#french estate

[charlieharvey]

San Francisco Mediterranean Closet Dressing room - mid-sized mediterranean gender-neutral medium tone wood floor, brown floor and vaulted ceiling dressing room idea with white cabinets and glass-front cabinets

[jacksonlucy]

San Francisco Mediterranean Closet Dressing room - mid-sized mediterranean gender-neutral medium tone wood floor, brown floor and vaulted ceiling dressing room idea with white cabinets and glass-front cabinets

[americania]

Mediterranean Family Room - Family Room Example of a huge tuscan open concept medium tone wood floor and brown floor family room design with a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

[rainbowpufflez]

“We belong together

Lying here forever

In the cold, cold, cold”

You’ll never believe which gays Bo’s drawing again

Song inspo if anyone wants it (aka uh-oh I gotta add another song to their playlist)

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible pt 16

I'd like to think Robespierre was intensely excited and inspired during those early days in the Breton Club (I remember reading a letter that suggested as such)

[mask131]

If you ever want to get distracted with some of the little scandals of France, here's one if you want.

During the 2010s, Chinese investors and fortunes frenetically bought a LOT of the wine estates of France. It is known that China always ha little something for France, and already at the time it made lot of people grumble (the usual saying of "Why are we letting foreigners buy what's typically and traditionally French?"). The Chinese desire to buy or import a certain "French art de vivre", a French lifestyle, wasn't so much the problem, as some of their open and public commercial projects (some clearly announced they wanted to produce 5-euros wine in France to sell it back in their own network in China 100 euros).

Today, the Chinese are selling back the wine estates. Why? Well the most obvious and immediate reason was the Chinese government's decision of regulating more harshly the Chinese investments in foreign countries, and closing a lot of ways through which money went elsewhere than China itself. This resulted in the Chinese owners of these wine estates realizing they couldn't keep up. It becomes too difficult for them: after all, they realized that having a wine estate isn't as easy as just buying it and waiting for results to happen. Not only are Chinese people buying and drinking less and less wine year after year, but wine-making in France became QUITE difficult since the 2010s thanks to the climate change.

Because unlike what Trump and his insane clowns are saying, climate change is real and wine-makers suffered a LOT from it. Between the winters way too hot, the violent thunderstorms and hailstorms, the regular floods in river-adjacent areas, and this year a summer way too gray and rainy... Vines suffered a lot.

But that's not the scandal. The scandal is all what is coming up now that the Chinese are selling the domains. Already the mayors of the towns around were alerting people on the fact the Chinese are fracturing the domains - because typically a wine estate in France is a domain made up of a historical castle and the vineyards, and they always went together for quite some times. The Chinese bought them together, and now are selling the castles separately from the vineyards. That's a patrimonial problem, but not the biggest.

The biggest is the state of the castles... Turns out, after the Chinese bought the castles of the wine-estates, they didn't do ANYTHING with it. They didn't pay to maintain them, to clean them, to keep them up. They hired nobody for them, no one ever came to live within them, host things or even inhabit them. Basically... These castles stood empty and uncared for, for YEARS. The Chinese are selling them back now, at quite a low price... but they won't get a lot of people for them, because now they are filled with the usual problems led to castles left empty under storms, warm winters and rainy summers - fractured walls, broken roofs, mold everywhere, dust and vermin and animals... So whoever buys the castle, even for a low price, will have to pour a LOT of money to make the castle inhabitable again, or even safe. They're on their way to become ruins.

[Ironically, this careless, not to say clueless, handling of the castles and the wine business around them was explained by a Chinese businessman by the name of Hugo Tian as resulting from a different of investment model between Europe and China. In his own words, European people typically invest in estates on the scale of "generations", and that's how they measure time, in "generations", as opposed to China who has a model of buying-and-selling on a scale of usually five years, with no generatonal investment]

And that's not even talking of how the fracture of the wine estates, and the poor managing of the Chinese investors, results in hundreds of jobs being threatened - because now that everything is being sold back, the disastrous handling of the wine businesses. The companies owning them now have absolutely no representative in France, all the decisions are taken in China without anybody actually there to manage things in France, employees haven't been paid in years, and many taxes also have not been paid in years... Already before the re-sales had been announced, these businesses were about to crumble apart.

So, you know... French people are not very pleased.

[mysims3houses]

First post, first share. Wonder if this will work correctly...

All my lots and houses are jam-packed with CC, which is impossible for me to link individually and credit with. So thanks to all the content creators out there once and for all.

PLEASE let me know if you download this and it works correctly in-game! Thanks.

[thebusylilbee]

mort aux multipropriétaires

[somerando9776]

Idek what im doing 😭😭

German queen Alicia just... seems right.... idk

What should i do for Lloyd? Perhaps other characters?

[enlitment]

Hi! First of all, I want to say that I really love your blog and all the content you have there. But for the actual question, so, I'm a new frev enjoyer, and I've been trying to look everywhere on the internet for the answer to a simple question that i seemingly can't find. What languages could Maximilien De Robespierre speak (beside french)? I swear, I've searched in every corner of the web and EVEN ASKED REDDIT AND QUORA??? I assume he understood Latin, since he studied law, but what about other popular languages, like Italian or Spanish? I don't know. I hope this question doesn't bother you, if you don't want to answer that's fine! Also I apologise for any grammatical mistakes, english is not my first language. Have a nice day!!! ♡

Hi, thank you for the lovely comment, it's definitely no bother at all!

You're absolutely right about Latin - anyone who received even a basic education in the 1700s would have at least a basic grasp of the language. Couldn't really do much without it! With someone like Robespierre, one can assume he would be pretty much fluent in Latin, or at least in reading Latin texts.

The only evidence for any other language he would have some knowledge of that I was able to find was not Italian or Spanish but Greek! Again, for the reason that it was very much a part of the classical education of that era.

(From an article about classical education in the 18th century:

This table also shows that, apart from seeming to be very well-versed in Latin, Robespierre would have at least some knowledge of Greek - enough to be able to win a prize for it, anyway:

I have to say I'm not quite sure about any modern languages! I would be leaning towards no. For instance I'd say that unlike some of the other revolutionaries like Jean-Paul Marat (or Voltaire and Émilie, who apparently learnt English in a matter of months), he wouldn't be able to speak English. I'm not hundred percent sure about Spanish or Italian though, as they are closer to French and therefore arguably easier to learn for a native French speaker.

If anyone knows more (@anotherhumaninthisworld ; @saintjustitude ?) I'd love to know as well!

Oh and least but not least welcome to the frev community and stay curious! ✨

RESOURCES:

Leuwers , Hervé. “Maximilien de Robespierre, student at Louis-le-Grand (1769-1781). The contributions of the accounting of the “college of Arras””, Historical Annals of the French Revolution , vol. 371, no. 1, 2013, pp. 175-185.

Classical Education in the Eighteenth Century, British Literature Wiki, https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/classical-education-in-the-eighteenth-century/

[newagevictorianorphan]

WHO DO YOU WANT US TO BLAME???? THE PEOPLE WHO WERE STARVING BECAUSE OF TAXES??? 😭😭

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This 2002 French Provincial country estate in Shelby, North Carolina hasn't sold- it's been on the market for over 630 days. It has 4bds, 5ba and is listed for $4.9M, which they haven't reduced. I guess they're waiting for the right buyer to come along. Well, let's see if we like it.

Well, it's got a castle-like entrance hall.

Wow, this is some fancy Great Room. Look at the balconies and ceiling.

Here's a sophisticated room.

These mansions have so many sitting rooms. I guess what else would they do w/all these rooms. Nice fireplace in here.

Look at this bathroom.

Vanity table in the bathroom. They cut off the ceiling in here- it looks like it has a mural.

Dressing room/closet.

Check out the dining room. It's so fancy.

That's some kitchen island.

Wow, I wouldn't want to be the one to polish that copper.

I would say that this is the TV/family room.

Here's another staircase.

This is a cute room. It's like a game room.

Looks like a writing desk.

Wow, look at this bathroom. That must be a closet in the middle.

A whimsical child's room?

This must be the main bedroom.

Here's a natural looking pool surrounded by rocks and grass.

Except when you look at it from above.

So, there's a bridge to a patio with a fireplace, over the pool.

The estate comes with 48.6 acres of land.

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

I hope she got her Mops dog from Vienna 🥳🎂

[theorahsart]

Incorruptible pt 11

The last page of chapter 1! Robespierre's Utopia...will his dream ever come true? ;_;

[paulprestigegems]

14K Yellow Gold Australian Mosaic Black Opal French Clip Earrings With Appraisal Card Vintage - Rainbow of colors! PRICE: 1200.00 LINK ↓

[creekfiend]

Many people who buy the whole "aristocracies/monarchies/etc are outmoded powerless figureheads that don't have a political role in western countries" thing conceptualize a "modern" secular political role analogous to king to be a president or prime minister. But the thing is that the idea of, like, "The Crown" as an entity is actually precisely analogous to the concept of "The State" as an entity, as they are both constructs used to justify, essentially, ownership of an area of land and a group of people

Anyway.