#reynaert

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🇧🇪 Reynaert - Laissez Briller le Soleil

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L'Académie française, c'est comme la prostate : elle fait rire quand on en parle. Personne n'a jamais été fichu de savoir à quoi elle servait exactement, mais sur le tard, elle finit toujours par devenir pour tous les hommes un besoin pressant.

- François Reynaert

One of the few vestiges of France’s royal past, the Académie was established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII’s regent, and it was formed in part to censor subversive academics who might plot against the monarchy. Since then members have included some of France’s greatest literary talents, plus scientists, doctors, oceanographers, anthropologists and politicians. But some greats never made it, such as Molière, Gustave Flaubert or Jean-Paul Sartre. Emile Zola was rejected 24 times.

If the Académie has been responsible for some blatant canonical omissions such as these, it has to be acknowledged that its task is not easy. Its primary role is the ongoing compilation of a dictionary that protects the uniqueness of the French language. But as globalisation and the Internet make English an omnipresence in most work places, the Académie has a job catching up with the ever expanding English vocabulary that springs up to cater for new developments in software, technology and cyberspace.

The regulations laid down by Cardinal Richelieu stipulate that: “The principal function of the Académie shall be to work with all possible care and diligence to give our language certain rules, and to render it pure, eloquent, and able to deal with the arts and sciences.” Many see the academie has been fraying at the edges for the last century or so.

Perhaps one of the Académie’s greater problems is its august age. It is the oldest of French institutions in more senses than one. Its average age is 78. Five of its surviving members, known rather ironically as the immortals, are over 90. One is 98. Nine are over 80. Only four of more than 700 members have been women, starting in 1981 with French-American author Marguerite Yourcenar.

These days, it seems, younger generations are less keen to enter the portals of the Academy; the lure of pomp and old-fashioned costumes is no longer a distinction worth seeking out. There was also subversion in the ranks a couple of years ago when Alain Robbe-Grillet, father of the nouveau roman, refused to don the green tailcoat, sword and bicorn hat for his induction ceremony. Perhaps, if the Académie wants to shake the dust off its reputation and, if it wants to stay abreast of linguistic evolution, it should begin by seeking to attract writers whose literary production goes along way to confirming that while the French language may expand and develop, it will always remain eloquently unique.

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Vorig jaar werkte ik rond het verhaal van Reynaert de vos waarbij ik eerst uit herinnering begon te tekenen. Na een tijdje herlas ik het verhaal en kreeg ik er een heel andere indruk van dan wat ik me eerst herinnerde. Hierdoor veranderde ook de manier waarop ik tekende en de sfeer dat mijn beelden uitstraalde. Sfeer vond ik altijd al een belangrijk onderdeel in mijn werk maar door dit project wist ik dat ik graag zou werken rond sfeer als een werk op zich.

[joukesp]

#deproefbrouwerij #reynaert #tripel #9abv Posted this triple a while ago mentioning it at 8%abv. Well, it’s 9%abv! Rest assured, it tasted as good as last time! The Reynaert brand covers 3 beers: triple, amber and grand cru. Their slogan is plain: Drink matig maar regelmatig or Drink measuredly but regularly... (for the sake of alliteration). Anyway, I plan to re-read: Van den Vos Reynaerde and guess what I’ll be drinking? (at Zemst)

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Reynaert

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Reynaert geschilderd in gouache

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Tadaah Here's the fully colored Kiara Dragontail

Sowwy for the bad lineart colors 

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Joeri Reynaert - Tuberack (2012)

Tuberack is a shelf / space divider assembled without screws or glue but strongly held together by rubber tubes. The tubes make a random pattern that can be used to display books or other items. Tuberack is made out of solid oak and comes in a flat package, easy to assemble.

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