28 April 2020

The New Litter, Glossop, Derbyshire

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There's nothing new about litter itself, and there's a whole history of different kinds of it throughout the centuries. More rece...
22 April 2020

Claude Tillier: Mon oncle Benjamin (1843)

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Claude Tillier's Mon oncle Benjamin  is perhaps better known as a film: Édouard Molinaro's Mon oncle Benjamin  (1969) starring Ja...
18 April 2020

Éric Chevillard: Le Vaillant Petit Tailleur (2003)

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Éric Chevillard's  Le Vaillant Petit Tailleur  is of particular note in Chevillard's work because it's a homage to his Minuit...
16 April 2020

What restaurant shutdown? I keep my distance! Glossop, Derbyshire

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The whole world's a restaurant to wildlife, as this little creature shows. And most wild animals keep a very safe distance: this shot...
13 April 2020

Art brut (Outsider Art and associated): latest update

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Art brut (Outsider Art) and associated: –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Rémy Callot, Carvin (Nord) Carine Fol (ed.): L'Art brut...

Éric Chevillard: Oreille rouge (2005)

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Éric Chevillard's Oreille rouge  is certainly a satire on the autobiographical travel book, but also on the mindlessness of tourism i...
11 April 2020

Éric Chevillard: L'Explosion de la tortue (2019)

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Éric Chevillard is hardly a new name to me, although in the past I've merely regarded him as an interesting experimental novelist. I...

Nouba Hilselberger, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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The self-taught Nouba Hilselberger sculpted this model of a musician with musical instrument, which is at the résidence Atahualpa , rue S...
5 April 2020

Glossop, Derbyshire, 1 April 2020

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High Street West, Glossop, Derbyshire, 1 April 2020. A small, normally bustling town of some tourist interest. Now, the streets are almos...
28 March 2020

Jules Tellier, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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Jules Tellier (1863-89) was a writer, poet and journalist born in Le Havre and died at the age of twenty-six in Toulouse. He spent many y...

Boîte à lire, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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The  Boîte à lire  in the Docks Vauban shopping centre, Le Havre. Anyone is allowed to either read a book in the centre or take it away, ...
27 March 2020

Boîte à lire, Bergues, Nord (62)

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One cute, tiny  Boîte à lire  just at the bottom right corner of the belltower in Bergues, and in it a copy of Vernon Sulllivan's Et ...

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, Bergues, Nord (62)

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The now very famous belfry or bell tower in Bergues which plays such a prominent role in director and actor Dany Boon's amazingly ...
16 March 2020

Rémy Callot, Carvin, Nord (62)

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Rémy Callot was born in 1926 in Oignie into a working-class family. At the age of fourteen his forearm was blown away by a grenade he was ...

Casimir Delavigne, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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Casimir Delavigne (1793-1843), born in Le Havre, poet and dramatist, outside the Palais de justice, Le Havre.

Berdardin de Saint Pierre, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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Berdardin de Saint Pierre's statue outside the Palais de Justice, Le Havre.

Nude, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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Just off the Boulevard Foch and in front of the Square Saint Roch, this superb sculpture is called L'Été   and is by the sculptor Ber...

Jules Durand in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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A tribute to the anarchist and trade unionist docker Jules Druand (1880-1926), of the 'quai de charbon', who was unjustly accuse...

Promenade Littéraire #20: Maylis de Kerangal, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#20, Maylis de Kerangal, L'Université. Kerangal grew up in Le Havre and her novel Réparer les vivants (2004) is set in Le Havre and ...

Promenade Littéraire #19: Émile Zola, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#19, Émile Zola (1840-1902), La Gare. The plot of Zola's  La Bête humaine (1890) is set in Le Havre station. His protagonist is rail...