Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

Impression from Meudon Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz (Swedish; 1855–1936) 1887 Oil on wooden panel Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Paris 70

~ Bo Lundberg, circa 2013

French cities I have definitely set foot in (61):

Paris Rouen Giverny Vernon Versailles Chantilly Chartres Nice Lyon Menton Cannes Antibes Marseilles Marignane Toulouse Avignon Le Pontet Anglet Bayonne Biarritz Bordeaux Nantes Pornic Rezé Saint-Herblain Bouguenais Clisson Les Sables d'Olonne Le Croisic Le Pouliguen La Baule-Escoublac Rennes Saumur Angers Ancenis Luçon La Rochelle Saintes Saint-Jean-d'Angély Niort Lagord Rochefort Châtelaillon-Plage Angoulins Aytré Puilboreau Saint-Martin-de-Ré La Flotte Saint-Nazaire Saint-Brevin-les-Pins - 50 Dijon Chalon-sur-Saône Beaune Besançon Dole Auxonne Genlis Gilly-lès-Citeaux Vougeot Vosne-Romanée Nuits-Saint-Georges I feel like there must be two or three more, but the catch is that if I don't remember it, it doesn't count.

The four regions of France I'm living in:

Pays de la Loire Nouvelle Aquitaine Rhône-Alpes / Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Burgundy / Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

a little confusing because France merged a couple of 'em.

IoT Adoption and Security Issues in French Cities

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly changing the way we interact with technology, and French cities are no exception. As urban centers seek to become more efficient and sustainable, they are increasingly turning to IoT devices to help manage everything from traffic flow to energy usage. However, as with any new technology, there are also significant security challenges that must be addressed…

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By the way, if any of you, like me, are nerds who love maps, I highly recommend checking out the Turgot map. I won't link it or tumblr will eat this post, but you can find it just by searching Wikipedia - it's an incredibly detailed 3D map of Paris made in the 1730s, and by "incredibly detailed," I mean

incredibly

incredibly

INCREDIBLY

DETAILED!

Look, there's Notre Dame! Individual trees! Individual lampposts! Individual boats!! (Some of them even have little people in lol, though clearly not to scale)

The full scan is over 35,000 pixels wide, guys! That's over 10 feet of map!! All drawn and engraved by hand! I'm freaking out a little! What an absolutely amazing piece of history & art!

𝖡𝖺𝗅𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗒. 𝖯𝗋𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾, 𝖥𝗋𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾 𝖻𝗒 𝗋𝗈𝖻𝖺𝟨𝟨

i love wes anderson's regulars because if i was a famous director i too would only do stuff with my friends and include them in everything i do

JASON SCHWARTZMAN + Wes Anderson Feature Films

JARVIS COCKER IN WES ANDERSON MOVIES

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

The French Dispatch (2021)

Asteroid City (2023)

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

Evening   -      Dominique Corbasson , n/d.

French, b.1952 -

Acrylic on cardboard ,  70 x 70 cm.

Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

pick your poison

Paris

~ Marcel

In other news, this week a French publisher on his way to the London Book Fair was arrested by British counter-terrorist police to be questioned about his participation in protests in France.

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Moret arrived at St Pancras [...] with his colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, to be confronted by the two officers. [...] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. [...] He was transferred to a police station in Islington, north London, where he remained in custody on Tuesday. He was later released on bail.

Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors. Moret also represents the French science fiction novelist Alain Damasio and had arranged more than 40 appointments at the London book fair. [...]

[Quoting publishing house’s press release] “The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make, and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.” [...] “There’s been an increasingly repressive approach by the French government to the demonstrations, both in terms of police violence, but also in terms of a security clampdown.”

(Guardian link - BBC link) (article in French)

The publishing house (here’s their latest statement in French) and the publisher’s lawyer mention that the British police asked him “Do you support Emmanuel Macron? Did you attend protests against the pension reform?” and he was also asked to name the authors with anti-government views that his employer has published. They add, “Asking the representative of a publishing house, in the framework of counter-terrorism, about the opinions of his authors, is pushing even further the logic of political censorship and repression of dissenting thought. In a context of social protests and authoritarian escalation on the part of the French government, this aspect [of the questioning] is chilling.”

Being an accomplice to thoughtcrime by publishing dissident authors gets you treated like an international terrorist now... The publisher’s lawyer suggests that French authorities asked the UK to help them get their hands on the publisher’s contacts in the radical left sphere. But on the face of it, we’ve got: Exercise your right to protest your government in France -> get arrested by counter-terrorist UK police in London. That’s literally the reason he was given for being greeted by police at the train station...

I have a bunch of songs mentioning fire or burning stuff in my playlists so I decided to do a little something with Rollo for each song even if they don't mach the vibe 100% ! Flamm and Flames series 2/? : Universe on fire - Gloryhammer