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#Monument to "La Volontaires Americains Morts pour La France" Dedicated on July 4 1923 by the President of the French Council of State, Raymond Poincaré dedicated to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I in the service of France. The monument had been financed through a public subscription. #French #sculptor Jean #Boucher used a photograph of the soldier and poet, #AlanSeeger, as his inspiration, and #Seeger's name can be found, among those of twenty-three others who had fallen in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, on the back of the plinth. Also, on either side of the base of the statue, are two excerpts from Seeger's Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France, a poem written shortly before his death on 4 July 1916. Seeger intended that his words should be read in Paris on 30 May of that year, at an observance of the #American holiday, Decoration Day (today known as #MemorialDay). (at Place des États-Unis)

Scott posing in front of the monument for "La Volontaires Americains Morts pour La France". Scott will be performing the poems written by #AlanSeeger with music by #composer Patrick #Zimmerli in June and July. Artist Jean #Boucher used a photograph of the soldier and poet, Alan Seeger, as his inspiration for the #bronze #soldier that tops the monument. #Seeger's name can be found, among those of twenty-three others who had fallen in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, on the back of the plinth. Also, on either side of the base of the statue, are two excerpts from Seeger's Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France, a poem written shortly before his death on 4 July 1916. "Yet sought they neither recompense nor praise nor to be mentioned in another breath than their blue coated comrades whose great days It was their pride to share by share even to the death" (at Place des États-Unis)

100 years since armistice, and we’ve forgotten so much. #alanseeger #WorldWarI #armistice #remembranceday #veteransday https://www.instagram.com/p/BqCAAXDB1Xe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12g79cndn3hif

Got a brand new poetry blog post about this guy. Link in bio. #alanseeger #abuffoonlooksatapoem #poetry #worldwarI

Epic poem by Alan Seeger written in WWI a short time before his death in battle #martialarts #brazilianjiujitsu #bjj #alanseeger #rendezvouswithdeath #warriors #warriorpoet

God knows ‘twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down,   Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,   Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,   Where hushed awakenings are dear...   But I’ve a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town,   When Spring trips north again this year,   And I to my pledged word am true,   I shall not fail that rendezvous.

I have a rendezvous with Death   At some disputed barricade,   When Spring comes back with rustling shade   And apple-blossoms fill the air—   I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair.     It may be he shall take my hand   And lead me into his dark land   And close my eyes and quench my breath—   It may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with Death   On some scarred slope of battered hill,   When Spring comes round again this year   And the first meadow-flowers appear.     God knows ‘twere better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down,   Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,   Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,   Where hushed awakenings are dear...   But I’ve a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town,   When Spring trips north again this year,   And I to my pledged word am true,   I shall not fail that rendezvous.