon // 3 March 2018    • #131 Flesh // The Flesh // Jared Hopworth // 20 March 2018 // 2016 – January 2018    • #132 Entombed // The Buried // Jonathan Sims and Daisy Tonner // 24 March 2018    • #141 Doomed Voyage // The Vast, The Spiral // Floyd Matharu // 11 June 2018    • #142 Scrutiny // The Eye, The Buried // Jess Terrell // 12 June 2018    • #143 Heart of Darkness // The Dark // Manuela Dominguez // 16 June 2018    • #147 Weaver // The Web // Annabelle Cane // 20 July 2018    • #151 Big Picture // The Vast, The Lonely, The Extinction // Simon Fairchild, Martin Blackwood // 14 August 2018    • #158 Panopticon // The Eye, the Extinction, The Lonely // Martin Blackwood, Peter Lukas, Basira Hussain, Jonathan Sims, Daisy Tonner, Elias Bouchard, Gertrude Robinson // 25 September 2018    • #159 The Last // The Lonely // Peter Lukas // 25 September 2018    • #160 The Eye Opens // All // Jonah Magnus, Jonathan Sims // 18 October 2018    • Vigilo, Audio, Supervenio. The World Ends    • #161 Dwelling // No // Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood, Elias Bouchard, Jonathan Sims, Jurgen Leitner // No Longer Applicable // Unknown    • #162 A Cozy Cabin // No // Gertrude Robinson, Gerry Keay, Sasha James, Timothy Stoker, Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable // 2013 – 2015    • #163 In The Trenches // The Slaughter // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • # 164 The Sick Village // The Corruption // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #165 Revolutions // The Stranger // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #166 The Worms // The Buried // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #167 Curiosity // The Eye, The Web, Others // Jonathan on Gertrude Robinson // No Longer Applicable    • #168 Roots // The End // Oliver Banks // No Longer Applicable

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© Francois Deschamps

Gado Diallo, 2011.

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PERSPECTIVES ON TIME, SPACE, AND MEMORIES, 2021, art project for the celebration of 75 years of Fulbright worldwide and 30 years of Fulbright programs in the Czech Republic

collaborating artists & theorists: Bojana Coklyat, Francois Deschamps, Ladislav Jackson, Ravi Kittappa, Regina Loukotová, Marie Meixnerová, Matthew Monteith, Logan Werlinger graphic design: Jan Čumlivski translations: Ian Mikyska copy editing: Alfred LeMaitre

Collaborative art project of ten Czech and US alumni has brought together memories of places and times related to their Fulbright stay. Editor and curator of the project, Šárka Zahálková composed in a dialogue with authors creative publication including pieces of visual art, music, architecture, photography and writing.

visualisations: Aleš Mach [Nutný zlo]

photos from inauguration

[expatimes]

Real Madrid star Karim Benzema to stand trial in sex tape case

Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema will face trial for complicity in an attempt to blackmail in a case linked to a sex tape featuring his former France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena, French prosecutors said.

The public prosecutor’s office in Versailles, France said on Thursday the trial was ordered against the player for complicity in attempting to pressure Valbuena, who was allegedly threatened in a phone call in June 2015, with the publication of the video.

He will stand trial on the charge of conspiracy to attempt blackmail, the prosecutor’s office said. A date for the trial has yet to be set.

The 33-year-old Benzema, one of the most talented French forwards of his generation, has been banned from the national team since November 2015 because of his suspected involvement in the scandal, despite consistently performing well with Spanish giants Real Madrid.

The investigators who charged Benzema believe he was approached by a childhood friend that year to act as an intermediary and convince Valbuena to deal directly with the blackmailers. Instead, Valbuena informed the police.

Four other people will also stand trial in the case. Benzema denies any wrongdoing.

“This decision is as much absurd as it was predictable,” Benzema lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, told The Associated Press news agency, denouncing perceived “persecution” against the player.

When the story broke, Benzema faced a deluge of criticism and then-Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the former Lyon player had “no place” in the national team. Former French President Francois Hollande was quoted as saying in a book that Benzema was not an example of morality.

Neither Benzema nor Valbuena was selected by coach Didier Deschamps for the Euro 2016 finals on home soil in which France were beaten in the final by Portugal.

Benzema has not played for France since scoring twice in a 4-0 win over Armenia in October 2015, taking his tally to 27 goals in 81 internationals.

He has scored more than 250 goals for Real Madrid and won four Champions League titles with the Spanish club.

#sport Read full article: https://expatimes.com/?p=16492&feed_id=27149 #europe #football #france #news #sports

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Artists’ book display for the week of December 17th, 2018

Telegram from Marcel Duchamp by David Prowler- San Francisco, CA: Readymade press, 1990

Song for any voice(s) and instrument(s) by Richard Carter (Dick) Higgins- Barrytown, NY : Printed Editions, 1983

untitled by Sabra Moore- 1990

Circus survivors by Eve Cohen, 1991

Einstein's swan: the professor's lecture by Francois Deschamps-  New Paltz, NY : The State University of New York, 1989