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Senior lecturer in early modern lit at CY Cergy Paris Université. Manuscript fanatic. https://www.earlymodernhands.guillaumecoatalen.com/
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En 20 ans +119% pour les 0,1% les plus riches pendant que leur taux d’imposition réel a baissé de 26% quand celui des français a augmenté. Pensez-y la prochaine fois que votre voisin de table défendra comme si c’était son daron Bernard Arnault qui chouine sur la fiscalité

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Jean-Marie Le Pen, un "pirate de la république" (Le Figaro), le "petit légionnaire qui a rassemblé l'extrême-droite" (Le Parisien), une figure "controversée" (AFP) qui aimait "la danse" (Le JDD). Ces médias qui alimentent le mythe d'un gentil papy alors qu'il s'agissait d'un ancien tortionnaire...

I agree with Peter Brown, I cannot be wrong "The historian’s job is about the past, and especially about how and why the past is not the present. People in history are usually most interesting to us when they are not like us." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Truest thing ever written.

A blissful Christmas, from The Master of Flémalle (1420), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon

This sums it up, yes.

I think everyone should get to know the west African term “wahala”. It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck. I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work. Because—- *gestures at everything* See wahala?!???

Always remember . . . Most MAGAs didn't vote for Trump in the hopes he'd make their lives better. Many said that, but that's not their true motivation. They love Trump because he hates who they hate. They voted for him because he promised to make the lives, of everyone they hate, worse.

Meeting at a conference

"It’s as if Democrats see politics as a stable landscape — a static field with clear rules. They [...] cannot shape the basic orientation of the electorate. By this view, most Americans are fixed in place and Democrats must meet them where they are." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

Pirkei Avot 4:20 He who learns when a child, to what is he compared? To ink written upon a new writing sheet. And he who learns when an old man, to what is he compared? To ink written on a rubbed writing sheet.

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precision

Almost ready to start writing - just need to quickly read everything that has ever been, or will ever be, documented about this topic

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Born on this day in 1617, in Bergamo, Evaristo Baschenis. Painter of things musical. Here playing the spinet with his patron Ottavio Agliardi on the theorbo. Left wing of his triptych portrait of this musical family.

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⚫️ Le poète Jacques Roubaud, pilier de l’Oulipo, est mort Proche de Queneau et Perec, il laisse une œuvre gigantesque, marquée par les expérimentations formelles, les déambulations dans Paris et les drames personnels. Lire : bit.ly/4gDFVKP

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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Ok, I need to open the bundle to check