#lais

President Trump is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Beijing, where Taiwan is expected to be a key issue. Sebastian Lai, the son of imprisoned pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, told “CBS News Mornings” that his father will die in prison if he is not saved soon. Source link

Chinese authorities plan to seize ‘offense-related assets’ of the imprisoned dissident. Source link

Earlier I planned to keep the new character for myself, but then changed my mind and decided to pass it on to you DabMorda. Hope you'll like it. As per your request, I've colored it just as you wanted. Sometimes I had to postpone working on it due to personal matters and fatigue. 🫩📓

I present to you: Marie de France. My absolute favorite french medieval author. She lived in the second half of the XII century and we basically know nothing about her. Except for her extraordinary literary work of course. Her masterpiece is a collection of twelve lais. And all of them are about love, often adulterous love, which pushes the plot forward. She mixes legends with court thematics and her stories take place in the real world. Her protagonists aren't Kings or anything like that, which for the time period I believe is a huge deal, but simple people! And what made me fall in love with her is this quote:

"He me nommerai pour n'être pas mis en oublie, j'ai nom marie, je suis originaire de France"

And it means, "I will give myself a name, so that I am not forgotten, my name is Marie, I am from France"