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Saturday’s News: July 14th, 2012

14 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Sharing

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Bastille Day, CTV News, French Revolution, Gazette, Globe & Mail, Le Devoir, Le Monde diplomatique, National Post, New York Times, WordPress

Autumn Landscape, by Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch (born Jan Hendrik on 19 June 1824 in The Hague – 24 March, 1903 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter of the Hague School.
 
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
 

This humble cottage could be a good home, except that I do not see windows.  Even a humble cottage needs windows so one  can sit indoors  while admiring the view.  I would use the row-boat to go up and down the river.  Picnics in the summer and skating in the winter.

 

Bastille Day:  Happy Bastille Day to the French

Today is Bastille Day, the French national holiday.  So Happy Bastille Day to the French.  The French Revolution fascinates me.  The Ancien Régime was destroyed and thousands of innocent people were guillotined.  But France rebuilt.

The News

 
English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/ EN
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Monde: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr// FR
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 
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14 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Sharing, Songs

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Art Deco, Carmen, classicalmusic, Great Depression, Mezzo-soprano, music, Nat King Cole, Soprano

L’amour est aveugle (Love is blind), by George Barbier

My mother grew up during the Great Depression.  Her family was not affected by the disaster.  In fact, they could help the less fortunate and did help.

I have fond memories of my mother.  She was raising four children and was therefore kept very busy.  Four children had survived and fourteen had died.  We were a Quebec family.

Every day she sat at her Art Deco dressing table and put cream on her face.  She also dressed very well.  Always.

I remember that she and Mariette, her Belgian friend, often got together to make lovely dresses for the three surviving girls.  We loved Mariette.  She and her husband were our best friends.

In fact, we were always together.  Mariette had been the wardrobe mistress for the Brussels Opera company.  Henri was a jeweller and a clockmaker.         

Mother and I spoke together a great deal.  She told me about the 30’s, the 40’s, as well as the 50’s.  She was a singer, a mezzo-soprano, the perfect Carmen, and had had her own radio program.  She would play records and make little comments.

She liked classical music, my father’s passion, but she was especially fond of a lighter kind of music.  Lighter, but beautiful.

So let me close the day by playing one of the songs she loved, a love song.  She so loved my father.

Mother, you have been dead for 9 years and I still miss you.  I even need you. Obviously, I’ll never make it to adulthood.

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