le gentleman forestier

français, amateur de style britannique, blog où je poste sur mes passions : pêche à la mouche, campagne, élégance, traditions... ⚜️🇨🇵🥃📯📚🎣✝️ Instagram : https://instagram.com/le_gentleman_forestier

[mea-gloria-fides]

[thesixthduke]

[mea-gloria-fides]

[bestboxerever]

Style

[wanderthewood]

Afternoon tea at Browns Hotel Mayfair London, England by afternoonteauk

[le-gentleman-forestier]

Je pense que le gentleman se doit d'avoir un carnet de chasse dans lequel il consigne méticuleusement tout ce qu'il tire ou pêche 🎣

[blackswaneuroparedux]

All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

- Kurt Vonnegut

11th November 1918. General Weygand, Admiral Wemyss and Marshall Foch after signing the armistice. The ceremony was carried out in a railway car. The actual armistice was signed at 5:12 - 5:20 AM. This photograph taken at 7.30am moments before Marshal Foch departed for Paris to hand the Armstice to the French Government.

[dedanaan]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

In hunting you are following, and thing you follow is a pack of hounds, which in turn follows a scent. Some follow on horseback and are part of the action; others follow by foot or car. All are returning, to a certain extent, to a pre-agrarian condition.

- Sir Roger Scruton, On Hunting

[holdhard]

HM Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral by Patrick Lichfield

[derkrautjunker]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Monarchs are, in a very real sense, the voice of history, and the very accidental way in which they gain office emphasises the grounds of their legitimacy, in the history of a people, a place, and a culture.

- Sir Roger Scruton, The Meaning of Conservatism

[myalteregohasclass]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Le patriotisme, c'est aimer son pays. Le nationalisme, c'est détester celui des autres.

- General Charles de Gaulle

[m1male2]

Fantasy

[culturaloffering]

If you can keep your head when all about you      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,    But make allowance for their doubting too;   If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;      If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster    And treat those two impostors just the same;   If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings    And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   And so hold on when there is nothing in you    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,      Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,    If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,      And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

[mea-gloria-fides]

HM The Queen, Balmoral, !967.