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Bom Jesus do Monte, Portugal (by Monica Fuiza)

#portugal #braga #Architecture #church #igreja #sunlight #steps

Un signe d’amour, chaque jour

Toi, ma raison d’être, le verbe qui fait bouger ma vie. T’es un force, un sentiment, au-delà d’la grammaire et l’orthographie

#original poem #poésie #poetry challenge #poets on tumblr #poetry #Paroles #<3

Thoughts on Scorpius’ Love Interests

There’s much to say about The Cursed Child, but I’ve sen that quite a number of us on the Tumblrverse are now split between Scorose and Scorbus. I ask, do the have to be mutually exclusive?

#scorose #scorbus #The Cursed Child #bisexuality #bisexuality exists #bi pride #Is the Cursed Child Canon?

Un signe d’amour, chaque jour

“Tu es mon rêve défendu, mon seul tourment, et mon unique espérance”

#Alain Delon #Dalida #poésie #poetry #Paroles

Un signe d’amour, chaque jour

“T’offrir ce que j’ai de meilleur pour que tu n’aies plus jamais peur”

#Paroles #zouk #poésie #poetry #Face à Face #poetry challenge

profashionall

#lol #truth #delay

Bruno Pelletier (Québec, Canada) sings Les Temps des Cathédrales, from the French-Canadian musical Notre-Dame de Paris, lyrics by Luc Plamondon and music by ...

#Bruno Pelletier #Le Temps des Cathédrales #Luc Plamondon #Riccardo Cocciante #Québec #Notre Dame de Paris

blackhaiti

🌴🇭🇹 #haiti #former #president #and #firstlady #haitian #preval

sundelys

Though much has been said about René Préval, I hope the winds of time have blown away some of the reactionary feelings to reveal a president who continued a 19th century tradition of playing the major powers against each other to insure Haiti remains a free agent with the best deal. I’d like to hear your thoughts, but several documents point to an astute rather than aloof leader.

#René Garcia Préval #Haïti #Elizabeth Debrosse #Haiti

Ta Nuit Sera Lumière de Midi

1. Si tu dénoues les liens de servitude, Si tu libères ton frère enchaîné, La nuit de ton chemin sera lumière de midi, La nuit de ton chemin sera lumière de midi. Alors, de tes mains, pourra naître une source, La source qui fait vivre la terre de demain, La source qui fait vivre la terre de Dieu.

2. Si tu détruis ce qui opprime l’homme, Si tu relèves ton frère humilié, La nuit de ton combat sera lumière de midi, La nuit de ton combat sera lumière de midi. Alors, de ton pas, pourra naître une danse, La danse qui invente la terre de demain, La danse qui invente la terre de Dieu.

3. Si tu dénonces le mal qui brise l’homme, Si tu soutiens ton frère abandonné, La nuit de ton appel sera lumière de midi, La nuit de ton appel sera lumière de midi. Alors, de tes yeux, pourra luire une étoile, L’étoile qui annonce la terre de demain, L’étoile qui annonce la terre de Dieu.

4. Si tu abats les murs entre les hommes, Si tu pardonnes à ton frère ennemi, La nuit de ton appel sera lumière de midi, La nuit de ton appel sera lumière de midi. Alors, de ton pain, pourra vivre une Église, L’Église qui rassemble la terre de demain, L’Église qui rassemble la terre de Dieu

#Resist #Soyons Lumière de Midi #catholicism #hope #chants #Ta Nuit Sera Lumière de Midi

john-noe

By John Noe

#red #nature #landscape #trees #fog #brouillard #leaves #John Noe

john-noe

By John Noe

#blue #trees #forêt #winter #hiver #red-brown

sadgirlsonly

sundelys

A new Hope for Spring

#trees #pink #color #canal #landscape

y-o-u-t-h-s

#lol #marilyn monroe

mxrcusflint

No one, not even someone dreading taking Polyjuice Potion later, could fail to enjoy Christmas dinner at Hogwarts.

#Merry Christmas #Harry Potter

sundelys

1799, Toussaint, Bonaparte, et la Constitution

From John Patrick Walsh’s excellent book “Free and French in the Caribbean”

Toussaint’s Constitution recognized French sovereignty, but it also granted him the power of governor for life, an investment of power that Bonaparte read as a sure step toward independence. A little more than a month after the coup of Brumaire [9 November 1799], by which Bonaparte took power from the Directory, the first Consul made his inaugural public address to the “Citizens of Saint-Domingue”: “If there are ill-intentioned men in the colony of Saint-Domingue, if there are those who maintain relations with enemy powers, brave black men, remember,” he declared, “that the French people alone recognize your liberty and the equality of your rights.”11 The proclamation, which spoke to a key consular constitutional revision that I discuss below, professed to uphold general liberty for blacks, yet was rendered fragile by the explicit warning it contained: surrounding slaveholding regimes pose a threat to your freedom. Furthermore the emphasis on sovereignty that one reads in the distance between “French people” and “your liberty” will have implications for Toussaint’s Constitution…Bonaparte commanded, “you will inform [Toussaint] of the enormity of the crime of which he has made himself guilty by bearing arms against the Republic; that we had considered him a rebel the instant he had published his constitution” (VIII:30). He had indicted Toussaint for the treasonous act of writing the Constitution de la colonie française de Saint Domingue.12

-pg 67b

In addition to Patrick Walsh’s astute assessment of Bonaparte’s proclamation above, I underline the importance of the emphasis on “French people” and “your liberty.” Though I suggest you read the book which can be bought here, the work details a struggle by Toussaint and later Cesaire to bring to fruition the full promises of the French Revolution and the rights guaranteed from the July 1975 Convention to their respective (former) colonies. However, the distance between metropole and island, racial and class barriers, and the profitable incentive to maintain entrenched economic structures (which Césaire and Toussaint internalized to some degree) prevented various actors from fully enforcing the guaranteed rights. Patrick Walsh also looks at how events in the hexagon affect the islands and includes analysis of texts from the periods. So when Napoleon states “French people” and “your liberty” he not only raises the spectre of slavery and sows the seeds for 19th Century Haitian paranoia about sovereignty, he calls into question their very rights and full citizenship as fellow Frenchmen. His aims to spark fear and instability are inherently a brazen disregard for the Republic he claims to defend, and thus heralds the formal establishment of Empire.

haitianhistory

Many thanks @sundelys for suggesting this book (that I had never heard of). I will have to read it myself to see what it entails. While I find the idea of questioning Césaire’s and Louverture’s conception of “decolonization” interesting, one may ask “so what?” and why juxtapose those two in particular. (Perhaps he makes it clear in his text so, I will have to look into that.)

That being said, I think Walsh is very right (from the segment you just quoted) in his analysis of the question of sovereignty, especially regarding Toussaint’s 1801 Constitution. One common “mistake” I see in “popular” redemptions of the Haitian revolution is to forcefully assume that Louverture was moving towards independence (while the documents we have at our disposition seem to suggest he entertained hopes [however ridiculous they might seem to us today] that Saint-Domingue could be something of a sovereign region under his control while remaining part of the French empire).

Perhaps Toussaint and his advisors in the 1801 Constitution were only buying tine and Napoleon was “justified” in being alarmed by the state of affairs in Saint-Domingue. Yet, I can’t help to think that all this emphasis in the 1801 Constitution on the “French” character of Saint-Domingue (and liberty) was well-thought-out and designed to be there. It is possible that Toussaint, always concerned with guiding the colony’s economy back to its pre-1791 levels, wanted to remain in the French empire as a guarantee that French capital and new inventions facilitating agriculture would continue to flourish in Saint-Domingue. Toussaint was perhaps also afraid of the future of the colony in the event that it lost its French “protection.”

These are all possibilities and I guess what makes history fascinating is that we can never be too settled in our accounts and will continue to debate this for years to come!

sundelys

Thanks @haitianhistory ! It’s a great read, and the author is an alum of my alma mater. The book itself is a peripatetic journey, Césairien at heart, of Toussaint and Césaire’s writings with the intent of underlining how they similarly use the family motif in their work. At several moments, they write as father, son, student,and teacher. When and why they switch the imagery is key to understanding their opinions. As well, the book shows the tension between being “free” and “French” in the Caribbean. As you mention, for some, that meant independence. For Toussaint and Césaire, it didn’t, and Walsh agrees.

The book is also quite relevant for current issues as it asks and shows how receptive France was (and is) to the demands of its ignored citizens who like the Haitians and Martiniquais wanted the full demands of the Revolution to be realized.

Interestingly both Césaire and Toussaint, in this continued conversation with the Republic and their people mention the protection of the French state. Their island nations defended her values and principles in the Americas, and France was to provide recognition, and military and economic assistance to her proud fils. That occurred laced with unfortunate strings attached. So he goes to assess how they each maneuvered in a post-colonial situation.

#Haïti #haiti #haitianhistory #discussion #John Patrick Walsh #Free and French