Bastille Day

[Padraig]

And [I]Quatorze Juillet)

Mes excuses. I was hamfistedly referring to the publication of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman. I think vinteuil might have rumbled me.

[richardfinegold]

I think that Dickens book more adequately explained mob Psychology and showed how Revolutions can eat their own children than anything that I've read that was written afterwards.

[vinteuil]

... perhaps we should mark the day by giving it its proper date - sextidi 26 messidor CCXXIII , fête de la sauge -

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/07/13/et-si-plutot-que-le-14-juillet-vous-fetiez-le-26-messidor-an-ccxxiii_4681557_4355770.html

Quite why it is a day to celebrate the herb sage I don't know - but it's an herb I like (surprisingly, Elizabeth David couldn't be doing with it at all... ) - either with pasta, or calf liver / fegato alla salvia - so we may include it in our eating tomorrow...

Salve!

[Serial_Apologist]

... perhaps we should mark the day by giving it its proper date - sextidi 26 messidor CCXXIII , fête de la sauge -

http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/07/13/et-si-plutot-que-le-14-juillet-vous-fetiez-le-26-messidor-an-ccxxiii_4681557_4355770.html

Quite why it is a day to celebrate the herb sage I don't know - but it's an herb I like (surprisingly, Elizabeth David couldn't be doing with it at all... ) - either with pasta, or calf liver / fegato alla salvia - so we may include it in our eating tomorrow...

Salve!

Sage is all the rage, around here.

[richardfinegold]

Apparently no one here actually calls this Bastille day.
Anywho, I was at the Pere Lachaise Cemetary today, and saw the graves of Chopin, Cherubini, Bellini, Pleyel, and Jim Morrison today.
They could spruce the place up a bit. At the very least, Chopin's Funeral Marche could be playing at his site, and Jim Morrison should be commemorated with "break On Through To The Other Side". Also, Oscar Wilde's site was unfunny and very Earnest, but at least Moliere's tomb was decorated with comic masques.

[Roehre]

Celebrated here:

Rouget de L’Isle:
La Marseillaise (1792; arr.Stravinsky 1919)

Schumann:
Die beiden Grenadiere op.49/1
Hermann und Dorothea op.136

Benoit:
Charlote Corday: overture (1876)

Klemperer:
Symphony [no.1] in two movements (1960)

[vinteuil]

Apparently no one here actually calls this Bastille day.
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... this is because, when the National Day was re-instituted in the 1880s, the 14 July 1789 was held by some parliamentarians to have too blood-stained a connotation; fortunately the 14 July 1790 was the date of the Fete of the Federation of France - so the "14 July" could be accepted with this double anniversary in mind, without tieing it too closely to the storming of the Bastille, an event of unhappy memory for many of the French.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_fran%C3%A7aise

[vinteuil]

... and should you be near Bourg-en-Bresse next month, the «quatorze juillet» is celebrated on 14 August by the commune of Viriat (population 6,160)...


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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viriat

[BBMmk2]

If I had the time today, naturalement en Francais! :) One of my ancestral countries

[vinteuil]

One of my ancestral countries

... ah yes, one's ancestral countries. One has so many, after all!