#french newspaper

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Jean Béraud (French, 1849-1935) • Le Figaro Illustré • cover art • January 1891

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Homme

Photo by WKaseke

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food paintings on newspaper by Julia Stankevych (1)

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Francine Van Hove, “Le Temps des Cerises”, 2012, oil on canvas. B. 1942, Saint-Mandé, Seine, France.

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I ordered this 1941 paper from France just for this article because I couldn't find it otherwise online. I'm using it for my Organt translation (pinned post) and uploaded for you!

Spinasse, Charles, ed. “Saint-Just Inconnu.” Le Rouge et Le Bleu. December 6, 1941, Number 6 edition.

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"During his stay in the Riviera, the Author discovered that the Contessa was working for the OVRA secret police, and almost got poisoned in the process."

Last month I went to the Riviera: there was much less luxury and intrigue and attempted murders than depicted, but a boy can dream.

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Annette   -    Sylvie Vanlerberghe, 2017.

French, b. 1963 -

Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

There are few things as wodehousian as that weird period in the 1800s where several nations were looking to hire royals to become their princes/kings/emperors.

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"A Frenchman assassinated in Morocco: Émile Mauchamp, dispensary doctor in Marrakesh, stoned by the natives", illustration published in Le Petit Journal, No. 855, 1907

[miffy-junot]

A 1794 newspaper article on a very young Junot

Courier patriotique des départements de l'Isère, des Alpes et du Mont-Blanc, ou l'Ami d'égalité, 24th October 1794:

“Citizen Junot, of the Côte-d’or department, aide-de-camp of artillery general Bonnaperre [sic], returning to an artillery division, to whom he had given the order to advance, gave a point-blank discharge to an enemy party: he dismounted, pursued an Austrian, to whom he fired a pistol shot which pierced his thigh, and made him a prisoner in the midst of the enemy.” 

source

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Paris Police Ordinances Dedicated Towards Public Welfare — Cleaning the City of Paris

By an order of police, dated Nov. 20 [1810], the following regulations are established, concerning the cleansing, and keeping clean, the streets and passages of the city of Paris.

1. Proprietors or tenants of houses, are bound to direct the sweeping regularly every day, the fronts of their houses, shops, courts, gardens, and other offices. The sweeping to extend from the kennel in the middle of the street to the edge of the pavement next the houses. The mud to be gathered in heaps on the sides. None to sweep his own mud on to his neighbour’s premises.

2. The sweeping shall be finished at 8 o’clock in the morning, from October 1, to March 1, and at 7 o’clock, from March 1, to Oct. 1. In case of negligence, the police will sweep the place, and charge the expense.

3. The laying of any filth or refuse, from the interior of the houses, after the scavenger carts have passed, will be punished with great severity.

4. Glass of all kinds, broken bottles, lamps of ice, earthern-ware, &c. shall be placed close to the houses, apart from the mud.

5. Nothing shall be thrown into the street, from the windows of any house.

6. The laying of any earth or rubbish, before the houses, or suffering it to lie more than two hours after the carts have passed, is forbidden. Earth or rubbish, laid before the houses, must be removed in the course of the day. In case of negligence, the police will remove it, and charge it.

7. In time of snow, or of frost, every householder is bound to sweep away the snow, and to break the ice before his house, shop, court, garden, &c, to the middle of the street. They shall form the snow and ice into heaps. In case of slippery ice, they shall strew ashes, sand, or gravel.

8. It is forbidden to lay in the streets, any snow or ice, from courts, or from the interior of houses, &c.

9. It is equally forbidden to proprietor or occupiers of baths, dyers, washers, or others which make great use of water, to let any part thereof, flow over the public way, during frosty weather.

Source:

Translated into English and published in The Literary Panorama, and National Register, Volume 9, Cox, Son, and Baylis, (1811), Page 550-551.

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Mood du Jour

[nero-neptune]

NORTHERN EXPOSURE 3.06 “The Body in Question”

“Be careful, my friend. You’re opening a portal to the past.”

[juney-blues]

incredibly surreal now that it's completely undeniable israel is doing atrocities that have placed the state among the ranks of history's greatest monsters, to look through media from even a couple years ago that treats the israel/palestine conflict as this vague complicated thing that's controversial and they don't wanna upset anyone about it

like I don't want to imply it was any less tone deaf at the time, but now that it's even more obvious than it *was* it's like

"haha wow we're gonna stay neutral on this apartheid ethnostate, whooopsie we're accidentally doing genocide apologia by lending legitimacy to this horrid thing~"

leaves a very strange and awful taste in your mouth

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Newspaper boy on the Parisian streets

French vintage postcard