{"id":6384,"date":"2020-02-11T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:36:09","slug":"par-ci-par-la-here-and-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=6384","title":{"rendered":"Par-ci par-l\u00e0 \u2014 Here and there"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\nPar-ci \u2014 Here<\/span><\/strong>
\nSi je continue \u00e0 raconter nos s\u00e9ances de b\u00fbcheron, mes lecteurs vont s\u2019endormir d\u2019ennui\u2026 Je souhaite quand m\u00eame vous montrer la technique de Claude. Quand j\u2019essaie de refendre le bois, je vise soigneusement, et paf !<\/em> la hache tape \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9. J\u2019ai toujours \u00e9vit\u00e9 de la recevoir sur le pied, mais je ne r\u00e9ussis jamais \u00e0 taper o\u00f9 je veux\u2026 Alors j\u2019admire Claude, mais aussi Paul et tous ceux qui sont capables de taper correctement.<\/strong>
\nIf I go on telling about our lumberjack sessions, my readers will fall asleep from boredom \u2026 I still wish to show you Claude’s technique. When I try to split the wood, I aim carefully, and wham!<\/em>, the ax hits next to it. I always avoided getting it on the foot, but I never managed to beat where I want … So I admire Claude, but also Paul and all those who are able to beat correctly.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Voici comment Paul aff\u00fbte sa goyarde (c\u2019est presque une serpette). Il d\u00e9clenche un tout petit tout joli feu d\u2019artifice.<\/strong>
\nThis is how Paul sharpens his \u00ab\u00a0goyarde\u00a0\u00bb (it’s almost a pruning hook). It sets off a tiny little firework.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

par-l\u00e0 \u2014 and there<\/strong><\/span>
\nJuste avant la manifestation que j\u2019ai racont\u00e9e en d\u00e9tail il y a deux semaines, j\u2019avais un rendez-vous post-op\u00e9ratoire avec le chirurgien. C\u2019\u00e9tait l\u2019occasion de faire une visite \u00e0 Bernadette, et pour Paul de parler g\u00e9n\u00e9alogie avec sa s\u0153ur\u00a0; les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations suivantes s\u2019y int\u00e9ressent, cela r\u00e9veille l\u2019enthousiasme de Paul et Bernadette. Profitant de ce court s\u00e9jour \u00e0 Grenoble, c\u2019\u00e9tait l\u2019occasion aussi de revoir Badette et Emma, perdues de vue pendant quelques d\u00e9cennies et retrouv\u00e9es, nos rencontres nous font toujours un grand plaisir\u00a0!
\n\"\"<\/a><\/strong>
\nI had a post-operative appointment with the surgeon just before the protest that I described in detail two weeks ago. It was an opportunity to visit to Bernadette, and for Paul to talk about genealogy with his sister; the following generations are interested in it, it awakens the enthusiasm of Paul and Bernadette. Taking advantage of this short stay in Grenoble, it was also an opportunity to see Badette and Emma, lost for several decades and found, our meetings are always a great pleasure!
\n\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

L\u2019heure de mon rendez-vous approche, alors je c\u00f4toie dans le TAG (tramway de Grenoble) des gens repli\u00e9s sur eux-m\u00eames. Je m\u2019int\u00e9resse au paysage\u00a0: il doit bien y avoir des photos \u00e0 faire\u2026 <\/strong>
\nThe time for my rendez-vous is approaching, and I meet people who are withdrawn on themselves in the TAG (Grenoble tramway). I’m interested in the landscape: there must be photos to take …
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je trouve toujours une occasion d\u2019\u00e9changer quelques mots, mais la majorit\u00e9 des passagers restent isol\u00e9s. Ce n\u2019est pas mieux \u00e0 la campagne d\u2019ailleurs. Pas besoin de tramway pour montrer un visage ferm\u00e9.<\/strong>
\nThere is always an opportunity to exchange a few words, but the majority of passengers remain isolated. It\u2019s not better in the countryside. No tram needed to show a closed face.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

La visite avec le chirurgien se passe bien, tout va parfaitement du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de ma main op\u00e9r\u00e9e et je peux poser toutes mes questions. Nous passons plus de temps \u00e0 refaire le monde\u00a0: les inqui\u00e9tudes environnementales reviennent toujours dans les discussions avec les uns ou les autres.<\/strong>
\nThe visit with the surgeon is going well, everything is going perfectly on the side of my operated hand and I can ask all my questions. We spend more time remaking the world: environmental concerns always come up in discussions with one or the other.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Au retour la nuit n\u2019est pas loin.<\/strong>
\nWhen I come back night is not far away.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Par-ci \u2014 Here<\/strong><\/span>
\nTrois jours plus tard, nous allons chez Arlette et Bernard \u00e9couter un concert. On est serr\u00e9s dans leur salle \u00e0 manger, dans une ambiance vraiment plaisante. Mex, un gars du coin, est accompagn\u00e9e par Marie Pouvesle, et d\u00e9pann\u00e9 \u00e0 la guitare par Rapha\u00ebl pendant que le bras cass\u00e9 de Mex finit de se r\u00e9parer.<\/strong>
\nThree days later, we go to Arlette and Bernard’s house to listen to a concert. We are tight in their dining room, in a really pleasant atmosphere. Mex, a local guy, is accompanied by Marie Pouvesle, and helped on the guitar by Rapha\u00ebl while Mex’s broken arm finishes repairing itself.
\n\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nous avions entendu Mex \u00e0 Rives en janvier il y a un an, huit artistes au programme, cela ne lui avait pas laiss\u00e9 beaucoup de temps. Il avait repris la fameuse chanson de Brassens adress\u00e9e \u00e0 un cambrioleur\u00a0: Mex a \u00e9crit la r\u00e9ponse du monte-en-l\u2019air, je la reconnais avec plaisir.<\/strong>
\nWe had heard Mex in Rives in January an year ago, eight artists on the program, that had not left him much time. He had wrote again the famous Brassens song addressed to a burglar: Mex wrote the answer of the robber, I recognize the song with pleasure.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Par-l\u00e0 \u2014 and there<\/strong><\/span>
\nLa Compagnie \u00ab\u00a0le Petit Bastringue\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> a jou\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019homme qui plantait des arbres\u00a0\u00bb de Jean Giono. Ce n\u2019est pas une pi\u00e8ce de th\u00e9\u00e2tre. L\u2019acteur et metteur en sc\u00e8ne Michel Durantin en a \u00ab\u00a0aval\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb les trente pages et a mis en sc\u00e8ne ce r\u00e9cit de fa\u00e7on remarquable. Sa s\u0153ur, V\u00e9ronique Durantin, artiste peintre<\/a>, lui donne la r\u00e9plique par des illustrations qu\u2019elle projette avec un vid\u00e9o-projecteur. Le narrateur parfois se tourne vers ces illustrations, des formes \u00e9bauch\u00e9es mais tr\u00e8s parlantes, qui m\u2019ont le plus souvent laiss\u00e9 une impression paisible.<\/strong>
\nThe Theatre Company \u00ab\u00a0le Petit Bastringue\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> played \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019homme qui plantait des arbres\u00a0\u00bb by Jean Giono. It is not a play. The actor and director Michel Durantin \u00ab\u00a0swallowed\u00a0\u00bb the thirty pages and staged this story in a remarkable way. His sister, V\u00e9ronique Durantin, painter<\/a>, replies with illustrations that she projects with a video projector. The narrator sometimes turns to these illustrations, rough but very meaningful shapes, which most often left a peaceful impression on me.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Un musicien du groupe \u00e9lectro La Reine Mab sonorise le spectacle par une musique d\u2019ambiance, des chants d\u2019oiseaux\u2026 Il se d\u00e9cha\u00eene quand le r\u00e9cit en arrive \u00e0 la premi\u00e8re guerre mondiale, et mon voisin trouve qu\u2019il se l\u00e2che un peu trop\u00a0: je lui r\u00e9ponds que c\u2019est la guerre.<\/strong>
\nA musician from the electro group La Reine Mab sounds to the show with background music, birdsong\u2026 He is unleashed when the story comes to the First World War, and my neighbor says that he lets go a little too much : I answer him that it is war.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je n\u2019en dirai pas plus pour vous laisser la chance de d\u00e9couvrir ce spectacle si l\u2019occasion se pr\u00e9sente, lisez ou relisez le petit livre plein de sagesse de Giono, guettez le calendrier du Petit Bastringue et visitez le site de V\u00e9ronique, une artiste sensible qui fait de fort belles choses.<\/strong>
\nI will say no more to give you the chance to discover this show if the opportunity arises, read or reread the little book full of wisdom by Giono, watch the calendar of Petit Bastringue and visit the website of V\u00e9ronique, a\u00a0sensitive<\/strong> artist\u00a0 who does very beautiful things.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Le texte de Giono a \u00e9t\u00e9 repris de fa\u00e7ons fort diverses, je trouve l\u2019interpr\u00e9tation par le Petit Bastringue vraiment excellente.<\/strong>
\nGiono\u2019s text has been interpreted in very different ways, for me the interpretation by Le Petit Bastringue\u00a0 is really excellent.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Par-ci \u2014 Here<\/strong><\/span>
\nEn Chine le corona virus fait des ravages. Plus occup\u00e9es au d\u00e9part \u00e0 traquer le lanceur d\u2019alerte (d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 maintenant) qu\u2019\u00e0 lutter contre la maladie, les autorit\u00e9s ont perdu un temps pr\u00e9cieux. Je me demande ce que va donner l\u2019h\u00f4pital de Leishenshan construit en dix jours et qui couvre 21.9 hectares. <\/strong>
\nIn China the corona virus is wreaking havoc. Busier initially tracking down the whistleblower (now deceased) than fighting the disease, authorities have lost precious time. I wonder how it will be going with the Leishenshan Hospital that has been build in ten days and covers 21.9 hectares.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Faudra-t-il \u00ab\u00a0essuyer les pl\u00e2tres\u00a0\u00bb de cet h\u00f4pital\u00a0? Je vais parfois sur le site \u00ab\u00a0expressio\u00a0\u00bb<\/a> qui d\u00e9cortique l\u2019origine des expressions fran\u00e7aises\u00a0: sur \u00ab\u00a0essuyer les pl\u00e2tres\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>, je copie ceci\u00a0:<\/strong>
\nShould they have to \u00ab\u00a0wipe the plaster\u00a0\u00bb of this hospital? I sometimes go to the site \u00ab\u00a0expressio\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>, which dissects the origin of French expressions: on \u00ab\u00a0wipe the plasters\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>, I find this:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Claude Duneton cite en effet un certain Louis-S\u00e9bastien Mercier qui dans \u201cTableau de Paris\u201d, en 1783, \u00e9voque les nombreux inconv\u00e9nients attribu\u00e9s alors au pl\u00e2tre frais comme \u201cdes influences meurtri\u00e8res, des paralysies et autres maladies\u201d\u00a0; au point d’ailleurs que les maisons neuves \u00e9taient d’abord occup\u00e9es par des filles publiques (car on se moquait bien de ce qu’elle pouvaient attraper, en plus des maladies v\u00e9n\u00e9riennes), dont Th\u00e9ophile Gautier rappelle qu’on les surnommait aussi des \u201cessuyeuses de pl\u00e2tres\u201d.<\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Year 1783, Mercier talked about serious disadvantage due to fresh plasters. They were considered as so dangerous that new houses were first inhabited by prostitutes (because they made fun of what could happen to them, in addition to venereal diseases). Th\u00e9ophile Gautier reminds us they were also called \u00ab\u00a0plaster wipers\u00a0\u00bb.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Les h\u00f4pitaux ne sont pas des lieux o\u00f9 l\u2019on se pla\u00eet, je n\u2019aimerais vraiment pas me retrouver dans celui-ci en particulier, alors que toutes sortes de produits chimiques s\u2019\u00e9vacuent sans doute des mat\u00e9riaux\u2026<\/strong>
\nHospitals are not fun places, I really wouldn\u2019t want to be in this one in particular, when all kinds of chemicals are probably leaking out of materials …
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

par-l\u00e0 \u2014 and there<\/strong><\/span>
\nPendant ce temps, c\u2019est \u00e0 peine si on parle de la fi\u00e8vre de Lassa au Nig\u00e9ria.<\/strong>
\nMeanwhile, it\u2019s barely talking about Lassa fever in Nigeria.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Partis l\u00e0-bas \u2014 Left there<\/strong><\/span>
\nJe parlais d\u2019enfants l\u00e9galement maltrait\u00e9s. Je regarde peu la t\u00e9l\u00e9, quand je le fais je regarde Arte (je devrais regarder plus souvent aussi La Cha\u00eene Parlementaire). Au hasard de ses \u00e9missions, je d\u00e9couvre un nouveau scandale, et je vais illico chercher plus de d\u00e9tails sur le web, pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment sur FranceInfo<\/a>\u00a0:<\/strong>
\nI was talking about legally abused children. I don’t watch often TV, when I do I watch Arte (I should watch La Cha\u00eene Parlementaire more often too). Randomly from its shows, I discover a new scandal, and immediately I look for more details on the web, specifically on FranceInfo<\/a>:
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Le roi Manuel du Portugal \u00e0 la recherche de financements pour son expansion coloniale d\u00e9cida \u00e9galement d\u2019imposer de lourds imp\u00f4ts aux juifs, qu\u2019ils devaient acquitter imm\u00e9diatement. Lorsqu\u2019il s\u2019av\u00e9ra que la majorit\u00e9 ne parvenait pas \u00e0 les payer, le roi exila leurs jeunes enfants \u00e0 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 et \u00e0 Principe en repr\u00e9sailles.<\/strong><\/em>
\n Ainsi,\u00a02000 jeunes enfants de moins de huit ans furent s\u00e9par\u00e9s de leurs parents et d\u00e9port\u00e9s dans ces \u00eeles o\u00f9 la plupart p\u00e9rirent de faim ou de maladie.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u00ab\u00a0King Manuel of Portugal in search of funding for his colonial expansion also decided to impose heavy taxes on the Jews, that they had to pay immediately. When it turned out that the majority were unable to pay them, the king exiled their young children to S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Principe in retaliation.<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nAs a result, 2,000 young children under the age of eight were separated from their parents and deported to these islands where most died of hunger or illness.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Vous me direz que cela s\u2019est pass\u00e9 \u00e0 la fin du XV\u00e8 si\u00e8cle mais pourquoi y aurait-il prescription\u00a0?<\/strong>
\nYou will tell me that it happened at the end of the 15th century but why would there be a prescription?
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Suite de l\u2019histoire sur l\u2019\u00eele de Sao Tom\u00e9, il ne s\u2019agit plus d\u2019enfants d\u00e9port\u00e9s, mais ce n\u2019est pas mieux.<\/strong>
\nThe story continues on the island of Sao Tome, these are no longer deported children, but this is no better.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Avec l\u2019introduction de la canne \u00e0 sucre et du cacao dont la culture demandait beaucoup de main d\u2019\u0153uvre, \u00ab\u00a0la d\u00e9portation de juifs et de proscrits portugais n\u2019\u00e9tant plus de mise, les bras ne pouvaient provenir que de la main-d\u2019\u0153uvre africaine.\u00a0\u00bb <\/em><\/strong>
\nWith the introduction of sugar cane and cocoa, the cultivation of which required a lot of workforce, \u00ab\u00a0the deportation of Jews and Portuguese outlaws being no longer appropriate, workforce could come only from Africa.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je vous invite vivement \u00e0 lire l\u2019article de Wikip\u00e9dia concernant Sao Tom\u00e9-et-Principe<\/a> \u2014 j\u2019esp\u00e8re que les anglophones pouront trouver eux aussi des informations sur ce sujet. Les besoins en esclaves \u00e9taient tels (on fait venir chaque ann\u00e9es pr\u00e8s de 4\u00a0000 captifs sur Sao Tom\u00e9 depuis les c\u00f4tes du royaume du Kongo) qu\u2019au XV\u00e8 si\u00e8cle, le roi Alphonse 1er du Kongo \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9crit au roi Jean III du Portugal pour d\u00e9noncer les abus de la traite, vaine tentative car la traite n\u00e9gri\u00e8re est d\u00e9sormais indispensable \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9conomie coloniale.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/strong>
\nI urge you to read the Wikipedia article on Sao Tome and Principe<\/a> – I hope English speakers can find information on this too. The need for slaves was such (each year nearly 4,000 captives are brought to Sao Tome from the coasts of the kingdom of Kongo) that in the 15th century, King Alfonso I of Kongo \u00ab\u00a0wrote to King John III of Portugal to denounce abuses of the slave trade, vain attempt because the slave trade is henceforth essential to the colonial economy.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Aujourd\u2019hui, on nous dit que la r\u00e9forme des retraites est indispensable \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9conomie macronienne. Je sais, les enjeux n\u2019ont rien \u00e0 voir, mais la fa\u00e7on de faire passer l\u2019innacceptable reste la m\u00eame \u2014 non\u00a0?<\/strong>
\nToday we are told that pension reform is essential to the Macron economy. I know, the stakes have nothing to do with it, but the way to get across the unacceptable remains the same – right?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Par-ci \u2014 Here Si je continue \u00e0 raconter nos s\u00e9ances de b\u00fbcheron, mes lecteurs vont s\u2019endormir d\u2019ennui\u2026 Je souhaite quand m\u00eame vous montrer la technique de Claude. Quand j\u2019essaie de refendre le bois, je vise soigneusement, et paf ! la … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6433,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/6433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}