#Sillery

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"M. L. Bilodeau est trouvé mort dans sa cabane," Le Soleil. April 12, 1943. Page 9. ---- M. Leonidas Bilodeau, gardien de nuit sur les chantiers de l'égout collecteur, à St-François d'Assise, a été trouvé mort dans la cabane du surveillant, ce matin, par des employés de la ville qui venaient reprendre leur travail. La macabre découverte a été faite par M. Lazare Paradis, un plombier, qui s'empressa aussitôt d'appeler le docteur Mainguy et le sergent de police Emile Bilodeau, du poste de Limoilou. M. Bilodeau était âgé de 65 ans environ et demeurait au numéro 3. rue Sheppard, à Sillery.

Lorsque la découverte du corps de M. Bilodeau a été faite, ce matin, vers 6 heures 30, la mort remontait à quelques heures déjà. Tout indique que c'est en voulant pelleter du charbon pour jeter dans sa fournaise que M. Bilodeau est décédé.

Les restes mortels du défunt ont été transportés à la morgue où le docteur Paul-V. Marceau a fait les recherches d'usage. Il a été établi que M. Bilodeau était mort de cause naturelle.

[chutiitravell]

Mesmerizing Places to Visit in Sillery Gaon

Go through this to find out why your next trip should be to Sillery Gaon in West Bengal.

[empirearchives]

Stéphanie Félicité, Marquise de Sillery, Comtesse de Genlis (25 January 1746 — 31 December 1830)

Madame de Genlis was a French writer who maintained a long correspondence with Napoleon and was on the government’s payroll from 1801 to 1814. There is a lot of debate about the nature of the correspondence. Some contemporaries and historians believe she was Napoleon’s spy.

Lady Morgan asked Madame de Genlis about this:

“Buonaparte,” she said, “was extremely liberal to literary people — a pension of four thousand francs, per annum, was assigned to all authors and gens-de-lettres, whose circumstances admitted of their acceptance of such a gratuity. He gave me, however, six thousand, and a suite of apartments at the Arsenal. As I had never spoken to him, never had any intercourse with him whatever, I was struck with this liberality, and asked him what he expected I should do to merit it? When the question was put to Napoleon, he replied carelessly, ‘Let Madame de Genlis write me a letter once a month.’ As no subject was dictated, I chose literature, but I always abstained from politics.”

Source: France, Lady Morgan, published 1817, p. 360

An outline of her life and career can be read in Destins de Femmes, French Women Writers, 1750-1850 by John Claiborne Isbell, (published 2023).

[detournementsmineurs]

Le “Salon" de l'ancien "Hôtel Brûlart de Sillery" (circa 1730) installé dans le parcours des Collections Permanentes du Musée Carnavalet, Le Marais, Paris, novembre 2024.

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Do you know the primary source (if there is one) for the Brissotin all going to their death singing the Marseillaise?

The best description of the execution I’ve got so far is the one published in number 64 of Bulletin du Tribunal Criminel. According to it, the girondins did sing ”the first four verses of the anthem of the Marseillaise” as they were being brought from the Revolutionary Tribunal to the Conciergerie prison right after the death sentences had been passed on October 30. When they on the next day were shipped off to their fate, the bulletin does however report that, once arrived at the Place de la Révolution, the girondins sang not the Marseillaise but rather the refrain of the one year older Veillons au salut de l'Empire, another revolutionary song.*

In number 213 of his Révolutions de Paris (October 28 1793) Louis Marie Prudhomme him too writes that it was Veillons au salut de l'Empire the condemned sang at the foot of the scaffold:

…Never, despite the bad weather, did an execution attract more spectators and appear so necessary for the maintenance of the republic. Despite what some of the condemned said on the road and on the scaffold, who shouted: long live the republic! but you will not have it, one was very convinced that their death contributed not just a little to consolidating it. Several also at the foot of the guillotine, embracing each other, sang this well-known refrain: Plutôt la mort que l’esclavage; C’est la devise des français.

Other contemporary journals mentioning the execution that I could lay my hands on only announce that the 21 girondins have been sentenced to death and the execution has taken place (Le Moniteur, number 42, November 1), Le Créole Patriote, number 99, October 31) and Journal de la Montagne, number 152, November 1).

In a letter written November 6 1793, a week after the execution, the former duchess of Elbeuf Innocente-Catherine de Rougé reported that the girondins had gone to their demise ”singing about the nation’s glory,” but without specifying which songs:

The bishop of Calvados and the count de Sillery were in the same cart along with the confessors they had asked for; the others did not request one. Brissot and one other, following in the next cart, were clearly distressed. The rest, all young people aged twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, followed on behind laughing, singing about the nation’s glory, and shouting out to the people ‘Long live the Republic’. And it is in this manner that these 21 individuals entered into the great light of eternity.

Finally, in his Memoires d'un détenu: pour servir à l'histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre (1795) Honoré Jean Riouffe, a fellow prisoner of the Conciergerie, claims the girondins sang a modified version of the Marseillaise the night before their execution:

It was patriotic songs which burst out simultaneously, and all their voices mingled to address the last hymns to liberty; they parodied the song of the Marseillais in this way: Contre nous de la tyrannie; Le couteau sanglant est levé. etc. All this terrible night resounded with their songs, and if they interrupted them, it was to talk about their homeland, and sometimes also, for a meeting of Ducos.

*The book Brissot de Warville; a study in the history of the French revolution (1915) interestingly enough cites Bulletin du Tribunal Criminel as the source for the girondins singing the Marseillais on their way to the scaffold and not the Conciergerie…

[frevandrest]

I’m sorry this is more of an info dump than an ask but the talk about Camille and Sillery (and also him being Danton lite) reminded me of La Belle Pamela which is an old biography about Pamela Fitzgerald/ Lady Edward Fitzgerald I read awhile ago. She was the not officially adopted daughter of Mme. Sillery and also speculated to be secretly actually her and Orléan’s child tho the book disputes this. The book quotes a couple of letters between the Sillerys and Camille including one where he and Lucille are invited to an apology dinner at the Sillerys with Pamela, Robespierre and Péthion (which I assume is Pétion spelled incorrectly) because the Sillerys assumed Camille would be mad that Barére was made guardian of Pamela instead of him. Camille also says some weird things about a Russian dance Pamela (who I believe was 15) does during the dinner. I wonder if this is the “proposition of their daughters”Camille was talking about and also if part of the reason Robespierre was mad at Camille for mentioning being involved with the Orléanists is because at the beginning of the Revolution he was more involved with them than he’d like publicly shared lol (I can’t post screenshots as an anon but the parts of the book I’m talking about start at about page 208 and the biography is free on Google books)

This is a wild ride TM from start to finish, and yeah, I will check it out, but it only made me realize how little I actually know about Camille's shenanigans. I know some stuff, but there seems to be so much mess I don't know about (and this type of mess and gossip is what I love to learn about). So, if anyone wants to share stuff or sources, please do!

[wisteriasymphony]

NOOO THIS IS SO TRUE!!!! i vibe hard with fujoshi/himejoshi kagami. god i need to draw these losers so bad

It would be fun to see Felix, Adrien and Kagami as fallen angels in the world of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt

[pinkmaison]

Sillery, Quebec

[cdnart]

Robert Pilot; Sillery from the Battlefields, Quebec

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Sainte-Foy–Sillery Cap-Rouge is a borough of Quebec City

January 4 2023

[braucherei]

The person I want to know more about the most in the French Revolution is Sillery but I don’t know where to start. Most of the interesting info about him seems to only be in French and I don’t trust myself to read/translate accurately.

The Sillerys and Pamela show up in the most random places though and I want to know more.

[ghostlytales]

A ghostly image is seen in a picture of an empty cell in the notorious Alcatraz prison off the coast of San Fransisco, California

The ghosts of some of America’s most notorious inmates are said to haunt former maximum security prison Alcatraz.

But quite why one seemingly showed herself to a British couple left jail staff baffled.

Sheila Sillery-Walsh captured the unknown woman on a visit with her partner Paul Rice. Sited on an island off San Francisco, Alcatraz is said to be one of the country’s most haunted places.

The 48-year-old teaching assistant said: ‘When I glanced at the photo on my mobile, I saw this dark female figure in the picture. I looked at the window again and there was no one in the room.’ She contacted prison staff but none of them recognised the woman in the picture taken with an iPhone.

[popculturelib]

Haunted States of America: Louisiana

Ghosts of the Vieux Carre: A Self-Guided Walking Tour (1999) by Bentley Tours

New Orleans' French Quarter, also known as the "Vieux Carre," is the oldest part of the city--so, naturally, there are quite a few ghosts to be had. While Ghosts of the Vieux Carre is not our only book with a guided ghost tour (see our post on Florida's Daytona Ghost Walk), it is unique in that it's accompanied by a cassette tape so that people can listen along as they take the tour.

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It also includes a pocket map and glossary of New Orleans lingo for those unfamiliar with the city.

(The link, unfortunately, no longer works.)

Read Ghosts of the Vieux Carre to learn about, as the book's summary describes:

A spurned woman wreaks vengeance on her unfaithful lover and returns to haunt the scene

A visiting Middle-Eastern dignitary and his entire household, brutally assassinated, are doomed to remain in the courtyard in which they are buried

A powerful Voodoo priestess presides over mysterious rituals and ceremonies in her yard

A jolly priest with earthly desires keeps a ghostly eye on his parish

Other books in our collection about ghosts in New Orleans include Haunted New Orleans: Ghosts & Hauntings of the Crescent City (2000) by Troy Taylor and New Orleans Ghosts (1993) and its sequel (1999) by Victor C. Klein.

For books about Louisiana ghosts in general, check out

George, the Uninvited Ghost (1978) by Helen Zumo

Haunted Louisiana: True Tales of Ghosts and Other Unearthly Creatures (1992) by Christy L. Viviano

The Haunting of Louisiana (2001) by Barbara Sillery

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[detournementsmineurs]

Le “Salon" de l'ancien "Hôtel Brûlart de Sillery" (circa 1730) installé dans le parcours des Collections Permanentes du Musée Carnavalet, Le Marais, Paris, novembre 2024.