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La Belle et La Bête - Beaumont’s A French Fairy Tale or Beauty and the Beast Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont first published Beauty and the Beast in 1756, as ‘a tale for the entertainment of juvenile readers.’ It first appeared under the title of La Belle et La Bête in response to the earlier, much longer version of the story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (1695 – 1755), which first appeared in 1740.

Although similar in the overall plot, Beaumont changed many aspects of Villeneuve’s original, making it more suitable for younger readers. Much of the lengthy back story of Belle and Beast was omitted as were many of the characters. It is also worthy to note that the urban opening and the social class of the characters was highly unusual in fairy tales of the time and therefore occupies a unique space in folkloric storytelling. This ability of Beaumont, to adapt and re-appropriate pre-existing narratives, has ensured the tale’s continued popularity – with her version still the best-loved variant to this day. 🖱️ https://www.pookpress.co.uk/beaumont-beauty-beast/

La Belle et la Bête (1946 film) Beauty and the Beast 👇 📽️ 👇

Ça swingue au château de Versailles ! 🕺💃 Vous avez été très nombreux à réagir à mes précédentes vidéos de tableaux qui chantent alors, avec la complicité du ‪@chateauversailles‬ , j’ai eu envie de donner vie à quelques-uns des personnages qui ont vécu dans le château !

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Liste des musiques :

C+C Music Factory / Everybody dance now

Aqua / Barbie girl

Scorpions / Wind of change

Sia / Chandelier

The Kid Laroi feat Justin Bieber / Stay

Rihanna / Diamonds

Stromae / Alors on danse

Bananarama / Venus

John Paul Young / Love is in the air

Roxette / Listen to your heart

* Schubert / Ave Maria

Liste des portraits :

Louis XIV / Hyacinthe Rigaud

Marie-Antoinette / Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Louis XVI / Antoine-François Wallet

Eugénie de Montijo / Edouard-Louis Dubufe

Napoléon / Jacques-François-Faust Lefèvre

Marie-Louise d’Autriche / François Gérard

Napoleon III / Winterhalter

Madame du Barry / François-Hubert Drouais

Louis Philippe / Winterhalter

Madame de Pompadour / Maurice Quentin de La Tour

Madame de Maintenon / Pierre Mignard

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The Vitruvian Man is a famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist. It shows a man in two positions, with his arms and legs spread out, inside a circle and a square. The drawing is based on the writings of Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect, who described the ideal proportions of the human body. Leonardo wanted to explore the relationship between man and nature, and how the human body reflects the harmony of the universe. He also used his own measurements and observations, as well as the works of other artists and scholars, to create his own version of the perfect human figure. The drawing is very detailed and precise, with notes and calculations in Leonardo’s characteristic mirror writing. It is considered one of the most iconic images of Western civilization, and a symbol of the Renaissance spirit of art and science. It's now kept in the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, Italy, but it is rarely displayed to the public because of its fragility and sensitivity to light. It was loaned to the Louvre in 2019 for a special exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death.

[Courtesy of http://leonardodavinci.net]

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"What is needed is either a new understanding of God or a new understanding of Man: an understanding of God that does not insult the scientific mind while offering bread, not a stone, to the deepest hunger of the heart; or an understanding of Man that squarely faces the criminal weakness of our moral will while holding out to us the knowledge of how we can strive within ourselves to become the fully human being we are meant to be-both for ourselves and as instruments of a higher purpose. But this is not an either/or. The premise—or, rather, the proposal—of this book is that at the heart of the Christian religion there exists, and has always existed, just such a vision of both God and Man.

I call it “lost Christianity,” not because it is a matter of doctrines and concepts that may have been lost or forgotten; nor even a matter of methods of spiritual practice that may need to be recovered from ancient sources. It is all that, to be sure, but what is lost in the whole of our modern life, including our understanding of religion, is something even more fundamental, without which religious ideas and practices lose their meaning and all too easily become the instruments of ignorance, fear, and hatred.

What is lost is the experience of oneself, just oneself—myself, the personal being who is here, now, living, breathing, yearning for meaning, for goodness; just this person here, now, squarely confronting one’s own existential weaknesses and pretensions while yet aware, however tentatively, of a higher current of life and identity calling to us from within ourselves.

This presence to oneself is the missing element in the whole of the life of Man, the intermediate state of consciousness between what we are meant to be and what we actually are. It is, perhaps, the one bridge that can lead us from our inhuman past toward the human future."

-Lost Christiantiy

She was twenty-something when she got swallowed / by Los Angeles, before Los Angeles / was about the bustling.

The La Brea Woman, they call the female / bones unearthed from a warm Ice Age. It was / only around sixty degrees then.

She's got a piece missing from her / skull, from a blow to the head, probably, / because violence doesn't have a clear beginning.

In 1970, they transported her / body and some freak took her / femur, because everyone needs a taste.

Millions and millions of bones have been recovered / from DTLA's everbubbling asphalt; only hers / got a digital rendering of what she must have / looked like, if she fell off a mudflap.

What must it be like to be forced to / wait for gunk to cover you like a sticky shroud, / and then be subjected to relive it 9,000 years later / by people you don't understand?

Did you know the tar pits are just / a few inches deep? Death comes in / the form of hungry predators / and your own starvation; the dark / never does any of the killing.

And did you know that five minutes from the pits / is a BevMo! where you can buy as many bottles / as it takes to forget / the heaviness of this poor woman / who got dragged out of her sludge prison / for everyone to gawk and grope at?

I go to the IHOP / down the street where I can eat and pretend / the La Brea Woman is just a Sunday story, / not the oldest-known Angeleno, who despite her / best efforts died once and then some.

But I see her everywhere.

I see her on Sunset blvd staring at billboards, / believing the underwear models are gods, /

I see her at every bus stop I pass on jogs, / waiting to go on a return trip anywhere,

I see her in my room at night, turning / a lamp on and combing her hair — I see her everywhere / begging for her girlhood back.

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