#tour de garde

[triste-guillotine]

IFERNACH “Capitulation of all life” LP 2021 (’From the wasteland of Gespegewagi with hate... Ifernach strikes back with its most ferocious full-length offering yet. "Capitulation of All Life" is an opus that glorify Death and Disdain for Humanity. A storm of Fire and Chaos has been summoned, which will be the last glimmer of light before the everlasting cold sleep of a death star with no history or memories to recall. And they will all capitulate... No one shall be saved’).

1. Introduction 2. Gathering of the Archangels 3. From Pestiferous Dreams... 4. Hovering Over Ruins and Death 5. Until the World Burns 6. Mundo Malism 7. Beholding the Talisman of Doom 8. Foi en rien ni personne 9. Le grand départ 10. Fenian Sword of Redemption (Offenbach - Hey Boss cover)

Mixed by Arthur Rizk Recorded in Mntuagi II on November 9th 2020 by Finian Patraic Lyrics and Music by F. Patraic except “Fenian Sword” originally by Offenbach (Hey Boss) Artwork taken from the original painting of Hieronymus Bosch Guitars, Vocals, Synth : Finian Patraic Bass : Darach Drums : Mordüm Machinator Meteg

https://ifernach.bandcamp.com/

[apanthropydotorg]

Review 54: Departure Chandelier - Satan Soldier of Fortune

Departure ChandelierSatan Soldier of FortuneOccult Antiquities / Nuclear War Now! ProductionsReleased: 1/12/24 –1 – Intro (Napoleonic Battlefield Cleanup)2 – By Way of Torchlight from Parliament to Catacombs3 – Hard as a Coffin Nail4 – Accipitridae5 – Interlude (Graverobbers Profit Off the Fallen of Both Sides)6 – Hail Dark Forces7 – Satan Soldier of Fortune8 – Outro (Dragged Via Musket Straps…

[ratelet-james]

James Ratelet, sur les chemins du Gard, Arènes de Nîmes, Maison Carrée, Tour Magne et Temple de Diane, jardins de la Fontaine, Porte d'AugusteCostières, terroir viticole et activités autour de l'AOC Costières-de-nîmes, Mas des Tourelles, Beaucaire,Abbaye de Saint-Roman, Voie Régordane, Abbaye de Saint-Gilles, Petite Camargue, Scamandre, Gallician, Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, Aigues-Mortes, Salins du Midi, à Aigues-Mortes, Pointe de l'Espiguette, le pont du Gard, Uzès, Avignon, Occitanie , France, Europe

[denmark-street]

I think i'm in a fantasy book burnout. Now that i'm done with La Tour de garde, which was kinda meh but i think now I wasn't the targeted audience, i don't know what to read next. Besides Murtagh but it's because i want to make fun of it.

Idk recent fantasy books feel irrelevant compared to LOTR, HP, etc.

[blogapart3bis]

« L’Armée fantoche », de Claire Duvivier

Exfiltrés de Dehaven après l’échec de leur conspiration, Amalia et Yonas se sont réfugiés au domaine de la Tour de Garde. Mais, bientôt, les événements vont les rattraper, en premier lieu une menace militaire implacable, L’Armée fantoche, qui donne son titre à ce roman de Claire Duvivier. Il s’agit ici du troisième et dernier tome de la trilogie Capitale du Nord et, également, de la conclusion…

[marcelskittels]

Thibaut Pinot of France and Groupama-FDJ reacts after the Etoile de Besseges - Tour Du Gard 2023, Stage 4 a 147,5km stage from Saint-Christol-Lèz-Alès to Le Mont Bouquet on February 04, 2023 in Le Mont Bouquet - Brouzet-lès-Alès, France. (Photos by Luc Claessen/Getty Images)

[reitsportportal]

Morocco Royal Tour 2023: Emanuele Gaudiano siegt im PRIX DE L'INDEPENDANCE

Emanuele Gaudiano und Jaja – die Sieger im PRIX DE L’INDEPENDANCE   Foto: Thomas Reiner Erfolg für Emanuele Gaudiano in der ersten 4*-Prüfung der Morocco Royal Tour 2023 Die  erste Station der Morocco Royal Tour 2023 ist Tetouan. Die Stadt liegt unweit der Mittelmeerküste. Die Altstadt  gehört seit 1997 zum Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO. Dort stand am heutigen Nachmittag in der wunderschönen Anlage…

[pompadourpink]

Literal French expressions

À deux - at two

À la + n. - in the style of

À la carte - at the menu

À la mode - in fashion

Amateur - lover

Après-ski - after skying

À propos - about

Armoire - wardrobe

Art nouveau - new art

Au naturel - plain

Au pair - at the peer

Auteur - author

Avant-garde - before guard

Bête noire - black beast

Blasé - jaded

Bon appétit - good appetite

Bon voyage - good journey

Boutique - shop

Buffet - credenza

Bureau - office

Canapé - couch

Carte blanche - white card

C'est la vie - that's life

Chauffeur - warmer (n.)

Chef - leader

Cliché - picture

Clique - gang

Connaisseur - "knower"

Coup d'état - blow of state

Coup de grâce - blow of mercy

Coup de foudre - blow of lightning

Couture - sewing (n.)

Cul-de-sac - ass of the bag

Début - beginning

Débutante - beginner

Déjà-vu - already seen

Dénouement - untying

Dossier - file

Double entendre - double hear

... du jour - of the day

Eau de toilette - washing water

Eau de vie - life water

Encore - again

Ennui - boredom

En route - in road

Ensemble - together

Entourage - people surrounding you

Entrepreneur - starter (n.)

Essai - attempt

Esprit de l'escalier - spirit of the stairs

Étiquette - label

Exposé - exposed

Façade - frontage

Faux pas - fake step

Femme fatale - deadly woman

Film noir - black movie

Fin de siècle - end of century

Flâneur - "stroller"

Femme - woman

Folie à deux - madness at two

Foyer - fireplace, home

Gamine - female kid (casual)

Gauche - left

Gendarme - person of weapons

Je ne sais quoi - I don't know what

Laissez-faire - let (someone) do (imperative)

Laissez-passer - let (someone) pass

L'appel du vide - the call of the void

Lingerie - underwear

Maître d' - master o'

Mardi gras - fat Tuesday

Matinée - morning

Ménage à trois - household at three

Mon/ma chéri-e - my cherished

Montage - mounting

Motif - pattern

Mural - on the wall (adj.)

Né-e - born

Négligé - neglected

Nom de plume - feather name

Parole - word

Petite - small (adj.)

Pied-à-terre - foot on land

Poilu - hairy

Pot pourri - rotten pot

Pourboire - for drink

Première - first

Prêt-à-manger - ready to eat

Protégé - protected

Renaissance - rebirth

Rendez-vous - appointment

Répertoire - directory

Résumé - summary

Risqué - risked

Robe - dress

Rouge - red

RSVP - answer please

Sans-culottes - without pantaloons

Savant - "knower" (n.)

Savoir-faire - know how to do (v.)

Savoir-vivre - know how to live

Séance - session

Soirée - evening

Souvenir - memory

Suite - sequel, development

Surveillance - careful watching

Tête-à-tête - head to head

Touché - touched

Tour - circuit

Trompe-l'oeil - cheats the eye

Venue - came

Vignette - sticker, label

Vis-à-vis - face to face

Voyeur - "seer"

Ballet vocabulary:

Allongé - laid down

Balancé - swinged

Balançoire - swing (n.)

Battu - battered

Brisé - broken

Chassé - chased

Chaînés - chained

Ciseaux - scissors

Coupé - cut

Dégagé - cleared

Développé - developed

Échappé - escaped

En cloche - in bell

En croix - in cross

Entrechat - between braid

En pointe - in tip

Failli - almost did

Fouetté - whipped

Glissade - sliding

Plié - bent

Jeté - thrown

Manège - carousel

Pas de bourrée - drunk step

Pas de chat - cat step

Pas de cheval - horse step

Pas de deux - step of two

Pas de valse - waltz step

Penché - leaned

Piqué - pricked

Port de bras - carry of arms

Relevé - lifted back up

Renversé - titled, bent backwards

Retiré - removed

Rond de jambe - leg circle

Temps de flèche - arrow time Tendu - stretched

Temps lié - linked time

Tombé - fallen

Tour en l'air - turn in the air

Kitchen vocabulary:

Amuse-bouche - mouth entertainer

Bain-Marie - Mary bath

Café au lait - milky coffee

Casserole - pot

Cordon bleu - blue ribbon

Crème brûlée - burnt cream

Crème de la crème - cream of the cream

Crème fraîche - fresh cream

Croissant - crescent

Éclair - lightning

Entrée - entrance

Filet mignon - cute net

Flambé - blazed

Foie gras - fat liver

Fondant - melting

Fondue - melted

Gourmet - foodie

Hors d'oeuvre - out of the work

Légume - vegetable

Liqueur - liquid

Mille-feuille - thousand leaf

Mousse - foam

Pâté - pasted

Roux - redhead(ed)

Sauté - jumped

Sautoir - "jumper"

Soufflé - blown

Velouté - velvety

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Part VI: The 1702 Summer Set(N⁰ 1379) :

Tradition required the bedchamber decor to be changed twice a year, alternating between a winter set and a summer one. Although set 1881 is not explicitly referred to as the winter set in the Garde-Meuble until 1740 [125], André Félibien informs us that the practice of using red velvet for winter in the King’s bedchamber predated 1701 [126]. If set 1881 was already used for winter by 1701, then which set was used as a summer replacement in 1702? The answer can be found in the 1708 inventory [127], where a set of silver-background brocade is listed under number 1379. Set 1379 was initially delivered in May 1689 as an augmentation of set 867, delivered nine years earlier for the bath apartments [128].

6.1 The Tapestry Itself

Described in 1680 as alternating narrow pieces of two different brocades—one “silver background with figures of a shepherd and shepherdess” and the other “gold and silver with rinceau, outlined at the edge with ponceau” [129]—the 1689 Garde-Meuble entry, while consistent in describing the shepherd silver brocade, specifies that the other had a green background but omits the rinceau ornaments. The most complete description appears in the 1708 inventory: “Rich furniture of two brocades, one with silver background with figures of shepherd and shepherdess in gold and silver, and the other with green background chiseled with gold and with flowers of silver and gold” [130].

The 1689 delivery was intended to fill an alcove with eight pieces of silver shepherd brocade and seven pieces of the green brocade [131]; this layout remained the same in the 1701 bedchamber [132].

6.2 The Bed

The main element of set 1379 was its state bed, impressive in its dimensions. Its components were as follows:

No Headboard: None of the descriptions indicate the presence of a headboard.

The Headcloth: Described in 1689 as being like the curtains, “of ponceau brocade” [133]. As seen in Part 6.1, no ponceau brocade is mentioned in the set; instead, the color ponceau only appears as a border for the green-background brocade. This discrepancy is later clarified in 1708 when the curtains and headcloth are accurately described as “green background brocade with flowers of gold and silver outlined at the edge with ponceau” [134].

The Valences: Unlike previous descriptions, a more precise one does not come from the 1708 inventory, where they are mentioned along with the cantonières, bonne grace, and bases as simply being of “shepherd brocade” [135], but from the May 1689 Garde-Meuble entry, which states: “Three outer valences, with additional buttonholes, shells, tassels, and other embroidery taken from the campane left from the frieze of the tapestry; four inner valences. The seven valences [three outer + four inner] are entirely of the shepherd brocade, garnished at the bottom by large campane embroidery and at the top and sides by smaller campanes, with ponceau gros de tours lining” [136].

The Curtains: The fabric for the curtains matched the set: some were of shepherd brocade, while others were of the green brocade.The 1689 description specifies that the two bonne graces, two cantonières, and three bases were of the shepherd brocade, while the four outer-layer curtains were of the “ponceau brocade” [137]. As with the headcloth, the term "ponceau brocade" actually refers to the “green background brocade with flowers of gold and silver outlined at the edge with ponceau,” as inferred from the 1708 inventory [138].

The Quilt: Described in both 1689 and 1708 as being of “ponceau brocade” [139], the same caution regarding interpretation should be applied as above.

The Case Curtain: Made of 24 pieces of green taffeta sewn together, with large and medium gold and silver fringes at the bottom and sides [140].

The Columns: The two front columns were covered in sheaths: one in a brocade featuring Solomonic columns embroidered in gold and silver on a crimson satin background, and the other in a brocade with silver stripes and satin stripes adorned with gold and silver floral embroidery [141].

The Vases/Finials: Four in total (one at each corner), filled with feathers. No further information about the materials used is provided.

6.3 The Armchairs and Stools

The original 1680 description briefly mentions the presence of two armchairs [142].

In 1689, the armchairs and stools received new frames, which were “gilded and silver-plated.” The 12 stools from 1680 were replaced with eight folding stools at that time [143].

The armchairs were entirely covered with shepherd brocade on the backrest, seat, and armrests, with silver and gold braid and campane ornaments. The folding stools, on the other hand, had cushions made from a square of shepherd brocade surrounded by “ponceau brocade.” This term appears in both the 1689 Garde-Meuble entry [144] and the 1708 inventory [145]. We learn from the 1689 entry that there was not enough campane to decorate all eight folding stools; there was barely enough for six, and the remaining two had to rely on gold fringes instead [146]. This issue seems never to have been addressed, as the 1708 description notes this disparity as well [147].

These stools and armchairs were later encountered long after being removed from the bedchamber and returned to the Garde-Meuble, specifically in the 1775 general inventory of the Garde-Meuble, where they appear under number 106 among the brocade furnishings [148]. In this final description, we learn that, just as in 1708, the disparity in campane ornaments remained unaddressed and that the “ponceau brocade” mentioned in the 1689 and 1708 descriptions surrounding the shepherd brocade was, as expected, actually “of chiseled green background brocade, with silver and gold flowers” [149].

An additional armchair belonging to set 1870 is also listed in the 1708 inventory.

6.4 The Fire Screen

The fire screen was a new addition for the 1701 central bedchamber, as it was not part of the original delivery of set 1379 from May 1689. The 1708 inventory offers a lengthy description worth quoting in full:

“Fire screen with slide [écran à coulisse], covered on each side with a square of silver background brocade with vine, from which a grape hangs, with a shepherdess at the center enclosed by strips of green background brocade chiseled with gold, with gold and silver floral ornaments outlined at the edge with ponceau, garnished by a thin gold braid hiding the seam, with sculpted and gilded wood” [150].

6.6 The Table and Tablecloth

In 1689, at the initial delivery of the set, there were three different carpets (tapis), one of which was referred to as a table carpet (tapis de table) [151]. Although no table was provided with the initial delivery, the 1708 inventory mentions a fir wood table [152] with no inventory number listed directly after two of the aforementioned rugs, indicating that these other rugs were also likely table rugs, as was the first.

The first proper tablecloth was “made of the two brocades, garnished with fringes and gold and silver braids, lined with green taffeta” [153].

The second rug was made of green leather, with green taffeta lining and gold fringes.

The third rug, made of green taffeta with gold and silver fringes, is referred to in 1708 as the slipcover for the first.

6.7 The Portieres

The description of the four portieres is consistent between the 1689 Garde-Meuble entry and the 1708 description, comprising a total of five pieces of brocade sewn together: three of shepherd brocade and two of the green brocade, with campane ornaments at the bottom of two and fringes for the other two.

[125] AN O1/3453

[126] “The King’s bed is covered in red velvet in winter,” can be read in Félibien des Avaux, Description sommaire de Versailles ancienne et nouvelle, 1703 edition, p. 60. Despite the date of the edition, the rooms are described in their pre-1701 layout.

[127] AN O1/3445 f⁰ 2-4

[128] Guiffrey, Inventaire général du mobilier de la couronne sous Louis XIV, 1886 edition, vol. 2, p. 318

[129] Ibid

[130] AN O1/3445

[131] AN O1/3306 f⁰ 123 r⁰

[132] AN O1/3445

[133] AN O1/3306 f⁰ 122 r⁰

[134] AN O1/3445 f⁰ 2 • [135] Ibid

[136] AN O1/3306 f⁰ 122 r⁰

[137] Ibid

[138] AN O1/3445 f⁰ 3

[139] See previous footnotes

[140] AN O1/3445 f⁰ 2

[141] AN O1/3306 f⁰ 123 v⁰

[142] Guiffrey, 1886, vol 2, p.318

[143] AN O1/3306 f⁰ 122 r⁰

[144] Ibid v⁰

[145] AN O1/3445 f⁰ 3

[146] AN O1/3306 f⁰ 122 v⁰

[147] AN O1/3445 f⁰ 4

[148] AN O1/3345, f⁰ 272 v⁰

[149] AN O1/3445 f⁰ 3

[150] Ibid

[151] AN O1/3306 f⁰ 123 r⁰

[152] AN O1/3445 f⁰

[153] Ibid, AN O1/3306 f⁰ 123 r⁰

[elizatungusnakur]

Mhm. I do have a tag called “Loki is a post punk avant garde tour de force” specifically for such occasions.✨

Today, someone asked an interesting question in a pagan Facebook group. It was about the Norse deity Loki, but I am going to rephrase their question:

"Who do you see your deity in around you? What musicians and actors and artists and writers, directors, etc. make you feel like your deity is trying to connect with you through them?"

That's some food for thought, isn't it? It's especially interesting if you combine aspects of your spiritual practice with pop culture, I think.

[ratelet-james]

James Ratelet, sur les chemins du Gard, Arènes de Nîmes, Maison Carrée, Tour Magne et Temple de Diane, jardins de la Fontaine, Porte d'AugusteCostières, terroir viticole et activités autour de l'AOC Costières-de-nîmes, Mas des Tourelles, Beaucaire,Abbaye de Saint-Roman, Voie Régordane, Abbaye de Saint-Gilles, Petite Camargue, Scamandre, Gallician, Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, Aigues-Mortes, Salins du Midi, à Aigues-Mortes, Pointe de l'Espiguette, le pont du Gard, Uzès, Avignon, Occitanie , France, Europe

[denmark-street]

les couvertures qui se rejoignent !!

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Tour de garde, plage de l’Île-Rousse 1/06/2024…

[akiratronixe006]

- Sans -

Vivant à Couveneige avec son petit frère Papyrus, il passe le plus clair de son temps chez Gribbly quand il n'est pas au travail ou avec son frère. Il a plusieurs jobs :

- Sentinelles à Couveneige sous le patronat de Cammandogue

- Sentinelle aux Chutes patronné par Undyne

- Vendeurs de Hot-dog à Calciterre

- Serveur chez MTT hôtel

- Et Gardien à l'église de la Capitale

Il aime son frère et le soutient quoi qu'il arrive, mais son côté flemmard et ses blagues ne cesse d'irriter ce dernier. Mais ils restent tout de même très proche malgré leurs comportements opposé.

À part ça, il est assez neutre avec les autres monstre ainsi que Frisk, il ne les déteste pas ni ne les aime. Il les voit juste comme une bonne compagnie.

Il possède aussi un animal de compagnie qui n'a jamais été nommé à ce jour. Sans l'a adopté après qu'il lui soit tomber sur le crâne. C'est une pomme de pin.

Tête en l'air et flemmard, Sans est le cliché même du gars qui ne se casse pas le crâne. Réfléchi et posé, il donne souvent à Frisk de bon conseil et fait preuve de beaucoup de sang froid. Ses aptitudes lui ont ouvert les portes de la science qu'il a pratiqué pendant une courte durée avant d'arrêter définitivement. Il adore faire des jeux de mots et raconter des blagues pour lesquelles il a déjà trouvé un publique.

Frisk le rencontre lors de sa sortie des ruines, lors d'une de ses énièmes tour de garde. Il lui proposera de venir l'aider à tester un des casse-crâne de son frère.

[ekman]

La France est en soins palliatifs. Sous piquouze de choc. De l’olympisme en intraveineuse. Du shoot de winner médaillé or. Plus de gouvernement, certes, mais le petit peuple, toujours coiffé par ses élites, se délecte. Bientôt on tentera de payer sa baguette en drachme estampillé BCE, mais qui s’en fout ? La tant redoutée “troïka bruxelloise” viendra déféquer dans les bottes de la garde républicaine, nakamuratée à mort et bien incapable de défendre la porte du château. On devra faire ceci et ne plus faire cela. On dira adieu à l’épargne, aux retraites, à la santé. On se responsabilisera enfin sous le regard sévère (mais juste) de Blackrock, de Pfizer, d’Ourzoula et de tous les copains habillé en bleu atlantique. Chiche que l’on nous demandera d’apprendre l’ukrainien.

Et Branlotin, dans tout cela ? Eh bien le petit connard narcissique est parti tâter du muscle au soleil, photographié sur le yacht d’un énième oligarque (?), tout sourire, déjà bronzé, sans Jean-Bri. Ça va nous faire un combo cocaïne-vaseline au coucher du soleil, à n’en pas douter. Les feux de l’amour, avec le tandem Jolly-Boucheron en guests stars descendues en Falcon de la République.

La France coule, le sourire béat, les poumons pleins d’air pur, dans le bonheur d’une capitale sans bagnoles, sans racaille ouane-tou-sri, sans SDF, sans OQTF, sans subsahariens vendeurs de tour Eiffel, sans plus trop de violeurs pakis, mais avec plein de caméras réputées intelligentes, gavée de QR codes inquisiteurs en diable, avec du bleu poulaga à chaque carrefour, du piou-piou en gare, des bénévoles qui essaient encore de sourire aux couillons sportophiles venus de partout se faire plumer dans les restos à micro-ondes des quartiers encore épargnés par les grillages et les blocs de béton.

La France se noie parce qu’elle a bu la tasse dans une Seine plombée par les étrons, les rats crevés et les larmes des Gabin, des Audiard, des Blier, des Ventura et de tous les cadors d’un passé couillu et bien révolu. Un milliard et quatre cents millions pour permettre à Salvadorina Allende et à une ministre clitoridienne de jouir d’un bain pourri, infect, dégueulatoire. Tristes connes, pauvres athlètes.

Que se passera-t-il après tout cela ? Nul ne peut le dire. Les cartes de Madame Irma sont illisibles, tombées de la table, parties sous le tapis ou déjà bouffées par les rongeurs darwinisés par la règle du profit et du silence. Même les conjectureux de plateau nous parlent de concours de javelot ou de 400 mètres haies tant l’horizon est bouché – illisible, imprévisible, invisible.

La France, la France, la France... chienne aînée d’une Église wokisée, pute consentante de satrapes ricaneurs et lâches, cumshotée dans tous ses orifices, veinifiée à la pfizzerine, noyée dans la Cène, raccourcie à la Conciergerie... pauvre fille, qui fut si belle. Se remettra-t-elle de tous ces coups bas, ces avilissements, ces misères proprement médiévales ? 2025, année des funérailles, ou premier chapitre d’un nouveau récit ? Les deux, qui sait, mon Général ?

J.-M. M.

[marcelskittels]

Arnaud de Lie of Belgium and Lotto Dstny celebrates at finish line as stage winner during the Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard 2023 - Stage 1 a 162.18km stage from Bellegarde to Bellegarde on February 01, 2023 in Bellegarde, France. (Photo by Luc Claessen/Getty Images)