#machine de nantes

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Mechanical Elephant, Machines of the Isle, Nantes, France: When this majestic animal goes out for a walk, it is like architecture in motion leaving a steel cathedral. 50 passengers can embark on an amazing journey. Being on the back of the Grand Éléphant is like being on the 4th floor of a travelling house, with a breathtaking view of the former shipyards.... The Machines of the Isle of Nantes is an artistic, touristic and cultural project based in Nantes, France. Wikipedia

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Oh Long Ma, how I love you

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iron houses, nantes, 2024

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Les Machines de L´ile

Nantes/France

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doodles inspired by galerie des machines de l'île in Nantes and ghost stories from my childhood

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L' éléphant des machines de Nantes

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Le grand

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seeing your blog made me think you might find a major artistic project and tourist attraction of my hometown interesting. "les machines de l'île" is an art project started in 2004 in nantes, france, in the former shipyards of the city. it largely focuses on building fantastical and usually massive mechanical creatures, most of which can be interacted with. the most iconic is a giant mechanical elephant which people can take rides on, but there are a few bugs as well which i figured may pique your interest.

theres a giant ant:

a giant spider:

and a giant caterpillar:

all of which can be visited and even ridden for a fairly affordable ticket price, as well as various non-bug creatures. there may be some more bugs im not familiar with as well, as i dont keep up that closely with the project, but i thought you might like these! theyre a pretty unique and cool art form which is quite impressive to see in motion.

THIIIIS ROOOOOCKS CRAZY STYLE!!! WHAAAT. I WANNA RIDE THE BIG CATERPILLAR

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Ohhhh. Tommy and Evan goes to France for their honeymoon

Lauren, queen of my days, this one is SO HARD for me you can't even imagine!!!! Because I have way too many ideas and don't know which one to choose.

See, Paris would be the easy answer. Paris is romantic, Paris is full of things to do, Paris is beautiful and it's also easier for non french people to navigate. They could go on walks for hours, following the Seine. They could visit the Louvre, Notre Dame de Paris, but also the Museum of air and space near Paris and visit an actual Concorde! They could go to Disneyland and have Champaign between rides, they could go to Montmartre and listen to music on the streets, or they could go to Les Buttes Chaumont which is the prettiest park in Paris. They could also visit La Butte Aux Cailles where I live, it's so pretty. Paris is full of wonder and Evan could rant about the Catacombs for hours while Tommy tastes every alcohol and cake possible.

But you see, France is so much more than Paris. Maybe they could go on a road trip, visit every place in France I love. Maybe even do a tour of places depending on which food or alcohol they produce???

They could go to Bretagne, have beers and discover Brocéliande's Forest and Arthurian legends. Go to the Ile aux Moines and bike through the whole island. Eat crêpes near Vannes' harbor and visit Carnac and its Standing Stones and Evan would tell stories about leprechaun and faeries and the Ankou.

They could go to Corsica, make love on marvelous beaches, eat goat cheese and drink Pietra beers. They could hike in the mountains for hours and see wild pigs and goats climbing trees (I saw it there) and they would go to Bonifacio and have a little boat tour and feed seagulls. They would eat mussels from the Étang de Diane and talk to locals about freedom and see the planes flying across Travo.

They could go to Souillac or Rocamadour, see the Gouffre de Padirac and eat duck specialties. They could go to Chambord or Chenonceau or Bois and visit every castle near the Loire. They could go to Nantes and see Les Machines de l'Ile. They could go to Bordeaux and drink way too much wine. They could go to Colmar and Strasbourg during Christmas time to feel the wonders of it.

Evan loves to learn, and Tommy loves beauty. So it's hard to imagine them coming to France because I'm not sure they would want to come back to L.A. after that.

Anyway google every place!!!!

And please send me more cute headcanon about them and I'll yap about it! ❤️

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Excerpts from Letters and Chapters of Historians on the Break Between Babeuf and Fouché

Yes, we all know the story of Babeuf, who was at one point manipulated by Fouché. But contrary to what Stefan Zweig describes, Babeuf is far from being a simpleton (by the way, Fouché manipulated many intelligent people, whether they were aware of it or not). He was an engaged revolutionary, far more humanitarian than others, while still having insightful reflections (I admit, it's my fan-girl side of Babeuf speaking, but the letters, especially those from the storming of the Bastille and the murder of Foulon, where he condemned this murder while offering very just opinions, can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/766775982269087744/gracchus-babeufs-opinion-on-the-storming-of-the?source=share). Yes, Fouché did manipulate him at one point because he knew Babeuf had humanitarian values, and here is an excerpt:

"Ordered by Fouché, who seeks to make common cause with the Thermidorians, in the context of the trial of Carrier, the man behind the Nantes drownings, it serves as an alibi for the former machine-gunner of Lyon. The method is classic. It consists of denouncing one's former political allies, exaggerating, in order to better save oneself." (Emmanuel de Waresquiel, Vendée and Chouannerie: Two Centuries of Memory, Revue des Deux Mondes, September 1993).

But Babeuf always denounced the double standard of morality (I am deliberately exaggerating here), and here is an excerpt from the historian Claude Mazauric:

"Babeuf is on the side of the Revolution and the Republic, not the opposite; it is precisely on the basis of republican and revolutionary values, which, according to him, are grounded in universal principles, that he protested against the 'decemviral tone,' the 'proconsular exactions,' the unnecessary and arbitrary violence, etc."

Moreover, Babeuf was a man who never abandoned his true friends, even in their time of need. He often wrote, for example, to the widow of Chaumette (even though she was considered the widow of a traitor). I really need to find these letters one day. In lieu of the letters to the widow of Chaumette, here is an excerpt from a letter Babeuf sent to Chaumette when he was still alive:

"Philanthropists! I announce to you my book on Equality, which I will present to the world. Sophists! With it, I will destroy all the false reasoning by which you have misled, chained, and made the Universe suffer; and despite you, men will know the full extent of their rights, nature's vow will no longer be violated, and they will all be happy."

Moreover, we see Babeuf gradually realizing Fouché's true nature. He distances himself from him until their eventual break.

Babeuf wrote on the 19th of Germinal Year III to Fouché after the popular insurrection of the Sans-Culottes due to famine and misery (Babeuf would lose his daughter Sophie because of this, a loss from which he never recovered):

"The catastrophe of the 12th of Germinal makes way for great changes. This does not mean that I renounce it and leave the party. The ideas that occupy me, together with the conclusion I wish to establish in this letter, will lead me, my friend, to speak to you about the great battle we just lost... but must we be crushed by it? No. It is in great dangers that genius and courage unfold."

But here is what he writes to Fouché in his journal The Tribune of the People:

"You have become very rich, Fouché. When I left to be relegated to the North, I believed I could place enough trust in you to recommend my children. They went to see you. You gave them ten francs one day. You took no more interest in the family of an honorable victim of the patriciate. Today, you would sacrifice four to five thousand francs to stifle a few truths. This last object deserves far more than the other to affect your heart. It is exactly a year ago, Fouché, that there was with the then government, another director or syndic of the library, than you: it was Lanthenas. He wrote to me. I still keep his letters, and I can still justify the similar propositions he suggested to me, though with a little more finesse. You don’t write to me; but you speak to me in front of Antonelle and company. I give you the same response I gave to Lanthenas. I don’t want a censor, a corrector, or a whisperer; I still opt for persecution, if necessary; I will not tune in with the Méhée, and I insist on maintaining, against you, that the time has come when every truth must be spoken. You may conspire with the current government: we know how every government conspires. I declare that I am also part of a conspiracy. It is not yours. Send your agents on the campaign as much as you want; you will not destroy it. If this letter were to be read by the patriots, I would tell them: remember that a year ago, I was more right on my own than all the Jacobins together. I loudly demanded the constitution of that time. If they had demanded it at the same time as me, they would have saved the people and themselves. On the contrary, they were long in opposition to me, constantly seeking to delay the implementation of that constitution. In the end, they recognized I saw better than them, and they came to echo me. They demanded, through Barrère and Audouin, the swift establishment of the constitutional regime; but it was too late. A few days later, their society died assassinated. Their demand, therefore, lost all force. The time for delays is over. We are no longer in times when one can wait. They say public opinion must be redone. It is too formed. The people feel too much the extent of their suffering; they can no longer bear it. To help them, there is no quicker remedy than to put them at odds with their enemies, with all those who are the cause of all they suffer. Wanting to make them wait is asking that each day add to the destructive force that is depopulating our country at terrifying speed, sending each of us, in turn, to death, in slow and horrible anguish."

And he adds to Fouché: "It has been said for some time that you were my Mentor [...] I don’t want a censor, a corrector, or a whisperer: I still opt for persecution, if necessary [...] And I insist on maintaining, against you, that the time has come when every truth must be spoken."

Babeuf understood Fouché’s ambitions and wanted nothing to do with him anymore. Personally, I’ve discussed with friends passionate about the French Revolution (some of whom have opinions different from mine, even very different, but that’s fine because otherwise, it would be boring, we wouldn’t learn as well, and everyone must benefit from free judgment) who hypothesized that if Babeuf had followed the tide, like Fouché, and had not denounced him, perhaps Fouché would have allowed him a pension. The same goes for Marie-Anne Babeuf, the wife of Gracchus Babeuf and his right-hand woman (she helped him print, managed subscriptions, was imprisoned under the Directory for her activism, tried to help him escape, walked many miles pregnant with 8-months-old to organize his defense, and kept her married name after her husband's execution), who continued her political activities after her husband's death (some sources describe her as a woman with a strong character who did not back down in the face of adversity and I believe it given the trials she has undergone and how she has reacted), to the point of being arrested twice by the Napoleonic police (more precisely, she was arrested by the police for the first time during the affair of the infernal machine in 1801, actually perpetrated by the royalists, and questioned a second time by the police who took all her papers and those of her son so her property in 1808) . We know that Félix Lepeletier was a close friend to her and her children and always helped them after her widowhood. Turreau adopted one of her sons, Camille (the only good deed I found from him), and maybe Réal. But nothing from Fouché (while one of the few good deeds he did in his life was granting a pension to the widow of Collot d'Herbois). Some of my friends have suggested that it was precisely because she was cut from the same cloth as Gracchus (or maybe she wanted nothing to do with Fouché, which makes sense) and given that she continued her political activism against those whom Fouché served, without abandoning her cause. This is a hypothesis I should look into one day.

P.S.: It is interesting to see the quote from Barère, as well as Xavier François Audouin, who played an important role in the period of the French Revolution, both in the 1792 years, and was a well-known neo-Jacobin opponent of the Directory, especially according to historian Bernard Gainot (he was a Hébertist who escaped deportation under Bonaparte, either through the intervention of Monge, or because Bonaparte hoped to win over his father-in-law Pache to his side, but this didn’t work out; indeed, Xavier Audouin had married Sylvie, who according to Mathilde Larrère, though young, was known for her Hébertist activism; in 1816, Xavier Audouin, under pressure from the Bourbon laws, became a royalist). As for Antonelle, I’ve already spoken about him here: https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/761515728971202560/the-political-career-of-the-revolutionary?source=share

About Pache and the Audouin couple: https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/767044131014033408/very-mediocre-and-horrible-quote-from-buzot?source=share https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/767308509546266624/this-is-the-principle-of-a-friendship-triangle?source=share

(I warn you, it’s not much, but I plan to do a post about Pache one day unless someone else does it for me).

And Barère, well… Let’s just say that many people better informed than I am have already said everything there is to say in my place. I couldn’t have said or done better.

Sources:

Eric Walter

Claude Mazauric

Mathilde Larrère

Bernard Gainot

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To a Machines de l'Île spectacle, Nantes, France

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[Lyrics & translation under cut]

ENGLISH:

Doodled textbooks and myself looking outside all the time. Sky above a skyscraper, I dreamed unreachable dream. I want to break the door of my feelings that have no way out. If I smoke behind the school building, there's no way of escape.

We will crouch down, gather in a lump while turning our backs against adults. I will glare at adults who doesn't know anything about us. And my friends plan to run away from home tonight. Anyway, I don't want to go back to school or home anymore. I'm trembling without even knowing what I am. It's a night of fifteen years old.

I will ride on a stolen bike without knowing the destination. I will run into the dark night. I didn't want to be tied up by anyone, I felt free when I ran away from everything on this night. It's a night of fifteen years old.

Cold wind, cold body, I miss people. I will run past the house of that sleeping girl, while whispering goodbye. In the dark, vending machine stood alone. Warmth that you can buy for 100 yen, I will tightly grasp hot canned coffee.

I don't know how love ends, but that girl and I have always dreamed of a future together. Adults told me to give up my love, but I don't like it at all. If those boring lessons are everything we have, What a petty, what a meaningless, what a powerless fifteen years old.

I will ride on a stolen bike without knowing the destination. I will run into the dark night. I will smoke a freshly learned cigarette. I continued to seek freedom while staring at the starry sky. A fifteen years old night.

I will ride on a stolen bike without knowing the destination. I will run into the dark night. I didn't want to be tied up by anyone, I felt free when I ran away from everything on this night. It's a night of fifteen years old.

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ROMANJI:

rakugaki no kyoukasho to soto bakari miteru ore choukousou biru no ue no sora todokanai yume wo miteru yariba no nai kimochi no tobira yaburitai kousha no ura tabako wo fukashite mitsukareba nigeba mo nai shagande katamari se wo mukenagara kokoro no hitotsu mo wakariaenai otonatachi mo niramu soshite nakamatachi wa kon'ya iede no keikaku wo tateru tonikaku mou gakkou ya ie ni wa kaeritakunai jibun no sonzai ga nan nano ka sae wakarazu furueteiru  juugo no yoru

nusunda baiku de hashiridasu yukusaki mo wakaranumama kurai yoru no tobari no naka e dare nimo shibararetakunai to nigekonda kono yoru ni jiyuu ni nareta ki ga shita juugo no yoru

tsumetai kaze hieta karada hito koishikute yume miteru ano ko no ie no yoko wo sayonara tsubuyaki hashirinukeru yami no naka potsun to hikaru jidou hanbaiki hyakuendama de kaeru nukumori atsui kan koohii nigirishime koi no ketsumatsu mo wakaranai kedo ano ko to ore wa shourai sae zutto yume ni miteru otonatachi wa kokoro wo sutero sutero to iu ga ore wa iya nano sa taikutsu na jugyou ga oretachi no subete naraba nante chippoke de nante imi no nai nante muryoku na  juugo no yoru

nusunda baiku de hashiridasu yukusaki mo wakaranumama kurai yoru no tobari no naka e  oboetate no tabako wo fukashi hoshizora wo mitsumenagara jiyuu wo motometsuzuketa juugo no yoru

nusunda baiku de hashiridasu yukusaki mo wakaranumama kurai yoru no tobari no naka e dare nimo shibararetakunai to nigekonda kono yoru ni jiyuu ni nareta ki ga shita juugo no yoru

Credit: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/y/yutakaozakilyrics/juugonoyorulyrics.html

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Les Machines de L´ile

Nantes

France

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Découvrez l'EuroVelo 6 : une incroyable aventure à vélo de l'Atlantique à la Mer Noire

L'EuroVelo 6 est un parcours cyclable qui traverse l'Europe, reliant l'Océan Atlantique à la Mer Noire. Suivant les côtes, fleuves et châteaux, cette route offre des paysages variés et exceptionnels à explorer en selle. Dans cet article, nous vous présentons un itinéraire détaillé pour découvrir cette voie unique sur deux roues. Le parcours global de l'EuroVelo 6 Ce tracé emblématique s'étend sur plus de 4 000 km, traversant dix pays européens et empruntant principalement des voies vertes ou des pistes cyclables sécurisées. L'EuroVelo 6 suit les cours d’eau majeurs tels que le Rhin, le Danube et la Loire, offrant ainsi des panoramas époustouflants et des sites historiques à chaque étape du trajet. Les différentes sections de l'EuroVelo 6 Afin de faciliter votre voyage, l'itinéraire complet se divise en plusieurs sections, que vous pouvez réaliser séparément ou dans leur ensemble : - La section atlantique (France) : de Nantes à Bâle. - La section rhénane (Allemagne, Suisse, France) : de Bâle à Passau. - La section danubienne (Allemagne, Autriche, Slovaquie, Hongrie) : de Passau à Budapest. - La section centre-européenne (Croatie, Serbie, Roumanie, Bulgarie) : de Budapest au delta du Danube. - La section finale (Roumanie, Bulgarie, Turquie) : du delta du Danube à la Mer Noire. Les étapes phares de l'Itinéraire vélo EuroVelo 6 Découvrez quelques-uns des temps forts de cet itinéraire qui marqueront votre périple : Nantes Située sur l'estuaire de la Loire, Nantes est une ville pleine de charme dotée d'un riche patrimoine historique et culturel. Avant de partir pour l'EuroVelo 6, prenez le temps de visiter le château des ducs de Bretagne, la cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul ou encore les célèbres Machines de l'île. Le Val de Loire Inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, le Val de Loire vous émerveillera par ses paysages bucoliques et ses châteaux emblématiques comme ceux de Chambord, Chenonceau, Amboise ou Azay-le-Rideau. Ne manquez pas non plus les jardins de Villandry et les dégustations de vins locaux dans les caves troglodytiques. Strasbourg Capitale européenne et alsacienne, Strasbourg est une étape incontournable sur l'EuroVelo 6. Admirez la magnifique cathédrale Notre-Dame, flânez dans le quartier pittoresque de la Petite France et traversez le Rhin pour rejoindre l'Allemagne via le pont Pierre Pflimlin. Le Danube Le long du fleuve le plus long d'Europe, vous passerez par des sites spectaculaires comme les falaises calcaires de la Porte-de-Bavière, le Parc Naturel Donau-Auen en Autriche ou encore le Parc National Đerdap à la frontière serbo-roumaine. De nombreux villages typiques jalonnent également ce tronçon, permettant de découvrir les traditions locales. Budapest Surnommée la "Perle du Danube", Budapest offre un panorama unique depuis le pont Széchenyi Lánchíd avec ses collines de Buda et la plaine de Pest encadrant le fleuve. Profitez de cette étape pour visiter le château royal, les bains thermaux de Gellért ou le Parlement hongrois, puis dégustez un goulasch traditionnel dans les rues animées. Le Delta du Danube Cette zone protégée offre une biodiversité exceptionnelle et constitue un paradis pour les ornithologues avec plus de 300 espèces d'oiseaux nicheurs. Entre canaux labyrinthiques et marais sauvages, vous partirez à la découverte des traditions ancestrales de la pêche et de l'élevage qui marquent cette région unique. La Mer Noire Votre aventure sur l'EuroVelo 6 se termine sur les plages dorées de la Mer Noire, où vous pourrez célébrer votre réussite en savourant un poisson grillé accompagné d'un verre de vin local. Les stations balnéaires de Varna (Bulgarie) et Constanta (Roumanie) offrent une multitude d'animations estivales pour conclure en beauté ce périple inoubliable. Préparer son voyage sur l’EuroVelo 6 Pour profiter pleinement de ce parcours d’exception, il convient de bien préparer son voyage : - Voies cyclables : informez-vous sur les pistes accessibles et les conditions de circulation dans chaque pays traversé. - Hébergements : réservez vos étapes à l’avance, en tenant compte de la saison et du dénivelé. - Budget : prenez en compte l’ensemble des frais engagés, tels que les transports jusqu’à votre point de départ, la location ou l’achat de matériel, les repas et les visites touristiques. - Gastronomie locale : découvrez lors de votre itinéraire, les spécialités culinaires de chaque région et goûtez aux produits locaux. Avec ces quelques conseils en tête, vous voilà prêt à partir à la découverte de l'EuroVelo 6, des splendeurs naturelles et du patrimoine culturel incomparable qui marqueront ce voyage cyclotouristique hors du commun. Read the full article

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doodles inspired by a visit with friends at the galerie des machines de l'île in Nantes!

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