Ex-cop-turned-private-detective Laurent and investigative journalist Martin trying on disguises for a case.
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How To Stress Less #5
How To Stress Less #5
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“The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances,” opines Andrew Bernstein, author of “The Myth of Stress.”
While you may find that assertion unsettling, exaggerated, or inaccurate, stay with me. (more…)
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Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat riding in a limo with Martin Burgoyne in New York City, 1983.
Photos by Patisse for Interview magazine
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carpe diem ⊶ joseph descamps
-“she's a, she's a lady
and i am just a boy"
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in which a school of boys open its grounds to thirteen girls, and they have no idea how to act
started: january 4, 2024
status: ongoing!!
warnings: cursing, smoking, immature teen boys, mentions of homophobia, mentions of misogyny, mentions of abuse, violence, mentions of body image, i don't own ANY gifs (thank pinterest for that), but the cover and picture are mine, probably more, i'll add more later on as i go
tags: joseph descamps, jean dupin, michele magnan, simone palladino, martine gomez, annick sabiani, charles vergoux, original character, romance, joseph descamps x oc, mixer 1963, voltaire high
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Happy 66th, Michelle Pfeiffer.
With Winona Ryder and Martin Scorsese.
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a little art piece i made based off of michel martin drollings 1820 "orphée et eurydice"
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Anglo-Italian Co.
Martin Son, Fabio Coruzzolo, Michele Pitossi and Jake Grantham
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Gaudin’s description of Napoleon
Martin-Michel Gaudin was Napoleon’s Minister of Finance. He entered the world of finance at the age of 17 and achieved the highest rank a non-aristocrat could achieve in finance administration pre-Revolution (“first clerk”). During the Revolution, he was the Commissioner of the National Treasury. He left government in 1795 and resisted further governmental recruiting attempts until Napoleon (who he had never met) approached him in 1799. Gaudin describes their first meeting in his memoir:
I found a personage who was known to me only by the high reputation he had already acquired; of low stature, dressed in a gray frock coat, extremely thin, yellow complexion, eagle-eyed, with lively movements [...] he came to me with the most gracious air.
“You have,” he said, “worked in finance for a long time?”
“Twenty years, General!”
“We need your help badly, and I’m counting on it. Come on, take your oath, we’re in a hurry.”
This formality completed, he added: “The last minister of the Directory will be informed of your appointment. Meet in two hours at the ministry to take possession of it, and provide a report on our situation as soon as you can, as well as on the first measures to be taken to restore the service which is lacking everywhere. Come see me this evening at my house on rue de la Victoire (that’s what rue Chantereine was then called), we will discuss our business more fully.”
I withdrew to carry out the orders I had just received.
(Source: Gaudin, Mémoires, souvenirs, opinions et écrits du duc de Gaète, pp. 45-46)
Historian Pierre Branda on their partnership:
“Intuition, good advice or genius? Bonaparte’s choice was judicious, because Gaudin would successfully occupy this ministerial post for the entire duration of the Consulate and the Empire, including the Hundred Days. With such longevity, he was undoubtedly one of Napoleon’s most appreciated ministers. It is true that the two men were often in perfect agreement.”
(Source: Le prix de la gloire: Napoléon et l’argent, pp. 197)
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