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Crack open the French Fizzy stuff, as today is Bastille Day and a day for celebration for all French people and Francophiles like your scribe all over the world.
It celebrates the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 and is the beginning of what they call The French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison complex and was seen as the symbol of aristocratic oppression of the French masses. The day itself celebrates the coming of French Nationhood and then the beginning of the First Republic.
On Bastille Day your scribe likes nothing better that to drink some of his favourite tipple....La Grande Dame (nicely chilled of course) and to sit down and take in the odd French gangster film. This year I might take in an absolute classic, Rififi. As a heist movie there is nothing better and it has been an inspiration and ground piece for dozens of gangster films to follow. The centrepiece of the film is an intricate half hour heist scene depicting the robbery of a jewellery store on La rue de Rivoli. One of the more extraordinary scenes in cinema history, the heist of diamonds and jewels is shot in near silence and without dialogue. The tension is enormous around the most technical of crimes for the 1950's. Like all good gangster flicks the human element comes to play and it all starts to unravel.
For those that have listened to the French national anthem at a game of rugby, you can hear the passion and pride with which the players sing. Their opponents rarely know the lyrics of what possibly the most blood-thirsty call to arms and anthem.....I give you the first verse of "La Marseilles"
Allons enfants de la Patrie, (Arise, children of the Fatherland),
Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! (The day of glory has arrived!)
Contre nous de la tyrannie, (Against us tyranny)
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis) (Raises its bloody banner) (repeat)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes (Do you hear, in the countryside,)
Mugir ces féroces soldats ? (The roar of those ferocious soldiers?)
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras (They're coming right into your arms)
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes ! (To cut the throats of your sons and women!)
Today's links are Fleur de Lys sterling silver cufflinks and are worn with the obligatory Hermes silk tricolour necktie with Napoleonic hats. Today's shirt is a Simon Carter of London cotton dress shirt.
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
Crack open the French Fizzy stuff, as today is Bastille Day and a day for celebration for all French people and Francophiles like your scribe all over the world.
It celebrates the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 and is the beginning of what they call The French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison complex and was seen as the symbol of aristocratic oppression of the French masses. The day itself celebrates the coming of French Nationhood and then the beginning of the First Republic.
On Bastille Day your scribe likes nothing better that to drink some of his favourite tipple....La Grande Dame (nicely chilled of course) and to sit down and take in the odd French gangster film. This year I might take in an absolute classic, Rififi. As a heist movie there is nothing better and it has been an inspiration and ground piece for dozens of gangster films to follow. The centrepiece of the film is an intricate half hour heist scene depicting the robbery of a jewellery store on La rue de Rivoli. One of the more extraordinary scenes in cinema history, the heist of diamonds and jewels is shot in near silence and without dialogue. The tension is enormous around the most technical of crimes for the 1950's. Like all good gangster flicks the human element comes to play and it all starts to unravel.
For those that have listened to the French national anthem at a game of rugby, you can hear the passion and pride with which the players sing. Their opponents rarely know the lyrics of what possibly the most blood-thirsty call to arms and anthem.....I give you the first verse of "La Marseilles"
Allons enfants de la Patrie, (Arise, children of the Fatherland),
Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! (The day of glory has arrived!)
Contre nous de la tyrannie, (Against us tyranny)
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis) (Raises its bloody banner) (repeat)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes (Do you hear, in the countryside,)
Mugir ces féroces soldats ? (The roar of those ferocious soldiers?)
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras (They're coming right into your arms)
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes ! (To cut the throats of your sons and women!)
Today's links are Fleur de Lys sterling silver cufflinks and are worn with the obligatory Hermes silk tricolour necktie with Napoleonic hats. Today's shirt is a Simon Carter of London cotton dress shirt.
Til Later
ONWARD
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