#mme Roger

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Pink Striped Evening Dress, ca. 1865, French.

Designed by Mme Roger

MFA Boston.

[grahamdefamily]

Round 1 is upon us! 🐞🎉🐈‍⬛

The polls will be open until Monday April 17th, 6 PM UTC+2 (Paris time).

We’re counting on you to perform your civic duty and bring out your best Ides of March energy! 🔪🔪🔪

All links can be found below:

Do your worst, people! 🐞🎉🐈‍⬛

[chaotic-history]

what are some books on voltaire you recommend for people who don’t know much about him? i’ve only read candide and know some of his philosophies but i want to know about his personal life and all his shenanigans he got up to

Hey Anon!

So the only ones I've actually read that I'd recommend would be Voltaire Almighty by Roger Pearson and Voltaire: a Life by Ian Davidson. Davidson's is.. I don't like it and I'm very much hesitating to recommend it. But iirc it cites pretty well, and I definitely learned things from it.

The two other biographies I'd recommend are Voltaire by Theodore Besterman and Voltaire et son Temps by René Pomeau, which has a 5 vol version and a more recent 2 vol version. Most of the other biographies I've read cite back to these, and Besterman had access to a lot of material that's not public (iirc he was the one who found the letters between V and Mme Denis, though I may be wrong).

I'd also recommend David Wootton; he hasn't written a full bio but his paper Unhappy Voltaire: or I Shall Never Get Over it as Long as I Live talks about his claim of csa at Louis le Grand and also the possibility that he was bi (there's like a 5% chance I'm mixing up different papers here. it def talks about the LLG stuff though), which a lot of biographies tend to ignore or kind of skip over. I used to have a link to the paper but unfortunately it's broken.

Also if you can read French, wikisource is a great resource as well; they have his correspondance from 1711 to 1767: https://fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Correspondance_de_Voltaire/Correspondants/1711-1735

And if you want to read more stuff V wrote, Letters on England/Lettres Philosophiques is one of my personal favorites, along with Zadig and the Poème sur la Désastre de Lisbon.

@tabellae-rex-in-sui @your-disobedient-servant if you have anything to add?

[andrasta14]

So the cover of my book journal has me feeling like uncultured swine again, because all the book titles on it are famous couples/duos in literature, tv shows and movies etc and at least half of them have me like: ?????

I'm enough of a nerd to want to know where they're all from, and it's been bugging me for years. But Googling them feels somehow unsporting to me. lol (Plus I think some of the spellings are French?)

So...see a pair you recognize? Let me know. 🙏

~ Couples Listed ~

Fanfan & Alexandre = ???

Lana & Clark = Superman

Paul & Joanne = ???

Andromacue & Hector = The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Leonard & Salaì = ???

Orpheus and Eurydice = Greek Mythology

Lisbeth & Miriam = ???

Mathilde & Manech = ???

Chimène & Rodrigue = ???

Emma & Dexter = ???

Yves & Pierre = Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé

Arlequin & Columbine = ???

Julien & Mme de Rênal = The Scarlet and the Black

Edward & Vivian = ???

Edith and Marcel = ???

Marty & Jennifer = Back to the Future

Franck & Ava = ???

Jack & Rose = Titantic

Elisabeth & Richard = ???

Chouchou & Loulou = ??? (The hell kind of names are those? lol)

Roger & Jessica = ??? (Idk the first thing that jumped to mind was Roger & Jessica Rabbit lol)

Figaro & Rosine = The Marriage of Figaro

Christian & Anastasia = 50 Shades of Grey

Leeloo & Korhen = ???

Abelard & Héloïse = medieval historical romance, unsure of details

Valmont & Cecile = Dangerous Liaisons

Sam & Molly = ???

Gaston & Melle Jeanne = ???

Drazic & Anita = ???

Don Juan & Charlotte = Don Juan/Don Giovanni

Mike & Susan = Desperate Housewives

Helen & Paris = The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Quasimodo & Esmeralda = The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Rachel & Ross = Friends

Marilyn & John = Marilyn Munroe and John F. Kennedy?

Satine & Christian = Moulin Rouge

Dorian & Henri = The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Tarzan & Jane = Tarzan

Edward & Bella = Twilight

Nino & Amélie = Amélie

Mulder & Scully = The X-Files

Arthur & Paul = Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine

Harry & Sally = When Harry Met Sally

Sandy & Danny = Grease

Benny & Joon = Benny & Joon

Toi & Moi = ???

Maverick & Charlie = Top Gun

Candy & Anthony = ???

Odysseus & Penelope = The Odyssey/The Iliad/Greek Mythology

Thelma & Louise = Thelma & Louise

Titus & Berenice = Titus and Berenice is a 1676 tragedy by Thomas Otway.

Ariane & Solal = ???

Paul & Virginie = Paul and Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1788).

Johnny & BB = ???

Cyrano & Roxane = Cyrano de Bergerac

Marius & Fanny = ???

Chloe & Colin = ???

Adam & Eve = The Bible

Tristan & Iseult = Tristan and Isolde

Bonnie & Clyde = the historical Bonnie & Clyde

Popeye & Olive = Popeye the Sailor Man

Simone & Yves = ???

Buffy & Angel = Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Lauren & Humphrey = Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart?

Carrie and Mr Big = Sex in the City

Harry & Ginny = Harry Potter series

Clarence & Alabama = ???

Alceste & Célimène = ???

Lancelot & Guinevere = Arthurian legend

~*~

Edit:

From @theduchessofboredom

#arthur & paul could be art (arthur) garfunkel and paul simon #paul & virginie is the title of a famous 18th century novel #nino and amélie is definitely Amélie :) #yves & pierre are yves saint-laurent and pierre bergé

From @that-laj

Marty & Jennifer are from Back to the Future, if they’re the Marty and Jennifer I think they are.

@didoscity

Mike and susan are from desperate housewives (embarassed to know this). Also arthur and paul are definitely, to me, arthur rimbaud and paul verlaine. sorry for simon and garfunkel 😂

oh and titus and berenice is the name of a tragedy by corneille!

[artzychic27]

One Day at a Time Quotes

Marinette: A Proposition U.

Lacey: You wanna proposition me?

—

Denise: The rain ruined everything, and everybody came back, and we’re Cuban, so now we’re having a party.

Marc: Well, I’m Colombian, so I actually get that. Except with my mom, it’s not, *Vocalizes Cuban music* it’s *Vocalizes Colombian music*

Pilar Cabello: Do I hear a Colombian?

—

Kagami: I have figured out what to do about that tree!

Mylène: Form a Million Fencer March!

Kagami: No, no, no. I have something better than all of that, that will cut through the red tape! *Whips out a katana* HA!

Mylène: Kagami! Be careful!

Kagami: I know, I’m sorry. This is not my usual katana arm.

—

Zoé: Uh, thanks so much for dinner, but I’m not really that hungry, so I’m gonna chill till the lockdown’s over. *Leaves the room*

Austin T: … She is walking away from my meal?… *Points to Jean* This is your fault.

—

Roger: *Through a megaphone* Please go back inside! Kissing teenagers! Please go back inside!

Cosette: *Stops kissing Zoé* IN A MINUTE!

—

Austin A: I pretended that these people were my friends, but, honestly, for some reason, I’m not that popular. *Marinette walks by* Nice wig, Mari! You get it from the dump like the rest of your clothes?… I don’t know what it is, exactly.

—

Marc: *Gets a text* Oh! My boyfriend’s out front. He hates when I make him wait.

Jean: …

Marc: Aaw! And he just bought me a cookie! I love cookies! *Leaves*

Austin T: *Walks over to Jean* He has a boyfriend… He’s so lucky… Do you wanna split that cookie?

Jean: Huh? Wait… Ooh…

Austin T: Oh. Never mind. Uh, I thought- Sorry.

Jean: No, no! Queer! Me, queer!

Austin T: Oh! Uh… Me, queer, too!

Jean: Heh… Great… *Offers Austin T a cookie* Cookie?

*Meanwhile, Denise and Simon watch from afar*

Denise: Oof.

Simon: Yeah. He is terrible at this.

Denise: Thank goodness he has us.

—

Reshma: Okay… Then what I’m trying to say… Is that… When I think about love… I see myself… Someday… Loving a woman…

Aabha Leghari: … Oh… Why do I keep giving everyone the wrong sex talk?

—

Mme. Bustier: How bad was this movie?

Mme. Mendeleiv: Awful.

M. Grotke: Filthy.

Mme. Bustier: Okay! Show me!

Mme. Mendeleiv: Yeah, that’s not happening.

M. Monlataing: Caline, you turned away when I bent over to tie my shoe. Trust me, this is not for you.

Mme. Bustier: Hey. I have been married since I graduated university. If anything, it is a shame that Giselle and I went unrecorded. *Takes the laptop and opens it, playing the video* …

Mme. Mendeleiv: …

M. Monlataing: …

M. Grotke: …

Mme. Bustier: … *Tilts her head… Then shuts the laptop* Burn this.

—

Juleka: Well, what are you asking me? How to spot a lesbian? I mean, do some of us have short hair? Sure. Do we sometimes prefer practical, gender neutral clothing? I guess? Does a perfect day involve going to candle making class in our Subaru with a roof rack full on antiques? That’s just solid Parisian fun.

—

Valentin Bellamy: I want her to have the perfect coming out story. You know, where I’m cool and supportive, and… We high five unicorns down a rainbow together.

Anarka: Okay, so, gay people aren’t magic. But it’s a common misconception, so…

[byneddiedingo]

Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Surovy, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox. Art direction: Charles Novi. Film editing: Christian Nyby. Music: Franz Waxman

Beatrice and Benedick. Rosalind and Orlando. Viola and Orsino. "Slim" and "Steve"? Why do I think of To Have and Have Not in terms of Shakespearean romance? Does this most enjoyable of movies have anything in common with those grand predecessors? It's all Howard Hawks's doing, with a little bit of help from screenwriters Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. Hawks had done this sort of romance before, in his comic masterpieces Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940), but leave it to Hawks to see World War II (and Ernest Hemingway's "grace under pressure" fiction) through the lens of screwball comedy. And to do it with the movies' most famous tough guy, Humphrey Bogart, and an unknown 19-year-old actress who had her name changed from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. And to treat it all as a semi-musical, with Hoagy Carmichael at the piano. Blood is shed and causes are espoused, but nobody takes it terribly seriously. Instead, Bogart and Bacall surf through the film on some of the best dialogue ever written, working out their fine romance as deftly as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ever did on the dance floor. Walter Brennan adds another memorable figure to his impressive gallery of old coots, and Marcel Dalio brings the kind of charm that might threaten to upstage lesser performers than these stars. It's certainly not a perfect film: Dolores Moran (clambering from shore to ship in heels) and Walter Szurovy are rather tediously noble as the de Bursacs. (Watch the bit when Mme. de Bursac faints and spills the chloroform and Bacall's Slim, sensing a rival for her Steve's affections, casts a stinkeye on the fallen form and intentionally fans some of the fumes in her direction.) As the Vichy police captain, Dan Seymour seems to be trying to do a Sydney Greenstreet impersonation with the worst of all French accents. And does anybody really believe that the odd company that sails off at the end to rescue a Resistance fighter from Devil's Island is going to succeed? But no matter. It's all the stuff of which legends are made.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY

JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY

1632-1687

Italian-French composer at Louis XIV's court stabbed himself with staff and died

Lully was born into a Tuscan family of corn millers and was given music lessons in his youth. In 1646, he dressed as a Harlequin for Mardi Gras which attracted the attention of Roger de Lorraine, who invited him back to France to be friends with his niece and he became her ‘chamber boy’ from 1647-1652. He was musically talented and went from her household to become a musician, composer, and dancer at the French royal court.

In 1653, he caught the attention of Louis XIV ‘Sun King’, who quickly made him the royal composer. In 1662, Lully married Madeleine Lambert the daughter of composer Michel Lambert.

In 1683, Queen Marie Therese died and the king secretly married Mme de Maintenon, and he no longer had enthusiasm for opera as he once had. Louis XIV was also put off by Lully’s lifestyle and his homosexual encounters.

In 1687, Lully struck his foot with his conducting staff during a performance and died from gangrene. He refused to have his leg amputated because he wanted to continue to dance. The gangrene spread through his body and infected his brain which killed him. He died in Paris and was buried in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, where his tomb still exists today.

Boris Terral portrayed Lully in the film Le Roi Danse (King is Dancing) (2000).

#jeanbaptistelully#louisxiv#boristerral#leroidanse

#thekingisdancing

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Composer and pianist Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) plays some early piano works by a relatively obscure composer -- Erik Satie (1866 - 1925) -- at a concert put on in 1911 by the "Société musicale indépendante," a forward-looking group that Ravel had helped to found with the intention of counterbalancing the much more conservative "Société nationale de musique." Satie was not an *entirely* unknown quantity within progressive French musical circles prior to that fateful concert -- he had, after all, been close friends with Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) since the early 1890s. But suddenly, in the wake of that performance, he found himself being widely hailed as a precursor and a prophet to a musical revolution that now found itself in full swing. The prominent French music publisher Demets asked for new works from Satie, who was finally able to give up his day job (playing piano in seedy Parisian cabarets) and devote himself to composition. Works such as the masterful piano cycle "Sports et divertissements" (1914) poured forth and were published in deluxe editions, and, for the first time, the Parisian press began to take Satie's music seriously. Perhaps most importantly, Satie himself became something of a magnet for successive groups of young composers -- all of whom he first encouraged, and then distanced himself from when their popularity threatened to eclipse his own or when they otherwise displeased him. In the early 1910's, there were the "Jeunes" or the "Apaches" -- all friends and associates of Ravel. A few years later came "Les Six," which originally consisted of Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, and Germaine Tailleferre, later to be joined by Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. Finally, at the end of the decade, Satie oversaw the so-called "Arcuiel School," which included Henri Cliquet-Pleyel, Roger Desormiere, Maxime Jacob, and Henri Sauguet... PICTURED: A rare treasure -- a signed first edition score (published by Demets) of Satie's 5th and final piano "Nocturne" (1920). This piece was dedicated to the mother of Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), and Satie signed and inscribed this copy to Mme. Cocteau on the front cover.

A note about Satie’s “Nocturnes”: As his final works written for the solo piano -- other than the Premier Menuet (1920) – they are widely considered to rank among his most significant achievements in that genre. Ironically, the “Nocturnes” (and the “Premiere Minuet”) stand apart from most of Satie's earlier piano music because they are completely serious, lacking the zany titles, musical parody, and extramusical texts that he had typically featured in his earlier scores. They represent the final stripped down, almost “neoclassical” stage in Satie’s late evolution as a composer – yet they still remain instantly recognizable as the work of Satie, and Satie alone. A glance at the front cover of this first edition sheet music for the Fifth Nocturne reveals that there are actually six nocturnes in the set – but a careful second glance reveals a curious fact: there is no price listed next to the indication for the Sixth Nocturne. That’s because it was never completed; the incomplete torso of that work was only discovered, languishing in Satie’s notebooks, by a scholar examining them in the 1990s. As such, the advertisement for the “Sixth Nocturne” that appears on the front cover of this sheet music published in 1920 is a “ghost publication”: an advertisement for an anticipated product that never actually hit the market. That leaves this Fifth Nocturne as the final number in the set, and makes it the second-to-last piano piece that Satie ever published.

[widowshill]

Favorite Halloween costume they've ever done? (vicky/roger :3c)

HALLOWEEN ASKS.

they are both so so weak for period dress and also old fucked up literature so it's gotta be their year as cécile de v.olanges and vicomte de v.almont in full french rococo splendor ... including undergarments. :^)

other costumes include:

cinderella and the prince ( inspired by the 1957 / 1965 cbs rogers and h.ammerstein musical ) –> this was their first costume as a married couple, in salute to the servant girl now living in the palace, of course

roger and anita r.adcliffe from 101 d.almatians, puppies not included although she definitely begged him for one

count orsino and viola/cesario. some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness .. thrust upon them, as they say.

the phantom and christine (ft. liz as mme giry and carolyn as meg)

mary p.oppins and bert. she had to literally bribe him with money for this and i'm not kidding.

eliza and higgins at the embassy ball :''))

[formationunclickpouretreriche]

Mois de l' enfant Guinéen : Pita bénéficie d'une école à Tyoukkou dans Timbi Touni

Monsieur Yassy Roger KLONÔN, Secrétaire Général a au nom de Mme la Ministre de la Promotion fém, de l’Enfance et des Personnes vulnérables, conduit une forte délégation dans la localité de Tyoukkou, située dans la sous-préfecture de Timbi Touni, préfecture de Pita.   La mission composée du département de l’enfance, de l’enseignement pré-universitaire représenté par Monsieur le Chef de Cabinet, du…

[grahamdefamily]

Round 1: Mme Mendeleiev vs Roger Raincomprix (Sabrina's dad)

[grenobleagglo]

Le Conseil Constitutionnel et la crise systémique de la V ème République dont les socles de 1958 sont totalement inadaptés à la vie moderne : Le Conseil Constitutionnel est supposé être l'équivalent de la Cour Suprême aux Etats-Unis. Mais aux Etats-Unis les nominations à la Cour sont celles de juristes reconnus, chevronnés qui ont fait carrière dans des instances de justice. En France, le Conseil Constitutionnel est composé de

personnalités ayant un parcours politique de notoriété publique. Sur 9 membres actuels, il y a seulement 3 juristes ayant fait une carrière dans le Droit à l'écart de tout engagement politique notoire : Mme Luquiens, Mme Malbec et M. Seners. Il y a 3 membres qui n'ont fait que de la politique : Fabius, Juppé, Gourault. Et 3 membres ayant une part de parcours juridique + de la politique : MM Mézard, Pinault, Pillet. Le Conseil a été présidé par Roger Frey, Roland Dumas, Yves Guéna, Jean Louis Debré. Totalement inconcevable dans d'autres démocraties occidentales. Comme pour la Cour des Comptes présidée par Joxe, Migaud ou Moscovici. La V ème République est confrontée à une crise systémique institutionnelle qui est l'absence de contre-pouvoirs sérieux face à la toute puissance présidentielle.

26/01/24

[docrotten]

THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970) – Episode 206 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“Mircalla?” “Marcilla?” “But that girl is a guest in my house. Her name is Carmilla. And my daughter is dying!” Looks like “Anagrams ‘R’ Us” is at it again. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they cover the last film standing from Doc Rotten’s and The Black Saint’s favorite 70s horror films, Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers (1970)!

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 206 – The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https://youtube.com/gruesomemagazine

Decades of Horror 1970s is partnering with the WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL (https://wickedhorrortv.com/) which now includes video episodes of the podcast and is available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, and its online website across all OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Germany.

  Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Writing Credits: Tudor Gates (screenplay); Sheridan Le Fanu (story “Carmilla”) (as J. Sheridan Le Fanu)

Adaptation by: Harry Fine, Tudor Gates, Michael Style

Art Direction by: Scott MacGregor

Selected Cast:

Ingrid Pitt as Marcilla / Carmilla / Mircalla Karnstein

Pippa Steel as Laura (as Pippa Steele)

Madeline Smith as Emma Morton

Peter Cushing as General von Spielsdorf

George Cole as Roger Morton

Dawn Addams as The Countess

Kate O’Mara as The Governess (Mme. Perrodot)

Douglas Wilmer as Baron Joachim von Hartog

Jon Finch as Carl Ebhardt

Ferdy Mayne as Doctor

Kirsten Lindholm as First Vampire (as Kirsten Betts)

John Forbes-Robertson as Man in Black

Shelagh Wilcocks as Housekeeper

Harvey Hall as Renton

Janet Key as Gretchin

Charles Farrell as Landlord

Graham James as First Young Man

Tom Browne as Second Young Man

Joanna Shelley as Woodman’s Daughter

Olga Anthony as Village Girl (as Olga James)

Can you believe that in over 200 episodes we have yet to cover Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers (1970)? Well, now is the time! Featuring Peter Cushing and Ingrid Pitt, this Roy Ward Baker classic is likely beloved by many Monster Kids growing up with Famous Monsters of Filmland and their many coffee table monster movie books as it was featured often in those beloved tomes. The film also stars Pippa Steel, Madeline Smith, Kate O’Mara, George Cole, Jon Finch, Ferdy Mayne, Dawn Adams, Harvey Hall, and John Forbes-Robertson. Hammer not only kicks off the 1970s but also their Karnstein trilogy with fangs, blood, and ample nudity. The Grue Crew share their thoughts on the film, the cast, and the trilogy.

The Vampire Lovers is the last of the twenty films that Doc Rotten and The Black Saint chose as their ’70s favorites back in 2013, an event that led to the creation of the Decades of Horrors 1970s podcast. The two episodes were edited for video and rereleased in 2022. Below are links to those two landmark podcasts and episodes on the other two films in the Karnstgein Trilogy.

TOP 10 HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970s, Part 1 – Episode 160

TOP 10 HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970s, Part 2 – Episode 161

LUST FOR A VAMPIRE (1971) – Episode 196

TWINS OF EVIL (1971) – Episode 110

At the time of this writing, The Vampire Lovers is available to stream from Tubi, Freevee, and Flix Fling. The film is available on physical media as a Collectors Edition Blu-ray from Scream Factory.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Doc, will be Scream and Scream Again (1970) from Amicus, sporting the horror trifecta of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. Well, they are all three in the movie.

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. 

Check out this episode!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Mme V. Gamache, responsable de la mort de son fils adoptif," La Patrie. August 4, 1943. Page 3. ---- SHERBROOKE, 4. (D.N.C.) - Madame Valère Gamache, âgée de 28 ans et domiciliée à Ascot-Corner, à 6 milles à l'ouest de Sherbrooke, a été tenue criminellement responsable de la mort de son fils adoptif, Gilbert Gamache, 4 ans, décédé dans des convulsions et dont la mort est attribuée à une mauvaise nutrition.

Le cadavre calciné de l'enfant a été trouvé dans les ruines d'une maison à laquelle la police affirme que le "feu a été mis". Le coroner Léonidas Bachand a immédiatement ordonné l'arrestation de la jeune femme qui paraissait absolument indifférente aux procédures. Mtre Césaire Gervais, C.R., procureur de la couronne pour le district de St-François, avoue qu'il ignore encore quelle accusation le Roi portera contre Mme Gamache mais l'inculpée devait être conduite de vant un magistrat dès aujourd'hui.

DEPART SUSPECT Au cours de l'enquête du coroner, les témoins ont établi que le feu avait éclaté vers 9 heures, dans la soirée de vendredi dernier, le 30 juillet. M.

Roger Provencher, chauffeur d'autobus sur la ligne Sherbrooke-East-Angus, a juré que Mme Gamache avait pris place à bord de son véhicule vers 9 h., vendredi soir.

Le docteur Jean-Marie Roussel. expert médico-légal attaché au département du Procureur général, a affirmé que l'enfant s'était étouffé en absorbant une trop forte quantité de nourriture et qu'il était mort quelques heures avant l'incendie de la demeure de ses parents. Le sergent-détective Charles Perreault, de la Sûreté provinciale, a déclaré qu'il avait trouvé certains indices démontrant que le feu avait été délibérément mis à la maison Gamache",

[byneddiedingo]

To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944). Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Szurovy, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour, Aldo Nadi. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Cinematography: Sidney Hickox. Art direction: Charles Novi. Film editing: Christian Nyby. Music: Franz Waxman. 

Beatrice and Benedick. Rosalind and Orlando. Viola and Orsino. "Slim" and "Steve"? Does this most enjoyable of movies really have  a lot in common with Shakespearean romance? If so, it's all Howard Hawks's doing, with a little bit of help from screenwriters Jules Furthman and William Faulkner. Hawks had done this sort of romance before, in his comic masterpieces Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940), but leave it to him to see World War II (and Ernest Hemingway's "grace under pressure" fiction) through the lens of screwball comedy. And to do it with the movies' most famous tough guy, Humphrey Bogart, and an unknown 19-year-old actress who had her name changed from Betty Perske to Lauren Bacall. And to treat it all as a semi-musical, with Hoagy Carmichael at the piano. Blood is shed and causes are espoused, but nobody takes it terribly seriously. Instead, Bogart and Bacall surf through the film on some of the best dialogue ever written, working out their fine romance as deftly as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ever did on the dance floor. Walter Brennan adds another memorable figure to his impressive gallery of old coots, and Marcel Dalio brings the kind of charm that might threaten to upstage lesser performers than these stars. It's certainly not a perfect film: Dolores Moran (clambering from shore to ship in heels) and Walter Szurovy are rather tediously noble as the de Bursacs. (Watch the bit when Mme. de Bursac faints and spills the chloroform and Bacall's Slim, sensing a rival for her Steve's affections, casts a stinkeye on the fallen form and intentionally fans some of the fumes in her direction.) As the Vichy police captain, Dan Seymour seems to be trying to do a Sydney Greenstreet impersonation with the worst of all French accents. And does anybody really believe that the odd company that sails off at the end to rescue a Resistance fighter from Devil's Island is going to succeed? But no matter. It's all the stuff of which legends are made.

gifs from boydswan

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Les bat' d'af et les Travaux - André Nolat

Roger M., dit l'Anguille, qui vivait avec Mme Aline était un homme d’exception. Il se faisait tard dans sa vie. Mais il avait gardé intactes la mémoire et la science qu’apporte avec lui le malheur. Son enfance et sa jeunesse avaient été terribles. Orphelinat, maison de redressement, évasion, misère affreuse, vols pour survivre, trois mois de cabane avant le service militaire et, partant, les Bat’d’Af. Je soupais quelquefois le soir avec lui, en hiver, quand la neige lourde et lente écrasait la ville. C’est à ces moments-là qu’il me contait ses souvenirs des bataillons. De cette sombre chronique, voici un aperçu : Les Bat’d’Af, les bataillons d’infanterie légère d’Afrique, dits les DAF par les connaisseurs, composés de cinq bataillons en 1889, et d’un seul cantonné à Foum Tatahouine (Tunisie) en 1939, si tout allait bien on ne faisait que son temps de service. Les bataillonnaires, c’était en argot les Joyeux. Blancos et visières cassées. Aux Dafs, la discipline n’était pas tendre. Fallait pas moufter. Sinon : la section spéciale : la camise ou le falot (le conseil de guerre) et... Biribi. Aux Dafs, il y avait les potes, mais aussi Sidi Cafard qui poussait à faire du dégât... et les tatouages, les bouzilles, une connerie indélébile... Croissant de lune avec lanterne... Aux Dafs, il y avait les tyrans du jour et les tyrans de la nuit. Comme l’a écrit un grand journaliste : « là-bas quand le sergent se couche, le caïd se lève. » Pour être respecté, dès le premier jour de son arrivée, il fallait au mépris de son sang montrer qu’on ne serait pas un schbeb, un girond ; qu’on voulait être peinard, maître de ses rêves. Sinon, on entrait dans un cercle équivoque, impérieux, terrible... Et pour quiconque y répugnait, le bataillon devenait un permanent supplice. Plus bas dans ces enfers, il y avait les travaux publics. Les Trav’s. Le bagne militaire. Pour ceux qui avaient commis un délit sous les drapeaux, aux Bat’ d’Af ou ailleurs, pour les déserteurs, pour les insoumis...C’était Biribi avec ses compagnies de discipline, ses « maisons-mères » en Afrique du Nord : Dar-Bel-Hamrit, Bossuet au sud d’Oran, Douéra, Bougie, Téboursouk, entre autres « Nous sortons tous des grandes écoles, les uns de Centrale, les autres de Bossuet. » Aux Dafs, il n’y avait que de jeunes pégriots ou des malchanceux. Aux Trav’s, des soldats punis, pègres ou non. Les Trav’s, c’était pas du nougat... Crânes rasés, capotes grises : « Tu me demandes, maman de te dire comment je porte la capote grise... » Fallait marcher bécif, tracer des routes, porter des pierres. Sous le soleil roi, le soleil lion, le soleil assassin. Le cagnard, luisant comme un dinar d’or rouge, qui plie les genoux des plus courageux. Et de la lerdumé a becter. Par terre souvent... ou mêlée à des poignées de sel. Et les chaouchs. Pour la plupart des tocards féroces et provocants. Des pionnards, des fondus ; « Mais t’es chaouch à Biribi tu fais le désespoir des mères. » Et les humiliations ignobles... indicibles. Et le mitard. Comme un cercueil. Avec la ration tous les quatre jours...  Et la pelote, avec un sac de sable ou de chaux sur les endosses couvertes de plaies. Et le tombeau. Étendu au soleil sous une toile de tente pliée en deux avec les pieds et la tête en dehors. Et la crapaudine. Pieds et mains bloqués dans le dos avec des fers. En plein soleil, la gueule sucrée... On y maudissait Dieu, les hommes et sa mère. Peu d’hommes en réchappaient. On y mourrait. On y virait louf. On y recherchait même des peines plus fortes croyant, ainsi, s’en sortir. Celui qui décarrait des Dafs et, parfois, à peu près d’aplomb des Trav’s devenait souvent un vrai cador ; surtout si auparavant il s’était farci la Correction : Belle-Île-en-Mer, Mettray, Aniane, Eysses... Faut pas le nier, parmi ces détenus, il y avait des salauds,  des ordures, des monstres. Mais pas tant que ça. Le gros des bataillons, c’était de pauvres mômes, des enfants du malheur, désespérés, qu’une société pourrissante, frappée à mort par les tueries de la Grande Guerre, que l’abandon, l’absence de familles, le destin avait brisé ou  métamorphosé en fauves. Des petits qui allèrent à la viande avec rage. Des grands tels Paul Carbone qui fut roi de Marseille et Jo Attia roi du non-lieu. Des hors-la-loi, certes. Mais des seigneurs bien loin des crapules d’aujourd’hui, sanglants épiciers de la schnouf. Des hommes qui avaient tout de même une certaine mentalité. Quoi qu’on en dise.

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