tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post1112783394989851691..comments2023-09-04T12:06:28.711+01:00Comments on THE ADVENTURES OF UN PEU LOUFOQUE: Liberty, equality, fraternity and fireworksUn Peu Loufoquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09387826515638192265noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-7583572307000335432007-07-29T16:36:00.000+01:002007-07-29T16:36:00.000+01:00Oh dear echoes of the Purplecoo party and the burn...Oh dear echoes of the Purplecoo party and the burning down of yet another marquee . . . rushing on . .Westerwitch/Headmistresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08956764463959607416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-90856535064681713382007-07-17T03:35:00.000+01:002007-07-17T03:35:00.000+01:00How do you continue to keep this high standard of ...How do you continue to keep this high standard of reportage?<BR/><BR/>Hoping that the electricity holds.<BR/><BR/>Knowing that your imagination will.<BR/><BR/>xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-51073487455798497632007-07-16T22:46:00.000+01:002007-07-16T22:46:00.000+01:00Great stuff. Exciting story, politics and les pomp...Great stuff. Exciting story, politics and les pompiers. What more could a woman want?Norma Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12403421235388770309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-69766193638180284902007-07-16T22:31:00.000+01:002007-07-16T22:31:00.000+01:00Brilliant...and just what is my hero doing stuffed...Brilliant...and just what is my hero doing stuffed in the church wall?snailbeachshepherdesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01397158758052413758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-601173501042611892007-07-16T20:50:00.000+01:002007-07-16T20:50:00.000+01:00Oh how I missed this even if it is only 6 days Wel...Oh how I missed this even if it is only 6 days Well done, you really are the best.<BR/>BlossomBlossomcottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341216100768538015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-36968102412304773742007-07-16T16:11:00.000+01:002007-07-16T16:11:00.000+01:00oh to be able to wave the union jack & celebrate o...oh to be able to wave the union jack & celebrate our englishness without the being labelled as politically incorrect. perhaps we should have a cider, pork pie & cheddar day with very small flags......muddybootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01117980616235810426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-76940066341054572302007-07-16T14:35:00.000+01:002007-07-16T14:35:00.000+01:00Splendid absolutely splendid - and I do so hope yo...Splendid absolutely splendid - and I do so hope your ecclesiastical edifice is repaired by the Beaux Arts people or whatever may be their Breton equivalent. You never know when it may be needed to serve as a beacon - a blazing fire (again) lit at its top - to tell you all the Tour de France is on its way.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, I hate to be a pedant but as I'm sure you know the picture celebrates the 1831 revolution rather than that of 1789, this revolution being the one that effectively saw off the restored Bourbon monarchy and reinstituted the Tricolour. The picture was painted by Delacroix, who almost certainly was Talleyrand's son (Delacroix senior being foreign minister and also impotent was demoted by both the government and by Mde Delacroix at the same time in favour of Talleyrand, who post Napoleon argued long, hard but unsuccessfully with the Bourbons to keep the revolutionary flag). It was about the only diplomatic battle that Talleyrand ever lost, though he went on fighting it for 15 years and eventually - in part thanks to this painting which he commissioned his son to paint (mysterious sums of money periodically arrived at the Delacroix studio) he was successful. However the painting was then promptly locked away in a vault by the authorities for an absolute age before being let out. It was, I suppose, considered a stray rocket that might land on anyone's ecclesiastical edifice and burn it down, too dangerous to go on display. Which just shows that history can be every bit as outrageously inventive as any of the Loufoque chronicles.Fenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377814681496294457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-16565066097060713502007-07-16T13:24:00.000+01:002007-07-16T13:24:00.000+01:00Why does nothing this interesting ever happen wher...Why does nothing this interesting ever happen where I live? I so enjoyed reading this.FunkyMunkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03417658638855569577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-56680356042186769102007-07-16T13:05:00.000+01:002007-07-16T13:05:00.000+01:00It's like Coronation Street where you live!It's like Coronation Street where you live!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-9364257114033364222007-07-16T12:07:00.000+01:002007-07-16T12:07:00.000+01:00I thought they had got Sophia Loren to pose for th...I thought they had got Sophia Loren to pose for the painting <BR/>M.L--- but no! Your secret is out...........you shameless hussie..............first exchanging communication with a strange american and now a painter's muse!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>And how is poor Loic? Stiff with shock, still I'll be bound!Grousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511245766699609786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-75990522029282725502007-07-16T10:33:00.000+01:002007-07-16T10:33:00.000+01:00Poor Marianne, what an unfortunate setting in whic...Poor Marianne, what an unfortunate setting in which to fall out of your dress (and get captured by the paparazzi doing so). Brilliant blog, as ever. I was daydreaming in the bath this morning about moving to somewhere where it doesn't rain as much as it does in Wales. I thought of France, it sounds fun! xxxPMMaggie Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16047691937064748860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-21227041179845394542007-07-16T09:42:00.000+01:002007-07-16T09:42:00.000+01:00I missed the daily insights into your life so much...I missed the daily insights into your life so much while I was away!Suffolkmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15123007594112557168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-12759056741771575002007-07-16T09:34:00.000+01:002007-07-16T09:34:00.000+01:00Bonjour,I love your daily cheer-me-up blogs,Merci,...Bonjour,<BR/>I love your daily cheer-me-up blogs,<BR/>Merci,<BR/>CaitxCait O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04569760764766505179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-977806595605169442007-07-16T09:04:00.000+01:002007-07-16T09:04:00.000+01:00I have said it before...nobody does it better...Th...I have said it before...nobody does it better...<BR/><BR/>That Marianne looks quite a girl!!<BR/>(I know a Marianne and she is!)<BR/><BR/>warm wishes<BR/>xBluestocking Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01502764742097142372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5818843609487177461.post-88997686568414297032007-07-16T07:16:00.000+01:002007-07-16T07:16:00.000+01:00It's the way you tell it that makes me smile !It's the way you tell it that makes me smile !Sally Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09299690757779540854noreply@blogger.com