#point du jour

[postcard-from-the-past]

Point du Jour boat station in the 16th district of Paris

French vintage postcard

[memoriae-lectoris]

The first issue of Le Point du Jour ou Résultats de ce qui s’est passé la veille appeared on June 19 1789, the day before the Tennis Court Oath. The newspaper was to be published continuously until October 1, 1791. Barere himself was the principal reporter and, with the exception of a young compatriot from Tarbes, Dominique Demerville (…)

Although circulation figures are not available, two years later one of Barere’s fellow deputies made a malicious observation that Barere was obviously in no hurry to have the parliamentary debates end, since his paper was bringing in 1,000 ecus (3,000livres) every month. The figure seem fantastically high for it is the equivalent of the wages that a laborer would earn in several years' work, but the comment at least fits in with other evidence that Barere’s undertaking was hardly a financial catastrophe.

As Le Point du Jour established itself, the small octavo pages of each issue increased in number, rising from an initial four to six or eight, even to an occasional sixteen. Checking copy presumably also grew easier with the passage of time and never again, after the issue of June 26, did Barere have to apologize to readers for “facts contrary to the truth” which had slipped into the paper or crave their indulgence for mistakes occasioned by the scant time at the editors disposal to set up and distribute the daily issue after the close of the assembly session. In view of opportunities for self-aggrandizement Barere was exceptionally restrained in references to himself, but his friends and the deputies whom he would have for friends, Bailly and Mirabeau, the Duke of Orleans and the Duke of Aiguillon, were frequently mentioned. From the beginning, too, he was led by his political sympathy or a grasp of what was politically significant to single out for “the purity of his intentions and his political zeal” a young, still unknown deputy from Artois, whom he referred to variously as “M. Robertpierre,” “M. Roberspierre,” and “M. Robespierre.”

Within its self-imposed limitations Le Point du Jour stands close to the top of all the newspapers of the period as a source of information and critical commentary on parliamentary proceedings. Barere followed those debates closely, summarizing where he thought a brief resume would suffice and giving in extenso speeches and reports of special importance. Intelligent selectivity, scrupulous regard for accuracy, and a sense of continuity were the hallmarks of a newspaper whose dignified tone, respect for the opinions of participants, and discerning interpretation won it admiration and respect. The astute Mazzei read it faithfully before forwarding it to the king of Poland, for he found in it, he wrote, “an exact, brief, clear, and prompt” ac- count of what was happening in the assembly.

[galedekarios]

the way some ppl go out of their way to actively seek out appropriately tagged content to get upset about to the point of making several posts in a row abt it... it's like that guy on bike meme tbh

[demifiendrsa]

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The Continental: From the World of John Wick | Official Teaser

The three-part John Wick prequel spin-off will stream on Peacock in September 2023.

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[variousqueerthings]

was just reminded of anya taylor-joy being cast as furiosa and uuuurgh just dull dull boring casting

[oceanusborealis]

The Continental (The Continental: From the World of John Wick): Brothers in Arms – TV Review

TL;DR – This is a perfectly okay introduction, but by attaching itself to this world, it wrote checks that it has so far been unable to cash.   ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime service that viewed this series. The Continental Review – If there has been one world that has delighted me over the last decade, it has been John Wick and its universe. Indeed, I wrote…

[haunted-catboy]

“oh why was the director in Nimona so afraid of change, like the movie never went into her backstory” my friend the entire FUCKING point of the movie was that bigotry & ostracization makes zero sense! She doesn’t have a motive rooted in actual tangible reasons because, in a lotta cases, there IS no actual tangible reason! She fears change because she was raised to protect the status quo at ALL costs! My friend my buddy my pal the movie is About How Marginalizing People Hurts Everyone & Makes No Sense!!!! My dear companion, read some fucking theory on the matter!

[beauzos]

i'm sorry i did that to your post. i was suddenly stricken by the thought "this poor blogger with a 4 note post from like 3 months ago is now suddenly inundated by the followers of the President John Tyler Blog." goes to show you're never safe on this app. it was a good post

nahhh, it's alright lol. it just really caught me off-guard initially because i didn't expect anyone to find that random post i made, especially cause i didn't tag it lol. i keep forgetting that you can find posts like that through keyword searches since i did mention Jackson in my tags. but i don't mind when people reblog my posts. if i really do, the reblogs'll be off, i just never expect people to find them

but it's so funny. Civil War blogs jumpscare

i feel validated though because i thought that post was really funny and it was a flop on here since i usually post a lot of fandom stuff and just subject my followers to history posts at random KDSJ

[postcard-from-the-past]

Point du Jour port in the 16th district of Paris

French vintage postcard

[geekcavepodcast]

The Continental: From the World of John Wick Teaser

The Continental: From the World of John Wick is a three-part event that explores the origin of the hotel-for-assassins from the John Wick universe. The series is told “through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, as he’s dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970’s New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the hotel’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the hotel where he will eventually take his future throne.” (Peacock)

The Continental: From the World of John Wick stars Colin Woodell (Winston Scott), Ayomide Adegun (Charon), Peter Greene (Uncle Charlie), Mel Gibson (Cormac), Ben Robson (Frankie), Hubert Point-Du Jour (Miles), Jessica Allain (Lou), Mishel Prada (KD), and Nhung Kate (Yen). Greg Coolidge and Kirk Ward serve as showrunners and writers on the series.

The Continental: From the World of John Wick hits Peacock on September 22, 2023.

[linguisticparadox]

No one is going to understand this

[grey-wardens]

if larian does end up making a sequel to baldur's gate 3 (though i want it to be centered around a different part of faerûn), i really hope they pick one specific set of choices to be canon. hot take, but i feel like not doing that hurt the individual games in the dragon age series even though it was supposed to make them feel more continuous and cohesive.

that being said, i'd really rather they canonize the good endings for everyone. i've never played the original bg games and don't plan to but i get why og fans were mad about viconia basically just being turned into a final boss. that's probably what would happen to astarion and shadowheart if they canonized either of their bad endings lol. also, imo wyll and karlach would be the best options by far for returning companions!

[lesamis]

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sometimes i get a little sad about the way being at the phd home for a long time makes me want to like. take off the academiasona and just breathe for a bit. bc i love my friends here but our lives are v fundamentally different and this becomes glaringly obvious when one of them mentions their summer home or says they're taking their mum to the folkwang museum for her bday or when they randomly have cremant in the house and i instantly feel like im wearing some kind of Bildungsbürger skinsuit they tailored for me and it doesn't fit right. but then. these are the same people you can send a silly little poem to that you wrote about a rotten lemon and they'll reply straightaway saying they love it and it reminds them of this one contemporary sculptor who makes giant bedazzled rotten lemons. and for a second this whole thing makes sense

[fagmegumi]

Hey everyone this guy in his early 20s is having consensual, kinda spicy sex with women in his age range. that’s straight up p***ph*lia and we should turn him into the collective’s punching bag of the week, for woke reasons of course

[oceanusborealis]

The Continental (The Continental: From the World of John Wick): Loyalty to the Master – TV Review

TL;DR – Continued floundering makes those moments when it tries to do something feel lacklustre. ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 2.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime service that viewed this series. The Continental Review – Well, hmmm, I have enjoyed everything we have gotten from the John Wick universe so far. However, last week’s opening, Brothers in Arms, fell flat in many ways. Now, this…

[narvaldetierra]

Blindspot Rewatch 2022 ~ S03E10 ~

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