#Gascony

[postcard-from-the-past]

Shepherd spinning while pasturing sheep in the Gascony region of France

French vintage postcard

[napolka]

Lannes my Lannes...

[the-one-who-died-at-the-end]

Alexandre Dumas writing "The Three Musketeers" :

So, how many times do you want to say that D'Artagnan is from Gascony?

Alexandre:YES.

[ilovegers32]

Trop bon, la mer dans l’assiette

[septembergold]

A weekend of French pastry workshop by pastry chef Molly Wilkinson at Kate Hill's Gascony farmhouse Kitchen at Camont in the South West of France.

[cynthiabertelsen]

If on a Winter's Night, a Bowl of Garbure ...

Garbure Gasconne Nights spent huddled by fires snapping  and popping and providing respite from the howling winds and wolves, when you think of the dark and the cold and the danger, don’t you — all snuggled up in your down comforter or quilt passed down from your great-grandmother — feel a slight shiver? Of déjà vu? Not the cold. Maybe that’s why you long for a hearty pot of vegetable soup laced…

[bookloversofbath]

Culinaria France :: Andre Domine

[postcard-from-the-past]

Oyster farmer in Arcachon, Gascony region of France

French vintage postcard

[postcard-from-the-past]

100 years ago:

Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, France.

[napolka]

Sims 4 Murat!

[exgirlfiend]

genuine question would yall be interested if I made a master doc of all of the cultural references in wotww (or at least the ones I can recognize) complete with links to name origins and visual comparisons for locations and architecture. I <3 doing deep dives into the references behind the character names and the real world locations and time periods each area is inspired by

[ilovegers32]

Cueillette du jour

[postcard-from-the-past]

Another view:

Le château et la Tour de la Monnaie, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

[roehenstart]

Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204). American school.

[cadmusfly]

i may have attempted to lightly research gascony folk tales just so that i can work out what folklore Lannes, Murat and Bessieres would be familiar with and might casually reference

For a more general cultural context there's a lot of Roman referencing going on, and also The Matter of France/Charlemagne's Paladins would be a touchstone, I've referenced Gargantua and Pantagruel in Night at the Marshalate, but since fairytales and folklore is a lifelong interest of mine, I took a uni class or two on them and stuff, and I'm curious about more folkloric word of mouth kind of stories

so far I have come across Leg

the devil getting owned

a series of posts by some french naval officer who is translating gascony fairy tales as penance for plagiarism - the walking ship (1), the two twins (1), i do want to dig into this - the folklore thing not the uh other stuff - seems to be translated from french wikisource

There's some academic stuff going on that I haven't dug into - Women and Text in Gascon Tall Tales, some books which I don't think I'll have time to read

Going to tag some others who write or have written about about Gascon guys - @phatburd, @joachimnapoleon, @josefavomjaaga, @maggiec70 - whether you're interested in folkloric context or if you know anything interesting about the kind of folklore and fairy tales that the marshals might be familiar with! If not, disregard this post, but I'm just curious!

[liberty1776]

Seven Men of Gascony

Just finished reading again Seven Men From Gascony. Long ago I had the hard back edition pictured at top, with the more historically accurate cover art. The copy I just read was a battered paperback edition. It is the story of seven soldiers of Napoleons army and a cantiniere woman they travel with. The story takes them the battle of Aspern essling in 1809 through the Penisular War then into Russia finially ending at Waterloo in 1815. It is an epic tale with great battle discriptions that shows the comradery and loyalty of men at war. They all begin as voltigiers, light infantry, with one eventually transfering to the cavalry. In the story one a grizled old veteran sergant leads the others, and manages to keep them alive, over time two of them marry the cantiniere, as one by one the soldiers are taken by the war. This is a Great book for anyone interested in the Napoleonic wars. R. F. Delderfield is a great storyteller. The novel has action, romance, warmth and passion, a damn good read!