Little News From France

frenchhistory:

La Semeuse

1887-1896

Roty Louis-Oscar (1846-1911)

(C) RMN (Musée d’Orsay) / Thierry Ollivier

@credits

Besides a huge number of medals and plaquettes, Roty is well known as the designer of the “Semeuse” image on French silver coins and stamps.

bonparisien:

Do you speak parisien?

Obviously not. Honestly, I’ve never heard half of them (but maybe I’m just too old).

lord-kitschener:

That awkward moment when you try to sound like a quasi-Stalinist badass right after squeeing about an Elton John concert and the iPhone picture you took of it.

maholnapbeautytoday:

New differences

(Source: mrphlip)

crookedsin:

bellicoserose:

“Words that appear more frequently in the source” of “Justification of the Use of Terror by Maximilien Robespierre” 

Virtue is the biggest

julienrath:

theatlantic:

Europe Agrees: Greece Is the Laziest, Most Incompetent Nation in the EU

Greece is the hardest-working country in the EU! According to Greece. And only Greece. 

According to Britain, Germany, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic, it’s the laziest country in Europe.

Meanwhile, Germany is the most respected EU country, according to the Pew Global report,European Unity on the Rocks. And Greece appears to be living in a bizarro universe where 78% of its respondents held negative views of Germany. Three in five Greeks said their country had Europe’s hardest working citizens. Half of the rest of the respondents from the other seven nations said Greece had the laziest workforce in Europe.

Read more. [Image: Pew Research Center]

Germany: #winning

gwenndael:

Un futur étudiant en Sciences Pot?

gwenndael:

Astonishing wood-made statues by Bruno Walpoth.

pearlonthebarricade:

nevertrustasombrero:

consulting-god-of-mischief:

londonrains:

pernillo:

akanasan:

tessiethecreep:

captainlonglake:

vriskas-ochinchin:

youarethebutt:

livinglovinoloca:

razzledazzy:

tacoempress:

You read 249 words per minute.

That makes you 0% faster than the national average.

Hm…

You read 679 words per minute.

That makes you 172% faster than the national average.

I could have read faster but I’m lazy.

You read 1,203 words per minute

That makes you 381% faster than the national average

1500 words is the speed reader level? Aw, damn!

You read 368 words per minute.
That makes you 47% faster than the national average.
yuupp 

You read 171 words per minute.
That makes you 32% slower than the national average.

PFFFFFF SHIT I’M LITERALLY MENTALLY RETARDED

You read 327 words per minute.

That makes you 31% faster than the national average.

IM NOT EVEN ENGLISH

You read 408 words per minute.

That makes you 63% faster than the national average.

And English is my second language..

You read 194 words per minute.

That makes you 22% slower than the national average

okay..

You read 284 words per minute.
That makes you 14% faster than the national average.

Ok, and that’s in another language. So…It’s good, yea?

You read 578 words per minute. That makes you 131% faster than the national average.

HA! I knew what the text fragment was from and I had read the book! so I passed the test. LOL

You read 409 words per minute.
That makes you 64% faster than the national average.

awesome :3

You read 333 words per minute.
That makes you 33% faster than the national average.

I see a lot of 3’s, so it must be good

You read 704 words per minute.
That makes you 182% faster than the national average.

Awesomesauce :3

You read 205 words per minute.
That makes you 18% slower than the national average.

Oh okay….. You guys should see me trying to read aloud. I’m terrible at reading aloud.

You read 384 words per minute. That makes you 54% faster than the national average.

todayinhistory:

May 25th 1977: Star Wars released

On this day in 1977, the iconic film ‘Star Wars’ (later retitled ‘Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope’) was released. It was the first in a six film saga, and was written and directed by George Lucas. It was not expected to be a huge success, but when it was released it earned $460 million in the United States and $337 million overseas, thus defeating ‘Jaws’ as the highest-grossing film (surpassed by ‘E.T. the Extra Terrestrial’ in 1983). Star Wars was a groundbreaking piece of cinema and its popularity endures.

historical-nonfiction:

This is the earliest known portrait of a transvestite. Called Chevalier D’Eon, it is of Charles D’Eon, who lived the second half of his life as a woman. It started in 1763, when he was hiding from the French ambassador in London. Charles had worked for the ambassador, and when Charles made public some embarrassing secret documents after a falling-out, he accused the ambassador of trying to kill him and went into hiding…as a woman. No one would catch him now! For seven years, anyway. When rumors about his gender began in 1770, Charles demanded that the French government pay his debts and they agreed, scared he would expose more secrets like their plans to invade England. Part of the agreement was that he would remain dressed like a woman, which he did until his death. Painting by Thomas Stewart.

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