Bastille Day, le 14 juillet, La fête nationale française - whatever one calls it, the French are celebrating it!
Bien sûr...
Faire la fête!
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
I confess, I don't know much about France. Napoleon was French and he wasn't as short as people seem to think he was. He was average height for a man of his era. I have one random French woman in my lineage. I only know this because my maternal grandmother was good at genealogy and passed down a copy of the authentic German marriage certificate from the late 1800s.
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather came from Huguenot lineage - the Protestant French who escaped persecution under Louis XIV and XV - but, apart from his surname (Turier), there wasn't much of a deep connection with the country. Jx
DeleteAh yes, escaping religious persecution, a national past time for many European families back in the day. It's why we became Americans. My grandmother was the last one to be a devout Lutheran.
DeleteA fave quote - it may have come from Joan Rivers, but I'm not sure - is "Always wear all your jewellery. You never know when you may need to flee a country!" Jx
DeleteVive la France.
ReplyDeletePour la democratie Athene etait le berceau, Paris etait l'ecole de finition.
Et remercier la Grande-Bretagne, le Canada, l'Amerique et les Allies d'etre venu a La Belle France defense et de l'ultime liberation. *d'Anjou
Theirs is the bloodiest of national anthems, however. Jx
DeleteThat's my favourite moment in that film. In among many.
ReplyDeleteI must have seen Casablanca [probably when I was a child, when there was always a Hollywood film on Sunday afternoons - Mother would never miss them; she watched them while doing the ironing]. Don't remember much of it in detail, to be honest. Jx
DeleteDeath to King Louis.
ReplyDeleteVive la République !
Madame DeFarge: "We are so poor, we do not even have a language! Just this stupid accent!"
DeleteFellow Revolutionist: "She's right, she's right! We all talk like Maurice Chevalier!"
Madame DeFarge: "We, the people of France..."
Fellow Revolutionist: "Fraunce."
Madame DeFarge: "Fraunce..."
Jx