Tag: french language
Carmen de España
A not particularly serious assault on Prosper Mérimée.
Jingoistic poem celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
Half roasted Frenchmen, some o’er Gratings Broil’d/Do mix with Spaniards in the Sea parboil’d;
Son of a broker
A Dutch compliment becomes a French insult.
Rhyme vs reason
Restif de la Bretonne goes one step beyond Shakespeare and says that poetry is the language of Gods and beasts, and that reason speaks in prose.
Pan di Spagna?
A Sicilian says it ain’t.
The cycling Cartesian
If you haven’t got a head, you’re going to need some legs.
The colonisation of Paris
A fascinating ethnic map of 1920 Paris, and the suggestion that the metropolis was colonised by the provinces rather than vice versa.
Eye and Hand of Fatima on gypsy door in Perpignan
