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Notre coeur est un instrument incomplet, une lyre où il manque des cordes et où nous sommes forcés de rendre les accents de la joie sur le ton consacré aux soupirs.
There is an old painting featured on the cans of TABU talcum powder that I have always very loved haha I have been meaning to redraw it for a while now, but each time I tried, it kinda stumped me. Let's see if I can stick to it this time
François Boucher (French, 1703-1770) • Lamarchande de modes (The Seamstress) • 1746 • Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
This print by René Gaillard reproduces a painting entitled 'La Marchande de Modes' made in 1746 by François Boucher. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Les tableaux de la création que l’on découvre du sommet des montagnes augmentent dans le cœur de l’homme le sentiment religieux ; à la vue de tant de merveilles, on se trouve naturellement disposé à adorer la main qui les tira du néant. Plus on s’élève vers le ciel, moins il semble que la prière ait d’espace à franchir pour arriver à Dieu [...]
François-René de Chateaubriand, Sur le mont Valérien
"Napoleon had his source in the hearts of the French, who were militarily inclined toward power, and democratically fond of the level. Once he had risen to the throne, he caused the people to sit there with him; a proletarian king, he humiliated the kings and the nobles in his antechambers; he leveled ranks, not by lowering them, but by elevating them: leveling through debasement would have been more pleasing to plebeian envy, but leveling through elevation was more flattering to its pride."
lire de la critique / théorie littéraire c’est tellement un truc que j’aime genre jv rester au lycée jusqu’à 19h en lire dans deux jours juste pour le kiffe