#david di franco

[nerds-yearbook]

Barbarella premiered on October 10, 1968. The erotic space fantasy was based on an Italian comic strip (fumetti) character created by Jean-Claude Forest. Jane Fonda played the title character and her co-star, John Philip Law, also played another Italian comic inspired character in Danger: Diabolik. The film was directed by Fonda's husband at the time Roger Vadim. ("Barbarella", Movie Event)

[gbhbl]

Horror Movie Review: Phenomena (1985)

Jennifer arrives at a boarding school, where someone is kidnapping and murdering girls. After her roommate Sophie is killed, Jennifer uses her telepathic connection to insects to find the killer.

Phenomena is a 1985 Italian giallo-horror film directed and co-written by Dario Argento. After missing a bus in the Swiss countryside, a 14-year-old Danish tourist, Vera Brandt, tries looking for help. She comes across a cottage and is attacked and beheaded by a stranger. Eight months later, her case is being inspected by forensic entomologist John McGregor and Inspector Rudolf Geiger of the…

[fashionbooksmilano]

Merletti di carta

di Hauswirth e Saugy

introduzione di Charles Apothéloz

Franco Maria Ricci, Fontanellato (PR) 1978, 120 pagine, 23x25 cm, Volume con copertina rigida in seta contenuto in un cofanetto, Esemplare n.E 072

euro 90,00

email if you want to buy :booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Raccolta dei mirabili lavori di Johann-Jakob Hauswirth, che fece dono al Pays-d’Enhaut di un’arte popolare, la quale deve all’applicazione e alla perizia di Louis-David Saugy, l’essere diventata la tradizione che ha dato celebrità alla vallata.

Fra le nevi e i dirupi del Pays-d’Enhaut, nel cuore della svizzera Romanda, il piccolo museo di Chateau-d’Oex esibisce insospettati tesori di un’arte perduta: immagini dai colori vivacissimi, ingenue scenette pastorali, fiori, animali, piccole cose della vita di una valle alpina ritagliate nella carta e trasfigurate dalla fantasia di Johann-Jakob Hauswirth e Louis-David Saugy il quale, già quando si spense, nel 1953, era già stato consacrato come uno dei più grandi ritagliatori di merletti di carta.

15/01/23

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[pier-carlo-universe]

Cittadini di un Mondo Nuovo: Successo per l'Incontro tra Studenti e Renato Balduzzi ad Ovada

A Ovada, il primo appuntamento della rassegna "Cittadini di un mondo nuovo" vede protagonisti gli studenti e il prof. Renato Balduzzi per un approfondimento sulla Costituzione italiana.

A Ovada, il primo appuntamento della rassegna “Cittadini di un mondo nuovo” vede protagonisti gli studenti e il prof. Renato Balduzzi per un approfondimento sulla Costituzione italiana. Lo scorso 8 novembre 2024, presso l’aula magna dell’Istituto Superiore “Carlo Barletti” di Ovada, ha avuto luogo il primo incontro della rassegna “Cittadini di un mondo nuovo”, un ciclo di conferenze dedicate ai…

[emozioni-in-font]

Il confine tra bene e male non è mai così nitido

La commedia di Jean Giraudoux scritta nel 1943 è di grande attualità, si potrebbe dire che ai suoi tempi sia stata premonitrice di eventi che, nel mentre della scrittura, sembrano irreversibili. Da molti definita una favola ecologica, si può di certo dire che, come il presente, non ha un fine lieto. È una storia che, nel dramma sociale che si consuma, inserisce momenti di ironia amara che strappa…

[footballmanageraddict]

Gli Azzurri | Part 9 | Homegrown Hero Primoz Kompara

#FM24 #GliAzzurri Part 9: Homegrown Hero Primoz Kompara. A thrilling #EuropaLeague campaign sees @EmpoliFC have a shot at glory in easily the best season in club history. But can we win the club's first major trophy? #EmpoliFC Read here:

These were exciting times at Empoli FC as we’d established ourselves in Serie A, were beginning to challenge some of Italy’s bigger sides, and were edging towards the latter stages of the Europa League. We made another huge sale offer in January 2027 as Leipzig paid £25m for holding midfielder Luca Lipani, who signed for £6m 18 months ago. The squad immediately got unhappy, but we moved swiftly…

[perfettamentechic]

24 luglio … ricordiamo …

24 luglio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: Franco Zucca, doppiatore, voce di molti attori di fama mondiale, e attore teatrale italiano. La sua voce profonda ed espressiva lo ha subito portato a coltivare, in giovane età, la passione per la recitazione. Esordì sui palcoscenici di Trieste, per poi approdare nei teatri catanesi e romani. Nel corso della sua carriera Franco Zucca ha doppiato numerosi film e serie televisive, ma si è…

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Brigitte Bardot (Contempt, And God Created Woman)—unbelievable charisma off the charts, post-war France could barely handle her because she just radiates sexuality in the deepest, hottest way. i've never seen a woman who fit so clearly in my head the "beautiful woman" category. also i'm including her little suit number because why not [pic below]

Sara Montiel (Vera Cruz, Serenade, Run of the Arrow)— She began her career in the 1940s and became the most internationally popular and highest paid star of Spanish cinema in the 1960s. She appeared in nearly fifty films and recorded around 500 songs in five different languages. She always tells how when she met Marlon Brando, she cooked fried eggs for him and he said they were the best eggs he had ever tasted. She confronted Franco himself first by rejecting his invitation to sing at his Christmas party, and then when she went to the barracks to ask that the police let the homosexuals that they had detained be let out. She defended them tooth and nail, and that's why they returned all the love by turning her into the icon of the gay community in Spain.

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Brigitte Bardot:

"Los Angeles Times in 2011 ranked her as the second most beautiful woman in film, she won a David di Donatello award and was nominated for a BAFTA. Literally nicknamed a sex kitten, she used her fame to promote animal rights. And God Created Woman was so scandalous to US audiences that some theater managers were arrested for screening it"

"She was a sex symbol and her style is influential even today"

"She's just so iconic! Wikipedia extracts because why not : "In 2011, Los Angeles Times Magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film" ranked her number two" "The Guardian named Bardot "one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the 1950s and 1960s" "According to the liner notes of his first (self-titled) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot. " I mean of course she is iconic in France, but she inspired many women outside of France"

"She wasn't just a sex symbol because men found her attractive and then that imagine of her was further promoted. But she was actually one of (if not) the first women to stand for emancipated women in a sexual way in a time when women were considered to mainly exist to please their man. She was famous for portraying women who lived their sexuality for their own pleasure and knew what they wanted. Very important! And also what's hotter than a woman driving men wild because they don't even know how to handle a woman with her own ideas and needs lol"

Sara Montiel:

[soldan56]

I 5 morti di lavoro a #Calenzano

Davide Baronti (in alto a sinistra), Gerardo Pepe (sotto), Vincenzo Martinelli (al centro), Franco Cirelli (in alto a destra), Carmelo Corso (sotto).

Vi ha ucciso chi pensa solo a raggiungere profitti e dividendi.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 49, 2024

Psychometrics in experimental psychology: A case for calibration. Bach, D. R. (2024). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(4), 1461–1470.

Cellular and circuit architecture of the lateral septum for reward processing. Chen, G., Lai, S., Jiang, S., Li, F., Sun, K., Wu, X., … Zhu, Y. (2024). Neuron, 112(16), 2783-2798.e9.

Prediction-error signals in anterior cingulate cortex drive task-switching. Cole, N., Harvey, M., Myers-Joseph, D., Gilra, A., & Khan, A. G. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 7088.

An essential role for the latero-medial secondary visual cortex in the acquisition and retention of visual perceptual learning in mice. Consorti, A., Sansevero, G., Di Marco, I., Floridia, S., Novelli, E., Berardi, N., & Sale, A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 7322.

Abstract representations emerge in human hippocampal neurons during inference. Courellis, H. S., Minxha, J., Cardenas, A. R., Kimmel, D. L., Reed, C. M., Valiante, T. A., … Rutishauser, U. (2024). Nature, 632(8026), 841–849.

Dopamine biases decisions by limiting temporal integration. Gautham, A. K., Miner, L. E., Franco, M. N., Thornquist, S. C., & Crickmore, M. A. (2024). Nature, 632(8026), 850–857.

Slow ramping emerges from spontaneous fluctuations in spiking neural networks. Gavenas, J., Rutishauser, U., Schurger, A., & Maoz, U. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 7285.

Task-specific invariant representation in auditory cortex. Heller, C. R., Hamersky, G. R., & David, S. V. (2024). eLife, 12, e89936.3.

Replay-triggered brain-wide activation in humans. Huang, Q., Xiao, Z., Yu, Q., Luo, Y., Xu, J., Qu, Y., … Liu, Y. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 7185.

Temporal resolution relates to sensory hyperreactivity independently of stimulus detection sensitivity in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Kaneko, A., Atsumi, T., & Ide, M. (2024). Perception, 53(9), 585–596.

Partial blindness: Visual experience is not rich, but not sparse. Kim, C., & Chong, S. C. (2024). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(4), 1558–1569.

Amygdala and Cortex Relationships during Learning of a Sensory Discrimination Task. Levitan, D., & Gilad, A. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(34), e0125242024.

Slow-wave sleep drives sleep-dependent renormalization of synaptic AMPA receptor levels in the hypothalamus. Liu, J., Niethard, N., Lun, Y., Dimitrov, S., Ehrlich, I., Born, J., & Hallschmid, M. (2024). PLOS Biology, 22(8), e3002768.

How aging shapes our sense of agency. Mariano, M., Kuster, N., Tartufoli, M., & Zapparoli, L. (2024). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(4), 1714–1722.

Individual thalamic inhibitory interneurons are functionally specialized toward distinct visual features. Müllner, F. E., & Roska, B. (2024). Neuron, 112(16), 2765-2782.e9.

Predictions enable top-down pattern separation in the macaque face-processing hierarchy. Nigam, T., & Schwiedrzik, C. M. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 7196.

Signatures of hierarchical temporal processing in the mouse visual system. Rudelt, L., González Marx, D., Spitzner, F. P., Cramer, B., Zierenberg, J., & Priesemann, V. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(8), e1012355.

Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens Core Encodes the General Excitatory Components of Learning. Taira, M., Millard, S. J., Verghese, A., DiFazio, L. E., Hoang, I. B., Jia, R., … Sharpe, M. J. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(35), e0120242024.

Non-invasive stimulation of the human striatum disrupts reinforcement learning of motor skills. Vassiliadis, P., Beanato, E., Popa, T., Windel, F., Morishita, T., Neufeld, E., … Hummel, F. C. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 8(8), 1581–1598.

Short-latency preference for faces in primate superior colliculus depends on visual cortex. Yu, G., Katz, L. N., Quaia, C., Messinger, A., & Krauzlis, R. J. (2024). Neuron, 112(16), 2814-2822.e4.

[stars-taylorsversion]

Heyy

I hope your still doing the marauders character thingy (dont wanna be annoyibg)

- i actially have a really good relptionship with all pf my family

- i play guitar (lead, rythm, bass and acoustic) and I enjiy singing (but I cant sung fpr the lofe of me-)

- i m indescisive af

- im one of the top of the class for of all three sciences, and maths (but i dont enjoy them - i just find them easy)

- i really Enjoy writing and readyng but eNglish is one of the only subjects i struggle at

- music is the knly class i can be botherd to study for

- my schuol didnt offer computer science so im learning it in my own time

- i have a small but close friend group

- but ive recently gotten better at talking to people i dont know that well in class!! (ive struggled for quite a while)

- im kinda a compulsive lier BUT I SWEAR IM TRYING TO FIX UT

- i also do maladaptive daydreaming but i cba to fix that

- i LOVE reading - i think i mightve already mentioned that

- i listen to all kinds pf music but my fav genre is probevly rock or indie or metal or country

- some fav artists: artic monkeys, poor mans poison, nivarna, abba, rhcp, tool, lily allen, led zeppelin, the doors, queen, beatles, pink floyd, david bowie, neighbourhood, joan jet & the blackhearrs, guns n roses, metalica, ani di franco

Ive just realised ive been rambling dor aged im so sorry ill stop now lol

i kind of want to say pete but i think i'm gonna go with remus <3

[digitalnewberry]

Marveling at monsters

The Newberry has recently completed the digitization of over 750 maps printed in Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Franco Novacco Map Collection, one of the strongest of its kind in the world, reflects Europeans’ evolving conceptions of the world during a time of widespread exploration and colonization.

“Whether you want to wander through marveling at sea monsters or compare intricate differences in representations of Rome, the Novacco Collection has something for you,” David Weimer, Robert A. Holland Curator of Maps and Director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, emphasized. “These maps illustrate the startling breadth of scientific and artistic practice in Early Modern Europe.”...

--View the full announcement at newberry.org

Browse 750 digitized maps from the Newberry's Novacco Collection

Above: Vniversale descrittione di tvtta la terra conoscivta fin qvi, 1564

[formulapookie]

I've followed @hightowcr in the mission of understanding my friend's stance on riders and oh my God

I’ve asked for their name, profession and rate them

why

sooo

Enea -> Daniele, waiter (specifically from the ONE bar I go to), 8/10 Diggia -> Manuel, creepy gym teacher, 7-/10 (WHY SO LOWW) Celin -> Andrea (ovvio), philosophy student, 8.5/10 (I was flabbergasted) Marc -> Stefano, personal trainer, 10/10 Pedrito -> filippo, unemployed, 6.5/10 (said he looks like my old malessere) Martin -> Pablo, CEO/Personal trainer........ 9/10...... (help) Luca -> Riccardo but with a rhotacism, PR, 8 (good good) Joan -> Davide (agreed), engeneer, 7.5/10 Alex M -> Giovanni, secretly gay pastor, 7/10 (I've died and resurrected) Miguel -> Antonio, mechanic, 7.5/10 Raul -> Carlo, sugar baby, 8+/10 (I CAN'T WITH RAUL SUGAR BABY) Fabio -> Garbiele, their husband, 12/10 (they knew him already) Morbido -> unnamed, narcos, 8 (I-I don't even know anymore) Aleix -> Franco, father of 3, 8 David -> Luca, high school student, 7,5/10 (said he's too young but cute) Pecco -> Alessandro, swimmer, 9/10 (alongside Martin my god) Vale -> Ciro (gonna kms), hot math professor, 10+/10 (yeah) BEZZ -> Fabio, volleyball player, 11/10 (I've infected them with my agenda)

[pier-carlo-universe]

Alessandria apre la Stagione Teatrale 2024-2025: Arte e Cultura tra Storia e Innovazione. Teatro Alessandrino, Teatro Ambra e Teatro San Francesco si uniscono per un cartellone ricco di emozioni, da Ambra Angiolini a Franco Branciaroli

La Città di Alessandria dà il via alla Stagione Teatrale 2024-2025, una serie di spettacoli che si svolgeranno nei principali teatri della città, con la partecipazione di attori di grande calibro

La Città di Alessandria dà il via alla Stagione Teatrale 2024-2025, una serie di spettacoli che si svolgeranno nei principali teatri della città, con la partecipazione di attori di grande calibro. Dal 19 dicembre 2024 al 4 aprile 2025, gli appassionati di teatro avranno l’opportunità di assistere a sei spettacoli in abbonamento presso il Teatro Alessandrino, oltre a diversi eventi del Segmento…

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube 6

Pagliacci

Franco Enriques studio film, 1954 (Franco Corelli, Mafalda Micheluzzi, Tito Gobbi; conducted by Alfredo Simonetto; no subtitles)

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1961 (Mario del Monaco, Gabriella Tucci, Aldo Protti; conducted by Giuseppe Morelli; Japanese subtitles)

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1968 (Jon Vickers, Raina Kabaivanska, Peter Glossop; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Franco Zeffirelli film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons; conducted by Georges Prêtre; English subtitles) – Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI

Metropolitan Opera, 1994 (Luciano Pavarotti, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons; conducted by James Levine; Spanish subtitles)

Ravena Festival, 1998 (Plácido Domingo, Svetla Vassileva, Juan Pons; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2009 (José Cura, Fiorenza Cedolins, Carlo Guelfi; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; no subtitles)

Chorégies d'Orange, 2009 (Roberto Alagna, Inva Mula, Seng-Hyoun Ko; conducted by Georges Prêtre; French subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2011 (Marcello Giordani, Angeles Blancas, Vittorio Vitelli; conducted by Daniele Callegari; English subtitles – ignore the silly references to Norse mythology and aliens that the translator threw in, they're not in the actual libretto)

Latvian National Opera, 2019 (Sergei Polyakov, Tatiana Trenogina, Vladislav Sulimsky; conducted by Jānis Liepiņš; no subtitles)

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Dresden State Opera, 1977 (Armin Ude, Carolyn Smith-Meyer, Barbara Sternberer, Rolf Tomaszewski; conducted by Peter Gülke; no subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1980 (Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Reri Grist, Martti Talvela; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielson, Lillian Watson, Kurt Moll; conducted by Georg Solti; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1989 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielson, Lillian Watson, Kurt Rydl; conducted by Horst Stein; no subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1991 (Stanford Olsen, Luba Orgonasova, Cyndia Sieden, Cornelius Hauptmann; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; French subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1989 (Kurt Streit, Aga Winska, Elzbieta Szmytka, Artur Korn; conducted by Nicolaus Harnoncourt; Hungarian subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Teatro della Pergola, 2002 (Rainer Trost, Eva Mei, Patrizia Ciofi, Kurt Rydl; conducted by Zubin Mehta; Spanish subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2012 (Christoph Strehl, Diana Damrau, Olga Peretyatko, Franz-Josef Selig; conducted by Ivor Bolton; Catalan subtitles)

Bankhead Theatre, 2018 (David Walton, Alexandra Batsios, Elena Galvan, Kevin Langan; conducted by Alex Katsman; English subtitles)

Theatro São Pedro, 2023 (Daniel Umbelino, Ludmilla Bauerfeldt, Ana Carolina Coutinho, Luiz-Ottavio Faria; conducted by Cláudio Cruz; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Un Ballo in Maschera

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1967 (Carlo Bergonzi, Antonietta Stella, Mario Zanassi; conducted by Oliviero di Fabritiis; Spanish subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1975 (Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Claudio Abbado, English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1978 (Luciano Pavarotti, Mara Zampieri, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Claudio Abbado; Italian subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1980 (Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Louis Quilico; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; no subtitles)

Royal Swedish Opera, 1986 (Nicolai Gedda, Siv Wennberg, Carl Johan Falkman; conducted by Eri Klas; sung in Swedish; Swedish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1990 (Plácido Domingo, Josephine Barstow, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; English subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Teatro Regio di Torino, 2012 (Gregory Kunde, Oksana Dyka, Gabriele Viviani; conducted by Renato Palumbo; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Chorégies d'Orange, 2013 (Ramón Vargas, Kristin Lewis, Lucio Gallo; conducted by Alain Altinoglu; French subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2014 (Francesco Meli, Hui He, Luca Salsi; conducted by Andrea Battistoni; no subtitles)

Cavalleria Rusticana

Giorgio Strehler studio film, 1968 (Gianfranco Cecchele, Fiorenza Cossotto; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1974 (Franco Tagliavini, Grace Bumbry; conducted by John Nelson; no subtitles)

Franco Zeffirelli film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Elena Obraztsova; conducted by Georges Prêtre; no subtitles)

Ravenna Festival, 1996 (José Cura, Waltraud Meier; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles)

Ópera de Bellas Artes, 2008 (Alfredo Portilla, Violeta Dávalos; conducted by Marco Zambelli; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera, 2009 (José Cura, Paoletta Marrocu; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; no subtitles)

Chorégies d'Orange, 2009 (Roberto Alagna, Beatrice Uria-Monzon; conducted by Georges Prêtre; French subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2011 (Marcello Giordani, Ildiko Komlosi; conducted by Daniele Gallegari; Spanish subtitles)

Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin; conducted by Daniele Rustioni; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Younghoon Lee, Elina Garanča; conducted by Graeme Jenkins; English subtitles)

[xtruss]

Cinco de Mayo!

Cinco de Mayo, or the Fifth of May, is a holiday that celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s May 5, 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War. The day, which falls on Sunday, May 5 in 2024, is also known as Battle of Puebla Day. While it is a relatively minor holiday in Mexico, in the United States, Cinco de Mayo has evolved into a commemoration of Mexican culture and heritage, particularly in areas with large Mexican American populations.

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Cinco de Mayo History

Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day, a popular misconception. Instead, it commemorates a single battle. In 1861, Benito Juárez—a lawyer and member of the Indigenous Zapotec tribe—was elected president of Mexico. At the time, the country was in financial ruin after years of internal strife, and the new president was forced to default on debt payments to European governments.

In response, France, Britain and Spain sent naval forces to Veracruz, Mexico, demanding repayment. Britain and Spain negotiated with Mexico and withdrew their forces.

France, however, ruled by Napoleon III, decided to use the opportunity to carve an empire out of Mexican territory. Late in 1861, a well-armed French fleet stormed Veracruz, landing a large force of troops and driving President Juárez and his government into retreat.

The Battle of Puebla

Certain that success would come swiftly, 6,000 French troops under General Charles Latrille de Lorencez set out to attack Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico. From his new headquarters in the north, Juárez rounded up a ragtag force of 2,000 loyal men—many of them either Indigenous Mexicans or of mixed ancestry—and sent them to Puebla.

The vastly outnumbered and poorly supplied Mexicans, led by Texas-born General Ignacio Zaragoza, fortified the town and prepared for the French assault. On May 5, 1862, Lorencez gathered his army—supported by heavy artillery—before the city of Puebla and led an assault.

How Long Did the Battle of Puebla Last?

The battle lasted from daybreak to early evening, and when the French finally retreated they had lost nearly 500 soldiers. Fewer than 100 Mexicans had been killed in the clash.

Although not a major strategic win in the overall war against the French, Zaragoza’s success at the Battle of Puebla on May 5 represented a great symbolic victory for the Mexican government and bolstered the resistance movement. In 1867—thanks in part to military support and political pressure from the United States, which was finally in a position to aid its besieged neighbor after the end of the Civil War—France finally withdrew.

The same year, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, who had been installed as emperor of Mexico in 1864 by Napoleon, was captured and executed by Juárez’s forces. Puebla de Los Angeles was renamed for General Zaragoza, who died of typhoid fever months after his historic triumph there.

Cinco de Mayo in Mexico 🇲🇽

Within Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is primarily observed in the state of Puebla, where Zaragoza’s unlikely victory occurred, although other parts of the country also take part in the celebration.

Traditions include military parades, recreations of the Battle of Puebla and other festive events. For many Mexicans, however, May 5 is a day like any other: It is not a federal holiday, so offices, banks and stores remain open.

Why Do We Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in the United States 🇺🇸?

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is widely interpreted as a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage, particularly in areas with substantial Mexican-American populations.

Chicano activists raised awareness of the holiday in the 1960s, in part because they identified with the victory of Indigenous Mexicans (such as Juárez) over European invaders during the Battle of Puebla.

Today, revelers mark the occasion with parades, parties, mariachi music, Mexican folk dancing and traditional foods such as tacos and mole poblano. Some of the largest festivals are held in Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston.

Confusion With Mexican Independence Day

Many people outside Mexico mistakenly believe that Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexican independence, which was declared more than 50 years before the Battle of Puebla.

Independence Day in Mexico (Día de la Independencia) is commemorated on September 16, the anniversary of the revolutionary priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla’s famous ���Grito de Dolores” (“Cry of Dolores,” referring to the city of Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico), a call to arms that amounted to a declaration of war against the Spanish colonial government in 1810.