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"La Grosse Bouteille" boulevard Richard Lenoir🗼Paris 1953

Photo de Jean Marquis

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Reflecting circles

The reflecting circle was invented by the German geometer and astronomer Tobias Mayer in 1752, with details published in 1767. His development preceded the sextant and was motivated by the need to create a superior surveying instrument.

A Mayer circle, 18th century

It is a complete circular instrument graduated to 720° (to measure distances between heavenly bodies, there is no need to read an angle greater than 180°, since the minimum distance will always be less than 180°). Mayer presented a detailed description of this instrument to the Board of Longitude and John Bird used the information to construct one sixteen inches in diameter for evaluation by the Royal Navy. This instrument was one of those used by Admiral John Campbell during his evaluation of the lunar distance method. It differed in that it was graduated to 360° and was so heavy that it was fitted with a support that attached to a belt. It was not considered better than the Hadley octant and was less convenient to use. As a result, Campbell recommended the construction of the sextant.

Jean-Charles de Borda further developed the reflecting circle. He modified the position of the telescopic sight in such a way that the mirror could be used to receive an image from either side relative to the telescope. This eliminated the need to ascertain that the mirrors were precisely parallel when reading zero. This simplified the use of the instrument. Further refinements were performed with the help of Etienne Lenoir. The two of them refined the instrument to its definitive form in 1777. This instrument was so distinctive it was given the name Borda circle or repeating circle. Borda and Lenoir developed the instrument for geodetic surveying. Since it was not used for the celestial measures, it did not use double reflection and substituted two telescope sights. As such, it was not a reflecting instrument. It was notable as being the equal of the great theodolite created by the renowned instrument maker, Jesse Ramsden.

A Jean-Charles de Borda circle, by Étienne Lenoir 1775

Josef de Mendoza y Ríos redesigned Borda's reflecting circle in 1801. The goal was to use it together with his Lunar Tables published by the Royal Society. He made a design with two concentric circles and a vernier scale and recommended averaging three sequential readings to reduce the error. Borda's system was not based on a circle of 360° but 400 grads (Borda spent years calculating his tables with a circle divided in 400°). Mendoza's lunar tables have been used through almost the entire 19th century. Edward Troughton also modified the reflecting circle. He created a design with three index arms and verniers. This permitted three simultaneous readings to average out the error.

A Troughton Circle, 1803

As a navigation instrument, the reflecting circle was more popular with the French navy than with the British.

M. Daumas, Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers, London 1989

William Edward May, A History of Marine Navigation, G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., Oxfordshire, 1973

Richard, Dunn, Navigational Instruments, London 2016

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Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Paris 11e. Avril 2017.

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Charles Lansiaux

64-66 boulevard Richard Lenoir

À l'arrière-plan, flèches de l'église Saint-Ambroise.

Paris 1920

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FFAN Wrap-Up & Recs

Introductory post

Masterpost

This concludes our foray into Famous Five vintage (and not-so-vintage) art!

I started this project about a year and a half ago and I’m very pleased to have brought it to its conclusion. I ultimately got more ambitious that I imagined at the start, and managed to gather physical copies from almost every edition from the 1950s to the 1980s (I also have a few from the 1990s onwards, but I didn’t make a concerted effort to find them all as they rarely contain original inside illustrations, and the cover art can be found online). The only physical book I know I’m missing is one from the Swiss publisher with Umberto Nonna’s illustrations. If it so happens that I find a copy of this book – or any additional editions that I don’t currently know of – I will make an additional post to the FFAN series, but until then I’m calling it done!

You can expect three more posts over the next few days focusing on the Five enjoying fun outdoorsy activities to accompany you into summertime! 🎒🏕️🏖️🌞

And to wrap thing up, I thought I’d share some light about my favourite books from both Blyton’s and Voilier’s series.

From Enid Blyton’s original series:

#10 Five On A Hike Together: I love how the action is condensed over five days, with the events leading smoothly one to the other. The children were just going on a carefree hike, when they inadvertently get pulled into a mystery and solve a puzzling “treasure map”. They get to show their wits, be self-reliant, outsmart the bad guys, and find the treasure just in time before going back to school, all the while enjoying the lovely scenery of the countryside in the fall! Dick and Anne also get their special moment in the spotlight, which doesn't happen in many of the books.

#03 Five Run Away Together: The first adventure where the Five go off on their own for an extended period of time without any adults around. I think this one appealed to me when I was a child because of the fantasy of running away from ill-meaning adults and thriving on their own. (Just to be clear, I did not personally live in an environment where I was faced with ill-meaning adults, so this wasn’t wish-fulfilment. But I do remember several books that I particularly liked and that were focused on a teen protagonist(s) running away and living for a time on their own away from adults, so this is clearly a storyline that appealed to me.) I also like how, this being early in the series, George tends to respond to things on her own, because she’s used to being an only child, and needs to get some sense knocked into her to realise that she now has three cousins who have her back.

#04 Five Go To Smuggler’s Top: A spectacular, spooky scenery for a baffling mystery. The secondary characters (Block, Mr Barling, Mr Lenoir, and of course Sooty) are particularly memorable!

#19 Five Go To Demon’s Rocks: Once again I like that the children are going away on their own (at least I’m consistent in my preferences! 😅), and the scenery of the lighthouse is spectacular! I do think that the resolution is a bit of a let-down with the children finding the treasure pretty much by chance. But it is followed by a thrilling climax at the top of the lighthouse in a storm!

#07 Five Go Off To Camp: This book is just a very good mix of humour and mystery. Mr Luffy is also a very entertaining character and I wouldn’t have minded seeing him in more books!

Honourable mentions to #01 Five On A Treasure Island, the book which opens the series and in which our main characters first meet; #08 Five Get Into Trouble, which only didn’t make it into my top five because I find Richard annoying (which is entirely the point of this character); #15 Five On A Secret Trail, whose plot I like but which again gets bumped a few spots down because I find the whole “twins” plot twist very quickly annoying; and #18 Five On Finniston Farm, with its charming scenery but ultimately very thin plot.

From Claude Voilier’s continuation series:

#LC23 Les Cinq et le trésor du pirate: I had not read this book as a child and it was a really nice discovery. As I mentioned in the detailed post, this book felt much better written than a lot of the other books in the continuation series, making for a very entertaining read. I can absolutely recommend it if you want dip your toes into Voilier’s series. (Although, well, this is one of the few books that were never translated into English, so you’ll have to make do with the original French! 😉)

#LC18 Les Cinq et le trésor de Roquépine: This one was a favourite back when I was a child, and the nostalgia remains strong to this day. What can I say, I do love the treasure hunt trope! 🤷🏻‍♀️

#LC11 Les Cinq dans la cité secrète: Also a childhood favourite, this one for the Indiana Jones vibes!

#LC07 Les Cinq contre le Masque Noir: Another recent discovery. I liked the wide cast of characters/suspects, and the Five striking them off their list one by one based on their sleuthing. I did, however, figure out who the real culprit was really early on, so that did diminish the impact of the ultimate plot twist. (But I do wonder if I would have figured it out if I had read this book as a pre-teen/teen and not as an adult.)

#LC08 Les Cinq et le galion d’or: Several fun twists with the customary treasure being found by the children very early on, but stolen again, and the mystery being where the thieves keep moving it to. But points docked off for the resolution being due to a stroke of luck rather than the children getting to use their wits.

Honourable mentions to #LC20 Les Cinq jouent serré due to several genuinely funny moments; and #LC21 Les Cinq contre les fantômes, for its mystery aura.

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Thanks for reading!

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crew of the revenge

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OFFICERS Captain Federico Warner Quartermaster Richard Sherman Sailmaster Navorro Bowman Boatswain Patrick Willis Helmsman Arik Armstead Master Gunner Dre Greenlaw

SPECIALISTS Surgeon Mitch Wishnowsky Cook Randy Gregory Carpenter Tashaun Gipson Sr. Sailmaker Emmanuel Moseley

REGULARS Gunners Ji’Ayir Brown Deommodore Lenoir Isaiah Oliver Sailors Talanoa Hufanga Oren Burks Charvarius Ward Brutes Chase Young Nick Bosa Javon Hargrave Deckhands Ambry Thomas Azeez Al-Shaair Javon Kinlaw

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Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, 2014)

Cast: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken, Seth Gilliam. Screenplay: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, based on a novel by Lisa Genova. Cinematography: Denis Lenoir. Production design: Tommaso Ortino. Film editing: Nicholas Chaudeurge. Music: Ilan Eshkeri.

After four previous nominations, Julianne Moore was overdue for an Oscar. I just wish she had won for a more challenging film than Still Alice, a middlebrow, middle-of-the-road movie that unfortunately suggests a slicked-up power-cast version of a Lifetime problem drama. It goes without saying that, with her luminous natural style, Moore can act the hell out of anything she's given: When she played Sarah Palin in Game Change (Jay Roach, 2012) on HBO, she even made me forget Tina Fey's great caricature of that eminently caricaturable politician, and did it without resorting to caricature. What bothers me most about Still Alice is its choice of an affluent white professional, a linguistics professor with a physician husband (Alec Baldwin) and an attractive family, to carry the burden of what the movie has to say about Alzheimer's. Why couldn't the film have been about the effect of early-onset Alzheimer's on a black or Latino family, or someone faced with meeting the bills -- a waitress or a secretary or a factory worker, perhaps? The screenplay (by directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, from Lisa Genova's novel) even shamefully asserts at one point that the disease is particularly difficult for "educated" people. The movie has its good points, of course. Kristen Stewart, as Alice's younger daughter, is a revelation. Those who knew Stewart only from the Twilight movies were startled by the skill and maturity of her performance. And the scene in which Alice discovers the suicide instructions left by herself before the disease had progressed is deftly handled, as the disease itself prevents Alice from remembering and following through on the instructions. The film also has some poignancy in the fact that director-screenwriter Glatzer, who was Westmoreland's husband, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and died from the disease in 2015. But the use in Still Alice of excerpts from Tony Kushner's Angels in America suggests a dubious parallel between Alzheimer's and AIDS.

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You Can't Take it With You - PBS - November 21, 1984

Musical (A presentation of "Great Performances")

Running Time: 116 minutes

Stars:

Jason Robards as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

George Rose as Boris Kolenkhov

Elizabeth Wilson as Penny Sycamore

Colleen Dewhurst as Grand Duchess Olga Katrina

Maureen Anderman as Alice Sycamore

Carol Androsky as Essie Carmichael

Jack Dodson as Paul Sycamore

Alice Drummond as Gay Wellington

Christopher Foster as Ed Carmichael

Arthur French as Donald

Page Johnson as A man from the Department of Justice

Rosetta LeNoire as Rheba

Bill McCutcheon as Mr. De Pinna

Meg Mundy as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby

Orrin Reiley as Henderson

Nicholas Surovy as Tony Kirby

Richard Woods as Anthony P. Kirby

Jason Robards III as Mac

Wayne Elbert as Jim

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"Because nothing is lost forever."

Still Alice (2014)

Director: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland

Cinematography: Denis Lenoir

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France marks 10 years since terror Charlie Hebdo attack

A decade after a deadly attack by gunmen on the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the country paused to honour the victims and reaffirm its determination to fight for freedom and democracy.

French President Emmanuel Macron attended the flower-laying ceremony, along with former French President François Hollande, during whose administration the attack took place, and a number of officials and politicians, including Prime Minister François Bayrou, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and National Assembly Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet.

Following the laying of flowers on Rue Nicolas-Appert, similar ceremonies were also held outside the Hyper Casher supermarket and on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, where the terrorists killed policeman Ahmed Merabet.

Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the Charlie Hebdo editorial office on January 7 2015 and killed 12 people in the attack. They were subsequently eliminated by anti-terrorism units of the Gendarmerie.

Their accomplice Amedy Coulibaly then first shot and killed a police officer on the southern outskirts of Paris and then carried out a takeover of a Hyper Casher shop, during which he shot and killed four other people. During the assault, he was killed by special police unit fire.

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 🌥

Foire à la ferraille, boulevard Richard Lenoir🗼 Paris 1948

Photo de Marcel Bovis

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Fred Frith & Tim Hodgkinson Instants Chavirés, 7 rue Richard Lenoir, Montreuil ! Le 10.10.2024 © Isabelle Duthoit

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Plaque en hommage à : Robert Desnos

Type : Lieu de résidence

Adresse : 19 rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris, France

Date de pose : Inconnue

Texte : Ici vécut de 1934 à 1944 Robert Desnos, poète français. Arrêté par la Gestapo et déporté, il trouva la mort parce qu'il était épris de liberté de progrès et de justice

Quelques précisions : Robert Desnos (1900-1945) est un poète et résistant français. Passionné par la poésie depuis l'enfance, il trouve dans les années 1920 sa place dans le surréalisme, publiant ainsi dans La Révolution surréaliste. Exclu par André Breton sur fond de désaccord politique, il n'en poursuit pas moins sa carrière de poète, influencé par de nombreux styles musicaux. Dans les années 1930, devenu rédacteur publicitaire et écrivain pour la radio (notamment de La Complainte de Fantômas), il s'inquiète de la montée du fascisme en Europe et adhère à des mouvements intellectuels antifascistes. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il rejoint le réseau de Résistance AGIR, venant en aide aux Juifs et à d'autres résistants tout en faisant paraître des poèmes critiquant le régime de Vichy et le nazisme. Arrêté en 1944, il est déporté au camp de Buchenwald puis à Theresienstadt. Malgré la fuite des nazis et la libération du camp, il tombe malade du typhus et meurt un mois seulement après la fin de la guerre. Une autre plaque commémorative en son honneur peut être trouvée rue Richard Lenoir, dans le 11ème arrondissement de Paris, où il résida également.

Ne pas confondre avec Louis Desnos, un autre résistant français également mort pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et commémoré par une plaque commémorative à Paris.

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Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Paris 11e. Janvier 2018.

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Ober Mamma boulevard Richard-Lenoir Paris : l'adresse italienne qui enchante Paris

Sur le boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Ober Mamma s’impose comme une adresse incontournable pour les amateurs de cuisine italienne à Paris. Derrière ses grandes baies vitrées, une ambiance chaleureuse et conviviale accueille les gourmands venus des quatre coins de la capitale. Les effluves de pizza cuite au feu de bois et les arômes de pasta fraîchement préparée se mêlent pour titiller les…