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"Paris At Night"
par Jacques PrévertTrois allumettes une à une allumées dans la nuit
La première pour voir ton visage tout entier
La seconde pour voir tes yeux
La dernière pour voir ta bouche
Et l’obscurité tout entière pour me rappeler tout cela
En te serrant dans mes bras
"L’Ennemi" par Charles Baudelaire
...I see in autumn’s pall the fall of all my dreams
And must take spade and rake, and labor like a slave
To scrape and save the soil washed thin by swollen streams
Whose flooding swirls out pits deep and wide as the grave.
Who knows if the late flowers blossoming in my brain
Can find in this earth, drained like beaches by the rain,
The mystic sustenance for a vigorous new start… ..
L'Histoire
Catherine de Médicis
Daughter of Larent II of Médicis of Italy and Madeleine of Bourbon. Born in Florence in 1519. She married in 1533, Henri II, the second son of François the First. Her rival was the king’s mistress, Diane of Poitiers. Not only queen of France, she was also the mother of 3 other French kings: François II, Charles IX and Henri III. She had the Palace of the Tuileries built, as well as the chateâu of Monceaux and continued the construction of the Louvre. She died in 1589.
Many of the Kings and Queens of France chose emblems of their reign. If you look closely at châteaux (especially in the Loire) you might recognize some of the following:
The Pelican
"Tegit virtue minores" (by his courage he protects his children) The emblem attributed to Marie de Médicis the second wife of Henri IV.
Le Cygne
Emblem of Queen Claude of France, wife of François I
L'Hermine
Emblem of Queen Anne of Brittany who was both the wife of Charles VIII and then of Louis XII
Le Porc-Epic
The porcupine was the emblem for King Louis XII.
Ancient Megaliths
Is this a picture of a "menhir" or a "dolmen"?
C'est un dolmen!
...a mysterious group of upright stones that supports a top flat stone, perhaps used either as a burial tomb or table for sacrifices dating from about 5000-2000 B.C. It's estimated that it took several hundred men to pull and elevate the dolmen's roof of 32 tons. This dolmen can be seen at Bougon in the Deux-Sèvres.
A "menhir" is one single upright stone. Most
can be found in Brittany where there are numerous alignments. The most famous
of these sites can be found at Carnac in the Morbihan.
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LE MUSÉE JACQUEMART ANDRÉ 158, bd Haussman The museum presents collections in a magnificent private mansion from the end of the 19th century representing: the Italian Renaissance, the Flemish masters and the 18th century French School. An intimate museum with autoguides in several languages. |
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Les Pardons
Jour de l'Ascencion : Troménie - Saint-Gouesnou
Dernier dimanche de mai : Pardon de Notre Dame de Lorette - Plogonnec
Dimanche de la Pentecôte : Troménie de Landeleau
Dimanche de la Trinité : Grand Pardon de Notre Dame de Rumengol - Rumengol
Pardon de Notre Dame : du Crann - Spezet
Dimanche avant le 24 juin : Pardon de Saint Tuguen - Primelin
24/06 : Pardon de Saint Jean Baptiste - La Feuillée
Dernier dimanche de juin : Pardon Saint Pierre et Saint Paul - Plouguerneau
Pardon de Saint Jean - St Jean du Doigt
1er dimanche de juillet : Pardon de Ty mam Doue - Quimper
2ème dimanche de juillet : Pardon de Notre Dame du Bon Voyage - Plogoff
Petite Troménie - Locronan
Dimanche après le 14 juillet : Pardon de Sainte Barbe - Roscoff
Dernier dimanche de juillet : Pardon de Sainte Anne - Fouesnant
Pardon de Loc Ildut - Sizun
1er dimanche d'aoüt : Pardon de Notre Dame des Naufrages - Plogoff (Pointe du Raz)
15/08 : Pardon de Notre Dame - Clèdre-Poher
Pardon de Notre Dame du Bon Voyage - Ouessant (île)
Pardon de Notre Dame de Kernitron - Lanmeur
Pardon de Notre Dame de la Joie - Kerity/Penmarc'h
Pardon de Sainte Marie du Menez hom - Pomodiern
Pardon du Releg - Plouneour Menez
Pardon de Notre Dame de la Clarté - Querrien
Avant dernier dimanche d'août : Pardon de N D des Portes - Châteauneuf-du Faou
Dimanche après le 15 août : Pardon de Notre Dame de Callot - Carentec
2eme dimanche après le 15 août : Pardon Saint Philibert - Moëlan-sur-Mer
Pardon de Sainte Anne la Palud - Plounevez-Porzay
1er dimanche de septembre : Pardon de Notre Dame de Penhors - Pouldreuzic
Pardon de Notre Dame de Rocamadour - Camaret
Grand Pardon de Notre Dame - Le Folgoet
2ème dimanche de septembre: Pardon de N.D. de la Clarté - Combrit
Pardon de N.D de Kerdevot - Ergue Gabéric
Dimanche après le Folgoet: Pardon de N.D de Trezien - Plouarzel
Dimanche avant le 19 septembre: Pardon de N.D de la Salette - Morlaix-Saint Martin
First half of the month of August - yearly. (10 days)
The largest interceltic event in Europe.
Featuring present day cultures of celtic regions through
traditional, jazz, rock, country and symphonic music,
visual arts, film, and summer study programs.
4500 musicians, singers, dancers from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Ile of Mann, Galicia, Asturia, Brittany, the United States, Canada, Australia, etc…For more information about this festival and other Celtic links, you can contact:
Office du Tourisme du Pays de Lorient
Quai de Rohan, 56100 LORIENT, FRANCE
Tel: (33) 02 97 21 07 84
Fax:(33) 02 97 21 99 44
www.azimut-com.fr/interceltique
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