#La Victoire

[randomoranges]

lamaooo. so. tonight there was a special YouTube live for season tix holders. and the La Victoire account posts this in the group chat after the host congratulated Stacey and MPP:

[Translation: Is Marcus aware that they're married?]

THEN Later on Someone asks about mascots (what would it look like etc). And someone else went on saying that Marcus has become the lowkey mascot of the team

and So, the La Victoire account goes on to say:

[Translation: We'll ask Marcus]

yall. im still LAUGHING.

RIP Marcus - you are forever a legend XDXDXD

[malibuzz]

PERFORMANCE SCOLAIRE: L’école privée «La Victoire» célèbre ses cracks

L’École privée «La Victoire» a organisé une journée exceptionnelle dédiée à la remise de prix pour honorer ses élèves les plus méritants le samedi 29 juin 2024. Marqué par des moments de reconnaissance et de fierté, l’événement a rassemblé parents, élèves et membres du personnel. Il a aussi bénéficié du soutien de deux parrains prestigieux, notamment M. Touré Issouf Albert (Directeur national de…

[grantmentis]

Brooke Stacey has announced her retirement. She finishes her career with

A Gold medal for Canada in the 2013-2014 U18 Women’s World Championship

A silver medal with Linköping HC in the 2018-2019 SDHL championship

2019-2020 PHF all star

4 seasons with University of Maine, one with Linköping, two with the Buffalo Beauts, one with the Montreal Force, and one with the PWHL Montreal

Stacey, who is Kanien'kehà:ka, has been a major advocate for First Nations women in hockey through her career.

[through-pierre-lenses]

Roland Garros 2024

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Bonjour ☕, bonne journée de la victoire du 8 Mai 1945 🇨🇵

Arc de Triomphe🗼Paris 8 Mai 1945

Photo de Ralph Morse

[three-red-horns]

Pour la Victoire

May your coffee be strong and your victories sweet!

I used to have, a handbag by Pour la Victoire. It was one fine bag but, yes, I bought it because of the name, For Victory or To the Victorious, depending who you ask.

And more than anything, that handbag was an ever-present self pep talk for me, a reminder of you can do it, you got it, keep going. Maybe I should dig it out.

To anyone who needs a pep talk today and any other day!

[asofterepilogue]

Il y a quelques temps j'ai lu un article (que je ne retrouve évidemment pas) qui disait que le vote FN des classes populaires est en très grande partie motivé par la conviction que le système (capitaliste) injuste et douloureux dans lequel nous vivons est le seul possible et ne peut donc pas être changé, et qu'il s'agit alors pour ces fachos en puissance de s'assurer de ne pas passer dernier, c'est-à-dire de s'assurer que les "immigrés" ne bénéficient pas de la solidarité nationale et qu'ils vivent moins bien qu'eux-mêmes.

On sait aussi que l'abstention de plus en plus haute (à une exception récente près) est en partie due aux trahisons successives des politiciens, qui ont persuadé une grande partie de la population que voter ne servait à rien (même parmi ceux qui ne s'abstiennent pas, d'ailleurs).

Sachant cela, est-il judicieux pour une gauche qui se veut "de rupture" de se rapprocher de tout ce qui n'est clairement pas, ne souhaite pas être, ne sera jamais du côté de la rupture ? Est-il judicieux de soutenir François Hollande dit le fossoyeur de la gauche, ou un ancien ministre macroniste ? Est-il judicieux de s'allier avec Raphaël Glücksmann ? Est-il judicieux de faire renaître une alliance des gauches "mise à mort" il y a quelques mois par la gauche qui a déjà régné - et trahi - encore et encore et encore, avec plus de concessions à l'aile droite encore que lors de l'alliance précédente ? Est-il judicieux pour n'importe quel parti de gauche d'être représenté par quelqu'un qui utilise ouvertement les termes et les raisonnements de la droite en parlant "assistanat" ou en défendant sans nuance la police ? Est-il judicieux d'appeler à voter pour des candidats LR ou LREM qui voteraient les mêmes lois que les candidats FN et l'ont d'ailleurs déjà fait ?

Évidemment, il faut empêcher que l'extrême-droite ne gouverne. Mais si le danger est si réel aujourd'hui, c'est bien parce que l'ensemble de l'échiquier politique l'a encouragé pendant des décennies - par stratégie, par aveuglement, par inconscience, par complaisance.

À court terme, la stratégie de l'alliance peut porter ses fruits. Mais nous devrons de nouveau voter dans 3 ans (ou l'année prochaine en cas de nouvelle dissolution), et ce n'est pas en continuant à n'offrir aucune alternative crédible que les politiciens changeront la donne. Au-delà de ces élections, la stratégie des concessions à la gauche d'accompagnement la plus molle et la plus consensuelle est une stratégie perdante.

[eretzyisrael]

By CANAAN LIDOR

Prominent French Jews lament the electoral success of a political bloc that features a far-left party widely regarded as antisemitic in the country’s parliamentary elections.

This reaction is in response to news that the New Popular Front, which includes the Socialist Party and the France Unbowed far-left party, or LFI, garnered the highest share of the vote in today’s final round, with 175 to 205 seats according to a preliminary count, followed by the Ensemble! party of President Emmanuel Macron (150 to 175) and then the far-right National Rally (115-150).

Moshe Sebbag, a rabbi for the Synagogue de la Victoire, tells The Times of Israel that “it seems France has no future for Jews.” He advises young French Jews to leave for Israel.

“But people my age, who are 50, 60, we’ve made our life here and we fear for the future of our children,” he says. His assessment is not due solely to the left-wing bloc’s success, but to the mainstreaming of antisemitism in general in France, he says.

“The left is once again kidnapped by the infamous Melenchon. Divisive language. Hate of the republic on the lips. Around him right now are some incarnations of the new antisemitism. A chilling moment. A stain: Continue to fight against these people,” French-Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy writes on X.

Jean-Luc Melenchon is the leader of LFI, and in a 2017 speech called French Jews “an arrogant minority that lectures to the rest.” He is on record in an earlier speech as celebrating anti-Israel protesters days after some of them stormed a synagogue, condemning in that speech only French Jews who demonstrated to show solidarity with Israel.

“Melenchon’s victory is a terrible signal of impunity sent to the anti-Jewish Islamo-Faschists,” writes French-Jewish journalist Yohann Taieb on X.

The elections do not necessarily affect Macron’s presidency, but may make it more difficult to pass legislation and some executive actions.

[imperfectfragilediary]

Vogue Italia October 1992

Grace Coddington, Victoire de Castellane & Gilles Dufour, Loulou & Daniel de la Falaise, Kristen McMenamy & Hubert Boukobza, Sophie Théallet & Thierry Perez, Costanzo Mutti & Marisa Berenson, Anna Pawlowski & Patrice Touron by Steven Meisel

Styled by Nicoletta Santoro

[prunelier]

trying to keep up with the french political events rn is 50% hilarious 50% "how on earth are so many people this dense & stubbornly ignorant you should take an IQ + basic reading comprehension test before being allowed to vote"

it's still insane to me that people can think the most basic leftism is equally as bad, if not worse than literal far right neo nazis......the brain rot is beyond me. "wah wah the economy will crumble the rich will leave it's gonna be stalinism 2.0" MON FRERE EN CHRIST the economy is already crumbling half of the population is skipping meals and can't pay their energy bill how much worse can it get?????

[monstersqueen]

Bon. Tout d'abord :

Je suis incroyablement soulagée que le RN ait été repoussé au second tour

je suis absolument ravie que le NFP ait une majorité relative à l'assemblée

j'ai horreur, mais complètement horreur, d'être d'accord avec Macron.

Mais. euh. il a raison au moins sur un point : personne n'a gagné ces élections. dire que la gauche a gagné parce qu'on a une majorité relative à l'assemblée, c'est comme dire que chirac en 2002 c'est le président le mieux choisi de la 5ème république.

techniquement exact, ne représente aucune réalité politique des français.

la victoire, c'est celle des candidats troisième au premier tour qui se sont désistés, et celle des français qui sont allés voter contre le RN même s'il fallait voter pour l'autre camp

c'est une victoire française, c'est une victoire d'unité républicaine, c'est la victoire de ceux qui ont accepté leur défaite pour empêcher le pire

alors quand on entend des représentants de gauche essayer de s'approprier cette victoire sans reconnaitre cette vérité - ouais ça fait pas plaisir.

...ceci dit le résultat du premier tour montre en effet que la france a rejeté la macronie, et le résultat du deuxième tour montre que la france continue de rejeter le RN. on peut donc dire que le NFP sort gagnant de l'affaire,

- ouais j'ai un peu envie de sortir la vidéo du type qui passe de dernier à premier parce que tous les autres se sont rentrés dedans juste avant la ligne d'arrivée

[thebusylilbee]

eh bien je connaissais pas Djamil Le Shlag avant, mais il a gagné mon attention et mon soutien pour la suite de sa carrière avec cette démission en live pour dénoncer la censure sioniste :

[cheminer-poesie-cressant]

tout au bord de l’aile de l’ange puissant, tout au bord de son repos, comme un chuchotement qui confirme une épreuve ; le fragile qui vibre comme un coeur affolé par tant de silence, la rigueur du bord d’attaque soudain moins sûr ; les ailes de la victoire connaissent aussi la perfection du doute

© Pierre Cressant

(mercredi 12 octobre 2022)

[ciboulo]

Hier j’ai mangé beaucoup trop de pain avant d’aller en ski de rando et une fois au sommet de la montagne j’avais des nausées mais plus loin des personnes offraient des shooter gratuit. J’avais un doute que ça pourrait me faire vomir mais c’était gratuit alors j’ai pris le risque mais tout est bien qui fini bien, tout est resté dans mon ventre👍🏻

[sollannaart]

Napoleonic era fiction

Having shared with you the history books about the Napoleonic era I've read recently, let me talk a little bit on the topic of historical fiction. (Not that I read this kind of book much, but there are some I'd like to express my opinion of.)

The first one in my list will be La Victoire de la Grande Armée, by the former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. It's an alternative history book, where it is imagined what might have happened if in 1812 the Grand Armée had left Russia just after the battle of Moscow. (A spoiler - as one can guess from the title, everything should have went well for the Napoleonic France).

Alas, there are a lot of discrepancies in the book (like, for example, Poniatowski and Grouchy are marshals already in 1812); in additional, the protagonist (a general named François Beille) seems to be a kind of Marty Stu. Nevertheless, I liked this book, because... in that reality prince Józef didn't die in the battle of Leipzig (because the battle just didn't take place)! On the contrary, he's being made the king of the the restore Poland (though, I must admit, Poniatowski in fact didn't long for a crown - more on the topic here).

2. Having touched the topic of alternative history I can't help omitting another book (which, unfortunately, hasn't AFAIK been translated to any foreign language that's why I can now recommend it to my Polish speaking friends only). The book's title is Most we mgle (A Bridge In A Fog) and it is written by Marcin Ciszewski.

The plot is that in 1930ies Poland there appeared a time hole leading to 1813, using which a squad of the Polish soldiers was able to go back in time and change the result of the battle of Leipzig. So, in that universe prince Józef didn't die either )) (Though even there he had to become a king ;))

3. From alternative history of Poland let's switch to the real one, and here I have to digress a little to introduce you the next set of book. A friend of mine had once recommended me The Polish trilogy, a series of book by an American writer James Conroyd Martin, mentioning that in one of the books prince Józef's death in the battle of Leipzig is described. (A spoiler - there was such a scene in the second book, but it was not the most detailed description of the event I've stumbled upon, given all the books on the topic I've read, though it may be the only of those written in English.)

Having started to read the first book, I soon discovered that it wasn't an entire fiction, but was based on a real diary of a woman, Anna Maria Berezowska-Stelnicka, who lived in Poland in the end of the XVIIIth century. The diary was inherited by her descendants who live now in the US, and it was also translated to English and published and this is a book I do recommend to read:

4. And what about the book series? Alas, here I can't be so enthusiastic.

First, it contained a lot of typos (in Polish names etc.; it might have been fixed in the Polish edition, but I was able to find the English one so I read it) and even some historical (for instance, women working as civil-cervants' secretaries of Russian administration in Warsaw in 1830-ies) and geographical discrepancies (for example, according to the author to the East of Warsaw there are stepps which go all the way to Moscow).

In addition, I didn't like how Martin adjusted the real characters from the diary on which he based the first book of his. Also, it surprised me that John Stelnicki, Anna's descendant who is the current owner of her diary, chose a male writer to process the diary into a fiction story (in my opinion, in the book there were scenes where the female protagonist would act illogical and unfeminine and those were the scenes not present in the original diary).

And the second and the third books aren't at all based on the diary events - the action of both diary and the first book, Push not the River, ends in 1794. The second one, Against a Crimson Sky, is set in the span from 1794 to 1814, the last one, The Warsaw Conspiracy, is dedicated the Polish November Uprising which started in 1830 and lasted till October of the next year.

The second book I liked more (and it was there where prince Józef's death was described), but unfortunately, the discrepancies between the characters behavior and how real people of that time did think and act (if to compare with the real diaries and memoires of other real people) only enhanced. (Though it was kind of fun to recognize whose memoires the author was using to describe this or those event).

The last book... well, the November Uprising isn't really my cup of tea, so there were less things there that did catch my eye (but nevertheless, as I've mentioned above, they were). And I was really disappointed that in the epilogue of the book there was nothing about how Anna's family got to America. For because of the Uprising they had to leave Poland everything pointed out that they or there descendants wouldn't have return to the motherland until Poland gained independence in 1918... That's why, taking into account that Anna's descendant who is the owner of her diary does live in the US, it seemed to me it was worth to mention that the family moved to the New World (even if the real chain of events due to which the diary ended in the US couldn't be restored).

5. And the last image is to illustrate more of a question than a recommendation. For the sake of inspiration I decided to look for historical romances where the story is set in Napoleonic France. But, to my great disappointment, it turned out that there are not very much of them. The French Wikipedia in fact mentioned the only one series of books - Juliette Benzoni's Marianne, the set which I read, and even more than once. But those books, in my opinion, though may arouse interest in a person of fourteen, but can't IMHO inspire people in their forties (at least due to the fact that the main love interest of the heroine is a cynical abuser).

That's why I would like to ask you, my friends, for a recommendation of historical romance with the action set in Napoleonic France or its satellites (and where the protagonists are, of course, on the French side ;))

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