#french author

[feminineforms]

Portrait of the French novelist and singer Suzy Solidor (1933) by Tamara de Lempicka

[portrait-paintings]

Auguste Maquet, Playwright (1813-1888)

Artist: Louis Boulanger (French, 1807-1867)

Date: ca. 1801-1846

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

[absurdmuse604]

[midnightmuses301]

“𝐄𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦; 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐭.”

-𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞

[cleopatragirlie]

[wretchfulreading]

Standing before this symbolic night bursting with stars, I opened myself for the first time to the tender indifference of the world.

- The Outsider, Albert Camus

[artemlegere]

The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis

Artist: Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748 - 1825)

Date: 1818

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Getty Museum Collection, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Description

Fixing the viewer with a dreamy gaze, the fair-haired Telemachus grasps Eucharis's thigh with his right hand while holding his spear upright with the other. In the 1699 French novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, loosely based on characters from the Odyssey, the author Fénelon describes how Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, fell passionately in love with the beautiful nymph Eucharis. His duty as a son, however, required that he end their romance and depart in search of his missing father.

The ill-fated lovers say farewell in a grotto on Calypso's island. Facing towards us, Telemachus's blue tunic falls open to reveal his naked torso. Eucharis, seen in profile, encircles Telemachus's neck and gently rests her head upon his shoulder in resignation. In this way, Jacques-Louis David contrasts masculine rectitude with female emotion.

David painted The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis during his exile in Brussels. The use of saturated reds and blues contrasted with flesh tones and combined with a clarity of line and form typifies the Neoclassical style, which is characteristic of David's late history paintings.

[ecrisettaistoi]

Psaume perdu

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Dieu vous aime

même

s'il vous demande de perpétrer

de valider

de fermer les yeux sur

les pires atrocités

Dieu vous aime

même

s'il voue à l'enfer vos amis, vos frères

qui se refusent à lui

Dieu vous aime

même

s'il n'est pas plus dieu

que les milliers d'autres dieux

qui l'ont précédé ou succédé

Dieu vous aime

même

s'il se fout de votre gueule tous les jours

s'il fait naître des innocents avec le cancer

s'il a crée le diable

alors qu'il est tout-puissant

Dieu vous aime

faibles.

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