#jacques dupont

[sweet-vanilla-sims]

Year 1686

TW/CW: Infant Death

Nesta began feeling off in a familiar way as spring came into bloom and she was excited for another child that she hoped would be a son after two daughters though she had a problem... she had no clue who the father was.

Even so, she told her husband about the new arrival though she simply omitted any mention of her paternity doubts and he was excited for a third child as well.

Nesta also told Giovanni Cesare about the pregnancy and while he was happy for her the moment it sunk in that it might be his, he panicked as he didn't want drama to start but since Jaxsen was unaware of their dalliances, well, no need to make a fuss when it was just as likely to be Jaxsen's anyways.

In Newcrest, Luisa delivered twins on March 2nd. The older one, the girl, was named Marie and her twin brother was named Jacques.

On April 25th, Marcello and Chanel welcomed their son who they named Giovanni after Marcello's dear friend and uncle Giovanni Cesare.

Both of Luisa's twins grew up well as it appeared that Marie favored her father and Jacques favored his mother but it wasn't to last as on July 13th, Jacques burned up with fever and slipped away in the night.

Elisabetta grew up into a rambunctious child with plenty of energy to her father's great relief. Though sometimes she had too much energy and her father would have to talk to her about getting in the way of his work and send her to spend time with her aunt when Orelia was in port.

Baby Giovanni grew up into a darling boy though his parents fussed over him excessively especially after the news of Luisa's son's passing and the memory of the loss of their firstborn, they were determined to lavish their son the best they could.

Young Kathy quickly joined the ranks of bigger children behind Elisabetta and while the girls became more distinct in the personalities they remained close.

But what the girls loved the most was when Orelia could visit and tell her stories of life on the ocean. The way Orelia spoke made life on the water seem magical though growing up on the islands they couldn't quite understand how it could be so interesting to the aunt when they were surrounded by water and boats all the time.

On December 27th, Nesta got her wish as she delivered her son Francis in good health. It was too soon to tell who the boy took after but she hoped that he would look like her and her fears simply wouldn't matter.

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2p names bc i think the "official" 2p names are dumb

hetalia / NA / headcanons / warnings: NA / notes: if im bout to ship 2p can & 1p ame i ain't about to have matthieu have the same last name as alfred's brother

2p america ;; Allen F. Kennedy 2p canada ;; Matthieu Bouchard 2p england ;; Oliver Davies 2p france ;; Jacques Dupont 2p russia ;; Viktor Alekseev 2p china ;; Xiao Fei 2p north italy ;; Luciano Ricci 2p south italy ;; Flavio Ricci 2p germany ;; Lutz Weber 2p prussia ;; Henrik Weber 2p japan ;; Kuroko Watanabe 2p austria ;; Roland Leitner

most names were just decided by what i think sounds nice. i renamed 1p prussia to Heiko, bc i hate the name Gilbert violently, so i renamed 2p prussia to also have an H name. 2p japan is transfem to me don't ask why.

note that i am a stupid american and not an expert on names or name meaning, i really just googled common last names for their respective countries and went from there. i also only did characters i remember being very common in 2p art.

[gender-euphowrya]

there were protests and some supermarket got its windows smashed & shit and the news did a vox pop about it and one of the guys said "it doesn't make sense to associate a supermarket with capitalism" so if you want to know the degree of understanding of society the average french person has. Here

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Jean-Paul Belmondo during the filming of Jacques Dupont's film "Les Distractions"

Paris 1960

[justforbooks]

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader, dies aged 96

Former paratrooper led National Front party for decades and courted controversy, being repeatedly fined for contesting crimes against humanity

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party, who sent shock waves through the country when he made it to the second round of the presidential election in 2002, has died aged 96.

The former paratrooper, who led the party from 1972 to 2011, was repeatedly convicted over comments about the Holocaust, which he once dismissed as “merely a detail of history”.

His daughter Marine Le Pen took the party’s leadership in 2011 and expelled him four years later, seeking to distance the movement from his extremist reputation. The party has since been renamed the National Rally (RN).

Le Pen’s family said in a statement that he had been in a care facility for several weeks and he died at midday on Tuesday “surrounded by his loved ones”.

However, it emerged that Marine Le Pen only learned of his death from reporters while flying back from the French Indian Ocean island Mayotte, where she had been visiting victims of Cyclone Chido.

Sophie Dupont, a journalist with BFMTV who was on the plane with Marine Le Pen, said the politician was told when the flight made a technical stop in Nairobi. “Marine Le Pen’s press officer didn’t know. He went to tell her,” Dupont said.

Marine Le Pen’s entourage said she would not make any immediate comment.

The Elysée, in a statement, trod a diplomatic line, summarising Le Pen’s political career: an MP three times, a presidential candidate five times, an MEP seven times, a town councillor and regional councillor. “A historic figure of the far right, he played a role in the public life of our country for nearly 70 years, which is now a matter for history to judge,” it said.

RN said Le Pen had defended “the idea of French greatness with all his soul and at the risk of his own life”.

Last year Le Pen faced charges, along with Marine Le Pen, over allegations they and other party figures had embezzled money from the European parliament with fake jobs. Jean-Marie Le Pen was excused from attending court for health reasons.

Twenty-three years ago he had put the far right at the heart of French politics with his surprise, second-place finish in the first round of the 2002 presidential election. In the run-off he was defeated by Jacques Chirac in a landslide.

Controversies over his statements about race and the Holocaust put him at odds with his daughter’s attempts to sanitise the party and move away from its jackbooted, antisemitic image.

He was convicted and fined several times for contesting crimes against humanity, and in 2014 suggested the Ebola virus could be a solution to the global population explosion. Two years later, he was convicted of “provoking hatred and ethnic discrimination” for telling a public meeting three years earlier that Roma in the city were “rash-inducing” and smelly.

Le Pen was made lifetime honorary president of the FN when his daughter took over as party leader in 2011. She threw him out in 2015 after he refused to temper his incendiary language as she attempted to clean up the FN’s reputation, but only finally succeeded in ejecting him in 2018 after several legal battles.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was born on 20 June 1928, the only child of a Breton fisherer and his wife, a seamstress. In his autobiography, Mémoires: fils de la nation (Son of the Nation), he described his childhood as “modest” in a home with “a dirt floor”. His father died in 1942 when Jean, as he was then, was 14, after a mine caught up in his fishing net exploded.

At 16, Le Pen sought to join the military – specifically the French Interior Forces (FFI) – but was refused as he was too young. Col Henri de la Vaissière reportedly told him: “Think of your mother”. In 1946, he was expelled from his secondary school and moved to the Paris region, where he passed his baccalauréat and began studying law.

He later joined the French Foreign Legion’s parachute regiment and took part in the war in Indochina and in the Algerian war of independence, during which he was accused of torturing detainees.

In 1962, Le Pen told the newspaper Combat: “I’ve nothing to hide. We tortured because it had to be done.” Later, Le Pen denied further accusations of torture in Algeria, claiming they were part of a leftwing “government plot” to discredit him.

He had three daughters with his first wife, Pierrette, of whom Marine was the youngest. He was reported to have been closest to his granddaughter, Marion Maréchal, daughter of Yann Le Pen, his middle child. He married his second wife, Jany, in 1991.

On learning of his death, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the hard left France Unbowed, wrote on X that he believed in “respect for the dignity of the dead and the grief of their loved ones …” adding “this does not erase the right to judge their actions. Jean-Marie Le Pen’s actions remain intolerable. The battle against the man is over, that against hatred, racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism that he spread continues.”

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some people/groups mentioned

Bonanno, Alfredo M.

(1937-) A main theorist of contemporary insurrectionary anarchism who wrote essays such as Armed Joy (for which he was imprisoned for 18 months by the Italian government), The Anarchist Tension and others; an editor of Anarchismo Editions and many other publications, only some of which have been translated into English. He has been involved in the anarchist movement for over thirty years.

Bakunin, Mikhail

(1814–1876) A well-known Russian revolutionary and philosopher, theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Despite (or because of) criminal status, Bakunin gained great influence with the youth in Russia and all of Europe. He was involved in the insurrection in Lyon, which foreshadowed the Paris Commune.

In 1868, Bakunin joined the International Working Men’s Association, a federation of trade union organizations with sections in most European countries. The 1872 Hague Congress was dominated by a struggle between Marx and his followers who argued for parliamentary electoral participation and a faction around Bakunin who opposed it. Bakunin’s faction lost the vote, and he was eventually expelled for maintaining a secret organisation within the international. The anarchists insisted the congress was rigged, and so held their own conference of the International in Switzerland. From 1870 to 1876, he wrote much of his seminal work such as Statism and Anarchy and God and the State.

Camatte, Jacques

A French writer, once a Marxist theoretician and member of the International Communist Party. After collecting and publishing a great amount of historical documents from left communist currents, and analysing the most recently discovered writings of Marx, in the early 70s Camatte abandoned the Marxist perspective. He decided instead that capitalism had succeeded in shaping humanity to its profit, and that every kind of “revolution” was thus impossible; that the working class was nothing more than an aspect of capital, unable to supersede its situation; that any future revolutionary movement would basically consist of a struggle between humanity and capital itself, rather than between classes; and that capital has become totalitarian in structure, leaving nowhere and no-one outside its domesticating influence. This pessimism about revolutionary perspective is accompanied by the idea that we can “leave the world” and live closer to nature, and stop harming children and distorting their naturally sane spirit.

Dupont, Monsieur & Frère

Monsieur Dupont is a duo of ex-activist communists in the UK, who wrote Nihilist Communism, in which they posit the irrelevance of most of the agitational activities of people who want foundational political and social change, partly because these “pro-revolutionaries” are inculcated by the same society that they are challenging, and partly because dramatic social change, if it comes at all (which it is likely not to), will only come from “the essential proletariat”, which are the workers who control things that the system absolutely relies on (power, transportation, etc). Frère Dupont, author of species being, is one of the two.

Berkman, Alexander

(1870–1936) an anarchist known for his political activism and writing, a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century.

Soon after his arrival in New York City, Berkman became an anarchist through his involvement with groups that had formed to campaign to free the men convicted of the 1886 Haymarket bombing. He came under the influence of Johann Most, the best-known anarchist in the United States, and an advocate of propaganda of the deed—attentat, or violence carried out to encourage the masses to revolt.

He attempted to assassinate businessman Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Frick survived the attempt on his life, and Berkman served 14 years in prison. His experience in prison was the basis for his first book, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist.

Berkman voiced his opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices in his 1925 book, The Bolshevik Myth.

While living in France, Berkman continued his work in support of the anarchist movement, producing the classic exposition of anarchist principles, Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism. Suffering from ill health, Berkman committed suicide in 1936.

de Cleyre, Voltairine

(1866–1912) A prolific American anarchist writer and speaker, she opposed the state, marriage, and the domination of religion in sexuality and women’s lives. She began her activist career in the freethought movement. Her political perspective shifted throughout her life, eventually leading her to become an outspoken proponent of “anarchism without adjectives.”

For several years she associated primarily with the American individualist anarchist milieu. Eventually, however, she rejected individualism.

“Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.”Instead, she became one of the most prominent advocates of anarchism without adjectives. In The Making of an Anarchist, she wrote, “I no longer label myself otherwise than as ‘Anarchist’ simply”.

Debord, Guy

(1931–1994) A French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie (a French-based radical libertarian socialist group of the post-World War II period).

Debord joined the Letterist International when he was 19. A schism birthed several factions of Letterists, one of which was decidedly led by Debord. In the 1960s, Debord led the Situationist International group, which influenced the Paris Uprising of 1968. Some consider his book The Society of the Spectacle to be a catalyst for the uprising.

FAI

The Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI, Iberian Anarchist Federation) is a Spanish organization of anarchist (anarcho-syndicalist and anarchist-communist) militants inside the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) anarcho-syndicalist union. It is often abbreviated as CNT-FAI because of the close relationship between the two organizations. The FAI publishes the periodical Tierra y Libertad. It was founded in Valencia in 1927 to campaign for keeping the CNT on an anarchist path. It viewed the CNT as having become a mediator between labour and capital, rather than representative of the working class.

Goldman, Emma

(1869 –1940) An anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches, she played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, she became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women’s rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth .

Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, homosexuality, and appreciation of Nietzsche. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women’s suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism.

After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940, aged 70.

The Invisible Committee

An anonymous group of French intellectuals named as the authors of The Coming Insurrection, a call to arms along the lines of the Situationists.

Kropotkin, Pyotr

(1842–1921) A Russian prince, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, pacifist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer, and one of the world’s foremost anarcho-communists.

Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations be-tween workers. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He also contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.

Mutual Aid provided an alternative view on human survival to the claims of interpersonal competition and natural hierarchy proffered at the time by some “social Darwinists”. He argued “that it was an evolutionary emphasis on cooperation instead of competition in the Darwinian sense that made for the success of species, including the human.”

Nietzsche, Freidrich

(1844–1900) was a German philosopher, poet, cultural critic and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.

Nietzsche’s influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism, and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation”, which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life’s expansive energies, however socially prevalent and radical those views might be.

Novatore, Renzo

The pen name of Abele Rizieri Ferrari (1890–1922), Italian individualist anarchist, illegalist, and anti-fascist poet, philosopher, and militant, now mostly known for his book (posthumously published), Toward the Creative Nothing (Verso il nulla creatore).

He discovered Errico Malatesta, Peter Kropotkin, Henrik Ibsen and Friedrich Nietzsche, and especially Max Stirner. From 1908 on he embraced individualist anarchism. In 1910, he was charged with the burning of a local church and spent three months in prison, but his participation in the fire was never proved. A year later, he went on the lam because the police wanted him for theft and robbery.

As the Great War approached he deserted his regiment on April 26, 1918 and was sentenced to death by a military tribunal. He left his village and fled, propagating the desertion from the Army and the armed uprising against the state. By the early 1920s Italy was about to be taken over by Fascism. He decided to go underground and in 1922 he joined the gang of the famous robber of anarchist inspiration: Sante Pollastro, and was killed in a shoot-out.

Perlman, Fredy

(1934–1985) was an author, publisher and activist. His most popular work, the book Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, details the rise of state domination with a retelling of history through the Hobbesian metaphor of the Leviathan. The book remains a major source of inspiration for anti-civilisation perspectives in contemporary anarchism. His work both as an author and publisher has been very influential on modern anarchist thought.

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

(1809–1865) was a French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an “anarchist”. He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism. After the events of 1848 he began to call himself a federalist.

Tiqqun

The name of a French philosophical journal, founded in 1999 with an aim to “recreate the conditions of another community.” It was created by various writers and dissolved in 2001 following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Tiqqun is also, more generally, the name of the philosophical concept which stems from these texts, and is often used in a broad sense to name the many publications containing the journal’s texts, in order to designate “a point of spirit from which these writings come.”

Situationists

The Situationist International (SI) was an internationalist group of revolutionaries based mainly in Europe. It was founded in 1957 and reached its peak of influence in the general strike of May 1968 in France.

With ideas rooted in Marxism and the 20th century European artistic avant-gardes, they advocated experiences of life alternative to those allowed by advanced capitalism, for the fulfillment of human desires. They suggested and experimented with the construction of “situations,” which were environments favorable for the fulfillment of such desires. Their theoretical work peaked with the highly influential book Society of the Spectacle. The SI was dissolved in 1972.

the Frankfurt School

A school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory, initially consisting of dissident Marxists who believed that some of Marx’s followers parroted a narrow selection of Marx’s ideas, usually in defense of orthodox Communist parties. Many of the Frankfurt School theorists believed that traditional Marxist theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in the 20th century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.

[imsparky2002]

Creepsters AU - The Creepsters

This is a spin-off AU of my Halloween Fun AU, only this time, the Creepsters are actually real. They all live together in a dark and spooky castle, and these creepy teens have grand old time scaring and killing people with their ghostly teacher, terrorizing the city of Paris.

Count Marcula - A bloodsucking creature of the night, Count Marcula hails from Transylvania and happens to be the teenaged ancestor of Marc Anciel. Loves writing terrifying tales and feasting on necks. A flamboyant, theatrical and villainous teen, compared to his more shy and kindhearted descendant. As the technically oldest teen of the group, being centuries old, he shares with them wonderfully wicked tales of his experiences. He and his best friend Phantom have a love of silks and capes, clearing dressing as elegantly as possible. Marcula wishes to turn his descendant to be a vampire like him, and to continue the Anciel vampiric legacy.

The Phantom of DuPont - A theatrical, dramatic, and terrifying phantom who haunts his old school of DuPont. Jacques Duparc was a bright young actor, clearly destined for greatness. Each of his performances in a school play were given a standing ovation. However, not everything was happy in his life. He was tormented and harassed for being in a relationship with his beloved Austine Tomassian, who just so happened to be a man. He was thankfully protected by Miss Boostier and Ghouselle, but tragedy struck when one night during a performance, Jacques and his two favorite teachers were killed by a fire, with the young actor receving horrible scars on his face as he died. When he became a ghost, he and his maternal figures decided to give into their previous love of scares, and haunted the school, with Jacques now known as the Phantom of the Opera. He mainly lives in the castle, but has a second home in DuPont, lurking in the sewers, playing the pipe organ, and striking fear into the hearts of students, including Jean, his ancestor. He looks after the theater, making sure what goes on inside the building is to his liking. It’s a good thing his beloved Austine is still with him as a ghost.

GhostRose - A sadistic killer who was obsessed with emulating everything about her sister, Thorn, and was sent to a “counseling camp” after stabbing a bunch of her classmates to death. Rose managed to escape, meeting her lovely JV along the way, and they spread carnage wherever they went. She’s known for her long dark robe, ghoulish white mask, and long sharp knife. Loves scary movies, and calling her victims on the phone. She and JV were happy when the other Creepsters found a spell to make the two of them immortal like themselves. Now they can haunt and murder for all of eternity. Hates it when people break the rules of her deadly games, and when you hang up on her.

JV - A childish serial killer, known for her hockey mask and machete. Juleka Voorhees and her twin brother Luka were troubled children. JV had shown signs of psychopathy from a young age. A love of murder that started with small animals and made it’s way to people. Luka had shown a devotion to the occult, and had begun murdering in the name of Satan. Eventually, Anarka Voorhees sent her children to Camp Healing Hands, leaving them behind to never return. They disappeared immediately, with JV becoming feared throughout the camp as a hockey-mask wearing maniac who brutally killed campers who came to her abandoned cabin near the lake. She was overjoyed to meet GhostRose when they were both 12, and they began a lovely relationship. Now that they’ve met their other creepsters, and became immortal, they’ll be able to spread carnage for all of eternity. What’s more romantic than that?

Austine - The ghostly lover of the Phantom. Compared to the others spectres, he looks just the same as he did when he was alive, and prefers not to spook people. Not out of the kindness of his heart, but because he’d rather just assist the Phantom on his scares. Shares a love of the theatre with Jacques, and students can still hear Austine singing opera pieces on stage at times. Was bullied by other boys for wearing dresses, but he got the last laugh, as they would face an early demise at the hands of the Phantom.

Nathfield - A mad artist who was turned into a vampire by his beloved Count Marcula. He’s been with his boyfriend for centuries, loving every second of immortality, as he always gets to create horrific artistic masterpieces, using the blood of his victims as paint. His favorite food to eat are bugs, and Marcula loves to feed him cockroaches that crawl in the dungeon. He is the ancestor of Nathaniel Kurtzberg, and as with Marcula, is trying to get the artistic boy to become a vampire like him.

Miss Boostier - The spooky spectre that happily teaches her creepsters about ways to scare and kill people. Her and Ghouselle help the Phantom to haunt DuPont. Caline Bustier’s ancestor who served as a teacher of history, poetry, and English at DuPont, with Jacques being her favorite student. Unlike The Phantom, her ghostly appearance is similar to a bedsheet. She and Ghouselle always moan and groan when they talk.

Ghouselle - The giggling ghoulish wife of Miss Boostier. She was the science teacher of DuPont, and Jacques saw her and Boostier as his maternal figures. She and Boostier died trying to save him from the fire. Now the couple happily look after the creepsters, with her teaching them all about scientific ways of spooking. Known for her chilling laugh, ghoulish grin, eerie green robe, and rustling chains. Her and Miss Boostier love to frighten the creepsters, who enjoy to be scared. They are also very soft with each other, happily wooing to each other and cuddling while out on a nice roam of the school.

Maestro - JV’s twin brother. A gifted yet sinister musician who was infatuated with the Devil and all things occult. He killed and sacrificed dozens to the Dark Lord of Satan. At 13, he made a deal with Satan to become a demon in exchange for his soul (not that he had much of one to begin with). Now he happily serves his master as a demonic maestro, shredding on the guitar and making music to control his army of darkness. Loves his twin sister dearly, and always assists her in kills. Marinette can’t find herself attracted to blue-haired teen demon, lurking in the shadows with his hooded black cloak, and asking for her soul.

And there you have these terrifying teens and their spooky teachers ready to haunt Paris. Let me know what you think in the replies, asks, posts, and reblogs, because the characters will be similar to the Haunted House AU, in which it’s all a performance. @artzychic27​ @msweebyness​ 

[princess-of-the-corner]

Copy paste from Wikipedia: Pierre-Paul-Jacques or Pierre-Jean-Jacques designates anyone and everyone at the same time, in the third person, in an informal context. The very common Jean Dupont is used the same way as John Doe is in English.

So what I'm hearing is Jean Duparc is some dude?

Ha!

[journaldelacouronne]

A SELEÇÃO CONTINUA COM SUAS ELIMINAÇÕES

Por: Amélie Dupont

Depois de muito tempo com a falta da interações públicas com as moças selecionadas por parte da princesa Margot Charlotte, durante e após as festividades do ano novo houveram diversas eliminações. Conforme as meninas iam saindo sem nem ao menos o público ter ideia do que se passava pelo evento que está recebendo fama mundial, conversamos com o idealista da Seleção, o Conselheiro Real Jacques Léfevre, que compartilhou conosco não apenas os relatórios oficiais das eliminações das selecionadas, mas como também confirmou as expectativas do público com relação à estrutura que estava sendo construída no centro de Paris: ao que tudo indica, teremos uma segunda temporada da Seleção acontecendo em breve. Jacques Léfevre: O luto da princesa com a morte do pai, os ferimentos gravíssimos acontecidos no primeiro dia, a necessidade de discursar em prol da segurança do Estado Monárquico e agora o quadro clínico de saúde vazado do irmão... Tudo aconteceu em tempos curtos demais para que Charlie estivesse inteiramente apta. Contudo, ao que tudo indica, as festividades de ano novo e o dia de respeito ao rei fizeram com que ela mudasse de atitude, começando um 2402 mais esperançoso e com energia para compensar o não comparecimento de encontros oficiais. A ideia de reformulação para a segunda temporada partiu da própria princesa: o estabelecimento de uma Casa de Vidro, que agora consta com doze meninas, cada uma representante das províncias faltantes. As pessoas poderão fazer perguntas para as selecionadas responderem, e as mais populares entre o público e nós do comitê oficial da Seleção, serão as seis novas concorrentes a terem oportunidade em concorrer pelo coração da princesa. Agradecemos imensamente pela paciência, e esperamos que se divirtam com essa nova fase. Abaixo, seguem os motivos das eliminações de cada selecionada, misturando os relatórios oficiais com contextos externos e informantes confiáveis.

Anna-Liesel Bourgeois Castel (Veloursaube)

Ao que foi reportado, Anna-Liesel foi a única que recebeu um convite formal da princesa para um encontro oficial. Todavia, a princesa foi vista aguardando na porta do palácio esperando sozinha por... Horas. Um motorista do palácio relatou que escutou a princesa xingando aquele cenário "inconcebível" porque "ela nunca havia tomado um fora antes". Como se não bastasse, ainda há a regra da Seleção que uma selecionada deve cooperar com a princesa em jantares, saídas e outras atividades. Ao receber a notícia da eliminação, Anna-Liesel contou ao Journal de la Couronne que havia dormido demais e não acordado a tempo para o encontro.

Annelise Evangeline Cadiuex (Chantemer)

Annelise já teve um relacionamento público com a princesa que teve um final público e não agradável, então pode ter sido uma surpresa quando foi escolhida. Mais surpresa ainda são as acusações que agora carrega sobre seus ombros: foi flagrada dentro do quarto do príncipe André por seu guarda, remexendo nas gavetas do rapaz e carregando alguns itens de uso pessoal do príncipe em uma pequena bolsa. As histórias circulando o que ela estava roubando variam, mas a verdade é que foi o suficiente para a princesa eliminá-la.

Cosette Soleil Benoit (Doucelune)

A selecionada foi eliminada por suspeitas de conexões e aliação rebelde com uma das ex-selecionadas que já haviam sido expulsas previamente por motivos semelhantes. Segundo chefes da investigação, o que alertou para apontar Cosette como foi aliciada aos Guardiões pouco antes da entrevista da selecionadas, na qual exibiu sua cópia da obra Lès Miserábles.

Elisábeth Céline Cabaillès (Rivièreclaire)

Segundo uma dama de companhia da Seleção que presenciou a eliminação de Céline, a conversa que se procedeu entre a selecionada e a princesa se seguiu da seguinte forma: Céline desabafou à princesa que não se sentia apta dentro da competição por se sentir deslocada entre as outras selecionadas, ao que a princesa respondeu "Ok, com essa atitude então pode sair". A dama de companhia relata que nem ela ou a selecionada acreditaram que havia sido um pedido sério até o anúncio oficial do dia seguinte.

Kannika Saengchan (Westbrook, antiga Etóilemont)

Kannika recentemente deu sua entrevista na revista de engenharia de Westbrook anunciando sua partida da Seleção e agradecendo a oportunidade e à princesa. Nela, diz que "foi um momento mágico que me permitiu conhecer muitas pessoas. Dentre elas, [...] o barão Francis Lacourte que agora está financiando as pesquisas da minha família de forma integral. A princesa foi gentil o suficiente para me escutar e me dispensar apenas pelo meu pedido. Obrigada!".

Laurence Mackenzie Seydoux (Castelmaine)

Segundo as redes sociais da princesa, que não se segurou em detalhar a história, Laurence não havia se dado bem com Napoleão, seu cachorro da raça São Bernardo. Nos posts, segundo a princesa, Laurence havia dito que o cachorro tinha "uma baba nojenta" e que "os pelos dele estragavam suas roupas". A gota d'água foi o cachorro ter puxado a toalha de mesa do jantar que a princesa e a selecionada compartilhavam; ao primeiro xingamento para o animal, a princesa revidou com a declaração da eliminação.

Maelle Gwan D'Orbigny (Neigefleur)

Maelle é uma atleta de hipismo e uma designer de joias conhecida por toda a França por seu carisma e ser um rosto carimbado nas mais variadas festas. Portanto não foi surpreendente que a moça foi flagrada distribuindo convites para uma festa clandestina que tentou organizar no Petit Trianon, um pequeno palácio mais afastado utilizado pela família real para eventos curtos. Isso foi considerado tentativa e trama de invasão de privacidade pública do Estado, e portanto foi eliminada.

Mehlika Payan (Courtenay)

Havia uma grande especulação sobre o nome de Mehlika por estar sempre comentando sobre o nome "Antoine" e estar associando ao seu pato de estimação da província. Contudo, segundo testemunhas de dentro da competição, a selecionada não apenas mentia sobre o animal de estimação, mas como também estava envolvida romanticamente com o guarda Antoine Boulevard, os dois vistos aos beijos no lado do palácio e um dos pertences da moça foi encontrado dentro do quarto do guarda. Jacques diz que uma investigação separada foi solicitada pela família da selecionada após sua saída, junto com a do guarda após a demissão, e ao que indica houve sabotagem dentro da competição. Ainda não há confirmação de quem foram os envolvidos na eliminação de Mehlika, e por mais que não haja mais possibilidade de volta pelo desejo da própria princesa que não foi totalmente convencida pelo anúncio de sabotagem, a ex-selecionada, sua família e o guarda estão sendo financeiramente recompensados pelo transtorno.

Zoey Jacquemoud (Montfleur)

Sem muitas aparições e grande destaque nos momentos da Seleção até o momento, Zoey foi vista cumprimentando a princesa no ano novo sem a utilização de pronomes de tratamento da nobreza, e a chamando somente pelo primeiro nome, Margot. Não se sabe se houve mais algum motivo para a eliminação, mas foi a última interação entre as duas antes da confirmação que estava fora da competição.

[tothelasthoursofmylife]

Character Profiles: Cloudia’s paternal extended family (and Florentin)

Index: Aurèle, Jacques, Arnaud, Anaïs, Gérard, the Marquis, Anselme, Sylviane, Amélie, Firmin, Florentin, Horace, Quincy, Abigail (Percival's siblings)

(All character ages are as of the latest chapter, or when they died. All information as of the latest chapter too.)

Navigation: Main and extras | Cloudia's grandparents and maternal extended family | Cloudia's paternal extended family (and Florentin) | Other servants and employees | Antagonists | Scotland Yard and misc.

Name: Aurèle Beauchene

Nickname(s): None

Birthday: May 20, 1829

Age: 19

Physical description: dark brown hair, brown eyes; he resembles his grandfather the most out of all grandchildren

Affiliation: Beauchene family; Dupont family

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Favourite Colour: grey, blue

Favourite Flower: lavender

Favourite Dessert: chocolate cake, pain d’épices

What is in his bag? knife, handkerchief, bandage, sharpening stone, another softer handkerchief for glasses, another knife, comb, more knives

Random fact(s):

His favourite dish is quiche Lorraine.

Because his uncle took rather long to get married and have children, Aurèle was regarded as his eventual successor and educated as such. This was only phased out when Gérard was born. (All Beauchene/Dupont children receive excellent, special education nonetheless.) If Aurèle had remained his uncle’s heir, he would have taken the Dupont surname upon succeeding him.

Aurèle was relieved when Gérard was born because he always thought he was unfit to become the Marquis one day. (He also worries about his little cousin in that regard.)

Background info: He was originally named Gervais before I accidentally named the original Clockmaker character that too. I then changed his name to Aurèle, but Gervais the Clockmaker ended up getting replaced by Florentin.

First appearance: The Countess, Travelling (Chapter 21)

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Name: Jacques Beauchene

Nickname(s): Jacky

Birthday: February 12, 1835

Age: 13

Physical description: brown hair, brown eyes, glasses

Affiliation: Beauchene family; Dupont family

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Favourite Colour: green

Favourite Flower: very difficult to choose!

Favourite Dessert: cakes with fruits, particularly strawberry cake

What is in his bag? book, notebook, pencil, glasses case, handkerchief, a secondary notebook, a little telescope, compass

Random fact(s):

He used to be a bit afraid of ghosts when he was little. Now, he does not believe in anything paranormal or supernatural.

He wants to be a researcher and author for wildlife and nature. Although his parents assured him it was fine to pursue this goal, Jacques still feels odd not to help with/take part in the “family business” at all in the future.

He’s a bit embarrassed that he still occasionally requires a night light.

Background info: None.

First appearance: The Countess, Mystery (Chapter 22)

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Name: Arnaud Beauchene

Nickname(s): None

Birthday: October 15, 1839

Age: 8

Physical description: black hair, green-blue eyes

Affiliation: Beauchene family; Dupont family

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Favourite Colour: red, blue

Favourite Flower: marguerite, purple hyacinth

Favourite Dessert: soufflé

What is in his bag? marbles, card game, notebook, pencil, small toy train, hair ribbons, handkerchief, tissues, small whetstone

Random fact(s):

Because he has always been so quiet and unintentionally blends in with the wallpaper, Jacques used to believe in ghosts for a while.

Arnaud hears and sees quite a lot but prefers to keep his discoveries and observations to himself.

He’s set to become Gérard’s right-hand man when he becomes the Marquis.

Background info: None.

First appearance: The Countess, Mystery (Chapter 22)

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Name: Anaïs Dupont

Nickname(s): None

Birthday: September 21, 1840

Age: 7

Physical description: red-brown hair, blue eyes

Affiliation: Dupont family

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Favourite Colour: red, purple

Favourite Flower: iris, anemone

Favourite Dessert: everything with pomegranate

What is in her bag? handkerchief, small faerie doll; she has the habit of not carrying around a lot (i.a. because she sometimes loses things)

Random fact(s):

She liked faeries before her near-fatal fever.

While she likes faerie stories the best, she is very enthusiastic about myths and legends in general. She is particularly interested in Celtic (because of the faeries) and Greek mythology; her favourite Greek myth is that of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Background info: She was originally named Amable and is now named after Anaïs from The Amazing World of Gumball. (She gets a bit of her personality from her too!)

First appearance: The Countess, Mystery (Chapter 22)

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Name: Gérard Dupont

Nickname(s): None

Birthday: March 22, 1845

Age: 3

Physical description: light brown hair, blue eyes

Affiliation: Dupont family

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Favourite Colour: blue, yellow

Favourite Flower: the colourful ones

Favourite Dessert: chocolate cake

What is in his bag? too small to carry a bag, but keeps a stuffed toy close by and his pockets are filled with all sorts of things

Random fact(s): By 1889, no one calls him by his given name anymore as he has become the new Marquis.

Background info:

He was originally meant to be five, not three years old.

Gérard was originally set to become the Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred eye before I changed my mind.

First appearance: The Countess, Mystery (Chapter 22)

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Name: ??? Dupont

Nickname(s): The Marquis

Birthday: 1762

Age: 86

Physical description: grey, formerly brown hair, green eyes

Affiliation: Dupont family

Occupation: The Marquis

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Random fact(s):

He had a very happy and loving marriage with his wife Séphora. (She had red hair which her son and granddaughter inherited.) She passed away in 1840.

He tried his hand at clockmaking too which frustrated Florentin because the Marquis was not good at it, and Florentin feared for his workshop and utensils. (The Marquis wasn’t being serious and only wanted to annoy Florentin; he was actually bad at watchmaking though.)

He grew up without any cousins. Because of this and the fact that he is a decade older than his sister and only lived with her for about ten years, the Marquis was a bit lonely in his childhood and youth. He’s rather happy that his grandchildren are so close-knit and get along well (most of the time).

Background info:

The Dupont family’s title was meant to be longer “The Marquis of […],” but I decided to scrap it because it was a very dumb reference to something. There was also meant to be a title for the heir which was cut as well.

I decided on his given name early on. It’s a funny one.

First appearance: The Countess, Mystery (Chapter 22)

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Name: Anselme Dupont

Nickname(s): None

Birthday: 1800

Age: 48

Physical description: red-brown hair, green-blue eyes

Affiliation: Dupont family

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Random fact(s): He was quite the lady-killer for a long time and already marked off as an “eternal bachelor” until he met his wife ten years ago.

Background info: He was originally named André. I changed his name because that was the name of one of my driving instructors, and I did not like driving lessons. (I did not end up getting my license.)

First appearance: The Countess, Malady - Part 4 (Chapter 23)

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Name: Sylviane Dupont (née Lavoie)

Nickname(s): Sylvi

Birthday: 1805

Age: 43

Physical description: blonde hair, blue eyes

Affiliation: Dupont family

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Random fact(s): She was tragically widowed twice before she met Anselme. (One fiancé also died before they got married.) Men began avoiding her after her second husband’s accidental death, believing she was a black widow. (In reality, she really was just that unlucky.) Sylviane had made peace with never marrying again or having children until she encountered Anselme.

Background info: She was originally named Renée. I changed her name because I didn’t like it and because I wanted to have as few names with accents as possible.

First appearance: The Countess, Malady - Part 4 (Chapter 23)

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Name: Amélie Beauchene (née Dupont)

Nickname(s): None

Birthday: 1802

Age: 46

Physical description: brown hair, green-blue eyes

Affiliation: Beauchene family; Dupont family

Occupation: Baronne

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Random fact(s): She’s secretly a little nature nerd as well for which her brother used to tease her (and still does sometimes to this day). It was very refreshing to her when she met Firmin, and he treated her the same as everyone else.

Background info: Her name was always “Amelie,” but it was initially spelled differently and weirdly as a silly nod to her father’s given name. Because I didn’t know how the odd spelling would affect the name’s pronunciation, I settled on the more normal “Amélie.”

First appearance: The Countess, Malady - Part 4 (Chapter 23)

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Name: Firmin Beauchene

Nickname(s): None

Birthday: 1798

Age: 50

Physical description: black hair, light brown eyes, glasses

Affiliation: Beauchene family; Dupont family

Occupation: Baron

Base of Operations: Château de Dupont; Château de Charbonneau (temporarily)

Random fact(s): When Amélie expressed her wish to marry him, her entire family was unsupportive because they thought they were an odd match and that Firmin would not fit into the family. The Marquis was the only one who approved him; the others eventually warmed up to him.

Background info: Like with the Marquis, he had a “full” title early on until I decided to leave it out. It was “Baron de Lorraine-Lillebonne,” and I got it from a random title generator.

First appearance: The Countess, Malady - Part 4 (Chapter 23)

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Name: Florentin Chastain

Nickname(s): The Clockmaker

Birthday: September 9, around 1400

Age: 400+ (about 30 physically)

Physical description: short brown hair, phosphorescent chartreuse eyes, tall and lean; occasionally wears tinted glasses but dislikes them

Affiliation: Grim Reaper Dispatch (former); the Marquis (sort of begrudgingly)

Occupation: Grim Reaper (deserted); Clockmaker

Base of Operations: Grim Reaper Dispatch (former); his workshop in the woods

Favourite Colour: everything except green

Favourite Flower: doesn’t care

Favourite Dessert: angel wings, beignet

What is in his bag? various tools, some loose gears, a glasses case, a small pocket knife, very old Ohropax (he wished he had taken more)

Random fact(s):

He deserted at some point during the witch trials (they were poorly documented in France; very few executions were officially confirmed, but many, many more are presumed). It was a bleak time all over Europe (that the witch trials overlapped with constant recurrences of the plague did not help), and it made him realise the endlessness and pointlessness of his job.

Florentin became a clockmaker not long after deserting. He also became a matchmaker when he (by chance) introduced the Marquis to his wife.

He went on many adventures with the Marquis and although he would never admit it, he enjoyed some of them at least.

Background info:

The bare bones of his character come from a scrapped one-shot about Cloudia and Undertaker, with Undertaker being a very odd “clockmaker” living in the woods, and Cloudia the person who delivers his “goods.” Because I had difficulties writing it, it was eventually replaced by my one-shot “Warming” (which I wrote for a Christmas event). As I still liked the idea, I added a clockmaker Grim Reaper to WotQ (though the situation and details differ from the original one-shot idea).

The original WotQ Clockmaker character Gervais was very, very different to Florentin. I decided to replace him with Florentin because while Gervais did have ties to Grim Reapers, the story ultimately required a different kind of character – a deserted Grim Reaper. (I still like Gervais though.)

First appearance: The Countess, Clockmaker - Part 2 (Chapter 24)

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Name: Horace Phantomhive

Nickname(s): Hoho (only his sister called him that)

Birthday: 1761

Age: 24 (at time of death; 1785)

Physical description: black hair, green-blue eyes

Affiliation: Phantomhive family; Weston College (former)

Occupation: Lord of Phantomhive; Prefect of Sapphire Owl (former)

Base of Operations: Phantomhive Manor; Phantomhive townhouse

Random fact(s):

The eldest of Octavius and Florence Phantomhive’s four children. He was “the perfect heir and son” in every way. Unfortunately, he and his twin died in a carriage “accident,” and he never succeeded his father as Earl and Watchdog.

Horace and his twin were rather aloof, keeping away from their younger siblings, so he was, despite his other qualities not a “perfect brother.” When Percival became family head, he found some interesting things his brothers had hidden away in the manor.

His middle name was “Greyson” which, just like Percival’s middle name, was never used by his parents. Horace occasionally used it as a fake surname.

Background info: I’m very for “all Phantomhives’ names contain a ‘c’” but then went and completely failed with Percival’s siblings because his original name was Horatio. However, I just noticed that I’ve never stated his name in WotQ so far although he was briefly mentioned, so I’m very quickly and sneakily fixing his name.

First appearance: Mentioned only (First: The Lady, First Training; Chapter 10)

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Name: Quincy Phantomhive

Nickname(s): Q, Queeny (only his sister called him that)

Birthday: 1761

Age: 24 (at time of death; 1785)

Physical description: black hair, green-blue eyes

Affiliation: Phantomhive family; Weston College (former)

Occupation: None

Base of Operations: Phantomhive Manor; Phantomhive townhouse

Random fact(s):

As he was younger than Horace by a few minutes, he was the spare. He never minded it much though because he liked being “in the shadows.” He and his twin were very close and secretive.

His middle name was “Farran” which, again, was never used by his parents. He and his siblings were united in their confusion at least.

While Horace could be a bit stuck-up, Quincy was only a bit more relaxed. He was not much of a jokester but could at least crack some jokes every once in a while.

Background info:

His original name was Joseph which I just changed to adhere to my own little naming rules. I decided to rename him “Quincy” so that he and his brother could be theme-named after the poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).

He was originally four years younger than Horace before I decided to make them twins.

First appearance: Mentioned only (First: The Lady, First Training; Chapter 10)

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Name: Abigail Stafford (née Phantomhive)

Nickname(s): Abby

Birthday: 1770

Age: 29 (at time of death; 1799)

Physical description: light brown (on the verge of dark blonde) hair, grey eyes

Affiliation: Stafford family; Phantomhive family

Occupation: Baroness; Lady of Phantomhive (former)

Base of Operations: Stafford Manor; Stafford townhouse; Phantomhive Manor (former); Phantomhive townhouse (former)

Random fact(s):

She always appreciated the fact that she looked very different from her black-haired (blue)-green-eyed brothers and that her grey eyes were “all hers.”

The jokester of her sibling group, much to the annoyance of her brothers (especially Percival to whom she was the closest).

Abigail married in her early twenties but did not immediately want children. In the end, she never had any because she died in a terrible incident related to Watchdog work. (It shook up Genevieve and Percival a lot, and they didn’t speak (much) of Abigail afterwards.)

Like her brothers, she had an “unused” middle name: Delora.

Background info:

Unfortunately for me, I did mention her before by name, so I cannot sneakily change it to something that contains a “c.” At any rate, I did like the fact a bit that I messed up the (original) names of Percival’s siblings because they all died before him. Only the one sibling whose name always had a “c” in it became the successor and reached his thirties (and even his fifties!). A little accidental “curse” on my side.

Her husband’s given name is “Abraham” in my notes. I do have some name overlaps (Theodore Clifford and Theodore Sycamore, for example), so I’m a little undecided whether to change his name or not. But then, it does not really matter because he has no bearing on anything whatsoever.

First appearance: Mentioned only (First: The Lady, First Training; Chapter 10)

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

France's Greatest Detective - ABC - May 16, 1955

A presentation of "TV Readers Digest" Season 1 Episode 18

Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Arthur Franz as Alphonse Bertillion

Lawrence Dobkin as Renault

Ian MacDonald as Andrieux

Edgar Barrier as Camecasse

Philip Van Zandt as Boyoval

Peter Brocco as Jacques

Gene Reynolds as Hugo

Paul Frees as Vigeois

Claude Akins as Dupont

Belle Mitchell as Emilie

[trainsinanime]

I don’t know if people have talked about this before, but the name of the new school the miraculous class is talking about, Jacques de Trémeuse, is the civilian identity of a superhero from French pulp novels.

They are thus following in the tradition of Françoise Dupont, the civilian name of Fantômette from the eponymous series of young adult superhero novels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantômette

[republique-francaise-officiel]

La BD francophone du jour est...

Année de sortie : 1979

Série et numéro : n°24 des Aventures d'Astérix le Gaulois

Pourquoi c'est une excellente BD :

Petit Caméo de Dupont et Dupond comme guerriers belges, Annie Cordy en femme de chef et, était-ce Eddie Mercx ? en coureur.

Références à Jacques Brel ("dans ce plat pays qui est le nôtre nous n'avons que des oppidums comme unique montagnes"), à Brueghel, et à Victor Hugo.

en parlant de Victor Hugo, vous rendez-vous seulement compte que cette BD a tout un passage en vers qui copie, en changeant les noms et évènements comme il faut, le poème de Victor Hugo sur Waterloo ?

Référence aux problèmes de langue en Belgique et au fait qu'il y a deux peuples qui cohabitent.

Invention des Moules Frites

Des tonnes de répliques cultes

Le décalage entre César qui est sérieux et les gaulois et belges qui sont là pour faire les clowns.

[pandaofsecrets]

This is barely a headcanon. Dupont is based of off Lycée Carnot, whose alumni include former French president Jacques Chirac, former managing director of the IMF and French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former president of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy, and former Czech minister of education Stanislav Štech. And also the members of Daft Punk, whose aesthetic served as the inspiration for Crocoduo. I guess we can conclude Anarka and Jagged went to Dupont as well. Anyway, Carnot is technically a public school, but like a lot of very old European schools it's a fancy school for rich people in all but name. The same is most likely true of Dupont.

I have decided to headcanon that, at least in some universes, Francois Dupont is a school for child celebrities or children of celebrities because both weathergirl candidates, the superhero blogger/journalist who is also the daughter of the head chef of a 5 star restaurant and the director of the Paris Zoo, Chloe and Adrien, Nino's been on TV as a DJ, the daughter of the director of the Louvre, Marinette's uncle is a world-famous celebrity chef and she's the babysitter for Paris' top newscaster--hell, they thought Juleka was normal and she ended up being Jagged Stone's secret daughter which makes me think Anarka was like "she'll be safe at this school if the secret gets out." There are probably betting pools in-school about which seemingly "normal" kid is going to turn out to be Picasso's nephew or something. (Current odds are 10-to-1 that Rose is an incognito actual princess of some tiny country or other.)

[head-post]

Cross vandalised in Tréport, France

A stone cross in Le Tréport, Seine-Maritimes, a construction listed as a historical monument, was vandalised in the middle of the night on Thursday, France Bleu reported.

Residents of Le Tréport woke up to an unpleasant surprise on August 15. An imposing stone cross on Place du Général-de-Gaulle, a listed historical monument, was vandalised in the middle of the night. Early in the morning it was found broken into several pieces by city officials. Local authorities filed a complaint and an investigation was launched to find those responsible and shed light on the case.

Are drunken youths to blame?

The mayor of Le Tréport, Laurent Jacques, is particularly affected by this act of vandalism. He said:

It’s a bit of a shock not only for the elected representatives, but also for the local population. This cross has stood here since the 1600s, and it has been listed as a historical monument since 1913. And everyone wonders why.

According to initial information provided by the mayor, the damage was caused by a group of drunken young men who were passing through the area around 4 a.m. Laurent Jacques said:

We assume they were hanging around the monument. It may have weakened over time, we can also speculate, but apparently they hung themselves from it, and unfortunately the monument succumbed.

Act with no religious motives

The mayor also wants to put to rest a number of rumours about the vandals’ motives. He explains that he remains convinced “that this act has nothing to do with religious vandalism” and that the fact that it happened on August 15, Assumption Day, is just a coincidence. There are no CCTV cameras in Place du Général-de-Gaulle, but several cameras have been installed nearby and their images are currently being viewed by police. Neighbours have also been interviewed to try to understand what happened. Mayor Laurent Jacques says he will do his best to restore the cross, although as a historical monument it may take some time.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, leader of the party Debout la France (France Arise), commented the act on X:

The famous stone cross, dating back to 1618, was destroyed on Assumption Day in Treport. While #Darmanen brags from Paris, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian acts are multiplying across France. Stop feeling impunity, the perpetrators must be severely punished!

Read more HERE

[zinbu]

LITTLE MOON - a soft hearted pickpocket. Hello, good night, goodbye, hi The game is over and nothing goes right A showgirl at the cabaret A general on the Champs-Elysées Sans-culottes at the Bastille Mr. Guillotin and Madame Guillotine Françoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc Joséphine and Napoleon

It’s like this, it’s like that It’s life, it’s death It’s like this, it’s like this, it’s like that It’s life, it’s death, it’s death

A baguette, some chocolate A café au lait, a Coca-Cola On the Côte d'Azur, the sun laughs But of course it rains in Paris … (Oh la la, I'm so fed up then!) Mr. Dupont lives under a bridge In the center of the "Great Nation" Croque-Monsieur, Croque-Madame He sleeps on the pavement

It’s like this, it’s like that It’s life, it’s death It’s like this, it’s like this, it’s like that It’s life, it’s death, it’s death