#Saintes

[illustratus]

The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242 by Eugène Delacroix

[retrogeographie]

Saintes, la résidence Bellevue.

[bantarleton]

April 12th 1782 - the battle of the Saintes, the largest naval action of the American Revolution. Fought six months after the surrender at Yorktown, it marked the defeat of a Franco-Spanish invasion of Jamaica and shifted the global strategic initiative into more favourable territory for Britain as peace talks began in earnest.

[super-2-0-0-0]

Saintes

[postcard-from-the-past]

Railway station of Saintes, Saintonge region of western France

French vintage postcard

[basilepesso]

Ben mon colon. A la limite du fist fucking...

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"Le plaignant confie à « La Vie » qu’il logeait dans la maison mère des MEP à Paris quand il a connu Georges Colomb. L’homme d’église était alors supérieur général et ils leur arrivaient de partager un verre ensemble. Le jeune homme accuse l’évêque de La Rochelle de lui avoir proposé un massage en 2013, dans son appartement personnel où il l’avait fait venir pour prendre un café.

« Sa position hiérarchique a noyé complètement l’idée même que cela puisse être quelque chose de mal placé », dit le jeune homme à nos confrères. Toujours selon lui, alors qu’il était allongé, torse nu, Georges Colomb aurait subitement baissé son pantalon et plongé sa main entre ses fesses. « J’ai bondi et je suis parti en courant. »"

(Aussi sur Fb, 13 juin 2 023)

Article de Sud-Ouest : “Une enquête ouverte pour tentative de viol contre l’évêque de La Rochelle-Saintes“

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[willigula]

Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey. Photograph by Daniel Ibanez, 2024

[fizzie]

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 6, 2024 - Paris Saint-Germain fans unfurled a giant Free Palestine banner, featuring Palestinian and Lebanese flags, in their Champions League match against Atletico Madrid. [video]

[ranminfan]

You lost your keys again?

A pretty gnarly thing is they got the jaw of St. Anthony of Padua as a relic, and the reliquary goes hard af.

So I had this idea and I drew it as fast as I could

[allthingseurope]

Mont Saint-Michel, France by Allyson Beaucourt 

[cy-lindric]

Sancte Michael Memento Mei Ante Deum

Horae ad usum Trecensem dites Heures de Michel Berthier, 1415-1420

[polarsirens]

Blimey.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Greetings from Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Camargue region of France

French vintage postcard