#petit cenacle

[inmarbleimmobility]

drove my mother back from seeing les mis 2012 with me tonight and in the middle of my infodumping she asked if the june rebellion of 1832 was a thing that actually happened. a real house of donuts moment for me.

#she also asked why i'm so into les mis #i was sorely tempted to just say “autism” #but at least when i started talking about the petit cenacle she asked if one of them was the one with the lobster #so. that's two things she knows now! #(she has seen les mis probably at least 5 times including once on broadway.) #(she read the brick once even!!!!!!)

[lafcadiosadventures]

wait. roccoco is a derisive term coined by the (inepto-roman) classicists who hated Louis XV style?!

Found this in my drafts x) from when I was reading Champavert. I was really surprised that Borel was defending rococco bc it’s a style so linked to the gallant life in the courts. It seemed pretty strange for a republican lycanthrope to praise it. And as an aesthetic it seemed so contrary to his own… (although there is something of the sinister lurking in watteau) he is of course attacking the classists’ imposition of roman and greek art as a constricting frame in which all art (particularly painting architecture and sculpture) should fit, but still, interesting. Also borel’s neologisms are just fun.

#anyways there’s a whole essay about the petit cenacle and their interest in the gaudiness of rococo #which i haven’t read too but i’m sure will be illuminating #inepto-roman is not an insult to actual people from rome but to the antiquity obsessed classicists

[pilferingapples]

where does the tag "four people and a shoelace" come from?

hah, it's from an old and probably-misremembered tumblr post that talked about small fandoms as being "four people and a shoelace" ; I started using it for Petit Cenacle fandom because we were (and are, alas!) Tiny. It's an obscure reference and that's what they'd want XD

#four people and a shoelace #man people think HUGO makes too many references and digressions...

[orarenelcenaculo]

Oracion al Espiritu Santo cada dia Hoy Jueves 9 de Febrero 2023 en el Ce...

PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT every day in the CENACLE.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit every day Today Thursday February 9, 2023 in the CENACLE. 

Pray to the Holy Spirit in the Light of the Word and of his Divine inspiration.

Today with a stained glass window of the Crucifixion, by Mia Tavonatti, US; and a petition prayer to the Holy Spirit. In the #youtube CHANNEL #orarenelcenaculo or at the end of each Video, the links of the previous videos are offered in order of publication or the most viewed (TOP) of:

TOP The Five Minutes of the Holy Spirit in the Cenacle.

TOP Chaplet of Mercy in the Cenacle.

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TOP Prayer to the Spirit every day in the Cenacle.

TOP Saints of the Liturgy in the Cenacle.

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The "RANDOM GOSPEL" that the Holy Spirit suggests to me now, to guide that problem that worries me, and that can guide me to act in the discernment of approaching it.

What PRAYERS does the HOLY SPIRIT suggest me today for my daily situation?

WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT WANT TO SAY TO ME Today and in this situation right now?

SAINTS OF TODAY'S LITURGY. To learn to be saints of saints.

The Peace of the Lord.

© for text and images

#prayer #prayertotheHolySpiritCenacle #prayertotheHolySpirittoday #PrayertotheHolySpirit365days #HolySpirit #Christians #religion #learnSpanishwithJesus #Catholic #pray #praytotheHolySpiritCenacle

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[aflamethatneverdies]

A Medallion of Theophile Gautier by Jehan DuSeigneur!!!

#I had never seen this one #only an etching #the louvre collection also has Orlando Furioso which is great imo #Theophile Gautier #Jehan Duseigneur #four people and a shoelace #petit cenacle #art art art #louvre collection

[fremedon]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Petit-Cénacle RPF, 19th Century CE RPF, 19th Century CE France RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Pétrus Borel | Le Lycanthrope (Petit-Cénacle RPF), Gérard de Nerval | Gérard Labrunie (Petit-Cénacle RPF), Théophile Gautier (Petit-Cénacle RPF), Jehan Du Seigneur | Jean Duseigneur (Petit-Cénacle RPF), Célestin Nanteuil (Petit-Cénacle RPF) Additional Tags: Friendship, romantic friendship and Romantic friendship, everyone's a queer earnest dramatic nerd full of feelings around these parts, alternate universe cameos, Theater Kids, by which I mean, Battle of Hernani, Recreational Drug Use, because that's how 1820s/1830s counterculture rolled Summary:

"We will be lifelong friends," Pétrus announces to the ceiling, but really to Gérard and Célestin.

It's important; it matters, and so he says it like something that matters: dramatically.

Highly recommended even if you don’t know the characters, if you like found-family stories about radical art movements (as who does not).

#yuletide #other people's fic #rec #petit-cenacle #petrus #borel #les mis adjacent #four people and a shoelace

[barricadescon]

Do you like history? Do you like history as it pertains to our favorite 1862 French novel? Do you understand the impact of a bit of rain in Waterloo on 17 June 1815? This call is for you!

Fan Track Submissions for Barricades are currently open! We are looking for fans who have dedicated any amount of time to the history of Les Mis to submit panels for the convention. These panels can be as broad or as focused as you desire. If needed, we will help find other fans to join your panel! 

To kick-start any creative panel ideas, here are some examples of the types of panels we are looking for! (Please bear in mind, these are only suggestions, and do not currently exist. If you’d like to run a panel on one of these topics specifically, feel free to submit!)

Les Mis fandom history on tumblr: Tumblr has always had a thriving Les Mis fandom culture. With the release of the 2012 Les Miserables film, a renaissance occurred, sparking the creation of different trops, headcanons, and ships. This discussion could focus on your experiences with the tumblr fandom, how it has changed and grown and developed into its current form.

General Fandom History: Everyone knows the fandom tales of people like Cassandra Clare and MsScribe. How has general fandom culture shifted? How has that impacted you as a fan and creator?

History of AO3: This discussion could center on the fic-sharing sites that came before, why they failed, and what makes AO3 so important to preserve. Where do you read and publish Les Mis fic? 

Les Mis fandom through the ages: With over a century since publication, Les Mis has had a robust fan culture for many many years. From Petit Cenacle to communards to Civil War soldiers to Ayn Rand to the internet, the Les Mis fandom has undergone fascinating transformations since 1862

Social Justice: Les Mis is a novel filled with important themes of social justice. A panel with this focus could include social justice and protest from the nineteenth century to the present day, including organising, prison abolition, and sex work politics.

Submissions will be open until 1 December 2021. If you have any questions, or any ideas you’d like to workshop, don’t hesitate to reach out!

#Les Miserables #barricadescon #lesmiscon #submissions #fan track

[midautumnnightdream]

Around 1830, the young Romantics were without exclusive disciplinary commitments, not yet decided between literature and the visual arts. Rather than limiting their success in literary Romanticism, these multiple commitments allowed the Petit Cénacle to conceive of Romanticism in its broadest terms, spanning media without privileging literature. As Gautier recalls in the Histoire, their work as artists provided the context for their engagement with literature: “[O]n lisait beaucoup alors dans les ateliers. Les rapins aimaient les lettres, et leur éducation spéciale [i.e. artistic] les mettant en rapport familier avec la nature les rendait plus propres à sentir les images et les couleurs de la poésie nouvelle”(2011, 61) (“Men read a great deal in the studios of that day. The apprentices were fond of literature, and their special [artistic] training leading them to close communion with nature, they were better fitted to appreciate the images and the rich colouring of the new poesy,”[1902, 18, translation modified]). It was as apprentices, grounded in the workshops of the beaux arts and endowed with the particular faculties of perception honed therein that the members of the Petit Cenacle came to literary Romanticism. They were a receptive audience precisely because they were already attuned to and invested in the kind of vitality of image and color that they found in the writing of Chateaubriand, Scott, de Staël, Goethe, Byron, Shakespeare (that Romantic avant la lettre), and above all Hugo (2011, 61 –62; 1902, 19).

Catherine Talley, Fashioning Romanticism: the Petit Cénacle and the art of dress

#a group that barely missed becoming fictional #the treasure trove #just Romanticism things

[thewahookid]

Flame of Love Prayers

There are four prayers that are essential to the Flame of Love Movement:

Prayer #1: Make the Sign of the Cross Five Times

Jesus told Elizabeth, “A great battle awaits you, but you will conquer in the sign of the cross. When you make the cross, think of the three Divine Persons. Make the sign of the cross five times, while thinking of my Five Wounds. Always look at my eyes bathed in blood. Tell everyone all that I tell you. (P.17)

Our Prayer Cenacles of Reparation begin and end by making the sign of the Cross 5 times with meditation on the 5 Wounds as Jesus requested.

Prayer #2: The Prayer of Jesus (The Unity Prayer)

My adorable Jesus, May our feet journey together. May our hands gather in unity. May our hearts beat in unison. May our souls be in harmony. May our thoughts be as one. May our ears listen to the silence together. May our glances profoundly penetrate each other. May our lips pray together to gain mercy from the Eternal Father.

Learn more on The Unity Prayer in the Devout Life Teaching 1.03, found here.

Jesus said, “Through this prayer, Satan will be blind and souls will not be led into sin. ( p.25 ) The Lord explained, “Satan being blind signifies a worldwide triumph of my Sacred Heart, the freedom of souls and a full opening of the road of salvation.” (p. 87)

Prayer #3: Hail Mary: The Addition of the Important Petition

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with Thee, blessed are Thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, spread the effect of grace of Thy Flame of Love over all of humanity, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

For a long time, I did not dare to record Our Lady’s petition, “When you pray the Hail Mary, include the following petition, ‘Spread the effect of grace of thy Flame of Love over all of humanity.’” When the bishop asked why this should be done, Jesus explained, “Because of the Holy Virgin’s efficacious pleas, the Most Blessed Trinity granted the outpouring of the Flame of Love. For her sake, you must place this prayer in the Hail Mary” (February 2, 1982). Mary said, “I want to awaken humanity by this petition. This is not a new formula but a constant supplication.(p45-p.46.)

Prayer #4: Prayer for the Propagation of the Flame of Love

With the personal approval of his Holiness Pope Paul VI November 1973

Blessed Virgin Mary, our cherished heavenly Mother, you love God and us, your children, so much that you offer us to your Divine Son Jesus on the Cross, to forgive us by our Heavenly Father and to obtain our salvation, so that all those who believe in Him do not perish but obtain Eternal Life.

With a filial confidence, we pray to you, Virgin Mary, that with the Flame of Love of your Immaculate Heart, kindled by the Holy Spirit, you ignite in our languid hearts the fire of a perfect love for God and all humanity, so that together with you, with one heart, we love God and our neighbor.

Help us to transmit this holy Flame to all people of goodwill, so that the Flame of Love extinguishes the fire of hatred everywhere on earth and that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, be the King and the center of all hearts in the Sacrament of His Love on the Throne of our altars. Amen.

[edwarddespard]

Bouzingo Updates!

Good news for all you Jeunes-France/Bouzingo/Petit-Cénacle/Frenetic Romantic fans out there...

Here’s the text of the FB announcement (with permission to share it) - Olchar, who is conducting and coordinating extensive research into 19th century French counter-culture, notably Frenetic Romanticism, and who publishes a lot of it in the Revenants Archive, has just uploaded a huge amount of material connected with Louis Boulanger with promises of a lot more to come! The upload of the raw scans is just the first stage - by the end of the year, Olchar is planning on “separate jpegs to make them easier to post, and by year's end hopefully have them published (including a free online version) with titles, dates, and other notes, as well as a bio, a poem and a letter by Boulanger, reminiscences of him by Gautier.”

I encourage you all to visit the Revenant Archive if you aren’t already familiar with it, or the Jeunes-France Bouzingo FB page -  it’s particularly fascinating for anyone trying to get a sense of the artistic milieu in the Paris the Amis knew (Boulanger’s portrait of Borel is one of the images, btw!). This is the sort of material that would have been discussed in the Musain along with politics. “Thanks to Matt Ames & a generous partnership with Philosophy INC, I have gained access to a book scanner, and will be posting the fruits of my labour over the next several days. To start, here are 38 images by Louis Boulanger, the Frenetic Romanticist artist and co-founder of the Bouzingo, most of them never before available online:  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/…/boulanger%20images%20fr… Here's my short biography of Boulanger: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/…/boulanger%20biography.p… Look for a new Boulanger anthology from the mOnocle-Lash Revenants series by the end of the year; it will be the first book dedicated to him since 1925, in the book (now in the public domain) from which these images are taken. These come from the copy in the Revenants Archive: Louis Boulanger: Le Peintre Poête, by Aristide Marie. 1925. Sole Edition. Floury, Paris. http://revenant-archive.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_25.html”

#bouzingo #louis boulanger #Petit Cenacle #jeunes france #petrus borel #Frenetic Romanticism #paris in the time of les amis

[lafcadiosadventures]

browsing the interwebs trying to see if garcia marquez had read borel (after cam’s mention of tarabiscoter) i found more* indices of borelophilia in latin america.

*nothing in the same league of Juan José Saer’s De l’art romantique (1st poem here) but it reveals a school of short story writers in Chile, who claim to love Borel.

From Roberto Bolaño’s concejos para escribir cuentos/advice for writing stories:

7) Los cuentistas suelen jactarse de haber leído a Petrus Borel. De hecho, es notorio que muchos cuentistas intenten imitar a Petrus Borel. Gran error: ¡Deberían imitar a Petrus Borel en el vestir! ¡Pero la verdad es que de Petrus Borel apenas saben nada! ¡Ni de Gautier, ni de Nerval!

/Storytellers usually brag about having read Petrus Borel. In fact, it is remarkable that many storytellers try to imitate Petrus Borel. Grave mistake: They should imitate his dress! But the truth is that they know nothing of Petrus Borel! Nor about Gautier or Nerval! (i have no idea about the context or these supposed poser petit cenacle fans)

8) Bueno: lleguemos a un acuerdo. Lean a Petrus Borel, vístanse como Petrus Borel, pero lean también a Jules Renard y a Marcel Schwob, sobre todo lean a Marcel Schwob y de éste pasen a Alfonso Reyes y de ahí a Borges.

/fine: let’s agree on something. Read Petrus Borel, dress like Petrus Borel, but read also Jules Renard and Marcel Schwob, Marcel Schwob above everything. And after him read Alfonso Reyes, and after him Borges.

#no idea who bolaño is and the scene he’s complaining about xD #just something curious that I found #and reveals a borelesian legacy in latam which is interesting #also it’s like five in the morning excuse any eventual mistakes

[pilferingapples]

An Ongoing Effort to Index This Blog

You’re probably here for reference material! Here’s a tag list to hopefully make finding that easier!

Before I get into the tag lists, a note on my Editorial Policy, such as it is:  I truly appreciate corrections, warnings about bloggers/writers operating in bad faith, etc! But if you’re contacting me with actionable info please come off anon or leave me some other way to get hold of you, so I can follow up if I need more info! I don’t post or reblog incorrect or hateful material on purpose, which means if I missed something I probably need more information!  I’m happy to keep a convo private if asked, I just need to be able to verify my sources. 

That out of the way! The tags!

(I had all these linked before accidentally deleting this post once; it's going to be a While before I can repair those links. If you want to find any of these , just go to pilferingapples.tumblr.com/tagged/name of tag and it should work!) Les Miserables Specific: -BrickClub: former readthroughs - LM X.X.X (as in: LM 1.2.3): chapter specific tags -Fandom 101: stuff that’s hopefully useful for people just starting to look around ; if there’s something not here you think would be useful, let me know! -Fashion,or:  Canon Era Fashion : what it says on the tin - Les Misereference: a general tag of all kinds of things , if you just wanna binge canon-era reference - (Character) relevant: references and commentary specifically relevant to one character.  Note that this includes “barricade relevant”, “Amis relevant” as a group, and, yes, “sewer relevant” - (character) talk: discussion of a character/concept , like “ Grantaire Talk”  or “sewer talk”  -what’s the meta for:  a general catchall tag for analysis discussion; mostly older stuff- Paris in Canon Era:  historical info for the True Main Character ; incl. sewers, schools, etc  - maps : They Are Maps - FRev :  goofy fannish stuff and silliness about the French Revolution - FRENCH REVOLUTION: actual historical/ analytical posts about the French Revolution (NOT when Les Mis is set, but hugely influential!)  -Women in the Revolution: what it says! historical /analyses stuff about women in various revolutions and uprisings, though mostly the 1830s and the Frev.  Romanticism Specific:  - Actual Romantics : stories and histories on members of the French Romantic movement -Four People and a Shoelace: specifically about the Petit Cenacle/Jeunes France crew -Hugolania: trivia and random Hugo homages/commentary/fandom stuff. Because Hugo always  had a fandom. more, doubtless, as I think of them! Adaptations: - Les Mis Stage : things about /from the stage musical  -Les Mis Dallas, Dallas Les Mis :  the 2014 Dallas Theater Center modernized production -Les Mis 2012 : things about/from the 2012 musical movie  -Shoujo Cosette: the 52-episode anime; characters from this sometimes just get tagged SC(character)  -Les Mis Arai:  the multivolume manga - Other Adaptations : what it says on the tin , including other musical adaptations, movies, and tv shows  Fanwork Specific -(Character) art:  exactly what you’d expect  - Canon era fic :..again… - Modern AU : rarely needed, but sometimes! -Fic Rec, Ficrec-what it says  Character/ Group/ Ship/Pairing tags, when not just a character’s name : - The Pontmercy Friend: Marius  - All of Them : the Amis as a group -Most of Them: ALMOST all the Amis as a group -Poetry Smash: Bahorel and Prouvaire  -Justice and His Tutor: Enjolras and Feuilly  - Bini!, Bini:  Joly and Bossuet  - OMST3K: J/B/M, for reasons - Power Trio: Enjolras, Combeferre and Courfeyrac  - Party Trio: Joly, Legle , and Grantaire -To Watch Faith Soar: Enjolras and Grantaire Ships Ahoy:  any content focused on romance  (these are NEVER EVER Ship Tags): - Owl and Wren : Valjean and Cosette - Para Bellum: Bahorel and Gavroche

#pinned post #THANK YOU SEAGLASS #long post

[orarenelcenaculo]

Oracion al Espiritu Santo cada dia Hoy Domingo 5 de Febrero 2023 en el C...

PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT every day in the Cenacle.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit every day Today Saturday February 4, 2023 in the cenacle.

Pray to the Holy Spirit in the Light of the Word and its Divine inspiration.

21st The Immaculate Conception appears to Saint Bernard, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, around 1655, Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain, Oil on canvas, 311 x 249 cm; and a petition prayer to the Holy Spirit.

 In the YouTube CHANNEL #orarenelcenaculo or at the end of each Video, links to the previous videos are offered in order of publication or the most viewed (TOP) of:

TOP The Five Minutes of the Holy Spirit in the Cenacle.

TOP Chaplet of Mercy in the Cenacle.

TOP Gospel of the day in the Cenacle

TOP Prayer to the Spirit each day in the Cenacle.

 TOP Saints of the Liturgy in the Cenacle.

On the #youtube CHANNEL #orarenelcenaculo there is the possibility to order a playlist entitled:

"GOSPEL AT CHANCE", which the Holy Spirit suggests to me now, to orient that problem that concerns me, and that can guide me to act in the discernment of its approach.

What PRAYERS does the HOLY SPIRIT suggest to me today for my daily situation?

WHAT DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT WANT TO SAY TO ME today and in this situation at this moment?

SAINTS OF TODAY'S LITURGY. To learn to be saints from the Saints.

The Peace of the Lord.

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[aflamethatneverdies]

The most striking thing about the ostentatious garments of the Petit Cénacle, then, is that they were aggressively not in fashion. In telling his “legend of the red waistcoat”, Gautier recounts his tailor’s dismayed reaction to his description of the garment he wanted made: “On a dit que nous savions beaucoup de mots, mais nous n’en connaissons pas, il faut l’avouer, qui puissent exprimer suffisamment l’air ahuri de notre tailleur lorsque nous lui exposâmes ce plan de gilet. […] Il nous crut fou, mais […] il se contenta d’objecter d’une voix timide: ‘Mais, monsieur, ce n’est pas la mode’” (2011, 131) (“I have been told that I possess a very full vocabulary, but I cannot find words to express the amazed look of my tailor when I described the kind of waistcoat I wanted. […] He thought me crazy, but […] he merely objected in a timid voice: – ‘But that is not the fashion, sir,’” [1902, 132]).

The tailor’s reaction anticipates that of the audience at the premiere of Hernani, who were appalled and irritated by the poor taste (that is, the failure to conform to fashion) of Petit Cénacle dress. It was not only the conservative dressers, the staid gentlemen, who objected to the young Romantics’ clothing; the dandies, too, showed their disdain for the Petit Cénacle dress that distinguished itself not through Brumellian subtlety and restraint but through a wild rejection of the dominant fashion.

Petit Cénacle dress did function as a kind of anti-fashion, demonstrating its mastery of the contemporary idiom by countering male fashion point by point and rejecting the specific social meanings it used dress to transmit. But Petit Cénacle dress was also over-determined, invoking a multiform Romanticism in order to counter the broader bourgeois marginalization of aesthetics. Extending the Romantic project to include sartorial form meant questioning the very set of values that called for the creation of an autonomous aesthetic sphere to begin with, challenging the opposition between art and reality that bourgeois culture attempted to enforce, even in its sartorial codes. -Fashioning Romanticism: the Petit Cénacle and the art of dress, Catherine Talley

#help I found an article about Petit Cenacle and fashion and now I am going down a research rabbit hole #pilferingapples #Pilf I think you might like this article #she likes the Petit Cenacle gang #and I really like the way she talks about dress as being another part of literature #paintings portraits sculptures etc that the Petit Cenacle were working on and responding to #Catherine Talley #Fashioning Romanticism #Theophile Gautier #four people and a shoelace

[fremedon]

It’s almost Yuletide! This will be my 18th Yuletide! My first Yuletide story will be old enough to vote this year and I have some mixed feelings about that! But also I have never missed or defaulted on a Yuletide since, and I have to say I feel pretty proud of that. I am still pretty far down the Les Misérables rabbit hole (speaking of which, it is not too late to propose programming for Barricades!), and unsurprisingly all the fandoms I'm nominating/requesting this year are set in July Monarchy France--Les Mis canon era: Petit-Cénacle RPF, Champavert: Contes Cruelles | Champavert: Immoral Tales - Pétrus Borel, and Les Enfants du Paradis | Children of Paradise. Petit-Cénacle RPF The Petit-Cénacle was a French Romantic salon, slightly younger and considerably more politically radical than the Cénacle centered on Hugo and Dumas; it included painters and sculptors as well as writers and critics, and most of its members at least dabbled in both written and visual arts. Its best-known members today are Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, and Pétrus Borel (the Lycanthrope)--the last two are thinly fictionalized in Les Misérables as Jean Prouvaire and Bahorel. (It's debatable how much Grantaire owes to Gautier but it's probably a nonzero amount.) The group coalesced around Borel and Nerval as the organizers of the Battle of Hernani--a fight between Romantics and classicists at the premiere of Victor Hugo's play Hernani in 1830. Most theater productions at this time had claques--groups of paid supporters of a show or an actor, who were planted in the audience to drum up applause. For Hernani--the first Romantic work staged at the prestigious Comédie-Français, which broke classical norms so thoroughly that it no longer seems at all transgressive--Hugo and the theater management decided they were going to need more than just a claque. They recruited a few of Hugo's fans--Gautier was so star-struck he had to be physically hauled up the stairs to Hugo's apartment--to stage An Event. The fans recruited their friends. They showed up in cosplay, with the play already memorized and callback lines devised. It was basically the Rocky Horror Picture Show of its day. It almost immediately turned into an actual fight, with fists and projectiles flying. And it made Hernani the hottest ticket in Paris. This is the group's origin story, and they pretty much spent their lives living up to it. They were every bit as extra as you would expect--Nerval allegedly walked a lobster on a leash in the Champs-Elyseés, explaining that "it knows the secrets of the deep, and it does not bark"--but they also stayed friends all their lives, often living together, supporting each other through poverty and mental illness and absurd political upheaval. I'm nominating Pétrus Borel | Le Lycanthrope, Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, and Philothée O’Neddy; you could nominate other people like Jehan Duseigneur, Celestin Nanteuil, or the Deverias, or associates of the group like Dumas and Hugo. The Canon Gautier's History of Romanticism covers the early days of the group and the Battle of Hernani in some detail. (There is also a 2002 French TV movie, La bataille d'Hernani, which is charming and pretty accurate; hit me up if you want a copy.) Other than that--this crowd wrote a lot, and they're all very present in their work--even in their fiction, which is shockingly modern in a ton of ways. For Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin has a lot of genderfeels, surprisingly literal landscape porn, and a fursuit sex scene in chapter two. If you want Nerval's works in English, you might be limited to dead-tree versions, but I highly, highly recommend The Salt Smugglers, a work of metafiction that answers the question, "What if The Princess Bride had been written in 1850 specifically to troll the press censorship laws of Prince President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte?" Borel's experimental short story collection Champavert has a new and very good English translation by Brian Stableford and is also my next fandom :D. Champavert: Contes Immoraux | Champavert: Immoral Tales - Pétrus Borel Last year I requested Borel RPF but I decided this book was unfanficcable. This year, I am going to have a little more faith in the Yuletide community. Champavert, available in ebook and dead tree form, is a weird as hell little book and probably the best thing I read last year. It's an experimental short story collection from 1830. Someone on one of my Les Mis Discords described it as "a collection of gothic creepypasta, but the author is constantly clanging pots and pans together and going 'JUST IN CASE you didn't notice, the real horror was colonialism and misogyny all along and i'm very angry about it!'" And, yeah, pretty much that, with added metafictional weirdness, intense nerding about architecture and regional languages, and the absolute delight that is Borel's righteously ebullient voice. Borel wrote for a couple of years under the name of The Lycanthrope, and though he kills the alter ego in this book, the name stuck, and would continue to be used by friends and enemies alike all his life. Pretty much everyone who met Pétrus agreed that 1) he was just ungodly hot; 2) he was probably a werewolf, sure, that makes sense; and 3) he was definitely older than he claimed to be, possibly by centuries, possibly just immortal, who knows. But, like I said, he kills the alter ego in this book: it begins with an introduction announcing that "Pétrus Borel" has been a pseudonym all along, that the Lycanthrope's real name is Champavert--and that the Lycanthrope is dead and these are his posthumous papers, compiled by an unnamed editor; the papers include some of Borel's actual poems and letters, published under his own name. The final story in the collection is called "Champavert, The Lycanthrope," and is situated as an autobiographical story, following a collection of fictional tales--which share thematic elements and, in the frame of the book, start to look like "Champavert"'s attempts to use fiction to come to terms with events of his own life. And that's probably an oversimplification; this is a dense little book and it's doing a lot. The subtitle is Contes Immoraux. It's part of a genre of "contes cruelles" (and, content note for. Um. A lot), but it's never gratuitously cruel--it's very consciously interrogating the idea of the moral story, and what sort of morality is encoded in fables, and what it means to set a story where people get what they deserve in an unjust world where that's rarely the case. I'm nominating the unnamed editor, Champavert, his friend Jean-Louis from the introduction and the final story, and Flava from the final story; you could also nominate characters from the explicitly fictional stories. Les Enfants du Paradis | Children of Paradise This is a film made between 1943 and 1945 in Vichy and Occupied France and set...somewhere?...around the July Revolution, probably, I'll get into that :D. There's a DVD in print from Criterion and quite possibly available through your local library system. (And it's streaming on Amazon Prime and the Criterion Channel.) It's beautifully filmed, with gorgeous sets and costumes and a truly unbelievable number of extras, and some fantastic pantomime scenes. (On stage and off; there's a scene where a henchman attempts to publicly humiliate a mime, and it goes about as well as you would expect.) "Paradise," in the title, is the equivalent of "the gods" in English--the cheap seats in the topmost tier of a theater. It's set in and around the theaters of the Boulevard du Temple--the area called the Boulevard du Crime, not for the pickpockets outside the theaters but for the content of the melodramas inside them. The story follows a woman called Garance, after the flower (red madder), a grisette turned artists' model turned sideshow girl turned actress turned courtesan, and four men who love her, some of whom she loves, all of whom ultimately fail to connect with her in the way she needs or wants or can live with. This sounds like a setup for some slut-shaming garbage. It's not--Garance is a person, with interiority, and the story never blames her for what other people project onto her. Of those four men, one is a fictional count and the other three are heavily fictionalized real people: the actor Frédérick Lemaître, the mime Baptiste Deburau, and the celebrity criminal Lacenaire. Everyone in this story is performing for an audience, pretty much constantly, onstage or off: reflexively, or deliberately, or compulsively. Garance's survival skill is to reflect back to people what they want to see of themselves. She never lies, but she shows very different parts of herself to different people. We get the impression that there are aspects of herself she doesn't have much access to without someone else to show them to. Frédérick is also a mirror, in a way that makes him and Garance good as friends and terrible as lovers--an empty hall of mirrors. He's always playing a part--the libertine, the artist, the lover--and mining his actual life and emotions for the sake of his art. Baptiste channels his life into his art as well, but without any deliberation or artifice--everything goes into the character, unfiltered. It makes him a better artist than any of the others will ever be, but his lack of self-awareness is terrifying, and his transparency fascinates Garance and Frédérick, who are more themselves with him than with anyone else. Lacenaire, the playwright turned thief and murderer, seems to no self at all, except when other people are watching. Against the performers are the spectators: the gaze of others--fashion, etiquette, and reputation--personified by Count Mornay; and the internal gaze personified in Nathalie, an actress and Baptiste's eventual wife, who hopes that if they observe the forms of devotion for long enough the feeling will follow. The time frame is deliberately vague--it's set an idealized July Monarchy where all these people were simultaneously at the most exciting part of their careers. In the real world, Frédérick turned his performance of Robert Macaire into burlesque in 1823, Baptiste's tragic pantomime Le Marrrchand d’Habits! ("The Old-Clothes Seller") played in 1842, and Lacenaire's final murder, for which he is guillotined, is 1832; these all take place in Act II of the movie within about a week of each other. (Théophile Gautier, mentioned but tragically offstage in the film, was a fan of Baptiste; Le Marrrchand d’Habits! started as Gautier's fanfic--he wrote a fake review of a nonexistent pantomime, and the review became popular enough the Theater des Funambules decided to actually stage it. It only ran for seven performances.) I am nominating Garance, Frédérick Lemaître, Baptiste Deburau, and Pierre François Lacenaire. You could nominate any of the other characters (Count Mornay, Nathalie, the old-clothes seller Jéricho, Baptiste's father, his landlady, Nathalie's father the Funambules manager). Gautier, regrettably, does not actually appear in the film but you can bet that's going to be one of my prompts. So, that's one good movie you definitely have time to watch before signups, several good books you probably have time for and that are probably not like whatever else you're reading right now, and one RPF rabbit hole to go down! Please consider taking up any or all of these so that you can write me fanfic about Romantic shenanigans.

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PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT every day in the Cenacle.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit every day Today Friday February 3, 2023 in the cenacle. Praying to the Holy Spirit in the Light of the Word and its Divine inspiration.

18th Immaculate Conception, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1680-1681, in the Oratory of San Felipe Nery, Cadiz, Spain, 277��186 cm; and a prayer of petition to the Holy Spirit.

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"GOSPEL AT CHANCE", which the Holy Spirit suggests to me now, to orient that problem that concerns me, and that can guide me to act in the discernment of its approach.

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