#Legrain

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Absinthe: Let's All Panic!

When you don’t have a fancy absinthe spoon, you can make due with a fork! While increased availability and/or Magnan and Legrain’s theories swayed some back towards wine (which most experts considered harmless), a far greater number now viewed the absinthe as a guilty pleasure — which only enhanced its protracted pizzaz. This not-so-subtle brush-off made teetotalers, doctors, and winemakers…

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Illustrations "La Touche de Rouge" ou "Devant la Coiffeuse" de Pierre-Emile Legrain avec sa "Coiffeuse" éditée par Louis Vuitton (circa 1920) à l'exposition "Art Déco France - Amérique du Nord" de la Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, février 2023.

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Pierre Legrain, Costumes parisiens. Robe de velours maïs. Petite veste de velours noir bordée de vair (Corn velvet dress. Little black velvet jacket lined with vair). Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1913

For sale: EditionOriginale

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Pierre Legrain and Jean Sala glasses circa 1920 sitting on a gilt iron and leather table by Jean-Michel Frank. 

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Pierre Legrain, "Suzanne et le Pacifique" 1932

Art Deco book cover.

Scanned from the book "Le livre, objet d'art: Collection Calouste Gulbenkian, France. XIXe-XXe siècles."

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Illustration by PIERRE LEGRAIN (1927)

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Salon du Chocolat édition 2022

Salon du Chocolat édition 2022

Salon du Chocolat édition 2022      Nous avons été à nouveau cette année à cet événement, qui ramène des milliers de visiteurs pour découvrir des créateurs au salon du chocolat. Quelques personnalités invitées à cet évent Ce salon s’est tenu au porte de Versailles à Paris du 28 au 1er novembre 2022, avec la soirée inaugurale le 27 octobre au soir, il y a eu de nombreuses célébrités invitées,…

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Milli Legrain at The Guardian:

“This is monumental,” said 19-year-old Kai Carter as she stood in line behind the White House where Kamala Harris was about to take the stage a week before the 5 November election.

Carter was ecstatic at the prospect of Harris making history as the first Black female president of the United States. She attended the event with a group of fellow students from Howard University, the historically Black college in Washington DC, which is also the the vice-president’s alma mater. Born in the United States of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, Harris, the first female vice-president, is also potentially on the cusp of becoming the first Asian American president, as well the country’s first female president. Yet she is not making a big deal about it. In her closing argument in Washington DC before of one of the most consequential elections in the country’s history, Harris did not refer to her gender or her race or how she may be breaking a glass ceiling. It’s not something she brings up often on the campaign trail, choosing instead to focus on her middle-class upbringing and how she hopes to be a president for “all Americans”. Her central message that night was about Donald Trump as a threat to democracy. “This election is more than a choice between two parties and two different candidates. It is a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American. Or one ruled by chaos and division.”

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who made gender a central part of her 2016 run for office, at a time of historic polarization Harris chose to focus on issues over identity. That is also how she chose to run her unusually short campaign of 13 weeks after an aging Biden finally passed her the mantle on 21 July. Democrat Laurie Pohutsky, a state representative for Michigan, decided to run in 2022 after witnessing Trump’s misogynistic campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Since then, she has introduced two key pieces of state legislation that lifted restrictions on abortion. In a phone interview from the swing state governed by Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, she said: “You know, we weren’t elected because we were women. And I think that when we frame it that way, we do a disservice to ourselves.” She said she agrees with Harris’s choice not to focus on gender: “While it’s historic, it’s not what would make her a good president.”

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Identity politics

In the face of misogyny and racism, it is Harris’s detractors who have attempted to use her identity against her. Republicans regularly mispronounce her name or call her a “DEI hire” by focusing on how different she looks different from those who preceded her and how she does not belong. At the beginning of her campaign, Trump sought to steer the conversation towards race in an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, questioning whether Harris is indeed Black. Many recognize these personal attacks as Trump’s hallmark. Their purpose is to undermine debate, take his opponent off script, stoke division and ultimately attract media attention.

[...]

A champion of women’s rights

Despite Harris’s attempts to detract attention from her gender and race, she has campaigned heavily on the issue of women’s rights. “She may not frame things in terms of her gender, but the first president or vice-president to invite abortion providers to the White House and to visit an abortion provider – both of those firsts were Kamala Harris,” Reynolds said. The overturning of Roe v Wade by three Trump-appointed supreme court justices in 2022 placed women’s rights at the forefront of voters’ concerns. The right to abortion was a hard-fought battle that was won in 1973. A poll from May 2024 from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center suggested that 63% of Americans believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Harris’s campaign slogan organically became “We are not going back.”

Today could be the day we possibly see Herstory made with the election of Kamala Harris as America's 47th President.

Let's hope it comes into fruition.

HarrisWalz2024 #ElectionDay

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Absinthe: Mary Poppins, Bad Science, & Teetotalers

‘A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The medicine go down. The medicine go down…’ Originally, this ditty sung by MaryPoppins meant to teach her charges how changing their perspective could make any task fun — and as a kid, I lapped Ms. Poppins’ lesson right up. Not long after, my folks skewed the song’s meaning to a more literal interpretation, i.e., taking actual medicine. (Without…

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"Lapulta, why did Ea-Nasir keep the records in his house?"

You'd think this would be a very easy question to answer. Especially because Woolley's reports are online from the Penn Museum. Except Woolley's Excavations reports no tablets found in Ea-Nasir's house. And the next paragraph is written such that a careless reader might interpret the tablets corresponding to Old St. when they correspond to Baker's Square.

But that's not a big deal! Woolley did a meticulous job of categorizing the houses, artifacts, and locations, such that people are still writing papers on his research today. Great! I'll just find the excavation reports.

Oh wait, every time I search for Excavations of Ur, I get the report about the items not the itemized list themselves. No biggie, I'll order the reference list from the library! Except the reference list is just a brief translation of the artifacts and their plates. Fuck.

Back online. Google for recent literature so I can parse the citations. Cool! Here's someone who DID find the records, so there are definitely locations assigned to each artifact. Except they don't have the tablets I need. Find their citation. Track down the reference book which is HELPFULLY labeled The Early Periods: A Report on the Sites and Objects Prior in Date to the Third Dynasty of Ur Discovered in the Course of Excavations. UE 4.

Find the reference from Penn. Its real title is UR EXCAVATIONS just like everything else, except it's Volume 4.

>are you fucking kidding me.jpg

Start searching the web for "A Report" Ur Excavations "vol iii". Return the Ur Repository by the British Museum. Those fucking bastards have it listed on their website but with literally no additional information. Curse out the British Museum.

Find the 3rd volume in the Penn Museum archive. Cool!!! Oh they don't have a download. Fucking hell. And the reason it's so fucking buried is because the author is Leon Legrain, not Woolley. Curse out Legrain.

Searching for Ur Excavations Legrain only returns a JSTOR Review. Go to Ur Online: search for Legrain. 3 pages of search results all with descriptions like this.

ARGH.

(Disclaimer: Never ever angry at the authors or archivists. This stuff is legitimately incredible and I LOVE these rabbit holes. Still going to rage about the ludicrousness though- for comedy.)

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Jacques Doucet's hôtel particulier staircase, 33 rue Saint-James, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1929

Photograph by Pierre Legrain

Staircase design by Joseph Csaky

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France Election

The French 2024 election saw an amazing turnout from voters who ended up keeping the far-right out of the majority in the National Assembly.

This is not a landslide victory, but it does prove promising for the future if we can maintain this success.

French Parties

France has three main parties, here referred to as the ‘left’, ‘centrist’, and ‘right’ for convenience.

The left is primarily the New Popular Front (NFP). Their goals include limiting inflation on staple food items, increasing the minimum wage, and increasing public sector salaries and welfare benefits. They also aim to end the 2023 French pension reform law, which raised the retirement age to 64 and required someone to have worked at least 43 years. 

The center, or Les Centristes, is that which President Emmanuel Macron considers himself part of. Their goal is finding a compromise between socialism and capitalism, supporting a competitive economy as well as social welfare, and developing public transit and cleaner energy. Macron has praised the pursuit of decarbonized energy and vied for incentive policies supporting electric energy. He is harshly criticized for economic-related policies, such as heavy tax breaks for the richest citizens, the pension reform law, and putting his personal success above the French people.

The right are called the National Rally or, until 2018, the National Front. It is the most strongly xenophobic, and its goals include vilifying the European Union, increasing control and regulation of immigration, and feigning support for queer people while opposing same-sex marriage.

Election Results

The election saw the left win 182 seats in the National Assembly, while centrists won 163 and the right won 143, with smaller political factions making up the remainder. An absolute majority would be at 289 seats, so in the years to come we will likely see a lot of contention around the proposals, debating, and passing of laws.

This does mean the next Prime Minister will likely be elected -by Macron- from the politically left. This will be difficult, as many of Macron’s affiliates view leaders from the left as too extreme.

Popular veteran of left-wing politics, Jean-Luc Mélanchon, is an unlikely candidate due to how divisive he has been considered, despite coming in third in the 2022 presidential election. Marine Tondelier is another possible candidate, and currently the National Secretary of the Green Party. There is also François Ruffin, particularly known for disagreeing with Mélanchon based on views of what democracy should be. These are only a few of the people Macron has to consider to eventually fill the position.

Another important change is illuminated by the events surrounding the Pension Reform Bill. When Macron pushed it through, two no-confidence motions came from the National Assembly. If either had passed, Macron would have been forced to make major changes to the government, such as completely replacing his government appointments. While neither passed, one was only nine votes from the majority. With even more seats held by those who don’t align with Macron, we can expect potential future motions like this to be more successful. 

In other sectors, we might see large change with the left now rising in numbers in the National Assembly. Before the election, an interview with Sarah Legrain from the NPF indicated a belief in the National Assembly’s responsibility towards arts and culture. This responsibility includes not only improving access to the arts, but working towards an economy in which arts and culture can thrive.

Will conditions improve for people in France due to this election? With how recent it is, we can’t be sure. The fallout of this hectic decision from Macron to hold the reelection is yet to be fully realized. However, we can see specific examples of how the left might focus their attention in places like the economy, culture, and welfare.

Macron’s second and final term will end in 2027. With the hopeful turnout of this election, we can hope that French voters remain united and able to push their country further towards progress when the next election comes.

What Can This Mean for US elections?

Key information we can take from this is in the example of the French politicians. Between the first and second round of voting, more than 200 left-leaning candidates withdrew to avoid risking a split vote.

Similarly, many voters in the U.S. are having to deal with the dilemma of voting for the “least bad” options over voting for the “best” option. Third-party candidates, as discussed before on this page, are extremely unlikely to win a primary presidential election. Their popularity is in a middle ground because they are known enough to raise hopes of big changes, but not enough to stand against the two disproportionately powerful U.S. parties.

Additional Resources

1. Macron Energy Views

2. National Rally Views

3. Election Results

4. Events of the Pension Reform Bill

5. Potential Prime Ministers

6. Sarah Legrain Interview

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Pierre Legrain, "La Pantin" 1928

Pierre Legrain, book cover of "La Femme et le Pantin" 1928.

Scanned from 1997 book "Le Livre Objet d'Art.

Collection Calouste Gulbenkian France. XIXe-XXe Siècles."