#jean giradoux

[insult-the-glory]

Here's a pile of quotes from a conversation between Andromache and Hector on the nature of war and Hector's relation to war

...

Andromache: If you love war, [our son] will love it. Do you love war?

...

Hector: [At the moment of attack] you are invulnerable. A tenderness comes over you, submerging you, a kind of tenderness of battle: because you are pitiless; what, in fact, the tenderness of the gods must be.

...

Hector: Strangely enough, war used to promise me many kinds of virtue: goodness, generosity, and a contempt for anything base and mean. I felt I owed it all my strength and zest for life, even my private happiness, even you, Andromache.

Andromache: But not this time: this time war had no music for you?

[hungwy]

Some facts about my birthday (October 29):

1390: First trials of witchcraft in Paris

1618: Walter Raleigh, colonialist statesman, soldier, and explorer, is tried for treason and executed

1682: The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, lands at what is now Chester, PA

1740: James Boswell, diarist and biographer, is born

1863: The International Red Cross is formed in Geneva

1882: Jean Giradoux, playwright and novelist, is born

1888: The Convention of Constantinople allows for free maritime passage through the Suez Canal; Li Dazhao, co-founder of the CCP and mentor of Mao, is born

1889: N.G. Chernyshevksy, author of "What is to be done?", dies

1897: Joseph Goebbels, the nazi, is born

1901: Leon Czogolsz, anarchist, is executed for the assassination of William McKinley

1910: A.J. Ayer, logical positivist, is born

1914: The Ottomans enter WWI

1923: The Ottoman Empire dissolves; Turkey becomes a republic through the efforts of Atatürk

1924: Zbigniew Herbert, poet, is born

1929: Black Tuesday, the crash of the New York Stock Exchange and the beginning of the Great Depression

1938: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Rhodesia, is born; Ralph Bakshi, animator, is born

1940: The US begins its first peacetime military draft

1948: Franz de Waal, ethologist, is born

1949: George Gurdjieff, philosopher and mystic, dies

1956: The Suez Crisis begins

1962: The Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"

1967: Musical "Hair" opens off Broadway

1969: The first computer-computer link established on ARPANET

1971: Ma Huateng, co-founder of Tencent, is born; Winona Ryder, actor, is born

1975: Franco's 36-year long leadership of Spain ends

1985: Evgeny Lifshitz, physicist, dies

1991: The spacecraft Galileo makes the first ever visit to an asteroid

1995: Terry Southern, screenwriter of Dr. Strangelove, dies

2004: Al-Jazeera broadcasts Osama Bin Laden taking responsibility for 9/11; European Union leaders sign the first EU constitution

It is the Christian feast day of:

Abraham of Rostov

Blessed Chiara Badano

Colman mac Duagh

The Duai Martyrs

Gaetano Erico

Michele Rua

Narcissus of Jerusalem

Theuderius

It is a public holiday in:

Cambodia (Coronation Day)

Turkey (Republic Day)

It is a private holiday in:

USA (National Cat Day)

Everywhere (my birthday)

[blackswaneuroparedux]

L’armistice vient d’être signé par Lloyd George qui ressemble à un caniche, par Wilson qui ressemble à un colley et par Clemenceau qui ressemble à un dogue.

- Jean Giradoux (1882-1944), Suzanne et le Pacifique (1921)

The process of peacemaking lasted longer than the First World War it endeavoured to end. The Paris Peace Conference began on January 18, 1919, on the anniversary of the coronation of the German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Palace of Versailles in 1871. That event had occurred at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, which had resulted in the unification of Germany and the seizure by the new Germany of two formerly French provinces, Alsace and Lorraine.

Although the anger in France over these events had largely dissipated outside of right-wing circles by 1914, the First World War reawakened the memory of the harsh terms that Germany had imposed on France a half a century earlier. Those terms had included not just the loss of territory, but an occupation and a large financial indemnity, which the French paid ahead of schedule.

Opening the Paris Peace Conference on such a historic anniversary served to remind the French of why, ostensibly, they had fought the war and who would pay for the damages this time. It has also contributed to the image of the Paris Peace Conference as one motivated primarily by vengeance.

For France, vengeance was sweet. “Une belle journée,” Georges Clemenceau, the French premier, declared tearfully. He told the assemblage: “We are here to sign a treaty of peace.” Both the timing and venue had been carefully calculated by the French. The start date, 18 January, was the anniversary of the day in 1871 when Wilhelm I had been proclaimed as emperor of the new German Reich in the Hall of Mirrors. This had been a deliberate act of political theatre by his chancellor, Count Otto von Bismarck, to rub French noses in the degradation of their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. And so, after victory in the Great War, the French relished their chance to repay that humiliation with interest, formally administering the Reich’s last rites in the place where it had been born.

But almost as soon as the ink was dry, participants and commentators debated Clemenceau’s verdict. Was Versailles a treaty of peace? Or did it set the stage for another great war? Were the victor powers at Paris ‘peacemakers’ – or actually ‘warmakers’?

The most celebrated indictment was delivered by the young economist John Maynard Keynes, a disillusioned member of the British delegation in Paris. His bestselling polemic, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in December 1919, denounced the treaty as a “Carthaginian peace” (the term deriving from the total subjugation imposed on Carthage by Rome), with a “policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation” and thereby causing “the decay of the whole civilised life of Europe”.

In trying to unpack the argument that the peacemakers – deliberately or not – sowed the seeds of future conflict, we need first to remember that the fate of Germany was not the only issue on their agenda. The whole map of Europe had been ripped apart by war and revolution, bringing down four great dynastic empires – the Romanovs, Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns and Ottomans – that had ruled the centre and east of the continent for centuries. Out of the debris, nationalist politicians and their armies were already creating new states, such as Czechoslovakia, and resurrecting old states like Poland. So, the Paris conference was an attempt to clean up the mess: the peacemakers did not start with a blank slate.

Nor were the three major Allied powers of one mind. Clemenceau and the French were focused obsessively on controlling Germany, whose population was 50 per cent larger than that of France and whose economy in 1913 had been the most advanced in Europe. The British prime minister, David Lloyd George, though anxious to gain reparations from Germany, saw the German economy as vital to the recovery of Europe. He feared that too punitive a peace would feed a desire for revenge and encourage the spread of Bolshevism across the continent. US president Woodrow Wilson was more detached from European specifics: his consuming ambition was to create a League of Nations to guarantee peace and security.

The resulting peace treaty was therefore a messy compromise between the Big Three. The French recovered Alsace and Lorraine, ceded in 1871 after defeat to Prussia, but were not allowed to annex the Rhineland in perpetuity. Instead Britain and America offered a joint guarantee of French security if Germany attacked again. Wilson got his League of Nations, but on terms that seemed to open up the prospect of unlimited obligations to keep the peace without having adequate power to do so.

Viewed historically, though, the eventual reparations bill was the latest round in a Franco-German game of tit for tat. When French policymakers considered reparations in 1919, they had in mind the provisions of the Treaty of Frankfurt in 1871, which Bismarck imposed on France after its devastating defeat. He, in turn, had looked back to Napoleon’s treatment of Prussia in the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807. The 1921 London Schedule of Payments imposed at most an annual burden of around 8 per cent of German national income – less than the 9–16 per cent that France paid annually in reparations after 1871. So the bill, most economic historians agree, was not financially intolerable.

The real issue was political. The Germans had not accepted defeat and had no intention of paying. For the French, conversely, extracting reparations represented a desperate attempt to secure an economic substitute for the decisive victory that the Allies had failed to win on the battlefield in 1918. In short, as one German official put it, the struggle over reparations was “the continuation of the war by other means”.

The peacemakers made many mistakes, but they did not cause the next war. The Treaty of Versailles was a compromise document and, as a result, fell between two stools, alienating Germany without coercing it. It was also dependent on American involvement in Europe, which receded after 1919 – so that the US failed to ratify the treaty, join the league or honour the Anglo-American guarantee of French security that mattered so much in Paris.

The root problem was that Germany had not been comprehensively defeated on the battlefield. With its troops still holding a front in France and Belgium when the armistice was signed, its people were susceptible to arguments from the right that they had been robbed of victory by traitors at home. Reparations were so deeply resented, in practice and in principle, that successive Weimar governments risked economic stability in order to avoid having to pay. And when Hitler gained power, enthusiasm for his campaign to tear up the ‘Diktat’ of Versailles blinded millions of Germans to the true nature of his regime.

Little wonder that, when the Allies fought the next world war, they insisted on Germany’s “unconditional surrender,” occupied the whole of the country and held their victory conference at Pots-dam. There would not be another Treaty of Versailles.

[readingloveswounds]

My Great Big Reading List

Here it is! These are the books that I’m trying to read this summer - in the future, some of them could be part of an exam reading list, but that is to be fully and officially built at a later date. I do not necessarily anticipate finishing this list in its entirety, but it’s got a whole lot of fairly different works on it.

I made it along a couple themes, just to narrow down my choices - very generally they were violence, war, bodies, and identity. I also added some that I was just interested in (see a few in the 18th and 19th centuries).

Not all of these have been easy to find online or in paper!

A final warning because Saint-Cyr and de Sade are both on there - be careful with those two books and be sure you want to read them prior to doing so - looking at their descriptions and being aware of de Sade, they deal with a lot of brutality. These aren’t really the kind of thing you’d read on a whim.

***Note that while reading over the summer before grad school is great, there is no actual requirement for doing so in most cases (in the US, at least as far as I know).***

Medieval

La Chanson de Roland Lancelot (Charrette) - Chretien de Troyes La Folie d'Oxford - Béroul Erec et Enide - Chretien de Troyes La Mort le roi Artur - (from the Vulgate-Grail, I think?) Aucassin et Nicolette Le Livre du voir dit - Guillaume de Machaut La Prison amoureuse - Jehan Froissart Le Livre de la cité des dames - Christine de Pizan Le Petit Jehan de Saintré - Antoine de la Sale Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles Le Charroi de Nimes

16th Century

Les Tragiques - Agrippa d'Aubigné Discours des misères de ce temps - Pierre de Ronsard Histoires tragiques - Francois de Belleforest Abraham sacrifiant - Théodore de Bèze Lepante - Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas la "Monomachie de David et de Goliath" - Joachim du Bellay Porcie - Robert Garnier La Rochelleide - Jean de la Gessée Illustrations de Gaule et Singularitez de Troie - Jean Lemaire de Belges Discours de la servitude volontaire - Etienne de la Boétie Médée - Jean de La Péruse Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais

17th Century

Oeuvres poétiques - Theophile de Viau Le cid - Corneille Andromaque, Phèdre, et Britannicus - Racine Contes - Charles Perrault Les Aventures de Télémaque - Fénelon La Mort d’Achille, La Mort d'Alexandre, Coriolan - Alexandre Hardy Dom Juan - Molière

18th Century

Le Diable amoureux - Jacques Cazotte Le Paradox sur le comedien - Denis Diderot La dispute - Pierre de Marivaux L'Esprit des lois - Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu Pauliska, ou la Perversité moderne - Jacques-Antoine de Reveroni Saint-Cyr* Aline et Valcour - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade* L'emigré - Gabriel Senac de Meilhan Paul et Virginie - Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Memoires du Comte de Comminge - Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin Tencin Traité sur la tolerance - Voltaire

19th Century

Atala - Chateaubriand La Chartreuse de Parme - Stendhal La fille aux yeux d'or - Balzac Lorenzaccio - Musset Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné - Victor Hugo La Sorcière - Michelet Carmen - Merimée La Morte Amoureuse - Gautier Les fleurs du mal - Baudelaire Les Diaboliques - Barbey d'Aurevilly Boule-de-Suif / Mademoiselle Fifi - Maupassant Les Chants de Maldoror - Leautreamont Igitur - Mallarme

20th Century

Cahier d'un retour au pays natal - Césaire Traversée de la mangrove - Condé Les Bonnes - Jean Genet Antigone - Anouilh La femme de Job - Chedid Nedjma - Kateb Yacine Le Cimetiere marin - Valéry La route des Flandres - Simon Stèles - Segalen La condition humaine - Malraux La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu - Giradoux Le dimanche de la vie - Queneau

[sartorialadventure]

Costume designed by Chloe Obelensky for Claude Winter in Jean Giradoux's “Ondine”, 1974

[shadeslayer]

In Le Malentendu Martha's suicide leaves the spectator with a bitter impression. Not that her death is useless, for it has the ultimate value of a protest, but at the end of the play the world closes in on Martha's testimony, just as the heavy, blind earth will cover her body.

Chapter 7: A Man and His Acts: Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus from Modern French Theatre from Giradoux to Genet by Jacques Guicharaud (Yale UP, 1967)

[onlinesikhstore]

Lafza di Dargah Punjabi Poems Popular Poetry by Surjit Patar Panjabi Book Mi New

Lafza di Dargah Punjabi Poems Popular Poetry by Surjit Patar Panjabi Book

Dr Surjit Patar is a renowned Punjabi poet. He obtained a Masters degree from Punjabi University, Patiala and then a Ph.D in Literature on "Transformation of Folklore in Guru Nanak Vani" from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He then joined the academic profession and retired as Professor of Punjabi from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.He started writing poetry in mid-sixties. His works of poetry include "Hawa Vich Likhe Harf" (Words written in the Air), "Birkh Arz Kare" (Thus Spake the Tree), "Hanere Vich Sulagdi Varnmala" (Words Smouldering in the Dark), "Lafzaan Di Dargah" (Shrine of Words), "Patjhar Di Pazeb" (Anklet of Autumn) and Surzameen (Music Land ).

He translated many literary works into Punjabi, including the three tragedies of Federico García Lorca, the play Nag Mandala by Girish Karnad and the poems of Bertolt Brecht and Pablo Neruda. He also adapted plays from Jean Giradoux, Euripides and Racine. He has written tele-scripts on Punjabi poets ranging from Sheikh Farid to Shiv Kumar Batalvi. 

Book Ref: Mi

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Author: Surjit Patar

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[slickcatbooks]

Here they are! Today’s Literary Calendar birthdays include: David Gans, Dominic Dunne, Guillermo Valencia, Henry Green, James Boswell, Jean Giradoux, Lee Child and Sidney Kingsley! Familiarize yourself with them at: https://slickcatbooks.com/pages/literary-calendar-2021 #slickcatbooks #greatbooksgreatmemories #literarycalendar #morethanastore #birthdays #authorsbirthdays #davidgans #dominickdunne #guillermovalencia #henrygreen #jamesboswell #jeangiraudoux #leechild #sidneykingsley https://www.instagram.com/p/CVn3BQUsimM/?utm_medium=tumblr

[insult-the-glory]

These quotes follow a scene where Helen explained to Hector that when she imagines the future, sometimes she sees scenes in color and sometimes not; and the scenes she imagines in color tend to bear out.

Hector: You will go back on a grey sea under a grey sky. But we must have peace.

Helen: I cannot see peace!

[omgkatsudonplease]

Writing ask game: 1/2/3/10/11 for Human By Choice 😍

oh my gosh. i’m going to try to do this in a way that limits spoilers 😅

describe the plot in 1 sentence.

ondine by jean giradoux, but with now with more twin peaks.

pick one sight, smell, sound, feel, and taste to describe the aesthetic of your novel.

the sound of a creek running into a lake

which 3+ songs would make up a playlist for the novel?

watching the detectives, elvis costello

falling, julee cruise

no stars, rebekah del rio

heavy in your arms, florence + the machine

poison and wine, the civil wars

actually here just take the full playlist 😉

what’s a line of dialogue you’re particularly proud of?

i like this exchange a lot:

“Sorry, I’d like to keep this as distraction-free as possible,” he says.

Alex laughs. “Were you distracted by Seymour or Marlow?” she asks.

“That’s classified,” the FBI agent blurts out. Alex snorts.

“Wow, I guess maybe quippy one-liners is a requirement for joining the Bureau after all,” she jokes.

i have a huge thing for agent katsuki tbh

which line from the novel most represents it as a whole?

“Plus on souffre, plus on est heureux. Je suis heureuse. Je suis la plus heureuse” is from the opening notes but I wouldn’t have picked it if I didn’t think it’d exemplify the rest of the story lol! it, and the title of the fic are both pulled from ondine by jean giradoux; the translation is “the more one suffers, the more one is happy. i am happy. i am the happiest.”

writing ask game

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Le plus beau moment de l'amour d'une femme, le consentement.

- Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38 (1929)

[hainsworthy]

17 The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giradoux dir by Patrick O’Gara. Well thank goodness all that edgy experimental theatre is over! BACK TO BIDNESS! Although I do have to say, back in the 80s & 90s ISU had a reputation for Shepard and KITCHEN SINK REALISM, yet somehow it seems like I did every wigs and tights show they chose to do in the (COUGH) six years I was there. Also every show that seemed to involve 30 people. I was one of the evil capitalists in this show. I was the Broker. The other three were Kevin Will as The President, Phil Matt as The Prospector and Kurt Reynolds The Baron. We were all in the first 20 minutes of the play, had an hour and a half off and then came back for the surrealist ending where the Madwoman sends us all to Hell through a portal in her basement. Although I came back as the leader of the press and they gave us those real old timey cameras with the flashbulbs you had to pop out and replace. So that last scene for me was an interior monologue of “don’t fall off the circular stairs, don’t point camera at the audience, and flash, ow hot, where’s new bulb, okay and in and etc.” Since we were the only four Bad Guys, they gave us a separate dressing room where played cards and listened to Psychofunkapus and Jellyfish. The most vivid memory of the show is not mine to share, but we all remember it. But look at this bit a douchbaggery - look at how I listed myself in the program. What an asshole. Still we are all the Adolphe Bertauts of the world - oooOOOOOOooooooo! #retrospective #themadwomanofchaillot #patrickogara #1991 #isu #isutheatre #redbirdsflyinghigh #westhofftheater #thebroker #adolphebertaut (at Westhoff Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4aMNDeJd2b/?igshid=9vqajal43kya

[languagie]

French Literature- Intermediate (mostly short and all pretty approachable!)

La Vénus d'Ille- Prosper Merimée

Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours- Jules Verne

L’Etranger- Albert Camus

L’Exil et le Royaume- Albert Camus

La Place- Annie Ernaux

Zazie dans le metro-  Raymond Queneau

L’Art and Le Dieu de Carnage- Yasmina Reza

French Literature- Advanced (worth a read, even if only in the English translation!)

Madame Bovary – Flaubert

Le père Goriot- Honoré de Balzac

Les Misérables -Victor Hugo

La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu- Jean Giradoux

A la récherche de temps perdu – Marcel Proust

Les liasions dangereuses- Choderlos de Laclos

Le comte de Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas

Le deuxième sexe- Simone de Beauvoir

French Poems

(I’mma put in individual poems but these poets are all great)

Le Balcon- Charles Baudelaire

Le Dormeur du Val- Artur Rimbaud

Il pleut- Guillaime Apollinaire

Graphic novels/children’s

Le Petit Prince- Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry

Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi

Harry Potter, all books- JK Rowling, translated by Jean-François Ménard (really good translations!!)

Harry Potter- Fanfiction- The When Everything Changes Series

(skyrock was the place for French fanfiction in the noughties)

Book 1. http://wheneverythingchanges.skyrock.com/

Book 2. http://the-ghosts-of-past.skyrock.com/

English books in French- link to a post here

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These are mostly books that have been recommended to me by French people, or ones that I have come across during my first year of my degree. Inspired by this anon .

[laplebeacolta]

“Ho sotto gli occhi i cinquemila ettari del mondo in cui si è pensato di più, parlato di più e scritto di più.”

Jean Giradoux

(foto mia)

[shadeslayer]

...Acts are presented not as products but as inventions. An act is therefore seen as a creation [...] and at the same time as both a source of drama and drama in itself, not only at the moment it is committed - when it implies a struggle and a choice - but even afterward, in man's effort to clarify the relationship between it and himself.

Chapter 7: A Man and His Acts: Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus from Modern French Theatre from Giradoux to Genet by Jacques Guicharaud (Yale UP, 1967)

[netoangel]

"Os heróis são aqueles que tornam magnífica uma vida que já não podem suportar." (Jean Giradoux) by @netoangelrp #growthhacker #seo #marketingdigital #inboundmarketing #growthhacking #trabalho #trampos #work #freela #freelancer