#jean baptiste de lesseps

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

if I had a dollar for every OC of mine who's a doctor- well it isn't that many but it's still funny it happened four times

[anotherscrappile]

From the Ship Logbooks people, in compiling the notes on this post and poking around in general, here are all the sailors on the aromantic or asexual spectrums:

Claude Roussel (“demi” romantic? sexual?)

Elias Golubev (cupioromantic)

Enok Johansen (asexual)

Ernest Frankenstein (demiromantic asexual)

Jean Baptiste de Lesseps (“He just doesn't have time or mood to think about this sort of stuff” [👈 big mood])

Louis Alméraz (aromantic asexual)

Mittens (aromantic pansexual)

Owain Rhys (aromantic asexual)

Robert Walton (“somewhere on the spectrum, grey-ish?”)

Rune Hermansen (aromantic asexual)

Winston Atkinson (asexual)

If I have any wrong info or am missing anything, please tell me! I wanna draw all our lovely a-spec sailors together 👉👈

[pixelmuppet]

Idk if you still do the requests but Morten hanging out with Corbin and de Lesseps and @severedfeetpics' Sasha? Old gentlemen club 😌

Look at this, just guys being dudes.

[a-model-of-propriety]

[x] [x]

they’re only eleven years apart in age and it’s throwing me

[lux-filia]

En 1772, l’enseigne de vaisseau Jean-François Galaup de La Pérouse rencontre la fille d’un fonctionnaire colonial de l’île de France, Éléonore Broudou. Leur histoire d’amour à rebondissements l’entraîne vers son destin. Véritable gentilhomme des mers, La Pérouse pacifie les Indes et se concilie même ses ennemis anglais dans la guerre d’Amérique. Choisi par Louis XVI pour rivaliser avec James Cook dans une grande expédition autour du monde, il confirme son humanité face aux Indiens du Pacifique, mais il n’en remet pas moins en cause le mythe du bon sauvage, en se confrontant à une réalité souvent hostile. Son interprète, Jean-Baptiste de Lesseps, et le capitaine irlandais Peter Dillon tentent de percer le mystère de sa disparition à Vanikoro en 1788 lors d’une rencontre à Paris quarante ans plus tard…

« Mon histoire est un roman que je vous supplie d’avoir la bonté de lire. »

La Pérouse

https://www.librairie-de-flore.fr/produit/la-perouse/

[lindahall]

Barthélemy de Lesseps – Scientist of the Day

Jean Baptiste Barthélemy de Lesseps, a French diplomat and adventurer, was born Jan. 27, 1766.

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'Le Negresco' el mítico alojamiento de Niza que es como un museo

Hay hoteles que llega un punto en el que transcienden más allá de la función para la que fueron creados. Eso es lo que le pasa a 'Le Negresco', en plena Costa Azul, que ha dejado de ser sólo un hotel para convertirse en un alojamiento mítico que es como un museo.

Lo que encontrarás en este hotel de la Costa Azul es extravagancia, humor y mucho arte. Es en realidad un viaje por cinco siglos de la cultura francesa, a través de pasillos, habitaciones y salones decorados con un estilo muy particular. No habrá término medio para amar u odiar a este extravagante alojamiento de Niza.

La historia de un museo peculiar

La historia reciente de este hotel empieza en 1957, cuando Henri Negrescu se lo vende a Jean-Baptiste Mesnage, un adinerado cuya esposa tenía problemas de movilidad y 'Le Negresco' era el único de la zona con ascensor. La gestión del mismo se la cede a su hija Jeanne, que lo tomará como un objetivo de vida, y convertirá el hotel en un museo con huéspedes.

Entre las paredes de este precioso edificio hay más de 6.000 obras de arte de diferente tipo, así que es el hotel del mundo con más obras catalogadas. Pero no es un museo al uso, no hay salas aburridas con vigilantes y carteles sobrios y sosos. Las paredes y estancias de 'Le Negresco' se viven, se tocan y se disfrutan a partes iguales. Tampoco hay una línea clásica típica de museo: ni sobriedad, ni linealidad. Lo barroco está mezclado con lo contemporáneo y donde hay un carrusel también hay una lámpara de araña.

Un hotel con comodidades pero diferentes

Si no es un museo típico tampoco es un hotel típico: si hay obras de arte que admirar no necesitas un spa, una piscina o un gimnasio. Esa ha sido siempre la máxima de Jeanne Augier. Dentro encontrarás Le Relais, un bar de estilo inglés con una marquetería de 1913, en donde Richard Burton enlazaba cóctel tras cóctel, y en una noche así se despistó tanto que olvidó un collar de esmeraldas de Elizabeth Taylor. En el Restaurante La Rotonde comerás dentro de un tiovivo clásico que se entremezcla perfectamente con las mesas.

El lugar de los famosos

Por supuesto, no podían faltar los habituales huéspedes famosos desde su apertura. La Costa Azul es lo que tiene, así que si os apetece rascaros el bolsillo y hospedaros a lo grande en Niza ahí tenéis que saber que lo mismo estáis durmiendo en la misma habitación que:

Salvador Dalí era un gran amigo de la propietaria, así que no era nada extraño que fuera con mucha frecuencia, y con una cierta política de permisibidad con las mascotas, iba acompañado de su guepardo.

La "mala suerte" quiso que Paul McCartney perdiera su pasaporte y tuviera que pasar unos días en 1967 solo en Le Negresco. No perdió el tiempo y de ahí salió con The Fool on the Hill compuesta.

Bill Gates, enamorado locamente del lugar, quiso comprarlo, y la respuesta que recibió de Jeanne Augier fue "Lo siento, usted no es lo suficientemente rico". Antes que él lo intentó el Sultán de Brunei, pero el hotel es más que una propiedad, es casi un hijo que ha ido criando a lo largo de su vida.

Los famosos no sólo se hospedaban, sino que hasta 30 películas se rodaron en el establecimiento: 'Operación Opio', con Rita Hayworth y Yul Brynner, 'Lady L' con Sophia Loren y Paul Newman, y hace poco encandiló a Woody Allen que lo utilizó para 'Magia a la luz de la luna'.

Pero su huésped fijo es Madame Augier, que creó hace casi 10 años una fundación para garantizar que por lo menos durante 99 desde su fallecimiento, la gestión siga siendo independiente y no pase a una gran cadena hotelera deshumanizada.

Imágenes | Kurt Bauschardt y Le Negresco En Diario del Viajero | No sólo playa y glamour, en Niza no te pierdas el Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo En Diario del Viajero | Menton, la ciudad de los limones y los jardines de la Costa Azul

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- La noticia 'Le Negresco' el mítico alojamiento de Niza que es como un museo fue publicada originalmente en Diario del Viajero por Viola de Lesseps .

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[brookstonalmanac]

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They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. 193 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor. 404 – Telemachus, a Christian monk, is killed for attempting to stop a gladiators' fight in the public arena held in Rome. 417 – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum). 1001 – Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II. 1068 – Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor. 1259 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris. 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary. 1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is first explored by the Portuguese. 1515 – King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne. 1527 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as King of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin. 1600 – Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25. 1651 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland. 1700 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era instead of the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire. 1707 – John V is crowned King of Portugal. 1739 – The world's remotest island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. 1772 – The first traveler's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London, England. 1773 – The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781. 1788 – First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published. 1801 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1801 – Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi. 1803 – Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam. 1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country in North America after the United States 1806 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished. 1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves. 1810 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales 1812 – The Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, orders troops from Durham Castle to break up a miners' strike in Chester-le-Street, Co. 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He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc. 1929 – The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver. 1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. 1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison. 1934 – Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". 1937 – Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom. 1942 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations. 1945 – World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops kill 60 German POWs at Chenogne. 1945 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow. 1947 – The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany. 1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen. 1948 – The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways. 1949 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly. 1950 – Standard practice uses this day as the origin of the age scale Before Present 1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom. 1957 – George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II. 1958 – European Economic Community established on this day. 1959 – Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution. 1960 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom. 1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa. 1964 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia. 1965 – The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan. 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. 1973 – Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Ireland are admitted into the European Economic Community. 1978 – Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing 213. 1979 – Formal diplomatic relations are established between China and the United States. 1981 – Greece is admitted into the European Community. 1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations. 1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. 1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T. 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom. 1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone. 1986 – Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Netherlands. 1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. 1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion. 1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor. 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. 1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas. 1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. 1995 – The World Trade Organization goes into effect. 1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves. 1996 – Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Netherlands. 1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence. 1999 – Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exceptions of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro). 2002 – Euro currency becomes legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states. 2004 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Sulawesi Strait, Indonesia with 102 people on board. 2009 – Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand. 2010 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more. 2011 – A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people. 2013 – At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. 2016 – The Address Downtown Dubai burns over midnight as the New Year is rung in. The blaze started on the night of New Year's Eve 2015, by currently unknown causes. There was one fatality. 2017 – An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 60 others. 2017 – Portuguese politician and diplomat António Guterres was officially elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

(cw: implied graphic injury, talk of amputation)

"It's not that our surgeon doesn't have a sense of humor."

"It's just that nobody can tell when he's joking."

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

"yeah, we get it. you just got married."

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

"And I never wanted to turn back"

A reminder that dysphoria is not a requirement to be trans, just go for what makes you feel the most comfortable with yourself

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Updated sailors list for Ship Logbooks

Decided to make a bigger and more detailed list of all people in the Vulture crew that's closer to actual historical muster rolls used on ships (and also because I love lists and compiling information)

The list is not complete so if there is any wrong or missing information about your sailor(s) or you'd like your sailor/ownership of the sailor removed, please let me know in the notes/asks/messages

Also once the list is complete I'll make an actual handwritten muster roll so we have all the proper fanciness 👀

If you want, you can also send me a reference drawing/picrew that I'll include in the list in a new column

People with a sailor character so far: @pixelmuppet @the-gay-prometheus @casual-owl @corvidiss @mad-scientist-in-theory-2 @a-model-of-propriety @lordbrezel @hermes-left-nut @you-are-constance @jcspacey @pestidunce @severedfeetpics @dippydots @hypo-critic-al @aimless--jack @loversrevisited @twistedtriptych

Some notes about the info:

Date of enlistment can be changed to a particular date if you wish, for sailors enlisting in London the dates would be between June and September 1796, for sailors enlisting in Bergen in the second half of October and sailors enlisting in Archangel between November 1796 and February 1797.

Occupation is whatever job they've been doing before the voyage.

Height can be in feet or centimeters, I just wrote it in centimeters because it's easier for me to remember, the final list will be in feet for historical accuracy.

Remarks is just whatever you think a potential employer would include about your character, it's mostly just for fun and to make it feel more real.

The information in the list is information given to the officers compiling the list in-universe, so for example if a sailor lies about their age, the list will not include their actual age (or I'll add it in smaller letters)

The free spaces under Enok would be more Norwegian sailors and the free spaces under Nikolai would be more Russian sailors. But they can also be English or French or from elsewhere, I can change it no problem

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Moments from HMS Vulture

Bonus

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Still having Thomas feels

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

For De Lesseps: What would you say is your favorite childhood memory?