#Laurent Moreau

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Pas l'temps je lis (mai-juin 2023)

Pas l’temps je lis est la chronique que je tiens dans le supplément culture qui paraît chaque samedi dans le quotidien Le Temps. Ci-dessous vous trouverez la liste des livres présentés dans les chroniques. Elle permettra aux abonné.es du Temps de les retouver facilement, offrira des pistes aux lecteur.ices du blog et sera utile aux éditeurs.trices qui verront ainsi quels livres ont été retenus et auront une idée du ton de la chronique.

06 mai 2023 - Comment dorment les animaux

Les Animaux dorment, Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, Mari Kanstad Johnsen, Cambourakis - Album dès 4 ans

Vive la sieste, Yuichi Kasano, L'Ecole des loisirs - Cartonné 0-3 ans

Comment dorment les animaux, Marie Stumpfova, Jiri Dvorak, La Partie - Documentaire dès 3-4 ans

13 mai 2023 - Cadeaux de naissance

Tu vois le jour, Laurent Moreau, Hélium - Livre accordéon dès la naissance

Je, Olivier Douzou, Le Rouergue Jeunesse - Album dès 3 mois

Les Images de Lou et Mouf: le chantier, la ville, Jeanne Ashbé, Pastel / L'Ecole des loisirs - Cartonnés 0-2 ans

Mes p'tits doigts, Anne Crahay, CotCotCot - Album 0-2 ans

20 mai 2023 - Le temps du voyage

Notre Voyage, Romain Bernard, La Partie - Album dès 3 ans

Le Temps est rond, Victoria Kaario, Juliette Binet, Le Rouergue - Cartonné dès 2 ans

Killiok, Anne Brouillard, Pastel / L'Ecole des loisirs - Album dès 6 ans

27 mai 2023 - Wouf Wouf !

Iggy, Alex Cousseau, Janik Coat, Les Fourmis rouges - Album dès 4-5 ans

Tout le monde a un teckel sauf moi, Charlotte Pollet, Biscoto - Album dès 4-5 ans

Chien Pourri, le grand fourre toutout, Colas Gutman, Marc Boutavant, L'Ecole des loisirs - 6-9 ans

03 juin 2023 - Trois bandes dessinées

Swamp, Johann G. Louis, Dargaud - Dès 12 ans

Béa Wolf, Zach Weinersmith, Boulet, trad. Aude Pasquier, Albin Michel - Tous âges dès 10 ans

Blancaflor, la princesse aux pouvoirs secrets, Sergio Garcia Sanchez, Rue de Sèvres - Dès 9-10 ans

10 juin 2023 - Des animaux pas si domestiqués que ça

Bonne nuit, gorille, Peggy Rathmann, L'Ecole des loisirs - Cartonné dès 3 ans

Tigre et Chat, Allira Tee, La Joie de lire - Album dès 5 ans

Hector, Fred Dupouy, Lucie Maillot, Talents Hauts - Roman dès 8-9 ans

17 juin 2023 - Que fait-on le samedi?

Jour de marché, Alice Oehr, La Partie - Album dès 3-4 ans

Tommy fait les courses, Rotraut Susanne Berner, La Joie de lire - Cartonné dès 2 ans

Pops et Mimosa. Mission salade, Emile Cucherousset, Thomas Baas, Actes Sud Junior - Album dès 6 ans

24 juin 2023 - Au coeur du végétal, les cycles de la vie

Comment naissent les arbres, Charles Berberian, La Martinière - Album dès 4 ans

De fleurs en fleurs, Anne Crausaz, MeMo - Album documentaire dès 6 ans

Végétal, Juliette Einhorn, Hélène Druvert, la Martinière - Documentaire dès 9-10 ans

[chantssecrets]

[dare-g]

Querelle (1982)

[chicinsilk]

"Mille et une broderies" L'Officiel 1981

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1981-82. Liselotte Zinglersen (Lilo) wears a Moreau velvet jacket embroidered by Jean-G Vermont; Lesage T-shirt embroidered by Jean-Guy Vermont. Makeup, Dominique Montcourtois for Chanel. Hair Alexandre de Paris.

Yves Saint Laurent Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1981-82. Liselotte Zinglersen (Lilo) porte une veste en velours de Moreau brodée par Jean-G Vermont; tee-shirt Lesage rebrodé par Jean-Guy Vermont. Maquillage, Dominique Montcourtois pour Chanel. Coiffure Alexandre de Paris.

Photo Chris Simpson

[twelve-kinds-of-trouble]

i love jean moreau i wish french people were real

[someone-else-reading13]

i think for me literature is about identity. the one thing all my favorite books have in common is characters that are told who they ought to be, how they should behave, what to aspire for. be it a prophecy, following their parents steps or “not wasting their potential”. and the character just can’t do that. because they don’t want to, because of their morals, because it goes against their nature, it doesn’t matter. it’s every time the same story and simultaneously is a different story every single time.

it all goes back to pinocchio wanting to be a real kid.

[randomrichards]

QUERELLE:

Sailors dock for leave

One man seduces locals

Bretch like Soap Opera

[delannoie]

All that you are is a face in the mirror I close my eyes, and you'll disappear I'm what you face when you face in the mirror Long as you live, I will still be here

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching - 30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

QUERELLE Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany, 1982

[adamantine-ocs]

Small intros to the OCs

Read more because this may get a little long: includes names, face claims and some details about them

Silas Reid:

Silas (21) is studying art/art history at college. He was raised by his grandparents in Oban, Scotland. He’s an only child, and the sweetest person you will ever meet.

Bonus fact: despite living on the coast and being surrounded by water, he can’t swim

Brennan Gallagher: (couldn’t decide on face claim)

Brennan (21) is a rather troubled person. His favourite hobby is ghost hunting and breaking into abandoned places to drink. He changes his college major practically every month.

Bonus fact: he’s a natural blonde. He hates this fact.

Marlon-Laurent Moreau:

Marlon-Laurent (22), his parents (def not me) couldn’t decide on a first name and decided to just name him both their ideas. He studies world literature in college. He writes poetry in his free time.

Bonus fact: he sends letters to his little sister, Marie, almost every week with little doodles for her to colour in and send back

Wren Llywelyn:

Wren (20) is erratic, they study musical theatre and are very, very dramatic. They’re a little unpredictable, disappearing for weeks and even months on end just to come back like nothing ever happened.

Bonus fact: they carry around an old tamagotchi that they will tend to in the middle of conversations

Warren “War” King:

War (18) doesn’t show his face to anyone. His hair covers his eyes and he wears a mask any time he’s out. He’s classed as missing, along with his younger sister. He doesn’t want to be found.

Bonus fact: he really wants to be a mortician

Matthew Omobowale:

Matthew (34) is a linguistics professor. He’s an only child but his family is huge, always having cousins around. He loves learning new languages, and has a long list of ones that he wants to learn.

Bonus fact: there’s a cat on his college grounds, he’s the reason it keeps coming back because he feeds it - his coworkers aren’t amused

[larkingame]

as you might have seen, I dropped the official announcement that there are going to be five new romances throughout larkin. three of which you already kind of knew about, but i wanted to officially introduce them to you tonight! while there is art in the process of being made for all of them, i used my very limited mood board making skills to put together little pieces to give you an idea of what each character looks like/their aesthetic/their vibes.

photo one // miss ethel jackson (bisexual) (she/her) (faceclaims for art purposes: ayo edibiri)

a one-eyed sharpshooter from texas, ethel jackson is the second in command of the notorious ward gang, an advisor to the gang's leader Cassidy, a mother to her son Arthur, and an ex-lover to one Miss Rose Holloway. she is working hard to fill the vacancy left in the gang by the late Miss Caroline Ward--she wants to help her best friend Cas recover from the loss of his sister--but she also wants to do what's best for the gang (and she's not so sure Cassidy continuing to lead is exactly that.)

photo two // adam (straight) (he/him) (faceclaims for art purposes: matthew mconaughey as rustin cohle in true detective)

believing himself to be the First Vampire, the mirrored man described in the Abrams Family Bible, Adam has aligned himself with the Rateliff Fellowship, leading the cult from the shadows in the canyons of Nevada. Thousands of years old, he's walked the earth long in search of his Eve, ready to reclaim his rightful spot in the garden.

photo three // cassidy alan ward (bisexual) (he/him) (face claims for art purposes: alan ritchson)

leader and founder of the notorious band of outlaws, the Ward Gang, Cassidy has brought his people through hard times and even harder times, but with the murder of his twin sister Caroline, he's camped the gang just outside of Larkin, determined to wage a war on the people he believes murdered her: The House Sokolov.

photo four // reyes (bisexual) (she/they) (face claims for art purposes: alexa demie as maddie perez in euphoria)

the resident vampire of the ward gang, reyes is essentially their tank. no one has ever walked a way alive from a fight with her--part of the reason the Wards have survived as long as they have is because of Reyes' presence among their ranks. but they're harboring a secret--one they frequently pray over in their long held tradition of catholic guilt.

photo five // montero moreau (bisexual) (he/she/they) (no fcs at the moment but if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them :))

you've hunted down and killed Montero's coven in Saint Laurent. You've made them look like a fool. They want you dead. And they'll go to the ends of the earth to make sure that happens, all in order to get back within the good graces of their coven's matriarch (and Mont's (sometimes) ex-lover) Daphné Moreau.

[opelman]

72 - Alpine Renault A110 1600S from 1971 by Laurent Quérité Via Flickr: SR 13 - St Nazaire le Désert / La Motte Chalancon Driver: Charles OFFEL DE VILLAUCOURT Co-driver: Alexandre MOREAU-LESPINARD Col de Chamauche Drôme France IMG_6272

[chantssecrets]

[songbiirdss]

Tagged by @vamppeach to make a poll of fav characters anyways

They all had to be included i did not have a choice in this…

Anyways ill be tagging randomly as i have neglected to talk to anyone on tumblr for years lmao

@bat-chik @strange-aeons @orangebanannax @roughentumble @son--of--the--south

Feel free to ignore if u dont want to participate ❤️❤️❤️

(Feel free to participate if you want and say i tagged u ❤️❤️❤️❤️)

[chicinsilk]

Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1981-82. Cocktail dress in black silk velvet. The bodice in sculptural black velvet (Moreau), the sculpted neckline meet a burst of gathered black silk satin to the knee.

Yves Saint Laurent Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1981-82. Robe de cocktail en velours de soie noir. Le corsage en velours noir sculptural (Moreau), le décolleté sculpté rencontrent une rafale de satin de soie noir froncé jusqu'au genou.

Photo Rodolphe Haussaire

[mask131]

The oldest French fantasy novel?

In 2005, the French fantasy author Laurent Kloetzer read the masterpiece of the classic 19th century author Flaubert: Salammbô. Upon finishing the book, he decided to post online a mock-review of the novel, treating it as if it was a new publication, a recent fantasy novel of the 2000s. This mock-review gathered some attention, and is one of the reasons many people like to evoke Flaubert’s Salammbô as the “first French fantasy novel”.

Here is a rough translation of the review:

The French fantasy exists, and I discovered it in a collection of general literature! We know the reluctance of some authors to be published in collections with colorful covers, probably fearing to lose a potential audience. It is probably what Gustave Flaubert thought, a new author very promising for the genre. His surprising novel, titled Salammbô after the name of the female protagonist, proves that there is a possibility for my favorite type of literature to be recognized and respected in France.

Carthage and its cruel civilization at the time of Hamilcar Barca are the core and the main subject of this book. The author pretends in an annex that he heavily documented himself and that he has read everything there was to read on the topic, but it was probably to make the literary critics believe he had written a historical novel, a genre that is very trendy nowadays. However, no need to dig deep to understand that it is not a pile of badly-digested erudition, neither a patchwork of references stitched to each other : rather it is a powerful dreaming, a crazy and shimmering imaginary world, a Carthage just as unreal and fantastic as the gods and heroes of Gustave Moreau’s paintings.

Sir Flaubert crushes with his shadow all the French-speaking authors that tried to walk the same path as Tolkien’s. What incredible images! What coherence, what harmony, between the Gods, the palaces, the landscapes, the clothes! The surprising sonorities of the names, of the characters, of the precious stones and of the materials carry us in a far-away otherworld. We are taken into a civilization that can seem alien to us, for it was vanquished and destroyed without leaving much traces behind, and yet in which we will find men whose feelings are too close to our owns.

I haven’t even spoken of the plot, an abundant, complex, remarkable plot! We will find there, without ever being bored, battle scenes, an extraordinary party, politics, magic, the burglary of a sacred temple (worthy of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser!), deadly tricks, human sacrifices… and battles, yet again. It is about the war of an old city against its mercenaries, of the impossible love between a barbarian and a princess lost in her mystical quest. Life is present everywhere. People dit a lot in Salammbô, blood is spilled, but it is to better regenerate the world.

Flaubert’s imagination would be the closest, in terms of Anglo-Saxon authors, to the one of Michael Moorcock, the one used to conceived his Elric series, and even more, his Gloriana. Just like Moorcock, the French authors likes baroque universes, colorful apocalypses, and atmospheres with a strange eroticism… But the reader can rest assured: no never-ending trilogy here! The novel is in one block, dense, balanced, perfectly built, from the introduction scene to the astounding but needed conclusion. Just like with Tolkien, the universe is complete, coherent and mastered, it is the goal and the foundations of the work. The battles are just as epic and bloody as those of Robert Howard, and I already talked about the surprising closeness with Fritz Leiber’s stories.

But unlike all those authors, that I can only read translated, our author is French and his novel is served by a fabulous language that is the true entryway to his imaginary world – a language that brings all the truth to this dream. I only ever felt spirited away by the magic of writing only once, with Stefan Wul’s Nôo.

With Salammbô, Gustave Flaubert gave to the French literature of the imagination a work that cannot be ignored, and that all the lovers of the genre must read. We can only wish him a long and successful career!