#le spleen de paris

[wolfsnape]

Un collègue de français a laissé ses photocopies de ce poème en salle des profs et on y pense tous non-stop depuis ce matin

#wolfie made a statement #poetry #Baudelaire #le spleen de paris #prof doc clichée #Et je me couche fier d'avoir vécu et souffert dans d'autres que moi-même...

[dirtychild]

#get yourself drunk #drunkenness #charles baudelaire #paris spleen #le spleen de paris #poetry #words words words

[aniaks]

Charles Baudelaire, L’invitation au voyage

#charles baudelaire #quotes #paris spleen #Le Spleen de Paris #excerpt #dark academia #books #books & libraries

[whtaever]

#le spleen de paris

[learnelle]

Interrupting my hiatus to say I am alive and well! Currently working on my last statistics assignment and an essay on Le Spleen de Paris. I can’t wait to finish all my uni bits so that I could peacefully fly off to Florence for a few weeks to do my painting with ancient techniques course 🎨🌷

#The Florence trip is by far the most impulsive thing I’ve ever organised 👁️👁️ When I’ve had a glass of wine keep my card away from me pls #Savings are overrated groceries are overrated I can’t WAIT to properly learn how to paint (after what will be a penniless April 🫠) #studyblr #Cottagecore #Light academia #Study aesthetic #Langblr #Studyspo #Study inspiration #studyblr community #study motivation

[ninadove]

*offers you some of your favorite tea * any Feligami thoughts today, my dear?

HI LUCKY I HAD TO RESCUE THIS FROM THE PIT OF PHANTOM ASKS

I am always swimming in Feligami thoughts and feelings and general insanity! Today I offer you this:

Felix writes about the two of them constantly, because of course he does. And since he can’t be normal about anything in his life, he explores a different literary genre for each side of their Love Square:

As we already know, Feligami (in the strictest sense of the term) is theatre with a hint of fairy tale aesthetic. It’s about putting on a show and taking off their masks; it’s about fighting forces beyond their control to write their own happy ending.

Argami is prose poetry, inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris: breaking free from conventions, finding beauty in what others would deem worthless — even monstrous.

On the other end, Ryargos is best represented through epyllions, or short epic poems. Felix pulls all the stops: alexandrins, rimes riches, glorious epithets he came up with himself. The point is to celebrate Ryuko’s exploits and to reaffirm his commitment to his newfound heroism.

Finally, Relix is an epistolary novel: all the letters Felix wrote as a child to an unknown recipient, begging to be read — to be saved.

Rumour has it that he is also working on a Flairmidable x Bakeneko (Cat Kagami) musical. His girlfriend will neither confirm nor deny.

Thanks for the tea! 💜🍵❤️

#It’s past 1 AM does this even make sense #I sure hope so #miraculous ladybug #felix graham de vanily #argos #flairmidable #kagami tsurugi #ryuko #feligami #argami #ryargos #relix #random ramblings #tumblr asks

[mattydemise]

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas. ("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")

Charles Baudelaire, 'Le Spleen de Paris'.

#royalnoire #charles baudelaire #baudelaire #writer #quotation

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 9

1476 – Italy: Leonardo Da Vinci and three other young men are accused of sodomy anonymously, but subsequently acquitted.

1821 – The French poet Charles Baudelaire (d.1867), a central figure in nineteenth-century French literature, was born on in Paris (d.1867). Two collections of Baudelaire's poetry continue to intrigue and influence writers: Les fleurs du mal (Flowers Of Evil, 1857) and Le spleen de Paris (Paris Spleen, 1869). In the latter collection, published posthumously, he essentially invented the "prose poem." For a while lived the modish life of a literary dandy on an inheritance from his father, reluctantly joining the Paris boheme when his fortune ran dry.

Speculation continues about his personal life. Some early writers suggested that he died a virgin; many others now believe that he died of syphilis acquired in 1841. He had complicated relations with Jeanne Duvall, a prostitute; Madame Sabatier, a courtesan for the wealthy and socially prominent; and Marie Daubrun, an actress. The poems Duvall inspired portray her as both the apex of beauty and the nadir of evil.

Lesbianism fascinated Baudelaire. He even considered naming his first book of poems Les lesbiennes. "Lesbos," from Les fleurs du mal, celebrates lesbian love and evokes Sappho, who is described as both "mannish" and "beautiful." Further, the speaker challenges the authorities who would "dare" judge those who inhabit Lesbos. Even the gods would not dare to judge these women, he asserts.

Two other poems called "Femmes damnées" also explore lesbianism. Here the lovers, with their disordered souls, must suffer in a world wound tight with rules. The bourgeois considers such women demonic; that alone makes them fascinating to Baudelaire.

Male homosexuality does not receive this kind of direct treatment; gay men can find no equivalent "Lesbos" in his work.

He was probably homosexual himself, or at least Marcel Proust thought so, as did Andre Gide, Roger Peyrefitte, and many others. The floppy cravat that Baudelaire affected became all the rage of European dandies and homosexuals during the first decades of the 20th century, gays having adopted him as their very own at an early date.

1909 – the Australian dancer, actor, director and choreographer Sir Robert Helpmann CBE was born on this date (d.1986). Born Robert Murray Helpman, he added the extra 'n' to avoid his name having 13 letters, at the suggestion of the dance diva Anna Pavlova, who was a devotee of numerology.

He was born in Mount Gambier and also boarded at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, South Australia. The Helpmann Academy in South Australia, a partnership of the major visual and performing arts education and training institutions in South Australia offering award courses for people seeking professional careers in the arts, was named in his honor.

in 1932 he went to London. He joined the Sadler's Wells, later the Royal Ballet and was a principal dancer from 1933 to 1950. He established a great partnership with Margot Fonteyn, and together with choreographer Frederick Ashton, created many great roles, whilst also occasionally undertaking straight acting roles. Helpmann and Fonteyn toured the United States as principal dancers with the Royal Ballet in 1949 and caused a sensation, making stars of them all.

In 1938, Helpmann met a young Oxford undergraduate while fulfilling an invitation to dance at the university. Immediately drawn to the handsome and intelligent Michael Benthall, the pair formed a relationship that was to last for 36 years until the English theatre director Benthall's untimely death in 1974. The couple lived and often worked together quite openly for the time.

In 1965 Helpmann returned to Australia to become co-director of the Australian Ballet. Since he was Gay and flamboyant, his arrival in what was at that time a very conservative country caused some consternation. Australians were proud of his international fame, but not sure what to make of him personally. His most significant contribution to the development of theatre in Australia was his time with the Australian Ballet. The avant-garde nature and sexual overtones of much of his work unsettled many Australians. He did not endear himself with the comment: "I don't despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn't one here to despair about."

Helpmann's obituaries in the Australian media were suitably laudatory, but also reserved. The country paid him the highest final recognition it could by honouring him with a state funeral in Sydney, the eulogy calling him "a genius, an outstanding communicator of unique inspiration and insight. He asserted his rights to pursue a path that improved the quality of life of the nation, and defeated the common herd of detractors." An obituary in The Times in London, characterised his appearance as "strange, haunting and rather frightening", and portrayed him as "a homosexual of the proselytizing kind" whose impact upon a company was "dangerous as well as stimulating", creating fresh headlines in Australia.

1929 – The Utah Supreme Court, although upholding the constitutionality of the 1925 sterilization law, rules that a prisoner caught in the act of consensual sodomy with another prisoner, and who is described as "acting lovingly toward other boys in the prison," can not be sterilized for that reason alone.

1948 – Bernard-Marie Koltès was a French playwright and director (d.1989).

Born to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He took off from home at 20 for a nomadic writing life that began with a stay in New York in 1968. For a social rebel seeking an uninhibited gay experience, the timing was perfect. He returned to New York frequently until his death in 1989. He he had tried his hand at writing as a youth but renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty. He first garnered recognition for his work on a production of Medea (Médée) in 1970.

After seeing the film actress Maria Casarès, he was inspired and resumed writing, completing around ten plays in his lifetime. His first piece, the long monologue, The Night Just Before The Forests, was staged in 1977 at the Avignon Festival, and subsequent productions were put on in collaboration with director Patrice Chéreau.

Koltès's work, based in real-life problems, expresses the tragedy of being alone and of death. Koltes is most famous for The Night Just Before the Forests (La Nuit juste avant les Forêts, 1976), r (1977) and In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Dans la Solitude des Champs de Coton, 1986). Many of these plays were first directed by Patrice Chereau when he was artistic director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Koltes also translated into French Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

Genet and the absurdists influenced Koltès's writing. Like other absurdist writers, he felt exiled - in his case, as a homosexual in a heterosexual world. In Africa, he saw native cultures being wiped out by European influences. This theme brought forth Black Battles with Dogs. After a visit to America he wrote Quay West (1985), about a brother and sister in a foreign culture. The title and the opening dialogue of that play, about tempting, dangerous life in moldy warehouses on a river, recall the West Street piers of the meatpacking district, and their vast, collapsing sheds that for two decades were sex resorts for venturesome gay men.

The psychopathic killer Roberto Succo provided the inspiration for his final play Roberto Zucco. It was first performed posthumously in Berlin in 1990, directed by Peter Stein. It has since been performed across Europe and the United States.

Although he did not attempt to deny it, Kolteès only ever referred fleetingly to his homosexuality, downplaying this as a motivating factor or theme behind his writing. He was rarely forthcoming about his private life, and what he did say is often contradictory or misleading.

Koltès died in 1989 due to complications from AIDS.

1963 – Marc Jacobs is an American fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as Marc by Marc Jacobs, a diffusion line, with more than 200 retail stores in 80 countries. He has been the creative director of the French design house Louis Vuitton since 1997. Jacobs is on Time Magazine's "2010 Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and ranked 12th on Out Magazine's 2011 list of "50 Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America".

Jacobs, who is openly gay was in a four-year relationship with salesman and retired escort Jason Preston. However, in February 2008, it was reported that Jacobs was engaging in an affair with escort and porn star Erik Rhodes who died in 2012.. Later he was in a relationship with advertising executive Lorenzo Martone. In March 2009, Women's Wear Daily reported that the pair was engaged after a year of dating. Several reports that they got married were later denied. On July 24, 2010, Martone announced via Twitter that he and Jacobs had not been together for two months.

In April 2018, Jacobs proposed to his new boyfriend, Charly Defrancesco, via a flashmob while in a Chipotle restaurant. The flashmob did a routine to the song "Kiss" by Prince. They were married in a lavish wedding held in New York City in April 2019.

Jacobs and Defrancesco purchased a home in Rye, New York in April 2019. The Westchester home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is known as the Max Hoffman House.

1999 – Montero Lamar Hill, known by his stage name Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with the release of his country rap single "Old Town Road", which first achieved viral popularity in early 2019 before climbing music charts internationally and becoming diamond certified by November of that same year, moving over ten million certified units in streaming and sales combined.

"Old Town Road" spent 19 weeks atop the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song since the chart debuted in 1958. Several remixes of the song were released, the most popular of which featured country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. As "Old Town Road" was atop the Hot 100, Lil Nas X came out as gay, becoming the only artist to do so while having a number-one record.

Montero Lamar Hill was born in Lithia Springs, Georgia. He was named after the Mitsubishi Montero. His parents divorced when he was six, and he settled in the Bankhead Courts housing project with his mother and grandmother. Three years later, he moved in with his father, a gospel singer, north of the city in Austell. Although initially reluctant to leave, he later regarded it as an important decision, "There's so much shit going on in Atlanta—if I would have stayed there, I would have fallen in with the wrong crowd." He started "using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment"; about when he was 13.

He spent much of his teenage years alone, and turned to the Internet, "particularly Twitter, creating memes that showed his disarming wit and pop-culture savvy." His teenage years also saw him struggling with his coming out to himself as being gay; he prayed that it was just a phase, but around 16 or 17 he came to accept it. He began playing trumpet in the fourth grade and was first chair by his junior high years, but quit out of fear of looking uncool.

In early June 2019, Lil Nas X came out to his sister and father and he felt "the universe was signalling him to do so", despite his uncertainty whether his fans would stick by him or not. On June 30, 2019, the last day of Pride Month, Lil Nas X came out publicly as gay, tweeting: "some of y'all already know, some of y'all don't care, some of y'all not gone [fuck with me] no more. but before this month ends i want y'all to listen closely to c7osure. 🌈🤩✨" The tweet confirmed earlier suspicions when he first indicated this in his track "c7osure". Rolling Stone noted the song "touches on themes such as coming clean, growing up and embracing one's self". The next day he tweeted again, this time highlighting the rainbow-colored building on the cover art of his EP 7, with the caption reading "deadass thought i made it obvious". He was unambiguous in an interview several days later on BBC Breakfast, where he stated that he was gay and understands that his sexuality is not readily accepted in the country or rap music communities.

The response to the news was mostly positive, but also garnered a large amount of homophobic backlash on social media, to which Lil Nas X also reacted. The backlash also came from the hip hop community, drawing attention to homophobia in hip hop culture. In January 2020, rapper Pastor Troy made homophobic comments on the outfit Lil Nas X wore during the Grammy Awards, to which Lil Nas X responded: "Damn I look good in that pic on god."

In January 2023, Lil Nas X tweeted a new statement about his sexual orientation, writing "be [for real] would y’all be mad at me if i thought i was a little bisexual". The next day, he tweeted "that was my last time coming out the closet i promise".

[myelicia]

Le jour tombe sur Paris, les pensées prennent maintenant les couleurs tendres et indécises du crépuscule.

(le Spleen de Paris)

#crépuscule #paris #les toits de paris

[crowleyspriestess]

«La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas.»

Translation:

«The Devil's finest trick is to persuade that He doesn't exist.»

- Baudelaire, Le fleurs du mal, "Paris Spleen"

#tarot #tarot cards #tarot reading #divination #divinity #arcane #tarocchi #tarotcommunity #reading #witchcraft #witch #witches of tumblr #paganism #pagan witch #ars goetia #demonology #demonolatry #occultism #occultist #art #satan #theology #shadow work #grimoire #medieval #future #history #french literature #charles baudelaire #poetry

[somehow---here]

Lasciami respirare a lungo, a lungo, l’odore dei tuoi capelli. affondarvi tutta la faccia, come un assetato nell’acqua di una sorgente, e agitarli con la mano come un fazzoletto odoroso, per scuotere dei ricordi nell’aria.

Charles Baudelaire, da "Le spleen de Paris", estratto da una lettera alla musa Jeanne Duval

#charles baudelaire

[mariepierrard]

#Regarder le ciel encore

J'aime les nuages...les nuages qui passent...là-bas...les merveilleux nuages !

Charles Baudelaire, Le spleen de Paris, 1869

[aniaks]

Charles Baudelaire, The Bad Glazier

#charles baudelaire #Le Spleen de Paris #paris spleen #quotes #books #books & libraries #excerpt #dark academia #french literature #literature

[meirimerens]

hello! do you have any recommendations for french/francophone books that non-native speaker can read easily?? i want to brush up on my french again and i feel like your taste is very interesting and similar to mine^^ it can be french classics or something newer (preferably newer books because i almost read all of the classics for uni rip🥲) thanks in advance!<3

oh god uh full disclaimer i have read very little books these past like 7 years because the second Symptoms hit i stopped being able to focus on reading and i'm still fighting for my life trying to regain my ability to + nowadays i read a lot in english. i don't really have a sense of Classics because stuff that we would have studied in highschool literature classes i do not remember because i was on Hefty medication regiments which made it so i forgor like. Most things. & since they were Shit Years the whole time i didn't focus on them. also most classics are Not easily readable for a non-native speakers. if my own classmates at my age struggled i don't think they're particularly pleasant to read for non-native speakers.

depending on how good your french is i can recommend:

Les Fables de La Fontaine. <- easy to me, i read them when i was like 6 but they're enjoyable regardless of age. while the syntax is quite dated (they were written under Louis XIV like. in the 1660s to 1690s), the words are relatively simple + most fables are short-ish + the rhymes structures make it so there's a Rhythm that make them easy to follow.

Guillaume Apollinaire's poems. some are shorter than others, but since it's from the 1900s it's modern enough that it's understandable. if you can get your hands on his Calligrammes it's preddy nice.

i'm quite fond of Surrealism and Symbolism as movements so i'd recommend Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal obviously. some poems are longer than others, again, but the poetic Flow makes it so it's easier to get into to me. my fave fave fave ever is L'Albatros. i also remember his Spleen de Paris/Petits Poèmes en prose but i think that the prose might be tew mewch for a non-native speaker. you can check it out regardless.

the rest of the gang: André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos... these people

contemporary i remember really loving Amélie Nothomb's works, especially her Métaphysique des tubes. I don't even remember what's in it because as i've said. The Symptoms + meds but i remember i came out of it Changed. it was given to read to us when we were ~14/15? so it's probably not like high-profile language.

i can't think of much more because i've said. forgor + The Symptoms. i have other advice to get better at french though which i used myself to teach myself english:

fanfic. you think i jest but i learned most of my english through this. since the internet is mostly english-speaking you might have more trouble finding french fics but like where there's a will.... etc. copy and paste paragraphs in deepl.com if you need.

MOVIES french movies. you can find list after list online. watch them in french with english subtitles so your brain can learn which words are similar and which ones are not, THEN french with french subtitles to train your brain to associate words and songs

in the same vein as ^ songs. french songs. and read the lyrics at the same time. copy and paste lyrics in deepl.com if you need. i personally listen to Anne Sylvestre, Pomme, Tagada Jones (punk ish), i got like one song each by Les Sales Majestés and Les Caméléons (all in the same like. punk ish vibe).

bonne chance 👍

#weee #ring ring (answers) #casuellenjoyer

[tournevole]

 « Il me semble que je serais toujours bien là où je ne suis pas. »

Charles Baudelaire – « N'IMPORTE OÙ HORS DU MONDE » ; Le Spleen de Paris ou Les petits poémes en prose

[iranondeaira]

Si tu pouvais savoir tout ce que je vois ! tout ce que je sens ! tout ce que j'entends dans tes cheveux ! Mon âme voyage sur le parfum comme l'âme des autres hommes sur la musique.

Le spleen de paris : petits poèmes en prose de Charles Baudelaire