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Lo sposalizio è stato il corpo e il pane della comunità. Il mattone fondante della comunità. Veniva consumato con il cibo e con la musica. Una specie di eucarestia in cui la nuova coppia veniva ingerita dalla comunità che gli si stringeva intorno avvolgendola di stelle filanti nell’ultimo, infinito ballo dei “ziti” (che così si chiamano tanto gli sposi quanto la pasta). La musica aumentava vorticosamente di ritmo fino ad assorbire la coppia che finiva per girare avvolta come uno spiedo in una girandola colorata di fili di carta. A quel punto era digerita e pronta per generare e rinnovare la comunità. Questa musica che accompagnava il rito era musica umile, da ballo, adatta ad alleggerire le cannazze di maccheroni e a “sponzare” le camicie bianche, che finivano madide e inzuppate, come i cristiani che le indossavano. Un repertorio di mazurke, polke, valzer, passo doppio, tango, tarantella, quadriglia e fox trot, che era in fondo comune nell’Italia degli anni ‘50, ‘60, e che si è codificato come una specie di classico del genere in un periodo nel quale lo “sposalizio” è stato la principale occasione di musica, incontro e ballo. Poi le tastiere elettroniche hanno preso il sopravvento e gli sposalizi sono diventati matrimoni. L’aria condizionata è entrata in un altro genere di ristorazioni in cui la musica è diventata una specie di dessert più parente del liscio che dell’epoca mitica dei mantici, dei violini e delle farfisa.
A Calitri, in alta Irpinia, negli anni in cui è esistita una comunità, che è poi finita frantumata nelle migrazioni che sono state il sangue vivo dello sviluppo, questa comunità si è rinnovata e celebrata in un luogo cardine del paese: la “casa dell’Eca”. Nei racconti della mia infanzia si è trasformata in “casa dell’Eco”. La casa dove nasceva l’eco. Eco della musica, degli schiamazzi, delle burle, delle feste, luogo del pantheon dei personaggi mitici che fanno una comunità in cui si viene ribattezzati e realmente ri-conosciuti, nel soprannome che la comunità stessa impone, in luogo della chiesa. Da qualche decennio la casa dell’Eco tace, e l’unico eco che si spande è quello dei racconti. Se ci si appendessero dentro le fotografie di tutte le coppie sarebbe un sacrario di guerra. Giovani con la divisa nuziale che andavano ad affrontare, sparacchiando, la vita, dopo la sparecchiatura dei tavoli della casa dell’Eca.
Qualche anno fa, un gruppo di anziani suonatori di quell’epoca aurea non priva di miseria, ha preso l’abitudine di ritrovarsi davanti alla posta nel pomeriggio assolato. Avevano l’aria di vecchi pistoleri in paglietta. A domandargli cosa facessero appostati davanti a quell’ufficio postale, rispondevano che montavano la guardia alla posta, per controllare l’arrivo della pensione. Quando l’assegno arrivava, sollevati tiravano fuori gli strumenti dalle custodie e si facevano una suonata. Il loro repertorio fa alzare i piedi e la polvere e fa mettere a ammollo le camicie sui pantaloni. Ci ricorda cose semplici e durature. Lo eseguono impassibili e solenni, dall’alto del migliaio di sposalizi in cui hanno sgranato i colpi. Hanno nomi da gloria nella polvere: Tottacreta, Matalena, il Cinese, Parrucca. Il più impassibile di loro non aveva nemmeno bisogno di un soprannome, tanto era lapidario il nome originale: Rocco Briuolo. Ora Rocco è andato a suonare “due Paradisi” tra i santi che ha dipinto come fossero suoi compari. Tra santo Canio e santo Liborio. Ora può, come nella vecchia canzone, dire a san Pietro guardando giù, che “il Paradiso nostro è questo qua”. E con ragione, perché la sua umanità, il suo violino e il suo pennello, hanno portato un poco di divino in noi, che l’abbiamo conosciuto. La sua “Banda della Posta” lo accompagna con la filosofia nella quale è vissuto: un lavoro ben fatto, che non si prende mai sul serio. A lui è dedicato questo disco fatto di racconti in musica, cic’ tu cic’ e bottaculo. A quadriglie, a cinquiglie, fino all’incontrè.
Banda della Posta:
Giuseppe Caputo , "Matalena" - violino
Franco Maffucci , "Parrucca"- chitarra e voce
Giuseppe Galgano, "Tottacreta"- fisarmonica
Giovanni Briuolo- chitarra , mandolino
Vincenzo Briuolo- mandolino , fisarmonica
Giovanni Buldo , "Bubù"- basso
Antonio Daniele- batteria
Crescenzo Martiniello, "Papp'lon" - organo
Gaetano Tavarone , "Nino"- chitarre
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of July 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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Description: Program published for the 1989 Ingleside Invaders baseball team. The programs were self-produced by the team under direction of their head coach Dan Harrington, with help from assistant coaches and other community members. Mr. Harrington has given his approval to the San Francisco Public Library for these publications to be reproduced here on Flickr in digital format. Mr. Harrington has written a description of these publications and the Ingleside Invaders baseball team..
"The last of the Sandlot League teams in San Francisco is the Ingleside Invaders, the only team to sign up in 1990 for the 18-and-under division of SF Rec-Park Baseball, the direct descendent of the Sandlot League known in the 1980s as the Neighborhood League. (I don't know when the Sandlot League started, but it is thought to have its origins before 1900).
"The Invaders ball club was a successful representative of the neighborhood, with players from many public, private and parochial high schools chipping in small amounts of money (no more than $25), getting to keep full uniforms; businesses donated funds (except for the Marines who still owe me fifty bucks!) while receiving ad-space for the team's self-produced publications showing stories about "the Greater Ingleside" history and contemporary times to the rest of San Francisco. The Invaders made some life-long friendships and fielded some good baseball teams!
"My recently passed father Richard Harrington took many of the photos, while my brother Richard Jr, who passed away in 1998, compiled some stats and kept book for many of the games. The 1986 paper stock was provided by the Coca-Cola bottlers on Bayshore Blvd. and printed by the team, complete with a team picture in the relatively new light rail vehicle (LRV) "streetcar" yard off Ocean Ave.
"Ingleside finished second in 1986, 87, and 88. Ingleside was surprised in a playoff game in 1989. But it did give the best example of multiple schools represented on the same summer team and a model to use for the RBI Baseball and Softball program run independently by Dan Harrington (calling in lots of favors for help) in 1997 at Crocker-Amazon and Balboa Park, and in conjunction with City College baseball courses (John Vanoncini) and Columbia Park and San Francisco Boys and Girls Clubs from 1998 to 2010."
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty five metres, at 13:52pm on Monday 31st August 2020, of a juvenile Carrion crow on a summer afternoon in a garden in Blackheath, South East London.
There is a saying on the lines of: A group of Crows are rooks and a solitary rook is a crow. Crows are seen as more solitary birds but in my Mothers garden for quite some time, three large Carrion Crows have nested, lived, hunted and stayed together.
This particular bird appears to be the youngest, distinguished by clearly visible at any distance, blue shades of feathers, white wing tips and a gnarly greying beak. It also has uncovered nostrils, unusual as these are almost always covered by feathers. I've seen blueish tones to the feathers on some crows, but never this obvious and clearly defined.
This bird is fairly timid, the two other ones seeming to own the neighbourhood, seeing off packs of pigeons just for fun, squawking loudly and not at all afraid of coming close to my Mother when she is in the garden.
The carrion crow (Corvus corone) is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae and the genus Corvus which is native to western Europe and eastern Asia. It can grow to twenty inches in length with a wingspan of up to thirty nine inches.
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Gaochang (Chinese: 高昌; pinyin: Gāochāng), also called Karakhoja, Qara-hoja, Kara-Khoja, or Karahoja (قاراغوجا in Uyghur), is the site of a ruined, ancient oasis city on the northern rim of the inhospitable Taklamakan Desert in present-day Xinjiang, China. The site is also known in published reports as Chotscho, Khocho, Qocho, or Qočo. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Gaochang was referred to as "Halahezhuo" (哈拉和卓) (Qara-khoja) and Huozhou.
The ruins are located 30 km from Turpan. The archaeological remains are just outside the modern town of Gaochang, at a place called Idykut-schari or Idikutschari by local residents. (see the work of Albert Grünwedel in the external links below). Artistic depictions of the city have been published by Albert von Le Coq. Gaochang is considered in some sources to have been be a "Chinese colony", that is, it was located in a region otherwise occupied at the time by West Eurasian peoples.
A busy trading center, it was a stopping point for merchant traders traveling on the Silk Road. It was destroyed in wars during the 14th century, and old palace ruins and inside and outside cities can still be seen today. The ruins are located 30 km southeast of modern Turpan.
Near Gaochang is another major archeological site: the Astana tombs.
HISTORY
JUSHI JINGDOM AND EARLY HAN-CHINESE RULE
The earliest people known to have lived in the area were the Gushi (or Jushi). The region around Turfan was described during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) as being occupied by the Jūshī, while control over the region swayed between the Han-Chinese and the Xiongnu.
Gaochang was built in the 1st century BC, it was an important site along the Silk Road. It played a key role as a transportation hub in western China. The Jushi leaders invited the Chinese Han dynasty to take over, and pledged their allegiance. In 327, the Gaochang Commandery (jùn) was created by the Former Liang under the Han Chinese ruler Zhang Gui. The Chinese set up a military colony/garrison, organized the land into multiple divisions and Han Chinese colonists from the Hexi region and the central plains also settled in the region.
After the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, northern China split into multiple states, including the Central Asian oases. Gaochang was ruled by the Former Liang, Former Qin, and Northern Liang as part of a commandery. In 383 The General Lu Guang of the Former Qin seized control of the region.
In 439, remnants of the Northern Liang, led by Juqu Wuhui and Juqu Anzhou, fled to Gaochang where they would hold onto power until 460 when they were conquered by the Rouran Khaganate (which some scholars believe to have been the origin of the Avars).
ROURAN, GAOCHE AND GÖKTÜRK RULE
From the mid-5th century until the mid-7th century, there existed four independent statelets in the narrow Turpan basin. These were controlled by the Kan clan, Zhang clan, Ma clan, and Qu clan.
A the time of its conquest by the Rouran Khaganate, there were more than ten thousand Han Chinese households in Gaochang. The Rouran Khaganate, which was based in Mongolia, appointed a Han Chinese named Kan Bozhou to rule as King of Gaochang in 460, and it became a separate vassal kingdom of the Khaganate. Kan was dependent on Rouran backing. Yicheng and Shougui were the last two kings of the Chinese Kan family to rule Gaochang.
At this time the Gaoche (高車) was rising to challenge power of the Rouran in the Tarim Basin. The Gaoche king Afuzhiluo (阿伏至羅) killed King Kan Shougui, who was the nephew of Kan Bozhou. and appointed a Han from Dunhuang, named Zhang Mengming (張孟明), as his own vassal King of Gaochang. Gaochang thus passed under Gaoche rule.
Later, Zhang Mengming was killed in an uprising by the people of Gaochang and replaced by Ma Ru (馬儒). In 501, Ma Ru himself was overthrown and killed, and the people of Gaochang appointed Qu Jia (麴嘉) of Jincheng (in Gansu) as their king. Qu Jia hailed from the Zhong district of Jincheng commandery (金城, roughly corresponding to modern day Lanzhou, Gansu) Qu Jia at first pledged allegiance to the Rouran, but the Rouran khaghan was soon killed by the Gaoche, and he had to submit to Gaoche overlordship. During Qu rule, powerful families established marriage ties with each other and dominated the kingdom, they included the Zhang, Fan, Yin, Ma, Shi, and Xin families. Later, when the Göktürks emerged as the supreme power in the region, the Qu dynasty of Gaochang became vassals of the Göktürks.
While the material civilization of Kucha to its west in this period remained chiefly Indo-Iranian in character, in Goachang it gradually merged into the Tang aesthetics. In 607 the ruler of Gaochang Qu Boya paid tribute to the Sui Dynasty, but his attempt at sinicization provoked a coup which overthrew the Qu ruler. The Qu family was restored six years later, and the successor Qu Wentai welcomed the Tang pilgrim Xuanzang with great enthusiasm in 629 AD
TANG RULE
However, fearing Tang expansion, Qu Wentai later formed an alliance with the Western Turks and rebelled against Tang suzerainty. Emperor Taizong sent an army led by General Hou Junji against the kingdom in 640, and Qu Wentai apparently died of shock at news of the approaching army. Gaochang was annexed by the Chinese Tang dynasty and turned into a sub-prefecture of Xizhou (西州), and the seat of government of Anxi (安西). Before the Chinese conquered Gaochang, it was an impediment to Chinese access to Tarim and Transoxiania.
Under Tang rule, Gaochang was inhabited by Chinese, Sogdians, and Tocharians.
Tang dynasty became greatly weakened due to the An Lushan Rebellion, and in 755, the Chinese were forced to pull back their soldiers from the region. The area was first taken by the Tibetans, then finally by the Uyghurs in 803, who called the area Kocho (Qocho).
UYGHUR KINGDOM OF QOCHO
After 840 it then became occupied by Uyghurs fleeing Kirghiz invasion of their land. The Uyghurs established the Kingdom of Qocho (Kara-Khoja) in 850. The inhabitants of Qocho practiced Buddhism, Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity. The Uyghurs converted to Buddhism and sponsored building of temple caves in the nearby Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves where depictions of Uyghur sponsors may be seen. The Buddhist Uyghur kings, who called themselves idiquts, retained their nomadic lifestyle, residing in Qocho during the winter, but moved to the cooler Bishbalik near Urumchi in the summer.
Qocho later became a vassal state of the Kara-Khitans. However, In 1209, the idiqut Barchuq offered Genghis Khan the suzerainty of his kingdom, and went personally to Genghis Khan with a sizeable tribute when demanded in 1211. The Uyghurs thus went into the service of the Mongols, who later formed the Yuan Dynasty in China. The Uyghurs became bureaucrats (semu) of the Mongol Empire and their Uyghur script was modified for Mongolian. As far south as Quanzhou, preponderance of Gaochang Uyghur in Nestorian Christian inscriptions of the Yuan period attests to their importance in the Christian community there.
The Gaochang area was sieged by the Mongols of the Chagatai Khanate (not part of Yuan Dynasty) from 1275 to 1318 by as many as 120,000 troops.
BUDDHISM
Buddhism spread to China from India along the northern branch of the Silk Road predominantly in the 4th and 5th centuries as the Liang rulers were buddhists. The building of Buddhist grottos probably began during this period. There are clusters close to Gaochang, the largest being the Bezeklik grottos.
WIKIPEDIA
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 5th of February 1916.
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Suspended Animation Classic #246
Originally published September 12, 1993 (#38)
(Dates are approximate)
Feiffer: The Collected Works
By Michael Vance
“Feiffer: The Collected Works” (v. 2 of 15), 90 pages, $10.95 from Fantagraphics Books/words and art by Jules Feiffer/available by special order from comic or book shops.
Munro was four years old. He was drafted into the Army and almost made it through boot camp. But, without looking up from his desk, Munro’s sergeant said, “It is the official policy of the Army not to draft men of four. Ergo, you cannot be four. Ergo, you only think you are four.”
“Munro” is incisive satire of military bureaucracy and the best piece of a Jules Feiffer anthology. It also features three attempted syndicated strips, selected 1950s illustrations, and the last of the cartoonist’s strip, “Clifford”.
Feiffer has been incisive since 1947. His work on “The Spirit”, a comic book inserted into newspapers, was insightful. He grumbled satirically with his “Playboy” cartoons, and became a real activist loudmouth with “Feiffer”, his “Village Voice” newspaper cartoons.
Let the boy yodel. Short and sweet, Feiffer sings neat. With no volume to the printed word, Feiffer sings loud about social injustice and stupidity.
But when he doesn’t warble about human irony, his voice sometimes cracks. His reprinted attempts at standard strips in this collection barely whimper.
And when he yodels, his hand must shake. On mainstream art, Feiffer is better than competent. On his best work, however, his art is a scratchy doodle. The doodle, thankfully, is overwhelmed and elevated by insightful, brilliant writing.
The best is yet to yodel. “Passionella”, “Boom”, and “Tantrum” are comic books in the truest sense of ‘book’. Screenplays for “Popeye” and “Carnal Knowledge” are coming attractions. Stage plays including “Little Murders” and “Grown Ups” wait in the wings. Hopefully, all will be reprinted soon.
Buy the books. After all, you all owe Feiffer more than you can repay. Because, without looking up, critics claimed comics are for kids. Ergo, “Munro” could not be for adults. Ergo, readers only think it’s adult.
But Jules looked up.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 1st of July 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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It's nice to have another Time Out cover under my belt. This one's out tomorrow. I'll post some more shots from the shoot soon.
Codex Seraphinianus,[1] originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist, architect, and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.[2] The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and written in a strange, generally unintelligible alphabet.[3]
Originally published in Italy, the book has since been released in several countries.[4]
It is believed that this book is in the public domain but this has not been confirmed.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of January 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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I'm now an Internationaly Published photographer! FDM magazine, from Asia contacted me through flickr to use my photo in there March 2011 issue. My photo appears on the cover, table of contents and page 26, with photo credit. :)
Published by Lower California Commercial Co., Inc. Tijuana-Mexicali-Ensenada-Tecate. Lower California, Mexico.
My Retro Xylophone photo is featured in the current November issue of MAX magazine, published in Germany. It's part of their Flickr Portfolio feature.
You can see the whole page view here.
The Postcard
A carte postale which was published by Neurdein et Cie of 52, Av. de Breteuil, Paris.
It was posted via the Army Field Post Office on Sunday the 19th. January 1919 to:
Mrs. F. Hill,
12 Brunswick Road,
Balsall Heath,
Birmingham,
England.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"On Active Service.
Dear F,
Just a few lines to let you
know that I am alright.
Hope you are keeping well.
I will write you a letter
later.
Love Fred".
The message was over-printed with a censor's stamp which stated:
'Passed by censor no. 8940'
Fécamp
Fécamp is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
Fécamp is situated in the valley of the river Valmont, at the heart of the Pays de Caux, on the Alabaster Coast. It is around 35 km northeast of Le Havre, and around 60 km northwest of Rouen.
In 2017, Fécamp had a population of 18,641 individuals.
History of Fécamp
The prehistoric site, on the high ground inland from the port of Fécamp, reveals human occupation dating back to Neolithic times. Spreading over 21 hectares, surrounded by walls and ditches for a length of nearly 2000 meters, the area has yielded objects ranging in date from the Neolithic until Roman times.
Many items of the Gallo-Roman period have been found locally, particularly coins (including two gold Gallic coins found in 1839). A bronze axe, of Celtic design, was unearthed in 1859.
The history of Fécamp has always revolved around the fishing industry and its harbour (first mentioned in the 11th century). The reputation of the salt-herrings of Fécamp was established as early as the 10th. century, and that of smoked herrings from the 13th. century.
An association of whale fishermen was created in the 11th. century. Fishing for cod started commercially in the 16th. century, under the impetus of Nicolas Selles, an early shipping magnate.
Throughout the 19th. century and the early part of the 20th. century, Fécamp had an important role as the chief fishing port in France for cod and cod-related fish. This was the case up until the 1970's, when Canada stopped all access to their fishing grounds.
First practised by three-masted sailing ships, Atlantic fishing trips could last more than six months, the time taken to fill the hold with cod, which were salted to preserve them.
The fishing was actually carried out in small boats, carrying only two or three fishermen. Many of these small boats became lost in the fog, and never returned to the main ship.
As technology evolved, the three-mast boats disappeared, giving way to steamers, then to diesel-engined vessels. These days, only a small fishing fleet survives, restricted to fishing around coastal waters. In the harbour, pleasure-boats have taken the place of all but a few fishing-boats.
Civil Architecture of Fécamp
-- Ruins of the 12th. to 14th. century former ducal palace enclosed in the abbey grounds – two towers and a wall section.
-- Remains of the fort of Bourg-Baudouin, on the approach to Notre-Dame-du-Salut.
-- Benedictine Palace, ruined buildings of the Benedictine abbey.
-- Former mill of the 18th. century.
-- The Town hall, a Louis XVI style building.
-- Former hostelry of the Grand Cerf, 16th. century.
-- Courtyard de la Maîtrise with an 11th. to 12th. century tower.
-- Old houses in the neighbourhood of the Hallettes, of which two houses are 16th. century - in Rue Arquaise and Rue de la Voûte (built with reclaimed materials from the abbey palace).
-- Water Tower 13th. century.
-- Épinay farm, 16th. century, former country retreat of a religious order.
Church Architecture of Fécamp
-- Church of the Trinity: Primitive Norman Gothic style, constructed from 1175 to 1220 with some Roman traces. Lantern tower from the 12th. century; Façade - 18th. century; Porch - 13th. century; choir - 14th. to 15th. century; Chapel of the Virgin 16th. century with 13th. century stained-glass windows; Organ from 1746, originating from Montivilliers Abbey; Group of multi-coloured stone from the 15th. century; 16th. century balustrades and tombs of the Dukes of Normandy from the 13th. to 14th. centuries.
-- Saint-Étienne’s church: 16th. century flamboyant Gothic porch and south transept from 1500, façade and tower from the 19th. century; wooden statues and pulpit 17th. to 18th. century.
-- Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Salut: Originally 14th. century, on a cliff: Rebuilt in the 17th. century; a gilded statue of the Virgin on the roof.
-- Chapel of the Precious Blood: Rebuilt in stone in the 17th. century, covering the miraculous source of the "Precious Blood".
Fécamp Museums
Fécamp museums are as follows:
-- Municipal Museum: Earthenware, glassware, 18th. and 19th. century paintings, archaeology, religious art and maritime folklore.
-- Benedictine Palace Museum: Objects of religious art from the 12th. to 18th. century (some of the collection originates from the former abbey); 14th. to 18th. century metalwork; Benedictine liquor manufacturing equipment for distillation etc.
-- Museum of Arts et de l'Enfance: Gallo-Roman objects found in the 19th. century explaining man's beginnings in Fécamp.
-- Museum Terre-Neuvas et de la Pêche (Newfoundland and Fishing): Museum of Fécamp's glorious maritime past, inaugurated in 1988 but closed in 2012 to be integrated in the new "Musée des Pêcheries". The adventures of the cod-fishermen that left for long months in the icy waters of Newfoundland (boats, models, equipment), construction and naval repair, architectural model of the town, audio-visual events and exhibitions of painting (annual display of naval painting).
The Musée des Pêcheries gathers together the municipal collections. It includes: art and history items, ethnographic items linked to fishing and sailors, and Doctor Dufour's childhood collection. The museum occupies a historical building, a former fish factory which has been partly transformed to welcome the collections. It has been given a roof extension that gives a 360 degree view of Fécamp's port.
-- Musée du Chocolat: Chocolate discovery museum.
-- Visits to the watercress beds.
-- Maison du Patrimoine (Heritage house) Built and furnished as in the 16th century. Since 2005, the municipal archives have been stored here.
Villa Émilie, Art Nouveau style house from the end of the 19th. century.
People Associated with Fécamp
Notable people associated with Fécamp include:
-- Jean Accart, World War II fighter pilot – born in Fécamp.
-- David Belle (1973), creator of Parkour.
-- Pierre Carron (1932), sculptor and painter.
-- Louis-Armand Chardin (1755–1793), baritone and composer.
-- Étienne Chicot, comedian, born in Fécamp.
-- Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln.
-- Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), Fauvist painter.
-- Guy Dupré (born 1928), writer - born in Fécamp.
-- Edward the Confessor, exiled to Fécamp.
-- Gustave Lambert, explorer.
-- Alexandre Legrand, industrialist, “rediscovered” Bénédictine.
-- René Legros [fr], inventor, born in Fécamp.
-- Eugène Lepoittevin, painter.
-- Louis Levacher (1934–1983), sculptor and painter.
-- Jean Lorrain, writer was born in Fécamp (9 August 1855).
-- Jacques Mazoyhie, ship owner.
-- Guy de Maupassant, once lived in Fécamp.
-- Tony Parker, French basketball player (played one year with Fécamp).
-- Bella Pochez, resistance member, murdered in Auschwitz.
-- Philippe Porée-Kurrer (1954), writer.
-- Richard I of Normandy (933-996).
-- Paul Vasselin, politician.
-- Wace, writer – stayed in Fécamp.
-- William of Volpiano, religious reformer - buried in Fécamp in 1031.
A Rooftop Aeroplane Landing
So what else happened on the day that Fred posted the card?
Well, on the 19th. January 1919, French aviator Jules Védrines claimed a 25,000 franc prize by landing a Caudron G.3 aircraft on the roof of a department store in Paris, though he was injured, and his aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
'Ravished Armenia'
Also on that day, 'Ravished Armenia', the first film to depict the Armenian Genocide of 1915, was released by First National Pictures.
The film was adapted from the autobiography of Aurora Mardiganian, a survivor of the genocide who also starred in the film.
One portion of the film has survived, with a 24-minute sequence being restored in 2009.
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Il trio che ha conquistato le platee internazionali, trionfato al Festival di Sanremo, si è aggiudicato il doppio disco di platino per l’album “Sanremo Grande Amore” e ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Alla luce dello straordinario successo del tour estivo con 12 sold out già registrati a meno di un mese dalla prima data, nel 2016 i ragazzi de Il Volo saranno protagonisti dei principali palasport con “Il Volo 2016 Live nei Palasport”, il tour con cui il celebre trio porterà la sua musica dal respiro internazionale e le sue straordinarie doti canore nelle più importanti città italiane.
Il singolo “Grande Amore” e l’album “Sanremo Grande Amore” hanno conquistato le charts iTunes dei Paesi eurovisivi. Il grande affetto della gente è stato dimostrato anche dagli ascolti durante l’esibizione del trio nella finale, che risulta essere la più vista della serata. Non solo il pubblico, ma anche la critica musicale si è espressa in suo favore, conferendogli il prestigioso Marcel Besançon Award 2015 della stampa internazionale.
Il Volo è un gruppo musicale italiano costituito da due tenori e un baritono: Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto e Gianluca Ginoble.
Sono stati i primi artisti italiani ad aver firmato un contratto diretto con una major statunitense. Interpretano brani perlopiù appartenenti alla tradizione classica italiana e internazionale, con stile e arrangiamenti moderni, e brani pop in chiave classica. Hanno inciso anche brani in lingua spagnola, inglese, francese, tedesca e latina.
Nonostante la giovane età, la carriera de Il Volo, il trio, che ha scalato le classifiche di tutto il mondo, è già costellata di record: sono stati i primi italiani nella storia a sottoscrivere un contratto con una major discografica in USA, unici artisti italiani invitati da Quincy Jones a “We Are The World for Haiti” insieme a 80 star internazionali, un disco di debutto che conquista il platino in Italia ed entra in una sola settimana nella Top10 di “Billboard 200” dedicata agli album più venduti negli Stati Uniti, milioni di copie vendute su scala mondiale, due nomination ai Latin Grammy Awards come “Best new artist” e “Best pop album by a duo or group with vocal”, tournèe e live in tutto il mondo, esibizioni nei più importanti show (“Tonight Show”, “American Idol e “Ellen De Generes Show” per citarne alcuni), numerose collaborazioni con star internazionali (tra cui Barbara Streisand, di cui sono stati Special Guests duettando in 12 date del suo tour nel 2012), vincitori del Latin Billboard Award come “Miglior artista dell’anno Duo/Gruppo interprete di album latino”.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 17th of May 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by Neurdein et Cie of Paris.
Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne d'Arc, or Joan of Arc (c. 1412 – 30th. May 1431) was nicknamed 'The Maid of Orléans' (French: 'La Pucelle d'Orléans'). She is a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Catholic saint.
She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in the Vosges of northeast France.
Late in the Hundred Years' War, Joan claimed to have received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination.
The as-yet-unanointed King Charles VII sent Joan to the Siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's consecration at Reims. This long-awaited event boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory at Castillon in 1453.
On 23 May 1430, she was captured at Compiègne by the Burgundian faction, a group of French nobles allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English and put on trial by the pro-English bishop Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges. After Cauchon declared her guilty, she was burned at the stake in May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age.
In 1456, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, debunked the charges against her, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr. In the 16th. century she became a symbol of the Catholic League, and in 1803 she was declared a national symbol of France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
She was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. Joan of Arc is one of the nine secondary patron saints of France, along with Saint Denis, Saint Martin of Tours, Saint Louis, Saint Michael, Saint Rémi, Saint Petronilla, Saint Radegund and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
Joan of Arc has remained a popular figure in literature, painting, sculpture, and other cultural works since the time of her death, and many famous writers, playwrights, filmmakers, artists, and composers have created, and continue to create, cultural depictions of her.
Rouen
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France, and is relatively close to the English Channel. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as Rouennais.
“Upon approaching Rouen one is sure to be struck
by the insolent daring of its situation. Lying on a
sloping plain beside the river, it seems to disdain the
well-nigh impregnable site afforded by the steep cliffs
which rise just to the northeast.
The history of the city bears out the audacity of its
location. Through all the centuries, its inhabitants
concerned themselves so continuously in conquering
other peoples that little time was left in which to
consider the security of their own homes.”
-- Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, Stained Glass Tours in France (1908).
Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th. to the 15th. centuries.
From the 13th. century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade. Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was in Rouen that Joan of Arc was tried and burned alive.
Severely damaged by a wave of bombing in 1944, Rouen nevertheless regained its economic dynamism in the post-war period thanks to its industrial sites and busy seaport, which is the fifth largest in France.
Endowed with a prestige established during the medieval era, and with a long architectural heritage in its historical monuments, Rouen is an important cultural capital. Several renowned establishments are located here, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the Secq des Tournelles Museum, and Rouen Cathedral.
“Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Rouen
when viewed from a distance is the great number
of its spires that shoot up above the housetops,
earning for it the sobriquet of the City of Churches.”
-- Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, Stained Glass Tours in France (1908).
Sadly not all of those churches are still there because of the ravages of war.
Seat of an archdiocese, Rouen also hosts a court of appeal and a university. Every four to six years, Rouen becomes the showcase for a large gathering of sailing ships called "L'Armada"; this event makes the city an occasional capital of the maritime world.
Rouen Cathedral
Rouen Cathedral was commenced in the 12th. Century on the site of an earlier structure. It has a Roman crypt.
The Butter Tower dates from the 16th. century. The name of the Tour de Beurre comes from the fact that butter was banned during Lent, and those who wished to carry on eating it had to donate 6 Deniers Tournois towards the building of the tower. Practically everyone in Rouen must have carried on eating butter in order to fund a tower like that!
The Victorian cast-iron Lantern Tower in the centre of the building made the cathedral the tallest building in the world from 1876 until 1880, when it was overtaken by Cologne Cathedral.
The Lantern Tower was designed by the architect Jean-Antoine Alavoine who proposed the use of cast iron, a modern material for the time, because it was less combustible than wood, and lighter than stone. The Lantern Tower took 50 years to construct. The 151 metre height of the spire still makes Rouen Cathedral the tallest cathedral in France.
The presence of a lantern tower at the crossing of the transept is a frequent feature in churches in Normandy (St. Ouen in Rouen, and Bayeux) and in England (Gloucester, Salisbury, and Winchester).
The lantern is in a bulge in the ironwork near the top of the spire, which is surmounted by a weathercock.
The Cathedral holds the heart of Richard the Lionheart. His bowels were buried within the church of the Château de Châlus-Chabrol in the Limousin. The cathedral seems to have got the better end of that particular deal!
Claude Monet painted a series of studies of the cathedral's façade 1894. Roy Lichtenstein also made a series of pictures of the front of the building.
The Cathedral has had to put up with a lot of wilful destruction during its lifetime:
- The Calvinists damaged much of what they could easily reach during the religious wars of the 16th. Century - the furniture, tombs, stained glass and statuary.
- The French State nationalised the building in the 18th. Century, and sold some of its furniture and statues to make money. The chapel fences were melted down to make guns.
- In WW2 the Cathedral was first bombed in 1944, taking 7 bombs. The bombs narrowly missed destroying a key pillar of the Lantern Tower, but damaged most of the south aisle, and destroyed two medieval rose windows. One of the bombs was fortunately a dud and failed to explode.
- As a consequence of a subsequent WW II bombing, the north tower, on the left of the façade, was entirely burned. During the fire the stonework calcified and the bells melted, leaving molten metal on the floor. The cathedral is still being restored after the extensive damage incurred during World War II.
Also, during the violent storm of December 1999, a copper-clad wooden turret weighing 26 tons fell into the Cathedral and damaged the choir and the stalls. The three other turrets were removed for maintenance and safety purposes before being replaced in 2012.
The Execution of Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne d'Arc was executed not far from the Cathedral in the Vieux-Marché on Wednesday the 30th. May 1431.
The famous depiction of 19 year old Joan of Arc's execution showing her on top of a pile of wood and straw is wrong.
The site for her execution comprised a stake at the centre of a large ring of wood, with a gap left for Joan to be led to the stake. Once she was tied to the stake and the gap closed, she was hidden from sight.
One authority has suggested that her body would have burnt in the following sequence: calves, thighs and hands, torso and forearms, breasts, upper chest and face.
However in all likelihood she would have died from heatstroke, loss of blood plasma and carbon dioxide poisoning before the fire attacked the upper parts of her body.
After Jeanne had expired, the English exposed her charred body so that no-one could claim that she had escaped alive, then burned her body twice more to reduce it to ashes in order to prevent the collection of relics.
They then cast her remains into the Seine.
A modern church now stands on the site of her execution.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle August 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.