he's meant to reek of alcohol and piss and probably vomit and 1800s unidentified French stenches, he's meant to be a rat man. perhaps even a man in the sewers. We have to accept this.
On the FAR other end of my artistic experiments: so back in canon era (or so I've read) there were people along the fashionable strolling boulevards who did quick drawings and sketch-paintings for souvenirs. These were in no way artistic portraits--like good carnival caricaturists today, the artists made up their speed by relying on a small set of colors and some recognizable shortcuts /stock types of Person to Draw. It's always seemed like the sort of thing that JBM would pick up on a whim. This was something I tried to draw super quick, with a limited set of overbright "paints".
...also, there's this song. Which I've always loved for its sweet wistfulness-- the way it's about a time and a love that is gone and was probably even grieved, but long enough ago that now what remains is just the fondness. So , here, a filk for Musichetta, and JBM, some time Long Later when the paints and the memories are faded but still there. Also there is a bonus picture under the cut, after the filk:P (241 words,if I can trust my program!)
Deep in the pocket of an old worn out day skirt
I chanced to discover an old memory
Three for a quarter-franc boulevard portrait
Taken of Joly and Legle and me
He's in the corner, his shirt collar open
Like some Spanish lover, some bold Hernani
Each of them smiling and holding my hand close
It's Lesgle and Joly, they're smiling for me
It must have been sometime in June 1830
That hopeful bright summer, we knew we'd won free
I took their arms as we walked through the arcade
Three young believers on a half a franc spree
Three for a quarter franc Boulevard portrait
Painting our loves for the whole world to see
Hey kiss me quick, 'cause the sunlight is fading
It's fading on Joly and Laigle and me
Waiting on that late night omnibus back home
They held me warm, in the cool evening breeze
All of us swore to be in love forever
Forever for Joly and Lesgles and me
Three for a quarter franc Boulevard portrait
Painting our loves for the whole world to see
Hey kiss me quick, 'cause the sunlight is fading
It's fading on Joly and Lesgueles and me
Three for a quarter franc boulevard portraits
Three young believers on a half a franc spree
I saved your picture in my day skirt pocket
L'aigle and Joly, do you have one of me
Joly and Lesgle, do you have one of me
(Note: no IDEA if those prices would make any sense, but the Vibes Were Right.
Also: Astute readers may notice one portrait is missing. this is NOT because I ran out of time and wrists , it's because that one was Bossuet's and well. His luck is Like That-- he misplaced it long before the end, though if he'd turned out his pockets one more time he might have realized he actually had it there all along...)
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