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La Fontaine: Grenouilles (2)

08 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Uncategorized

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This blog may be more relevant today, than it was in August.

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“Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi”

“Le Chêne et le Roseau” is an exquisite fable, containing many lessons, one of which is the Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas (Vanity of vanities; all is vanity, Ecclesiastes 1:2) that permeates French seventeenth-century literature. We all die, even kings. Death is the equalizer.

More timely, however, is a fable entitled “The Frogs who desired a King” (book three, number IV of La Fontaine’s first volume of Fables [1668]).

“Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi” tells the story of “silly and frightened” frogs who live in a democracy, but, tired of democracy, ask Jupiter for a monarch. Jupiter acquiesces. From the skies  descends a peace-loving king who makes a huge noise as he lands. This king is a beam (un soliveau) often represented as a log.

Frightened by the din, the frogs go into hiding, only to…

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Happy Easter

08 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Music

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Pâques, by Micheline Walker

I would like to wish all of you a very Happy Easter.  To the left, you will find a fanciful and unfinished painting.  I did it without a model and it is poorly photographed.  But, it is colourful and depicts Easter in a humble way.

Today, I hope to go to Mass at Saint-Benoît-du-Lac.  I am privileged in that I live a short drive away from a Benedictine Abbey.  Two of the Monks are excellent organists, so I sit near the organ and I listen to Gregorian Chant. 

May this Easter be a joyful celebration.

J.S. Bach – Easter Oratorio, BWV 249  

 (please click on the title to hear the music) 

Saint Benedict Abbey, Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, tak...

Saint Benedict Abbey, Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, taken on June 8, 2008. Uploaded to Flickr by its author, colros (Colin Rose), under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Français : Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

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