The 14th of July

Subject: The 14th of July
From: The Pooka
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 02:27 PM

Somebody probably posted an observation of Quatorze Juillet already, as in the past; but just in case I *didn't* miss it in scanning recent threads: Happy Bastille Day 2002. Vive la France!

Allons, enfants de la patrie!
Le jour de gloire est arrive!
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'etendard sanglant est leve!
L'etendard sanglant est leve!
Entendez-vous dans nos campagnes
Mugir ces feroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras,
Egorger nos fils, nos compagnes!
Aux armes, citoyens!
Formez vos bataillons!
Marchons! Marchons!
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!

DT, an English-language version

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 05:17 PM

I think it usually winds up in a Woody Guthrie birthday thread, at least I made note of it there, today. Happy Bastille Day and also Happy Birthday to my youngest, "Rue!"

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: The Pooka
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 05:24 PM

Indeed, happy birthday Rue; happy commemoration to all Woody Guthrie devotees; and, happily, let us be thankful that today's assassination attempt against French President Jacques Chirac, whatever we may think of him politically, was a failure & apparently no one injured. (See cnn.com, etc.)

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 06:21 PM

France has a great tradition of political and protest songs, as well as those from the Auvergne. I hope we have some Frnach mudcatters? If not, it's time Mudcat organised in France....

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: The Pooka
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 06:38 PM

Bien sur! Vive la Republique! VIVE le Chat du Boue!!

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: harvey andrews
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 06:42 PM

Trouble is the failed assassin hid his gun in a guitar case!! More hassle ahead folks, particularly at airports etc.

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: Gareth
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 06:47 PM

Hmmmm ! Can you get a Long Bow in a guitar case ?

Gareth (having just been to Stratford on Avon)

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 06:56 PM

Auxiris is in France, somewhere, doing all of those wonderful story translations for us.

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 08:35 PM

katlaughing: in keeping with this thread, why did you name your youngest "Street" ? or was it meant to be in English, "Regret" ??

Cheers

Nigel

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: The Pooka
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 09:45 PM

I thought maybe it was "Red", as in rouge, rojo, or "An Maidrin Rua" (the little red fox). Accordingly, re Rue's birthday coinciding with Woody's *and* with the Revolutionary anniversary, I wuz gonna make some kinda grand-unification Red reference. But then I thought Naaah, too politically provocative. So, I didn't. :)

However, I'm told that one time my Anglophone father-in-law, visiting France, asked in French a question which translated approximately as "How do you get to Rue Street?" (In Mexico he is said to have inquired, "Where is the building? :)

Ruefully,
--Red Hugh O'Neill

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: Hrothgar
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 08:06 AM

Well, happy birthday to Woody, and to Kat's Rue.

But to hell with the French and their nuclear testing!

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: Paddy Plastique
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 10:44 AM

Hrothgar, ye don't want them going down and makin a mess in hell
with their bloody independent deterrent, do ya ??
Unfortunately - with Chirac 'mandated' at the polls and making shapes
about military spending - there's a chance they might be at it again soon...

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jul 02 - 01:24 PM

Vive la France!

Subject: RE: The 14th of July
From: Bull Am
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 12:33 AM

I'm headin' back to France in a few weeks and I will do my best to spread the Mudcat word