#french classic

[frenchlitclub]

Les livres montrés dans le tableau "Liberté" lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture des jeux olympiques 2024, ce vendredi (liste à la fin):

Romances sans parole, de Verlaine, 1874 On ne badine pas avec l'amour, d'Alfred de Musset, 1834 Passion Simple, d'Annie Ernaux, 1992 Bel-Ami, de Maupassant, 1885 Sexe et Mensonges, de Leïla Slimani, 2017 Le diable au corps, de Raymond Radiguet, 1923 Les Liaisons Dangereuses, de Laclos, 1782

Le thème commun à tous ces livres: les relations amoureuses (souvent interdites, adultères), la passion, la sexualité dans la littérature française. La scène suit 3 personnes flirtant à l'aide des livres qu'ils se montrent dans la bibliothèque nationale de Paris; on peut y voir une référence au roman "Jules et Jim" d'Henri-Pierre Roché, et à la pièce "Caprices de Marianne" d’Alfred de Musset où l'on retrouve des trios/triangles amoureux.

[andreai04]

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

[semperardens-juli]

"There is nothing more difficult in love than expressing in writing what ones does not feel."

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

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[literaryruin]

... she recalled the heroines of the books that she had read and the lyric legion of these adulterous women began to sing in her memory with voice of sisters that charmed her. She became herself, as it were, an actual part of these imaginings, and realised the love-dream of her youth as she saw herself in this type of amorous women whom she had so envied... She tasted it without remorse, without anxiety, without trouble.

- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, pp.125

[larevuedecinema]

bresson retrospective film poster

[die-rosastrasse]

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

[academic-vampire]

“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”

-Albert Camus, “The Misunderstanding.”

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisque by Delphin Enjolras (19th Century)

[abnormes]

Spirit, George Roux (1885)

[kustavglimt]

Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet: detail of Female nude, back view (1831)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles Amable Lenoir (French, 1860-1926) The Death of Sappho, 1896

[scarletmoments]

Home Bar Family Room Inspiration for a huge mediterranean open concept light wood floor family room remodel with a bar, beige walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a media wall

[gaza-love100]

Help me save my family's life

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This fundraising campaign is a last resort for me to help us escape the war and reunite with the family, finally I am collecting these donations to escape with my family from this war and try to reach safety

Your help and contribution means a lot to us, as it means compassion and solidarity for justice, and any donation from you will enrich our lives.

[semperardens-juli]

"Laughter's the property of man. Live joyfully."

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1564), Francois Rabelais from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

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[literaryruin]

Accustomed to calm aspects of life, she turned, on the contrary, to those of excitement. She loved the sea only for the sake of its storms, and the green fields only when broken up by ruins. She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, pp.26

[classic-art-favourites]

The Bathing Pool by Hubert Robert, 1777-1780.