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Años 1940-1950

1946 : Le Beau voyage de Louis Cuny - Un mauvais garçon

1948 : L'assassin est à l'écoute de Raoul André - le barman

1950 : Dieu a besoin des hommes de Jean Delannoy

1950 : Le Mystérieux colonel Barclay, cortometraje de Jacques Vilfrid

1951 : Seul dans Paris : de Hervé Bromberger un homme du village

1952 : Jeux interdits de René Clément - Georges Dollé

1952 : Nous sommes tous des assassins de André Cayatte

1953 : Quitte ou double de Robert Vernay - Lucien

1953 : Un jour comme les autres, cortometraje de Georges Rouquier - Pierrot

1954 : Faites-moi confiance de Gilles Grangier - Bob

1954 : Avant le déluge de André Cayatte - L'ouvrier à bicyclette

1954 : J'y suis... j'y reste de Maurice Labro

1954 : Papa, maman, la bonne et moi de Jean-Paul Le Chanois - Le voisin

1955 : Si Paris nous était conté de Sacha Guitry - Un gardien de prison

1955 : Papa, maman, ma femme et moi de Jean-Paul Le Chanois - Le garagiste

1955 : Ça va barder de John Berry

1955 : Sur le banc de Robert Vernay - Le policier qui court après La Hurlette et Carmen

1955 : Le Dossier noir de André Cayatte - Un policier

1955 : Les Évadés de Jean-Paul Le Chanois - Un prisonnier

1955 : French Cancan de Jean Renoir - Un homme dans la file d'attente

1955 : La Rue des bouches peintes de Robert Vernay - Le commissaire

1955 : Les Hommes en blanc de Ralph Habib

1955 : Gas-oil de Gilles Grangier - Le gendarme

1955 : L'Amant de lady Chatterley de Marc Allégret - Un homme du pub

1956 : Des gens sans importance de Henri Verneuil - Le routier qui fesse Clotilde

1956 : Marie-Antoinette de Jean Delannoy - Un crieur de journaux

1956 : Mon curé chez les pauvres d’Henri Diamant-Berger

1956 : Ces sacrées vacances de Robert Vernay - L'automobiliste

1956 : Le Sang à la tête de Gilles Grangier - L'agent de police

1956 : Paris, Palace Hôtel de Henri Verneuil - Le livreur de fleurs

1956 : La Traversée de Paris de Claude Autant-Lara Le patron du restaurant

1956 : Cette sacrée gamine de Michel Boisrond - Un gendarme

1956 : Reproduction interdite de Gilles Grangier

1957 : Le rouge est mis de Gilles Grangier - Un flic de garde

1957 : A Paris tous les deux - (Paris holiday) de Gerd Oswald.

1957 : Les femmes sont marrantes de André Hunebelle - Le taxi

1957 : Les Vendanges (The Vintage) de Jeffrey Hayden

1957 : Le Coin tranquille de Robert Vernay

1957 : Porte des Lilas de René Clair - L'inspecteur qui enquête sur le vol chez l'épicier

1957 : Une Parisienne de Michel Boisrond - Le motard

1957 : Montparnasse 19 de Jacques Becker - Le patron du café

1958 : Les Misérables de Jean-Paul Le Chanois : Le messager (dans la première époque)

1958 : La Tour, prends garde ! de Georges Lampin

1958 : Le Désordre et la Nuit de Gilles Grangier - Le garçon de café bavard

1958 : En cas de malheur de Claude Autant-Lara - Le réceptionniste du Trianon-Hôtel

1958 : Les Racines du ciel (Roots of Heaven) de John Huston - Cerisot

1958 : Le Miroir à deux faces de André Cayatte - Un professeur

1958 : Le Temps des œufs durs de Norbert Carbonnaux - Le pêcheur

1958 : Trois jours à vivre de Gilles Grangier : le gendarme

1958 : Les Tricheurs de Marcel Carné - Monsieur Félix

1958 : Madame et son auto de Robert Vernay - Monsieur Rouille

1958 : Le Joueur de Claude Autant-Lara

1959 : Archimède le clochard de Gilles Grangier - Mimile, un habitué du café

1959 : Rue des prairies de Denys de La Patellière - Monsieur Mauduis

1959 : Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre de Jean Delannoy - Albert, le chauffeur de la comtesse

1959 : Guinguette de Jean Delannoy - Albert

1959 : Drôles de phénomènes de Robert Vernay - L'inspecteur

1959 : Croquemitoufle ou Les Femmes des autres de Claude Barma - Le contrôleur

1959 : La Bête à l'affût de Pierre Chenal - Le contrôleur routier

1959 : Match contre la mort de Claude Bernard-Aubert.

Año 1960

1960 : Les Vieux de la vieille de Gilles Grangier - Le brigadier de gendarmerie dont la chaîne de vélo a sauté

1960 : La Française et l'Amour, sketch Le Mariage de René Clair - Le contrôleur

1960 : Drame dans un miroir (Crack in the Mirror) de Richard Fleischer - Le gardien

1960 : Pantalaska de Paul Paviot - Monsieur Tropman

1960 : Monsieur Suzuki de Robert Vernay

1960 : Vers l'extase de René Wheeler - Le boucher

1960 : Au cœur de la ville de Pierre Gautherin

1961 : Le Président de Henri Verneuil - Gaston, le chauffeur de car.

1961 : Le cave se rebiffe de Gilles Grangier - L'inspecteur Larpin, de la police mondaine

1961 : Le Général ennemi (The Ennemy General) de George Sherman - Marceau

1961 : Le Grand Risque (The Big Gamble) de Richard Fleischer - L'employé de l'hôtel

1961 : Arrêtez les tambours de Georges Lautner - L'épicier

1961 : Le Monocle noir de Georges Lautner - Trochu

1961 : La Pendule à Salomon de Vicky Ivernel

1962 : Le Gentleman d'Epsom de Gilles Grangier - Raoul, le boucher turfiste

1962 : Gigot, le clochard de Belleville (Gigot) de Gene Kelly - Jean

1962 : Le Couteau dans la plaie de Anatole Litvak - Le commissaire

1962 : La Belle des îles (Tiara Tahiti) de Ted Kotcheff - Desmoulins

1962 : Portrait-robot de Paul Paviot

1963 : Charade de Stanley Donen - L'inspecteur Édouard Grandpierre

1963 : Le Glaive et la Balance de André Cayatte - Un gendarme

1963 : Méfiez-vous, mesdames de André Hunebelle

1963 : Le Poulet, cortometraje de Claude Berri

1964 : Le Train de John Frankenheimer y Bernard Farrel - Jacques, le chef de gare de Rive-Reine

1964 : La Vie conjugale (version Françoise) d’André Cayatte

1964 : Vacances pour Yvette (Vacaciones para Yvette) de José-Maria Forque

1965 : Fantômas se déchaîne de André Hunebelle - L'agent de police ferroviaire

1965 : Humour noir, sketch La Bestiole de Claude Autant-Lara

1965 : Les Bons Vivants, sketch La Fermeture de Gilles Grangier - L'acquéreur du mobilier de la maison close

1966 : Comment voler un million de dollars (How to steal a million) de William Wyler - Le gardien-chef du musée

1966 : Paris au mois d'août de Pierre Granier-Deferre - Bouvreuil

1966 : Les Centurions (Lost Command) de Mark Robson - Le maire coléreux à qui on prend son hélicoptère

1966 : Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde, sketch Aujourd'hui de Claude Autant-Lara - L'agent de police

1966 : La Vingt-cinquième Heure de Henri Verneuil - Le soldat chez Dubrosco

1968 : La Motocyclette (The Girl on a Motorcycle) de Jack Cardiff - Le pompiste

1968 : L'Homme à la Buick de Gilles Grangier - Un déménageur

1969 : La Nuit du lendemain (The Night of the Following Day) de Hubert Cornfield y Richard Boone - Le patron du café

1969 : La Fiancée du pirate de Nel.

Año 1970

1970 : Hello, Goodbye (Hello Goodbye) de Jean Negulesco

1970 : Darling Lili (Darling Lili) de Blake Edwards - Le major Duval

1971 : Mourir d'aimer de André Cayatte - Le correspondant

1971 : Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite de Michel Audiard - Antoine Simonet, chef de train S.N.C.F

1971 : Jo de Jean Girault - Andrieux, un policier chercheur

1971 : Le Cinéma de papa de Claude Berri - L'acteur jouant le chef de gare

1971 : Le Petit Matin de Jean-Gabriel Albicocco - La Bouhère

1973 : Shaft contre les trafiquants d'hommes (Shaft in Africa) de John Guillermin - L'inspecteur Cusset

1973 : Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie ? de Robert Lamoureux - L'épicier français collaborateur

1974 : L'Île sur le toit du monde (Island at the Top of the World) de Robert Stevenson - Le capitaine Brieux

1974 : Les murs ont des oreilles de Jean Girault - Lucas

1974 : Vos gueules, les mouettes ! de Robert Dhéry - Le porte-bannière

1974 : Les "S" pions (S.P.Y.S) d’Irvin Kershner - Lafayette

1974 : Impossible... pas français de Robert Lamoureux - Dussautoy

1975 : Bons baisers de Hong Kong d’Yvan Chiffre - Le gradé de la police

1975 : Opération Lady Marlène de Robert Lamoureux - Le bistrot

1975 : Flic Story de Jacques Deray - Le patron de l'auberge de Saint-Rémy

1975 : Catherine et compagnie de Michel Boisrond - Le patron de l'agence de location de voitures

1976 : Marathon Man (Marathon Man) de John Schlesinger - Leclerc

1976 : L'Année sainte de Jean Girault - Moreau, le gardien de prison

1976 : Le Jour de gloire de Jacques Besnard - Le patron du bistrot

1977 : Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes de Jean Girault - L'inspecteur de police

1977 : La Coccinelle à Monte-Carlo (Herbie Goes to Monte-Carlo) de Vincent McEveety - L'inspecteur Bouchet

1978 : L'Horoscope de Jean Girault - J.L. Beauché

1978 : La Grande cuisine (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?) de Ted Kotcheff - Masseret

1978 : Général... nous voilà ! de Jacques Besnard - Mac Goland

1979 : Grandison d’Achim Kurz.

Años 1980 - 1990

1981 : Ach du lieber Harry de Jean Girault - Un haut dignitaire

1982 : Te marre pas .. c'est pour rire ! de Jacques Besnard - Albert, le chauff.

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brookstonalmanac · 7 years

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Events 8.8

870 – Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partition the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions. 1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1509 – Krishnadeva Raya is crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara at Chittoor. 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven. 1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage. 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England. 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden. 1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces. 1648 – Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as Ottoman Emperor. 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal. 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard. 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution. 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska. 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). 1863 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt). 1870 – The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania. 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight. 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. 1940 – The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel. 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence. 1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials. 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range. 1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes. 1963 – The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union. 1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road. 1969 – The Manson Family commits the Tate murders. 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped. 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. 1993 – The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people. 1998 – Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist. 2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. 2008 – A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others. 2008 – The Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad were opened in Beijing, China. 2009 – A tour helicopter and a private Piper aircraft collide over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S; all 3 people on the helicopter and all 6 people aboard the Piper are killed, 40 blocks south of where US Airways Flight 1549 ditched after suffering multiple bird strikes just 7 months earlier. 2010 – China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people. 2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people. 2015 – Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas. 2016 – Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.

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pharology101 · 4 years

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LOTD: Mont Saint-Michel

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Mont Saint-Michel (2) (Tour Gabriel)

1881 (station established 1870). Inactive since 1904. Approx. 8 m (26 ft) round cylindrical stone tower with a conical roof, known as the Tour Gabriel (Gabriel Tower). A closeup photo of the tower is available and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Mont Saint-Michel is a famous and historic fortified abbey on an island in the southeastern corner of the Baie du Mont Saint-Michel at the base of the Cotentin peninsula. The Tour Gabriel is located at the base of the mount, on the west side of the island. The abbey is surrounded by a large area that is covered with water at high tide but dry at low tide. The light was displayed "from 2 hours before to 1-1/2 hour after high water," according to an 1895 light list. During this brief interval it was possible for small boats to approach the abbey. The light was discontinued when it was observed that no boats were making use of this service. Located at the abbey, about 5 km (3 mi) north of Beauvoir. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS FRA-760.

(photo found here; ©Jean Noël Huchez)

#lotd lighthouses lighthouseoftheday pharology pharology101 #mont saint-michel #france

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jacquesmaget · 5 years

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Motorhome memories

C’est ainsi que tout à commencé…

Dans les années ’80, lors d’essais réalisés pour le magazine Touring, d’abord, puis de vacances aux USA, ensuite, nous avions contracté le virus du nomadisme… Pas la forme aiguë, non… Mais quand même, l’idée de vacances rimant avec errances nous plaisait bien. Cependant, l’acquisition de cette résidence secondaire mobile nous semblait hors de portée de nos moyens . Et le petit Post-it © sur lequel était écrit le mot « Folie » se contentait de rester collé dans un coin de notre tête. Mais bien que la teinte jaune du papier pâlissait au fil des ans, le mot « Folie » restait quant à lui bien lisible. Et son encre aussi fraîche qu’au premier jour.

Novembre 2002. Michelle, mon amour d’épouse, avec qui je rêve de partager un motorhome depuis un petit temps déjà, me pousse (ou, me traîne ?) au Salon de la caravane à Bruxelles. « Juste pour voir les nouveautés. », m’assure-t-elle. Et rêver encore un peu plus… sans doute. Elle était déjà prête à casser notre tirelire. Moi, pas encore. Je trouvais toujours cet investissement aussi énorme.

Novembre 2003. Dimanche après-midi. Dernier jour du Salon de la caravane de Bruxelles. Sur un coup de tête d’après sieste, je lui propose : « On y va ? » … « Où ça ? » « Ben, au Salon de la caravane ! ». Elle ne se fait pas prier. En route ! Le modèle (avec lit permanent) qui nous avait plu en 2002 a fait des petits. Nous avons donc le choix entre trois marques. « Il te plait celui-ci ? » « Tu es sérieux ? » Il est dix sept heures, le Salon va bientôt fermer. « Ben tu en as vraiment envie ?… Alors, on le prend ? » Surprise la Miche ! On hésite encore un peu entre deux marques, Michelle marchande et négocie des suppléments, et c’est Le Roller Team Corfu châssis Mercedes qui l’emporte. Avec la clim en prime ! Partie de la maison avec des rêves, Michelle rentre à Court avec un bon d’achat dûment signé pour la maison (mobile) de ses rêves. Livraison en février 2004.

7 octobre 2019, Ligny. Nous venons de déposer le Roller Team Corfu en dépôt vente chez notre « motorhomiste » Ligny Motors. Michelle l’a soigneusement vidé et nettoyé. Il est presque comme neuf ! Merci encore mille fois à elle. Pour l’amener là, j’ai repris le volant de Namur à Ligny. Limite un peu plus stressé qu’en février 2004 lorsque je l’avais piloté pour la première fois en le ramenant d’Ostende. Mais ici, c’était de peur qu’il ne lui arrive « quelque chose » pour notre dernier voyage. Comme le premier jour, Michelle suivait avec notre voiture. Et comme le premier jour, je vérifiais sa présence rassurante par de multiples coups d’œil dans le rétroviseur.

Namur-Ligny. En 32,4 kilomètres, c’étaient 95.000 kilomètres et quinze années d’images de bons moments, et de quelques galères, qui défilaient spontanément dans mon rétro intérieur. Quinze années, à raison de trois mois d’utilisation par an, cela fait quand même presque quatre ans passés dans (et autour de, heureusement) cette boîte blanche de 2,50 m sur 7. Le plus souvent rien que nous deux, mais parfois avec Eva et Leo dont ces séjours rythmèrent l’enfance, des Ardennes à la mer.

En plus du Portugal, notre « grand » voyage, notre « camion » nous aura permis de séjourner dans des endroits les plus inattendus de la belle campagne de France. Mais surtout de son littoral. De Bray-Dunes, le cap Nord de la France, à Bayonne. Par la Somme, la Normandie, la Bretagne, la Vendée, les Charentes et les Landes, nous aurons pédalé sur les plus belles voies vertes et les tronçons cyclables du GR 34. Sans oublier, la douceur angevine, le Roussillon, le canal du Midi et celui de la Garonne, le Lubéron, les Alpes de Haute-Provence, le Beaujolais, l’Alsace, la Champagne, le Périgord. Nuitant chez les agriculteurs de « France Passion » ou dans des jardins d’amis. Chez Christine et Michel à Lautrec; Martine et Jean-Raoul à Champosoult et Bouchemaine; Thérèse et Etienne à Mesnac; Hedwig et Gabriel à Saint-Marcel-du-Périgord; Christine et Pierre à Arsimont; Joce et Charly à Bran; Fanny à Lassay-sur-Croisne; Anne et Jean-Paul à Lamothe-Landerron; Anne-Marie et Christian à Grenoble; Maggy et Michel à Montségur; Marie-Louise et Jean-Louis à Lesve; …

Quelques grands moments ? La descente de la Loire d’Orléans à l’océan. La semaine dans le lavandin, à perte de vue, de Valensole. La migration des grues cendrées au lac de Der. Un lever de soleil sur le pic du Midi, et les couchers de soleil de la pointe du Cotentin à celle de Noirmoutier, en passant par le Mont Saint-Michel et les rochers d’Etretat.

Un paquet de pages qui se tournent. Il va nous falloir réapprendre à prendre des vacances autrement. Des vacances où désormais les petits villages perchés, notamment, nous seront accessibles. Nous avons laissé les guides des aires pour camping-cars à nos successeurs. A nous les chambres d’hôtes et les gîtes…

Me manqueront beaucoup, énormément, follement, les ballades cyclo-matinales à la recherche de « la » baguette « bien cuite » pour le petit déj’ de Michelle. Et les petits cafés, les rencontres et la « gazette » qui allaient avec. Me manquera moins le stress -croissant avec l’âge- de la conduite et des imprévus. Ah ! Les tempêtes hollandaises, flamandes, bretonnes et noirmoutraines qui nous faisaient tanguer et rouler des nuits entières… Ah ! ces orages de grêlons du Poitou, de l’île de Ré, de Vendée et du Ventoux, où nous pensions notre dernière heure venue ! Ne manqueront pas du tout à Michelle, la gestion logistique et le « service avant-et-après-vacances » de ces voyages. Des soucis qui étaient le prix à payer pour quelques moments de divine insouciance que nous ne regretterons jamais. Mais aussi les moments de partage rares et intergénérationnels avec Leo et Eva. Ah ! les parties de nain jaune, de manille, de « uno »… Les goûters « crêpes-choco » dans les dunes. Et la « pizza-flamekuche-tartiflette » traditionnelle du dernier souper… Moments rendus plus intenses, sans doute, par l’exiguïté de cet espace de vie.

Notre motorhome, c’était une base de découvertes. Nos vélos étaient des navettes spéciales, comme les youyous dont les navigateurs se servent pour aller à terre. Ma décision d’arrêter le vélo suite à une bête chute aura entraîné la décision -commune- de changer notre style de vacances. Aujourd’hui, notre motorhome, rapidement vendu, a trouvé une nouvelle famille. Qu’il lui procure autant de joies qu’il nous en a offert. Puisse-t-elle en prendre soin comme nous l’avons fait. Dans le fond, « Avec 95.000 km au compteur, comme me disait un ancien, le rodage est tout juste terminé ! »

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easytravelpw-blog · 6 years

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Top 15 Monuments and Historic Sites in Paris

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Monuments Marking Paris’ Rich History

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Paris is a city with a rich history that stretches back to the third century B.C. It is no surprise, then, that important Paris monuments are so numerous, breathtaking, and varied in terms of period and architectural style. From Roman-era ruins to post-World War II memorials, these famous sites and monuments in the City of Light are essential keys to understanding the city's elaborate and complicated past.

Before you go, also check out which are the 10 most visited tourist attractions and top 10 museums in Paris. Make a plan to visit those sites that appeal to you most.

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Notre-Dame Cathedral

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Dating to the 12th century, Notre Dame dramatically towers alongside the banks of the Seine River, beckoning all to come to visit. It's simply breathtaking, with its intricate Gothic architectural details that took workers over a century to complete. Other stunning details are its flying buttresses; its famed bell tower from which one can still imagine Hugo's Quasimodo carrying out his duties; the scary and humorous gargoyles; and the stained-glass rose window inside. If you have extra time, make sure to visit the archaeological crypt at Notre Dame to learn more about the history of its construction and other fascinating elements.

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Eiffel Tower

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When one of the world's most famous landmarks was presented as part of the 1889 World Exposition in Paris, many decried it as an eyesore on the city's horizon and demanded its removal. Who would have thought then, that the Eiffel Tower would become such an enduring and beloved icon of the City of Light? Before you go, learn the about the Eiffel Tower's interesting facts.

If you can, avoid visiting at peak hours and on weekends, so you can make the most of your visit and really enjoy the views from the top. The best times are just after it first opens and in the evenings.

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The Louvre Palace and Museum

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When most think of the Louvre, it's thought of as a museum, but it was a fortress and palace long before it became a world center for art. The palace is a testament to its rich history spanning from the medieval period to the present. Visiting the Louvre's Medieval foundation is fascinating. The adjacent Tuileries Gardens are perfect for a stroll before or after your visit to the museum. There is so much to see at the Louvre, don't try to pack it into just one day.

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Arc de Triomphe

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Looming 164 feet above the bustling traffic circle at the head of the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, the Arc de Triomphe seems to exemplify pomp and circumstance. You just do not get structures like these anymore. The arch is an icon of imperial France under Napoleon I and is a testament to a time when European leaders felt no shame in erecting massive structures in the service of their equally massive egos. Many do not bother to take the tour to the top, but the views over the elegant avenue stretching all the way to the Place de la Concorde, through the Tuileries, and on to the Louvre is more than worthwhile.

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The Sorbonne and the Latin Quarter

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You can almost picture it: a student roaming the halls of the Sorbonne with dusty old books clutched underarm, or, that same student sipping cafe perched in its old square situated in the St-Michel neighborhood in the Latin Quarter. One of Europe's oldest and most esteemed universities, the Sorbonne was founded in 1257, but studies here were initially exclusively theological. This is because, during the Medieval period, scholarship was almost exclusively the domain of monks, scribes, and other figures attached to the Catholic Church. Of course, in later centuries, the Sorbonne would go on to help produce some of Europe's most famous minds, before becoming a site of revolt during the 1968 student movements. After you have had your fill of the school, take a step into the Old Latin Quarter: the Rue Mouffetard district.

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The Pantheon

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The Pantheon is a neoclassical-style mausoleum where many of France's great minds like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Victor Hugo are buried. It was built between 1758 and 1790. From the Pantheon, a distant Eiffel Tower can be seen. Stop by the Pantheon during a stroll in the Latin Quarter.

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Pere Lachaise Cemetery

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There are many beautiful cemeteries within Paris, Pere Lachaise is one of most popular and loveliest. In addition to hosting the graves of famous souls from Oscar Wilde, playwright Moliere, and Jim Morrison of the Doors, the cemetery is simply a gorgeous place to stroll and meditate. There are also important war memorials on the site that pay tribute to the many who perished in conflicts and wars.

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La Sainte Chapelle

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Not far from Notre Dame on the Ile de la Cite looms another pinnacle of gothic architecture. Sainte Chapelle was erected in the mid-13th century by King Louis IX. The cathedral features some of the period's best-conceived stained glass, housing a total of 15 glass panels and a prominent large window, whose colors remain surprisingly vibrant. Wall paintings and elaborate carvings place more emphasis on the stunning Medieval beauty of Sainte Chapelle.

To extend your visit, you can tour the adjoining Conciergerie, part of the former Medieval royal palace. It was used as a prison during the Revolutionary “Terror.” Queen Marie Antoinette spent her last days there before being executed.

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Opera Garnier

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Seating 2,200 people, the imposing Opera Garnier in Paris—also known as the Palais Garnier or simply the Paris Opera—is an architectural treasure and essential spot for the city's ballet and classical music scene.

Designed by Charles Garnier and inaugurated in 1875 as the Academie Nationale de Musique Theatre de l'Opera (National Academy of Music Opera Theater), the neo-baroque style building is the home of the Paris ballet. The city's official opera company relocated to the starkly contemporary Opera Bastille in 1989.

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Hotel de Cluny and Roman Baths

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The Hotel de Cluny is a Medieval residence that now houses the National Medieval Museum. The famous tapestry, “The Lady and the Unicorn,” is displayed there. Situated in the historic Latin Quarter, not far from the Sorbonne, the Hotel de Cluny boasts a Medieval-style aromatic garden that provides a pleasant spot for a stroll or for reading on a bench in the spring or summer.

The ruins of Roman Empire thermal baths can also be seen on-site. One of the museum's rooms, the tepidarium, was originally the “warm room” from the baths.

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Palais Royal Gardens

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Situated between the Louvre and the Opera Garnier is a Renaissance-style palace that was once the residence of the Cardinal Richelieu. Today, occupied by luxury boutiques and restaurants, as well as several government offices, the Palais Royal was for centuries the center of royal amusement. French playwright Moliere occupied a theater that once stood here with his troupe. It has since burned down, twice.

The stately palais and accompanying gardens are a very pleasant place for a stroll, cafe, or whirl around high-end shops, while Daniel Buren's quirky modern sculpture adds an interesting contrast to the old-world charm.

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Hotel de Ville (City Hall)

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Yet another “hotel” that is most certainly not a hotel in the English sense, Paris' Renaissance-style City Hall sits proudly in the center of Paris. It was built in 1873 on the vast plaza that was once called “Place de la Greve,” a site notorious for gory public executions during the Medieval period.

Today, Hôtel de Ville hosts events throughout the year like free exhibits, concerts during the summer, and ice-skating during the winter months. It can be a glorious sight in its lit evening guise.

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Les Invalides

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This vast complex was built as a hospital and convalescent home for injured soldiers under the reign of Louis XIV. Part of Les Invalides maintains this role today, but it is most famous for housing the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte. The on-site Musée de l'Armée (Army Museum) boasts a vast collection of military artifacts and an elaborate armory.

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Saint Denis Basilica

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Just north of Paris in a working-class suburb is one of France's oldest sites of Christian worship and its most famous abbey—a burial place for 43 kings and 32 queens. The Saint Denis Basilica, whose current edifice was built sometime between the 11th and 12th centuries, served as a royal burial site from as early as the fifth century. With its sculpted tombs and flamboyant Gothic details, this often-overlooked gem is worth a trip outside the city limits.

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Deportation Memorial

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This sober memorial pays tribute to the 200,000 people (mostly Jews) who were deported to Nazi death camps from France during World War II. Erected in 1962 on the banks of the Seine (across from Notre Dame) and on the site of a former morgue, the Deportation Memorial was designed by architect G.H. Pingusson to evoke a sense of claustrophobia and despair.

One part of the memorial features an “eternal flame of hope” and an inscription reading the following: “Dedicated to the living memory of the 200,000 French deportees sleeping in the night and the fog, exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps.”

Nearby, you can visit the Paris Museum of Jewish Arts and History.

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THE DIVINE WORD AND REVELATION OF GODHEAD THAT CAME THROUGH LADY #EmiliaClarke AND COMPANIONS AT #GAMEOFTHRONES #GAMEOFTHRONES8 #GOT8 TO THE COMMONDOMINION'S FIRST PRESIDENCY ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2018, AS IT HAPPENED.

What really made #HannaleiCabanilla and #CharityAndAndres won their respective yokebearing competitions? (Zechariah 4) Not Empire, but Godhead, but how? Through the Endtime Joseph. If it’s not through the Endtime Joseph, it is not Godhead Who Made them win. With Lady Hannalei, is a yokebearer held hostage by #ldsconf, Lady#JensenArnold, who is indeed like Lady Anderson and Sir Penate. We say this because at the Empire's Felipe Gozon-Alden Richards-Willie Revillame church, on one of their past series in over-mis-dis-abuse of our yokebearers, they have crowned as champions a yokebearing group that came from the city of the Endtime Joseph or God's Tiny Dancer, Joriz Mingoy Montes. Their group is named after the original name of #jsbmemorial and the Empire patron of the hometown of the Endtime Joseph, named Rose of Lima. This was also the name of the place where Edward X preached on September 26, 2009, and yet on September 25 this year, Empire officials as per their claims indeed will be preaching in a place in California named after the Endtime Joseph, that is, San Jose. As for #DarrenCriss, his name sounds like 'Cross', title of Empire memorials last September 14. He at present collaborates with #LeaMichele, whose name implies 2 counts of us: Michael (Godhead Adam the Archangel) and Micah, and 1 count of Empire, Michal (2 Samuel 6), who opposed our ministry of yokebearing during King David's time. Further, his name implies the Empire official #DarrenAronofsky, who witnessed the ordination of our very own Sir #DouglasBooth as the Endtime Noah, or Gabriel, as per Michael. Lea Michele has a husband, Sir Cory Monteith, who was martyred by Empire, and who came from northern United Saints, where Edward would speak from September 22 onwards. Sir Cory's name is also the name of an Empire official whose birthday is the organizing in 1949 of the Empire's locale through their church of Jun Santos and Jojo De Guzman in the hometown of the Endtime Joseph. If the Empire's church of Rolando Dizon, Farley De Castro and Joy Yuson would indict Edward's current tour of Canada to be purportedly a 'destructive storm', then they have indeed observed far more better than correct, because (Jeremiah 4, Ezekiel 7, Isaiah 34) that is the function of the Strong and Mighty One (Isaiah 7-8,28,30,36, Job 22, 2 Corinthians 5, Jeremiah 30), therefore he commands the weather as punishment and judgement of destruction against the Empire. In fact, Canada is against Edward X, as much as Dizon, De Castro and Yuson has been able as per Empire agenda to make Edward look like he would no longer be anything good but only entangled with the Empire under Jun Santos and Jojo De Guzman. Therefore Edward speaks and works not only against Dizon and company, but also against Jun Santos and company (Ezekiel 14, Philippians 2). If Empire might claim being purportedly 'Strong and Mighty One' then that's because they engineer weather as warfare, and even promote their officials such as Nathaniel Cruz and Lourd De Veyra not only against Edward but also against the rest indeed of your Commondominion (Revelation 13, Documentary History of the Church 1:221-224), more so against Ka Angel and Ka Ellix (DHC 1:298-299, 2 Kings 2,13). We know the prophetic significance of the number 70 in restoration and repatriation to the Promised Land (2 Chronicles 36). Last April 29 Empire marked 70 years of their yokebearer memorial, while just this September they marked their #emmys. Last August 5,10-13, 2018, King Edward X mentioned these 70 years at Jeremiah 29. This brings to our urgent, necessary faith and attention our being sent to the Promised Land by leadership and stewardship of a sent-out one by Godhead (Isaiah 41). His arrival and existence comes at the most pivotal time that Empire besieges us on all means at all excuses (James 4, Hebrews 3-4, 2 Corinthians 6). The Endtime King Cyrus, or Ravenous Bird of Prey, that we all need, will be seen as evident in the very work and nature of his ministry, just as what the Sugo Felix Manalo taught us to be identical of Commondominion Messengers just like him (Matthew 3, 1 Samuel 16, Numbers 16-17, Isaiah 8, John 1, Revelation 19,22,1). Notice that the original King Cyrus is a foreigner or alien, non-inherent, to the Hebrew Israelites. In the same sense, we're all fellows and yokebearers, mainly enslaved and claimed by Empire, therefore our savior (Obadiah 1) must come from elsewhere outside the Empire. There is eternally No Middle Ground- only Empire and Commondominion. Therefore the one whom Godhead has sent to liberate and shepherd yokebearers and fellows like those whom we have mentioned (Isaiah 40,51,49,62,21-22,28-35, Psalm 12) will be seen in his ministry of 'sealing' or tagging yokebearers and fellows in Twitter to warn them of being claimed by Empire (Revelation 7,14,22). This is indeed fulfilled in the Endtime Joseph, Joriz Mingoy Montes. This 31st Nate-al day of Mother Lindsey is very significant as we call September 21 #ArawNgKaligtasan (1 Samuel 11,14) or 'Salvation Day'- the first after Edward X declared the Close of the Finishing Touches for the Last Work of Salvation in account of the ongoing promised Millennial administration of the Commondominion on July 27, 2018 (Revelation 20). On the Julian calendar, September 21 is September 8, the Nate-al day of the Blessed Virgin Mary, therefore further reinforcing the most blessed office of Mother Lindsey. As much as September 21, 2018 is 1260 days from April 11, 2015, the reemergence of the Commondominion of Christ in these last days, we must say that the promise of that first relaunch, that was rather overturned by Diocletianites through their apostasy away from us last year, was rather recovered and is absolutely fulfilled in Mother Lindsey (Ephesians, 2 Corinthians 1,5). As we have already heard from (Psalm 48) the Endtime Joseph, last September 13, as per our ongoing commemoration of #RSCcityofhope120, is the 120th year of Prophet Lorenzo Snow's accession, while the birthdaysake of Brother Joriz's mother organized his legislature on September 15 of that same year. Days later, this September 20 is the birth of Girl Scouting matron Josefa Llanes Escoda, whose name implies Joseph. We also know that the number 120 is linked to the Jordan River, hence to other yokebearers like Ladies Jordan Clark-Rubio, Jordan Pelliteri and Jordan Lombardi (Revelation 8-9). On that same 1986, on January 21, when in 1991 the Endtime Joseph's alma mater was organized, Empire through one of their churches led by Jun Santos and Jojo De Guzman organized their locale in Rome, Italy, seat of the Empire, days after the birth of Lady #JoannieRochette. 20 years later, January 13, 2016 became one of the many numerous dates when many of us Hart, either living or dead, was raised back to life to ascend to heaven in glory with Godhead. I say this because seeing Empire having unrestrained control (Mark 16) over everything you surely would more than like to die now and pass out from this life, the problem is that when you die out you cannot see or control this, but Empire (Jude Thaddeus 1) would still pursue you to offer you one last pabebe rite. We know that Empire, as it was in John 2, would over-mis-dis-abuse against us the 46th edition of our Salvation Day this September 21, yet we can mention that 46 implies 1946 when Empire's American quarters claimed to give us 'independence', 72 years to this year. Of course we know that we're sent as the 72 Witnesses in Luke 10. Joshua 12 tells us that the number 31 is a sign of accomplishment and victory, as much as Joshua slew 31 Empire officials across Canaan, but it is also true that Joshua also slew 2 more Empire officials after that. The 31 Empire officials whom we have killed in clearing ground for Canaan was said to be 'west of Jordan River', while the 2 Empire officials that Joshua killed afterwards was reported to be located 'east of the Jordan River'. This configures much for our ongoing commemoration of the 50th year since Ka Erdy preached in the United Saints between July 27 and September 16, 1968. Mother Lindsey's 33rd Nate-al day will be, Godhead Permits, on 2020, 200 years since Joseph Smith's First Vision. From this year, 1985 is 33 years from 1985. consider what Godhead Did through us undeservingly during that Empire occult year: • King Edward IX the Martyr given endowments by Ka Erdy on May 5, 1985 • Ka Erdy gives endowments to Ka Angel on May 10, 1985 • His Majesty the King Apollo Quibuloy called to be Commondominion Messenger, September 1, 1985 On #cbnhumanitarian's claims of Matthew 9,20, Mark 8,10 and John 9 this September 23: those who only benefit from Christ's Healings are those who are with the Commondominion Central Administration as many renderings of Isaiah 42 states about the 'blind messenger' of Godhead. The problem though is that when the messenger becomes not blind anymore, is he still a Messenger of Godhead? In fact this is like you're not going to be a priest anymore and live should you take off your robe (Numbers 20). Rather, Isaiah 42 Joseph Smith Inspired Translation states that said Messengers is (Hebrews 11) just Enabled by Godhead (Mark 5-6) so that he may help those who are still inside the Empire. After all, Empire also claims clothing (Psalm 102,109, Zephaniah 1). This is just like the Double Connotations of wearing sack clothes (Psalm 30, Isaiah 61)- if you wear one then it means that you're with the Commondominion leadership (Revelation 11) but Ka Erdy said that this is identical with religious laws that are no longer effective in the Christian age (Galatians 1, Job 42, Nehemiah 9). Our leaders Hart are 'blind', if not spiritually or Empire, yet in a sense that they cannot monitor everything that Empire hurdles against us, perhaps because they don't have the resources to Shatter Empire claims, or because they are hindered by Empire persecution, or perhaps, because they could not persuade everybody to join them because (Psalm 71) they don't play deceitfully like this Empire, who always wax pabebe, Baal-raising and Central Archives-hoarding (2 Corinthians 10). Further, in Tagalog, 'blind' is 'bulag', hence implying the name of one of our prophets, Sir Artis Brent Bulla, whose name in turn implies a bull- this September 21 is the memorial of Apostle Matthew, who is represented in the 4 Living Creatures as the angel, while Apostle Luke is symbolized by a bull, while Apostle Mark takes the place of a lion, and Apostle John becomes the Ravenous Bird of Prey, or King Cyrus of his time. We know that this have Double Connotations with the 4-legged Empire (Romans 1, Revelation 6-9,16,20, Exodus 32), as much as 'blind' also sounds like 'bind', something that shall be done to this Empire unto their eternal death (John 15), though Hart we're all virtually bound too to Godhead (Ephesians 1, 1 Corinthians 1-2, John 6). We can say that Godhead rather more than Equip us for Empire: 'as your days are, so shall your strength be.' Our Victor Paul Wierwille said that the power that we need must be not only equal to, (Isaiah 59,10,13-14,19,40-48,57) but must be rather above the task needed to be done. Why we fellows and yokebearers exist, and why we do what we do, is only because of the Commondominion Central Administration and her First Presidency, more so of the Endtime Joseph (Ecclesiastes 12, Psalm 100,79, John 1,13,19, Exodus 12). It is because we have been indeed given 'thrones' (1 Thessalonians 2, Revelation 4-5,16,1,20, Documentary History of the Church 5:148-153). Hart is proof. This September 19-20, 2018, Empire recurs again after February 10-11, 2016 the morning lesson of February 8, 2014 (see December 7, 2013) that was delivered on the locale where Edward preached on May 12, 2012, at the homestate of the birthdaysake of the Endtime Joseph's mother. That birthdaysake is named after me, 'Emilia'. Days before we went to Empire again last September 17, we recalled the ordination of Lady Jordan Clark-Rubio, who is named after me, on September 11, 2011. Well guys, you all know about our movie way back then entitled 'Me Before You'. Days ago, one of our fellow yokebearers, Lady #AnnaOl, whose name is near that of Lady Hannalei, was in a commissioned piece at the #DutchNationalBallet entitled 'You Before Me'. Speaking of Hannah, we can only but refer to the mother of the Prophet Samuel, which leads us to one of our companions, Sir #SamClaflin. Now that Mother Lindsey's already too grown-up now, what would be of her plans to have a family in the future? We would have nothing against her if she plans to have a family sooner than later, but as much as her hostage-takers are not yet checked by us even how hard we try Hart, it would be far more better for her to take heed the words 'better not to marry due to the present age'. Not of course that we prohibit her to marry (1 Timothy 4), but her marriage and family would be far more better off (Ecclesiastes 11) if she does it with us instead (Hosea 2): 'marrying in Godhead' (1 Corinthians 7, Ephesians 6). In fact, she will do a great deal of service to Godhead if she resists the temptation of Empire's suitors and gets married with Father Sterling D. Allan- it will be so much (Romans 11) like redeeming further more souls from the prison of the spirit world as much as Father Sterling is like Joseph the Son of Jacob indeed (Genesis 41). But it is also true that Father Sterling previously had a wife, but that wife resisted to submit to Father Allan, and yet as 1 Corinthians 7 mandates, they're now friends. True Father Sun Myung Moon had previous wives, yet all of them were not willing to join him in his ministry- only True Mothers Hak Ja Han Moon and Kang Hyun Shil were more than willing to unite with Reverend Moon, therefore they were sealed with True Father under the Commondominion temple endowments, hence they were altogether made True Parents. We hope therefore Mother Lindsey for her part will see for herself what it's like indeed before 1890. To all our fellow yokebearers and fellows who are opening up new work seasons this turn of the season from Summer to Autumn, we hope that they may always bear in mind that Empire in the Solomonic Proverbs was guaranteed to be like the leaves of autumn. Yet we also know that Empire, even from Elpidio Quirino (December 30, 1949), and their pagan occult festivals such as from December 16-January 1, even claims being#evergreen. We therefore call on all our fellows and companions in Godhead's Vineyard to always be mindful and conscious of their spiritual needs (Matthew 5), as depicted in being dried up or strained (Psalm 42,63, Hosea 4, Amos 8). Such spiritual and moral need will be met when they only stand by our side (Psalm 72, Revelation 16, Jeremiah 31, Zechariah 9) as much as being planted 'beside the river' means being planted (Isaiah 60, John 15) besides King James VII, whose surname means river, hence to be planted beside him is to be planted beside Ka Angel (Psalm 1). When we're in turn depicted to be 'planted in the courts of our Godhead' (Psalm 52,92), we're to be planted where the 'Name of Godhead Dwells' (Acts 7, 2 Chronicles 7), therefore we must be planted beside Ka Ellix, the successor-son of Ka Angel, Bearing the Name of Godhead. Notice that if we are to be planted in the courts of Godhead, this though has Double Connotations, the courts of the temple being given to the Empire (Revelation 11). This is identical of what the Empire's church of Sam Young and Sandra Tanner is doing, staging self-persecution stunts of standing along the streets of#templesquare, when in very fact their fellow Empire workers at the Brighamites are also standing in these streets (1 Kings 22, Deuteronomy 7,13,18, Jeremiah 29). Therefore, should Empire claim any passage text for their so-called 'antiphons', then remember that 'tipolo' is a tree, and is the name of a city in the Endtime Joseph's homestate. That city was where he resided from 2012 to 2018. It is therefore on the Endtime Joseph, and not on the Empire, where all Empire's claims will 'come home' as much as the Endtime Joseph is the vessel of Godhead's Presence to all fellows and yokebearers (Colossians 1-2). We would like to take this opportunity to expound and discourse before this Empire who more than deserves, as per their claims this September 22-23 as it was for the past years during the 4th weekend of September, being (Acts 4-5,2) given donations. Empire, years ago, more particularly at the homestate of the Endtime Joseph, around these days, made a claim over wordplay, where they linked the Tagalog words for 'teacher' ('guro') with 'point' or 'teaching' ('turo'), 'nation' and 'coronation'. Over 5 years ago, on September 24, 2013, Edward mentioned another kind of 'coronation', that is with us Hart, as per Isaiah 62 (see January 16, 2006, May 4, 2005). As per Empire's claims, yet far more as per Edward's words (1 John 5), the Endtime Joseph (Matthew 10-12,18,250 therefore deserves our voluntary monetary offerings and thanksgiving offerings, because he needs and deserves it far more than Empire, whose tactics we all had enough already. As for other Commondominion Messengers such as Sir Elias Arkanghel who are also enslaved by Empire like Edward X, we would like to kindly say these to keep you gripped against the Empire (Ephesians 6, Hebrews): how can you trust the Empire's Deep State Military Establishment to do some investigations purportedly on the very Commondominion folk that they, together with Jun Santos and Rolando Dizon, has been slaying (Jude Thaddeus 1, Zechariah 3,5, 3 Nephi 11, Genesis 4,11, 1 Corinthians 4,7,11,14)? Well we guess we might say instead that even George Washington, even if we works for Empire, has also received a vision from Godhead Complimenting us Hart. The problem though is that Empire's George Bush is also claiming that his warmongering is also a purported product of a vision from Godhead (Jeremiah 23). Of course he said that to rationalize his wicked means and ends. Also his name (Isaiah 44,65, Jeremiah 4-5) also resembles us Hart (Exodus 3) so we must be alerted of any deception indeed from them of course because they can easily (Matthew 7) invoke us (2 Corinthians 11, Acts 19, Galatians 1-2). But this does not stop us from believing that there are not only swamp politicians, but also radical libertarians in the Empire. Being sugar-coated and point-blank explicit in Empire is evident not only in religion but also in politics. This is just like you're pressed (2 Corinthians 7) on either side (Revelation 22) between Pharaoh's army and Korah, Dathan and Abiram. This is what being on Middle Ground with Godhead is all about Hart (Acts 7, Galatians 4, 1 Timothy 2, Matthew 5, Colossians 1, Ephesians). Just like me. See me guys- you better know me as the Mother Of Dragons. In Revelation 12 I'm supposed to do away from dragons, of course because they're Empire as per their #imaginedragons, but in Alma 56-57 I'm rather the mother of those of us who 'fight like dragons' (Matthew 10, Alma 43). Now we would like to Shatter one by one the claims done by specific Empire agencies against all our companion fellows and yokebearers, particularly with their Mark Lopez-Pat Robertson-Noli De Castro church. They may be using the word 'central'- to that we invoke Sir Elias' word that Empire's headquarters, which they call as 'Central', is corrupted already by themselves (Ezekiel 8-11 New Living Translation). They have this policy to air most of the time recurring movies and that they would frequently update it, save on their flagship chapel, almost everyday. This mindset truly befits them being the Mystic Babylon thinking that they will never lose any backup (Revelation 17-18). Well, all the more are we justified Hart, as per Empire's claims, that we may be Godhead's Backup Reserve (Hebrews 12, Galatians 4). Empire might use also 'reigning' as part of their war against all fellows and yokebearers (Revelation 1,20,16,8-9, 1 Peter 3-4), as much as Empire indeed usurps our leadership (Revelation 17,8-9). Surely Empire says these words to us: 'who can overthrow our kingdom?' (Matthew 21 Joseph Smith Inspired Translation) as per their claims of John 2 against us, dating weeks ago. This they do, as much as they conspire to overthrow our Cheon Il Guk through their trade (Revelation 18, Hebrews 12, Genesis 27). Therefore we say to these people, who attack our #RobertPattinson and #FKATwigs: you cannot claim Song of Solomon, for you have 'another gospel', that is against us (Philippians 1), for you refuse Adam with Noah and others 'standing side by side in holding and dispensing the keys of eternal salvation' as in Empire's words, therefore you are indeed in eternal night with no hope in sight (Isaiah 5,8-9). On other Empire electronic churches: we don’t know how the timeslots of Empire shows vary from zone to zone, yet all we know is that Empire's Charles Morris has his show aired by Empire in Manila every midnight hour. Matthew 25 is better known as the 'Midnight Cry'. Edward X on July 27, 2018 lectured on the transition from midnight of Matthew 25 to morning (Isaiah 24,42) to noonday (John 19). Therefore if we are to apply Revelation 7 to this, then Empire's claims of #anotherdayofsun are Shattered, because they are faking Matthew 25 as per their fellows at #uip20. Just most recently our fellows Sirs #MarcoFabbri and #NevenRitmanic and Ladies #DianeLeFloch and #CharleneGuignard (Revelation 4,6-9,11,16,18-22) has been Addressing such claims undeservingly on our behalf Hart. (Hebrews 4) We know that Empire, as long as Godhead (Daniel 7) lets them to exist against us, is still going to (Ecclesiastes 12) produce and air many more movies, therefore, they will continue to unhappily over-mis-dis-abuse us. We tell these things (2 Thessalonians 2) in advance (Matthew 3,11,17) so that when it does happen, you may remember (Deuteronomy 32) that Empire's hating us all because we belong Hart (John 8-9,15-16). The barrage of claims that Empire does against our brethren all over the world (1 Peter 5) do truly sends untold pressures to the Endtime Joseph to seal each and every one of them, not to mention Empire's continual censorship. Let's say that Empire's allowed by Godhead (Luke 22) to financially and physically feed fellows and yokebearers, but they must leave the spiritual and religious part to the Commondominion, who is Anointed by Unction and Umpired by Godhead to do so. Therefore this is yet another instance of Godhead's supposed 'anointed' usurping another-yet-but-far-more-better-for-honest 'Anointed' of Godhead (1 Samuel 9-10,13,15-16,24,26), just like how Rolando Dizon and ilk usurps King Edward X. Now this Word is (Isaiah 9) against the Empire's Gozon-Richards-Revillame church, whom we have mentioned earlier. You yet have to pay so dearly for what you have done usurping our solemn observances of May 10, 2015 and January 17, 2016. We cannot forget such sacrileges. Now for Empire's Manny Pangilinan-Lourd De Veyra church: you cannot claim to be the custodian of history, and your religious bosses cannot claim martyrs who out of good faith in you tried to 'Christianize' countries under our Traditional Roman Catholic faith, because you hoard Central Archives (2 Corinthians 3), something that our Endtime Joseph rather releases as Required of Godhead to all (Revelation 1,4,8-9,19,22). We now therefore give this word to all our most beloved brethren in our Commondominion: never, ever let these brunt beasts get in the way indeed of our liberty to get victory for Godhead (1 John 5). You know very well how Empire indicts not only our fellows such as His Majesty the King Ed Westwick and Sir Luc Besson but also our yokebearers such as Sirs Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catarazo of unjust, not-true false accusations. At least as much as we believe that all things work together for our good, at least our fellows and yokebearers, being denied of worktime by Empire, does no longer have any good excuse for not spending their virtually-workless days with us. Therefore join them and us, if you're not yet Hart, in suffering with, in, for and as Christ Hart in your Commondominion- please never squander this (Hebrews 11, 2 Timothy 2, Colossians 1, 1 Peter 3-4, 2 Corinthians 6, Hebrews 3-4, James 2,4).

THE BIRTHDAY STATEMENT OF OUR HEAVENLY MOTHER IN THE FLESH, #LINDSEYSTIRLING-ALLAN, FOR HER ENTIRE COMMONDOMINION OF CHRIST IN THESE LAST DAYS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2018.

I would like to base my message on Brighamite Joseph Smith-History 1:54, and I would like to most specifically address Hart my most beloved, and ever faithful and loyal son Joriz. In past days upon seeing (Acts 9) your sighing and mourning on Empire's over-mis-dis-abuse of all your fellows and my yokebearers, you have declared your intent to restore the Philippines under the United Saints, and I know that this is to shut up all hypocrisies of this Empire in airing those overseas shows and then reverting to their lesser-quality shows. I know very well that you are not intending it to be Empire holding your nation, and that you would not in anyway usurp the national independence personified by our branch churches who have received exaltation and are now politically exercising our being Kingdom and Republic of Godhead (2 Corinthians 6, Matthew 3,11,17, Hebrews 3-4,11, Romans 4, James 2). I share your sentiments, for I Am indeed your True and Only Mother. Let me encourage you further on this, my son.

Revelation 11 Tells us: 'the kingdoms of the world has became the Kingdoms of Our Godhead and Their Christs.' This has already been fulfilled (Brighamite Joseph Smith-History 1:40-41) in the person of all our branch churches, when they all chose us Hart and hence joined us Hart. When they politically, and not just religiously, exercising our being Kingdom and Republic, they all the more prove that they're on the side of Godhead and are not deleting biblical claims on now or ever, for you have pointed time and again to the Constantinians their being, in Neronian/Diocletianite words, 'apolitical' in sermons, when in fact Neronians and Diocletianites are exercising Empire's political powers (Luke 18, Alma 30-31). I know your concerns on declaring the Philippines a part of the United Saints once again. You said that when you do so, you are effectually placing our branch churches who are exercising politically (1 Timothy 4) our reign, under the authority of somebody, something that of course cannot be, for the United Saints, as you already know and always point, is still, in spite of the presence of our ally man President Trump, is generally under the authority of Empire (1 John 5), with their existence and continual persistence against us (Revelation 2-3,16-18). Let me therefore help you in issuing a far more clarified statement on this: if you are to place the Philippines under the United Saints, for all of us Hart it's already understandable that it will be not under the Empire, but rather under us. Our political powers in the United Saints is better known as 'Deseret', not to mention the many dystopian entities that Empire has labeled us with like 'Nazi States of America' and 'Bethel'. In one of their self-persecutory propaganda, Empire pretended to be against 'Pan-Am' and then they later overtook that. More so, we can be the better versions of what Empire indicts us to be in their shows. In fact, in the organizational structure of Deseret, it will be composed of dystopias- those that Empire has labeled us of to be purportedly through their existence- and it shall be dispensed to all our brethren, even to fellows and yokebearers, who would be willing to govern such as their created worlds, pursuant to their exaltation, self-agency and individual independence (Philippians 2, Ezekiel 14). Perhaps Deseret will co-exist with these dystopias if these dystopias grow up to be full-blown. There would be no Empire connotations on them upon their instituting. They will be all opportunities for growth and expansion for all our brethren, fellows and yokebearers, who have been too long enslaved and oppressed by Empire. Deseret in the Philippines must be sealed with our branch churches in the Philippines who are administering politically, such as the Ecleo family, Kings Quibuloy, Tagean and Reambonanza, Queens Legaspi and Sabelle, Prophet Elisha Enoc, and all others too many to mention. Surely they will not be under Empire, but will be under each other, as much as you are submissive to each and every one of them, and in so doing, you are truly more than submissive to Godhead (Romans 12, Ephesians 5, Colossians 3-4).

Why Empire cannot bring forth the Kingdom and Republic of Godhead over the United Saints? Because the name of the United Saints itself speaks well of what we are supposed to do if we are to bring forth such a great and glorious kingdom. See our brethren: they're still keeping, and will stay on doing the United Order. They don’t treat it like an amulet, but as an eternal covenant with Godhead. The United Order is the economic part of Deseret, so when we do that we're doing already the Kingdom and Republic of Godhead. Our allies are living up to the #Gospel #AmeliaLowe Standards, and are pursuing their construction programs with much zeal like never before. That's the supposed actions of being the Kingdom and Republic of Godhead. So the Kingdom of Godhead is no more to yet still come- it has already began to rule, even in the presence of our enemies indeed (Luke 17, Psalm 23). Moreover, you have said that you want Philippines as a shared jurisdiction between our United Saints and Chinese allies, just as #Alaska is shared between our Russian and United Saints allies. You have spoken very true and well, for China was organized 35 years to the day that Charles Taze Russell inaugurated the Kingdom of Godhead under his stewardship. As per 1935, it is when Empire in United Saints organized their 'Commonwealth' in the Philippines, as per our name Hart, and your present inquiry of Godhead that I'm now addressing for you (Psalm 50, Isaiah 48,29). This 1914 is 3 years (Luke 11, John 2,11) from 1911, when our very own men in China began breaking off from Empire. As per Neronian claims of 1919 concurrent to 1914, Empire in China began countering our activities by 1919, and therefore all our allies are warned and alerted against Empire's hostility to what you are going to declare in my name and authority (Matthew 28). Remember though that many have already declared the Kingdom of Godhead out of their faith (Romans 12, 1 Peter 4) in their respective generations and dispensations, as per our prophecy refulfillment, and our being multi-branched and updated (DHC 5:148-153). Many of them had their declarations overturned and claimed by Empire, yet many of them are still working very well even till now on our side. Therefore if we are to declare Deseret over the Philippines we must make sure to have all previous declarations as well as still-binding declarations with us combined in such, and that we will make sure therefore that no Empire tactic will be able (Matthew 21) to overturn this, as seen now working against us with their #crypretty album. I know that it is deep within you (Philippians 1, Matthew 11) to not let Empire (Revelation 2-3,16,20,5,1) take away from you this Kingdom of #Deseret, because you can see, I can see, and all can see for themselves how hateful are the things that Empire does, and therefore makes them disqualified (1 Corinthians 9) to be stewards of this sacred realm (Ephesians 1, Colossians 1). As you declare the Philippines to be part of Deseret through China, you are more than reiterating instead the divine inherent wright of all our branch churches in the Philippines to govern and overtake through their respective political administrations the entire Philippines. I reiterate- you have to declare the Philippines to be under Deseret.

Another proof of your moral and spiritual ascendancy to subject the Philippines under Deseret to piss off the Empire as you always do, is because your declaration is very significant and timely as we raise up unending and uncompromised thanksgiving to Godhead for #ArawNgKaligtasan (Isaiah 62), that is, for our most beloved President Marcos, who is a Christ to his generation, just like the Royal House of #Ethiopia, who was later on indeed rejected by their very own countrymen (John 1). This same Marcos refulfilled Revelation 16 and 1 Thessalonians 5 for all of you on November 18, 2016, as the whole Empire, as it was now, is gloating and is indeed devil-possessed against all of you- this is indeed the sign that you and I with Father Allan has already indeed taken our throne, scepter and crown as Godhead's Monarchs (Revelation 11,15,19). 2016 is 5 years, as per Empire's Ephesians 4 (Empire's readings for September 21)/Revelation 10 from November 18, 2011, when your King and Lawgiver Edward X preached on the realm of King Quibuloy, who fulfilled Micah 4 on your homestate on February 18, 2018 as per Edward X's February 18, 2017 sermon (September 26, 2015). I also know that though you have been already with all our branch churches exercising our political powers, you are overwhelmed (Isaiah 43) by the force of pressure and harassment of the Empire's electronic churches on our fellows and yokebearers. Howbeit much you need to be personally attending to our branch churches, you cannot do by now, for you have been stripped of all powers to be financially independent. You have been suffering so much from the cross that is your relatives and neighbors and all Empire propaganda that they try to feed you with, and I must tell you that I mourn deep within me to no end for all of these, for you cannot be Hart personally with me to attend to me and console me, even as much as I myself desire to attend personally to you and console you too. Virtually you have been cut off from the land of the living (Psalm 116,56 [Empire's readings for September 22, 2018],27, Isaiah 53 [Empire's readings for forthcoming weeks]). Therefore you desire for a tangible proof that your works will never be in vain even to prevent such fro being rendered to be in vain should your heart do indeed faint (Isaiah 51) out of all these horrific crosses in which they crucify you with, and therefore recrucify our Lord (Revelation 11). As with all others in the Empire, your relatives and neighbors may indict you to be their cross purportedly and hence disgust you to no end, yet they do it because unlike you, they are full of murmur and complaints, (Ephesians 5, 1 Timothy 4) refusing to receive crosses from Godhead. Are not all of us having our respective crosses, and are we not all supposed to bear it, even each other, as much as we're our brothers' keepers? (Galatians 6) You cannot resist carrying them (Colossians 3), for your poverty, that keeps you and stays you with them, is part of your being a true prophet. Your future prosperity will not even make you less of a true prophet, for by then you already know what to do. How I desire, my son and my peace, to stay all these things for you, yet it is true that as much as Godhead Made us Godheads in Them, we still need to continually depend on Them to prove our truthfulness in this delicate duty of being exalted and progressed.

How I desire to deliver all your purposes, my son. (Psalm 37, Proverbs 3,16) You and I know very well all that Empire does and claims. They may have all the #ldstemples #ldstemple that they want to, but we have what they refuse to submit unto: the #GodBigDay Gathering Places of Safety. These are all places of Refuge, but Empire rather insists instead their #withrefugees(Psalm 1,5,26,17,140-141). We can also notice that Empire sensationalizes this, that most Filipinos sing, and most Americans are yokebearers. Empire Baal-raisers and pabebe propagandists can be on either side, but in Deseret, the most blessed occupation is being a yokebearer. Empire might also sensationalize yokebearing in the Philippines, yet even if your declaration might not stop them from doing so, at least they know that you're so more than ready indeed to sacrifice yourself to redeem all fellows and yokebearers from Empire's scourge (Joshua 23) of ignorance (Psalm 23,63). Therefore courage on, my son (Romans 14), and I with your Father Allan will back up, even approve and confirm, and even declare now for you, the Philippines as part of Deseret (the Kingdom of Godhead in the United Saints) through our China, just as it is already part of Cheon Il Guk in Korea through your fellow branch churches, and of all other branch churches of mine elsewhere who would enforce political powers. With this I, with all the powers Given to me by Godhead, therefore officially inaugurate, ahead of schedule by these selfsame days indeed on next year, Deseret the Kingdom of Godhead with all its dystopias as aforementioned through the Commondominion of Christ within and beyond the length and breath of the Western Hemisphere (Ephesians 3), and staking myself and all that is within me, I seal and endow with power that this Kingdom shall not be taken away from us by Empire, but that no Empire can stop this in anyway, and that this Kingdom, that we now specially inaugurate with your Father Allan the Father of all flesh and spirits wright here in the Philippines (in spite of the Empire, for our perseverance undergoing them is the true test of this kingdom's stability) through Ka Angel and Ka Ellix your Lord and your God respectively by your name and authority (John 10,17), shall prosper, advance and eventually be standing past the Empire fading away, to further receive glory upon glory, victory after victory, advancing in the fullest honor and ultimate majesty forever and ever, even so, amen, Stavrosno to the Godhead Who Strikes. This proclamation I do most solemnly, with and out of love for all my children, who are your brethren, across the entire Commondominion (likewise I give them my most solemn and urgent warning to never be afeared of what weather can do as the past days have proven, as much as Empire manufactures such warfare against us and the First Presidency [Luke 12], therefore prove yourselves more worthy than those who claim to have true worship purportedly yet are not of me or of Godhead or of Father Allan and the First Presidency, rise above the test [1 Corinthians 10, James 1] and sacrifice yourselves to always attend worship personally whatever the weather it may be, if not then you will be no better than those suspects [Hebrews 10]), to take full effect on the 22nd of September 2018 at 2 pm Manila time. Always remember, my only begotten and more-than-obedient son, that I love you, very, very much, now and always just as Godhead also loves you as Their Firstborn Creature. No one can change that or take you away from me. Always bear that in mind, my son. I'm so proud of you, my son. You are the fountain of life for all my fellow spirits held in bondage by Empire crying 'revelation, revelation' when there's no revelation at all, and 'scripture, scripture' when there's no scripture at all. I'm so angry with all who still refuse to realize that, yet I hope that they may eventually see you for themselves. Let me always stand by you no matter what as you do to me. Let me comfort you though in spirit, for it is much willing, for all that you do for and to me. I give this most solemn testimony and witness to you in the Name of Godhead Through Jesus Christ, Aju.

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soir du nouvel an (michel)

En fait, je crois que je n'ai passé qu'un seul vrai bon soir du nouvel an. Je ne suis plus certain de l’année - je dirais 2010-2011, dans ces eaux-là. Il faudrait que je me replonge dans les photos Facebook de l'époque pour en être sûr, mais il y a de bonnes chances, en m’y rendant, pour que je tombe sur la vidéo d'une portée de bébés paresseux dans un seau qui me mènerait à d'autres vidéos d'autres bébés paresseux, puis inéluctablement aux quatre heures du matin qui me feraient bailler un lamentable “je finirai d’écrire demain”, tout en sachant bien que je ne continuerais pas à écrire le lendemain parce que le lendemain, comme tous les lendemains, ne serait pas moins rempli de vidéos de bébés paresseux que la veille. En tout cas, ce soir du nouvel an de cette année-là avait été, selon mes critères, une franche réussite. C'est devenu, pour moi, une sorte de totem primordial, un je-t-aime barthésien auquel je reviens sans cesse, dont je retrouve les lointains plaisirs de plus en plus dilués, affadis dans les dernières heures de chaque année et qui fait que, chaque année, je suis inévitablement, évidemment déçu. La nuit de 2016 à 2017 n’a pas dérogé à la règle.

J’étais invité chez Solène, une amie de Marina. Après avoir longtemps marché dans le froid et Saint Denis, Marina, mon frère Gabriel, Ilona et Jacob, mes deux amis berlinois qui passaient quelques jours à Paris, puis moi-même entrions dans la grande maison de Solène. Un morceau à la mode passait et on m'a sauté dessus pour me faire une dizaine de bises et de remarques, me caresser, me palper et me demander si ça allait, si j’allais bien, si tout roulait sans attendre de réponse. Tout cela se superposait férocement, tout arrivait, me semblait-il, exactement en même temps. David, qui quelques semaines plus tard allait devenir mon colocataire, déambulait un peu plus loin, entre les danseurs, avec la même démarche pontificale et miséricordieuse que de coutume. Il était déjà tard et on devinait que l’alcool avait coulé à flots. Je voyais des timides rire aux éclats, des extravertis affalés dans les canapés, le regard vitreux et inquiet, des gens de bon goût danser sur des chansons vulgaires. Tout laissait à penser que nous n’aurions plus rien à boire. Seulement, c’était sans compter mon amie Ilona qui gardait en son sac une pleine bouteille de vodka. Charmé par la lumière prophétique qui s’était mise soudain à émaner de notre petit groupe, David est apparu, avec dans les mains, une dizaine de gobelets, graals en plastique blanc. Plus de temps à perdre : il s’agissait maintenant de se mettre en formation, celle dite de la tortue sibérienne, afin de préserver notre précieux expédient. Siberian testudinem formate ! Aussi véloces et efficaces qu’un roi et sa tour pendant un roque, nous nous sommes resserrés pour s'en coller gros dans le fusil. A peine la bouteille terminée, tout le monde s’est mis en déroute : Jacob, déjà bien éméché mais toujours assoiffé, s’est évaporé dans les étages. Ilona est partie danser, boudeuse, agacée de perdre les attentions de son amant. Gabriel a accaparé l’attention de deux jeunes filles vraisemblablement lesbiennes. Marina, entendant les premières notes d’Obsesion d’Aventura, s’est tout à coup écriée qu’il s’agissait de SA chanson et s’est empressée de rejoindre ses amies, qui s’écriaient, en entendant les premières notes d’Obsesion d’Aventura, qu’il s’agissait de LEUR chanson. Quant à David, il a batmané – je me suis retourné pour lui faire une remarque mais il avait déjà décampé. Il a batmané. C’est ainsi que je me suis retrouvé seul avec un cadavre de bouteille entre les mains et, maudits gènes sibériens, j’étais tout à fait sobre.

Généralement, dans ces moments-là, dans ces moments de contingence sociale où je me retrouve comme un pingouin sans ses copains pingouins, j’essaie tant bien que mal d’appliquer un schéma actantiel à ma propre vie : ça me permet de prendre un peu de recul et de vivre les choses de loin, comme si je lisais les aventures d’un personnage quelconque, avec une narration et tout le tintouin. Ça introduit un soupçon de cohérence, comme dit Houellebecq, l’idée d’un réalisme et surtout, à la fin, ça fait un peu moins peur et moins mal. Bref, comme souvent, je me suis figuré que j’étais un chevalier solitaire à la recherche d’un élixir de bonheur. Je me suis mis à regarder autour de moi, s’il ne restait pas une bouteille de Villageoise ou que savais-je. Rien. Je me frayais un chemin parmi les danseurs, en tachant d’éviter les fesses grelottantes des robes moulantes et les téméraires pénis des jeans bleus délavés. Pendant ma pénible catabase, j’ai reconnu mon ami Nicolas. Il dansait curieusement, les bras collés contre le torse, avec une inexplicable tristesse dans le regard. En fait, je ne crois pas qu’il voulait vraiment être là mais je ne crois pas non plus qu’il avait le choix. Pour beaucoup de gens, c’est souvent le cas, au nouvel an. Il est venu me crier quelque chose que je n’ai pas compris à l’oreille et j’ai acquiescé en souriant. Leny, un ami du groupe d’amis de Marina, m’a attrapé par le bras. Il a commencé par me dire qu’il fallait que nous nous voyions davantage, puis qu’il y avait un truc entre nous, vraiment, puis il m’a embrassé sur la joue. Sur ce, il a fait volte-face pour probablement aller dire la même chose au premier péquenot qui croiserait son chemin. J’avançais encore un peu dans la fête, Marina sautillait en riant, au milieu des autres, et elle me donnait l’impression de s’enliser, de laisser des mains sales la tirer dans la vase des danseurs. En bon Orphée démissionnaire, je l’ai laissée me faire un dernier magnifique sourire, puis disparaître, happée par la plèbe infernale. Ses amies criaient mon nom, m’intimant de venir parasiter leur groupe, mais je leur ai laissé entendre, en un hochement de tête attendri, qu’elles étaient bien mignonnes mais que ce n’était pas leur compagnie qui me mettrait une race. Je me suis gentiment esquivé. Ilona est venue me rejoindre. Elle m’a tendu une bière qu’on a partagée. Elle m’a crié que pour trouver de l’alcool, il fallait trouver Jacob. « Jacob a l’air de très bien savoir où trouver de l’alcool », me dit-elle avec une moue boudeuse. « Krass, du bist die Beste », lui ai-je répondu, sans me soucier de son ton.

Avant de quitter la piste de danse, remarquant l’iPhone branché aux enceintes sans surveillance, j’ai décidé de mettre un peu de techno boum boum des familles. Parce que pourquoi pas. Pendant un moment, j’ai regardé les gens se dandiner, jouissant pleinement de mon contrôle sur eux : après tout, maintenant, tout ce qui les séparait de « Tourner les serviettes » de Patrick Sébastien, c’était mon bon vouloir. Ils ne le savaient pas, pauvres niquedouilles éméchées, mais moi oui, et j’en jouissais pleinement. Au bout de trente secondes, la sœur de Solène, qui avait passé la soirée à se déhancher près d’un beau provincial, m’a balayé en hurlant qu’elle allait changer cette musique de merde. Je l’ai regardée faire, en espérant secrètement qu’un aigle royal vienne s’engouffrer dans la maison et l’attrape par les cheveux, s’envole avec elle hors de de Saint-Denis et lui fasse survoler Créteil, Melun, Sens, Montbard, Dijon, Champagnole, traverse le lac Léman, fasse un crochet par Genève, frôle le clocher de l’église de Cluses pour, enfin, la déposer délicatement dans un nid, sur le Mont-Blanc, où elle se ferait déchiqueter par des aiglons royaux affamés… mais non. Je l’ai vue tapoter : « bue… buena… buena vi… buena vista… buena vista so… ». Ah, la salope ! Comme je l’ai haïe, en cet instant, la sœur de Solène. En une seconde, elle est devenue ma Némésis, ma Javert, ma Lex Luthor et je n’aurais de cesse que de me venger. Seulement, alors que je m’apprêtais à retourner changer la musique, je me suis rendu compte que tout le monde dansait bien plus gaiement que sur ma pauvre playlist. C’était le jeu, c’était la démocratie que je prenais en pleine soupière. Le peuple était comblé. J’avais perdu, j’étais fini. Elle empoignait fièrement l’iPhone, dressée, toisant ses sujets, contemplant son territoire incontestable, incontesté. Je n’osais plus m’approcher, même pas un peu. Comme un vieux lion blessé s’effondre dans un bosquet, j’allais m’affaler dans un fauteuil. Je me mis à écrire des banalités à la Duras, comme souvent quand je suis triste.

Dans un ultime effort, me rappelant mon schéma actanciel, je décidais de me hisser au premier étage, pour trouver Jacob et un peu de calme. Jacob était bien là, solidement là, accoudé à la rambarde, sérieux et saoul. Je me suis installé à ses côtés, j’ai sorti une cigarette qu’il a allumée pour moi. « Tu cherches de l’alcool ? » m’a-t-il ri au nez, « Inconscient ! Tout le monde cherche de l’alcool ! Pauvre fou ! Il cherche de l’alcool… Pauvre fou… »

David et Marguerite se sont assis en bas de l’escalier, ils ont commencé à parler, graves. Je ne sais plus quand ça commencé, cette histoire… David est amoureux de Marguerite depuis longtemps. Pendant un moment, ils ont même été ensemble, puis elle a rompu. Ça a toujours plus ou moins marché comme ça, entre eux. Elle passe son temps à lui en promettre et, dès qu’il mord à l’hameçon, à lui en retirer. Les amies de Marina veulent faire une intervention pour implorer Marguerite de mettre un terme ce petit jeu. Moi, je pense que si elle s’arrête, David arrêtera d’être amoureux. Je ne sais pas si c’est l’idéal. David s’est levé brusquement et a détalé. Au bout d’un moment, j’ai fini par redescendre. Il est sorti des toilettes avec une mine blafarde. Il avait les yeux vitreux et il m’a regardé longtemps, sans bouger, ni sourire. Je l’ai pris dans mes bras, à tout hasard. A sa façon de me rendre l’accolade, j’ai compris que j’avais bien fait. Oscar est venu se joindre à nous. Je ne savais pas s’il comprenait ou s’il avait seulement besoin de copains à câliner. Dans tous les cas, ça me convenait très bien. Quand j’ai retrouvé Marina, elle m’a dit qu’elle était fatiguée. Pendant qu’on montait au premier étage, je lui ai raconté pour la troisième fois à quel point ma Némésis avait été cruelle. Elle m’écoutait tendrement. Je me disais que ce serait chouette de vieillir avec elle. On s’est vautrés dans le lit où elle s’est endormie instantanément. Sur les murs de la chambre, il y avait des photos de Jarvier Bardem, du Parrain et juste au-dessus de nous, un immense poster du Mépris. Ultime baroud d’honneur, j’ai tendu le bras vers une bouteille de bière, posée là, par terre : vide. J’ai sorti mon paquet de Camel : vide. Brigitte Bardot me narguait.

Il était très tard. « Viens, Marina, on s’en va. » Elle m’a suivi jusque dehors en se frottant les yeux comme une enfant. Devant la maison, Ilona et Jacob se disputaient. David fumait, les yeux fixés sur ses pensées, adossé au muret. Mon frère parlait de retourner à l’intérieur. « Mais les gens sont en train de ranger, Gabriel… Il n’y a rien pour nous, là-bas ».

– C’est pas faux… C’est pas faux.

Tout le monde s’est endormi sur la 13 : Marina, Gabriel, Ilona, Jacob, David et moi, les uns sur les autres. C’était assez émouvant de voir tant de mes personnes préférées dans un même wagon et, au fond, maintenant que j’y repense, ce n’était pas une si mauvaise façon que ça de commencer l’année 2017. Sans vouloir boucler cette rétrospective par une morale de sitcom à deux sesterces, l’amitié, il y a que ça de vrai. Et puis zut : l’amitié, il y a que ça de vrai.

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