#Agence France

[melonthesprigatito]

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is really out there making me dive back into certain character hyperfixations from my earliest Pokémon fandom days. I haven't thought about these people in nearly a decade

The vintage blorbos are resurfacing

[shihlun]

AFP slides, Beijing, June 1989.

[fatehbaz]

[D]omesticated attack dogs [...] hunted those who defied the profitable Caribbean sugar regimes and North America’s later Cotton Kingdom, [...] enforced plantation regimens [...], and closed off fugitive landscapes with acute adaptability to the varied [...] terrains of sugar, cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations that they patrolled. [...] [I]n the Age of Revolutions the Cuban bloodhound spread across imperial boundaries to protect white power and suppress black ambitions in Haiti and Jamaica. [...] [Then] dog violence in the Caribbean spurred planters in the American South to import and breed slave dogs [...].

---

Spanish landowners often used dogs to execute indigenous labourers simply for disobedience. [...] Bartolomé de las Casas [...] documented attacks against Taino populations, telling of Spaniards who ‘hunted them with their hounds [...]. These dogs shed much human blood’. Many later abolitionists made comparisons with these brutal [Spanish] precedents to criticize canine violence against slaves on these same Caribbean islands. [...] Spanish officials in Santo Domingo were licensing packs of dogs to comb the forests for [...] fugitives [...]. Dogs in Panama, for instance, tracked, attacked, captured and publicly executed maroons. [...] In the 1650s [...] [o]ne [English] observer noted, ‘There is nothing in [Barbados] so useful as … Liam Hounds, to find out these Thieves’. The term ‘liam’ likely came from the French limier, meaning ‘bloodhound’. [...] In 1659 English planters in Jamaica ‘procured some blood-hounds, and hunted these blacks like wild-beasts’ [...]. By the mid eighteenth century, French planters in Martinique were also relying upon dogs to hunt fugitive slaves. [...] In French Saint-Domingue [Haiti] dogs were used against the maroon Macandal [...] and he was burned alive in 1758. [...]

Although slave hounds existed throughout the Caribbean, it was common knowledge that Cuba bred and trained the best attack dogs, and when insurrections began to challenge plantocratic interests across the Americas, two rival empires, Britain and France, begged Spain to sell these notorious Cuban bloodhounds to suppress black ambitions and protect shared white power. [...] [I]n the 1790s and early 1800s [...] [i]n the Age of Revolutions a new canine breed gained widespread popularity in suppressing black populations across the Caribbean and eventually North America. Slave hounds were usually descended from more typical mastiffs or bloodhounds [...].

---

Spanish and Cuban slave hunters not only bred the Cuban bloodhound, but were midwives to an era of international anti-black co-ordination as the breed’s reputation spread rapidly among enslavers during the seven decades between the beginning of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 and the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865. [...]

Despite the legends of Spanish cruelty, British officials bought Cuban bloodhounds when unrest erupted in Jamaica in 1795 after learning that Spanish officials in Cuba had recently sent dogs to hunt runaways and the indigenous Miskitos in Central America. [...] The island’s governor, Balcarres, later wrote that ‘Soon after the maroon rebellion broke out’ he had sent representatives ‘to Cuba in order to procure a number of large dogs of the bloodhound breed which are used to hunt down runaway negroes’ [...]. In 1803, during the final independence struggle of the Haitian Revolution, Cuban breeders again sold hundreds of hounds to the French to aid their fight against the black revolutionaries. [...] In 1819 Henri Christophe, a later leader of Haiti, told Tsar Alexander that hounds were a hallmark of French cruelty. [...]

---

The most extensively documented deployment of slave hounds [...] occurred in the antebellum American South and built upon Caribbean foundations. [...] The use of dogs increased during that decade [1830s], especially with the Second Seminole War in Florida (1835–42). The first recorded sale of Cuban dogs into the United States came with this conflict, when the US military apparently purchased three such dogs for $151.72 each [...]. [F]ierce bloodhounds reputed to be from Cuba appeared in the Mississippi valley as early as 1841 [...].

The importation of these dogs changed the business of slave catching in the region, as their deployment and reputation grew rapidly throughout the 1840s and, as in Cuba, specialized dog handlers became professionalized. Newspapers advertised slave hunters who claimed to possess the ‘Finest dogs for catching negroes’ [...]. [S]lave hunting intensified [from the 1840s until the Civil War] [...]. Indeed, tactics in the American South closely mirrored those of their Cuban predecessors as local slave catchers became suppliers of biopower indispensable to slavery’s profitability. [...] [P]rice [...] was left largely to the discretion of slave hunters, who, ‘Charging by the day and mile [...] could earn what was for them a sizeable amount - ten to fifty dollars [...]'. William Craft added that the ‘business’ of slave catching was ‘openly carried on, assisted by advertisements’. [...] The Louisiana slave owner [B.B.] portrayed his own pursuits as if he were hunting wild game [...]. The relationship between trackers and slaves became intricately systematized [...]. The short-lived republic of Texas (1836–46) even enacted specific compensation and laws for slave trackers, provisions that persisted after annexation by the United States.

---

All text above by: Tyler D. Parry and Charlton W. Yingling. "Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas". Past & Present Volume 246, Issue 1, pages 69-108. February 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[semioticapocalypse]

Agence Dalmas. Nikita Chruschtschow. Paris. May, 1960

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Marcello Mastroianni e Anita Ekberg nel film "La dolce vita" di Federico Fellini 1960. Agence France Press

[jloisse]

| Fabrice Fries, PDG de l'Agence France-Presse (AFP), s'exprimant au Sénat français :

Nous sommes une agence de presse et la plupart de nos clients ne considèrent pas le Hamas comme une organisation terroriste.

Nous affirmons dans nos reportages que les États-Unis et l'Union européenne le font (contrairement à la plupart des pays du monde), mais nous subissons des pressions depuis un mois. C'est de la folie.

Les clients de notre agence décident eux-mêmes de la définition du Hamas.

[stilltravels]

Paris, Barcelona and Rome

PARIS, BARCELONA, AND ROME

11 Days

Pastries, tapas, and spaghetti alla carbonara are waiting on this tantalizing nine-night journey to France, Spain, and Italy. Guests will arrive in Paris, where they can stretch their legs in the Tuileries Garden, admire the interior of Sacré-Coeur, or take a day trip to the stunning Palace of Versailles. From there, it’s on to Barcelona—home to the magnificent La Sagrada Familia and the bustling pedestrian thoroughfare of La Rambla. Guests can browse the artworks on display in the Picasso Museum or stroll through whimsical Park Güell before heading on to explore the ancient wonders of Rome. After they’ve toured the Colosseum and marveled at the masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel, they can sample street food at Testaccio Market or rent a bike and pedal along the Appia Antica—one of the oldest roads in the Roman Empire.

Date - Aug 22 - Sept 1, 2024

What's Included

Seine River Cruise from Eiffel Tower

Paradis Latin - Dinner and Show Gustave Eiffel

Lunch at Eiffel Tower + Cruise + Paris City Tour PM

Private Full Day Barcelona Sightseeing - Car and Driver

Shared Tour: Sagrada Familia plus Artistic-The Best of Gaudi Half-day Tour

Flamenco Show with Dinner at Tablao Flamenco Cordobes

Shared Tour: Gothic Quarter Walking Tour

Private Cooking Workshop with Boqueria Market Visit Afternoon Tour in Barcelona

Small Group: Exclusive Cooking Lesson & Grocery Tour in Rome

Small Group: Cooking Class in Mazzano

Private Morning Half Day Rome Tour with Car & English Speaking Driver

Total Package Price - $2,517.00 (per person)

Call or text 6784691977 or email yourstilltravels@gmail.com

www.stilltravelsllc.com

**Prices and availability are subject to change

#france#parisfrance#barcelona#spain#rome#italy#italygram#slowtravel#slowtravelling#travelling#travellingram#travellingtheworld#travellife#luxurylife#luxurytravel#luxury#vacations#travels#travelinspiration#travelagent#travellovers#traveltheworld#stilltravels

[hippography]

Title:  16-6-11, concours agricole, cheval arabe : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Author:  Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire)

Publication date:  16 juin 1911

Relationship:  http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40474057

Source:  Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, EST EI-13 (93)

[panicinthestudio]

Hong Kong hit by widespread flooding and landslides as heavy rain paralyses city, September 8th, 2023

Hong Kong was hit by widespread flooding and landslides as heavy rain paralysed the city. The Observatory recorded the highest one-hour rainfall since records began in 1884. Vid: Patrick Lamoine/Libby Hogan/AFP.

Hong Kong hit with heaviest rainfall since records began 139 years ago, September 7, 2023

Hong Kong reported 158.1mm of rainfall in the space of an hour, the highest since records began in 1884. Local authorities said various districts had been flooded and emergency services were conducting rescue operations. Members of the public were instructed to stay in a safe place. The Guardian

Further reading:

HKFP: At least 2 dead after Hong Kong battered by record rainfall, severe flooding, September 8, 2023

Reuters: Hong Kong, Shenzhen deluged by heaviest rain on record, September 8, 2023

[moondustbooks]

May JOMP Day 22 - Books and Plants

A little violet, freshly repotted, and an air fern.

[luberon-provence]

Villa with small garden and garage

Sale villa with small garden and garage

In Villars, a charming village halfway between Apt and Saint Saturnin lès Apt. Small villa of approximately 88 m² on 2 levels with attached garage. This house, adjoining on one side, consists of a living room of 23 m² (with reversible air conditioning and stove exit) opening onto a garden, a half-level then leads you to an equipped kitchen, a master bedroom with bathroom (rooms opening onto a terrace to the southwest), and toilet/laundry room; another half-level leads you to 2 bedrooms and a bathroom with toilet. Garage and private parking space.

In Villars, in the Luberon. Villa of 88 m² type T4 (3 bedrooms) with garden, terrace, garage and private parking ! 240 000 euros

https://www.immobilier-en-luberon.fr/en/villa-with-small-garden-and-garage-1127

[moonshotsx]

no thoughts head full of la grande dame

[basilecrespinphoto]

Photo shoot in Paris, for Odalisque Magazine and Titanium Management Agency. 

https://www.odalisquemagazine.com/

Basile Crespin photographer  : www.basile-crespin.fr

www.book-maker.fr

[camilledecussac]

LA LIESSE https://www.slowgalerie.com/fr/

[happywebdesign]

https://club-architecture.com/

[stilltravels]

Slow travel in France

Slow travel in Avignon, France

Roundtrip air/transportation from Atlanta to France

Dates - Aug 23 - 28, 2024

Room - Privilege

Nights - 5

Airport transfers included.

Sightseeing

Afternoon Wine Tour to Châteauneuf du Pape - Following a panoramic drive through the vineyards of Châteauneuf du Pape, guests will enjoy wine tastings at two different cellars and learn about grape varieties and terroir. An additional stop will be made at the ruins of Pope’s summer palace, which affords sweeping views of the Rhône River Valley and surrounding mountains.

All Provence in One Day Tour - Picturesque hilltop villages, unrivaled landscapes, ancient architecture, and plenty of culture await you on this full-day excursion from Avignon. You will have the chance to explore the colorful village of Roussillon, stop for a photo in Gordes, wander on their own in the medieval commune of Les Baux-de-Provence, and visit the cave in Fontaine de Vaucluse. Additional stops will be made at the soaring Pont du Gard and Les Antiques in Saint-Rémy. You can stroll past the stalls at the weekly market in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.

Total Package Price - $ 2735.40 (per person)

Call or text 6784691977 or email yourstilltravels@gmail.com

www.stilltravelsllc.com

**Prices and availability are subject to change

#avignon#avignonfrance#france#slowtravel#slowtravelling#travelling#travellingram#travellingtheworld#travellife#luxurylife#luxurytravel#luxury#vacations#travels#travelinspiration#travelagent#travellovers#traveltheworld#stilltravels