Catherine Hubscher, Maréchale Lefebvre Duchesse de Dantzig, by an anonymous artist circa 1810

Of all the Marshals’ wives, Catherine was one of the most loyal to Napoleon. This did not prevent her from criticising him though, and she did so bluntly when she felt it was deserved. Despite this, Napoleon and Josephine were both very fond of her and while some at court sneered at this woman of most humble beginnings, the Emperor made a point of using her title every time he spoke to her. On one occasion, when the Duchess of Lusignan snidely remarked “Sire, it pleased your Majesty to drop the title of duchess on Madame Lefebvre”, Napoleon rather coldly shot back “It pleased me to raise the title of duchess to Madame Lefebvre”!

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Romy Schneider et Philippe Noiret dans Le Vieux Fusil de Robert Enrico, 1975.

Le Vieux Fusil, 1975

Vide Noir + Strange Trails

Friendship ended with 911 now greys anatomy is my best friend

Cavalier polonais avec un fusil antichar wz.35 – 1938

©Ministère de la guerre - Pologne

La Belle Fleur Sauvage (1989)

"I'll live yet to see him Regret the dark hour When he won, then neglected, The frail wildwood flower" - "Wildwood Flower," American folk song written by Maud Irving, best known as performed by Mother Maybelle Carter. [Epigraph from La Belle Fleur Sauvage] The fifth Strange Trails story is one of George Ranger Jonhson's most plain-cut romance novels. As he mentioned after the publication of Lullaby, he’d been wanting to write more “of tender things.”The story this time around comes to the patrons of George's Place from Remy Fusil, the Cajun Cowboy - a character who appears fairly little in the whole rest of GRJ's oeuvre, unless you believe certain theories of second identities (you'd be hard-pressed to find a character who doesn't have those!)

In retrospect, despite his seat in the hallowed pantheon of Strange Trails narrators, alongside such heavy-hitters as Frankie Lou and Buck Vernon, Fusil was a means to an end - that end being the introduction of Lee Green, who would play a major role in the whole rest of Johnson's works, develop from the sweet young flower of the Michigan woods she's portrayed as here, to, in the end of ends, that half-real eye-of-the-hurricane phantom haunting moonlit Mt. Monroe.

But we're getting two series ahead of ourselves. For now, in this book, GRJ deftly weaves together Remy and Lee's hesitant and, perhaps, a touch unreliably narrated romance, with the timeless legend of an unobtainable alpine flower - a legend that Remy swears is Cajun, but in other books we're told it might be Basque, or American folk. In other words, it's a story that comes from everywhere, and everyone. Maybe that's why this old tale's themes of obsessive pursuit ring through almost every page that GRJ ever set his pen to. Behind the kisses in the moonlight, there are always mountains unclimbable, withering flowers picked for ephemeral beauty once held, fools for love lying in the drifting snow, in the wind, lost in time and space, who'd give it all to pluck that fleur.

Oh yes, and we end with another cliffhanger. As Remy leans back in George's Place, having finished his tale of romance, he lights up a cigarette and a Bob Dylan tune comes on the jukebox. No one, he says, could ever challenge that his love was the purest. And then, to a galloping 4/4 beat, he hears footsteps approaching.

Keep following this blog for more insight into Johnson's work through the years.

May you live until you die!

Obviously a graduate of the Dick Cheney school of gun safety

March 31 2023

los milicos en los 70s taking care of their kids and popping their pussies to el reino del revés y al botón de la botonera chim pum fuera

Tina, the COBRA of Yap City!!

Got some characters, and some shield wall done recently!

Got up a Fusil Major painted up. The paintjob aint amazing, but he looks amazing next to his buddies

Also there's one of the shieldwalls I worked on.

I've got 3 more to paint up. Again, its not much on its own, but in context it looks so damn cool. Im so excited to get this army on set to take some photos!

Finally, I painted up an allied stormcast. This gentleman is a Lord Imperetant from the Dominion box. Problem is, I need me an artillery officer so this guy is standing in as my Lord Ordinator. Plus, he fits the vibe better than the proper model.

[ID: A digital portrait of Vash The Stampede from his shoulder up, holding his gun to his face like he is blowing smoke off it. From his gun though, a geranium is emerging, some petals spreading around. At the bottom corner, other geraniums are growing. Signed: Meaningless Mikhaïl. End ID.]

"La fleur au fusil", litterally "with a flowered gun" is a french expression that refers to the young soldiers who went into WWI confident and naive, adorning their weapons with flowers; today, it speaks of people with a carefree attitude.

I've rewatched Trigun and watched Stampede right after, and I kinda missed how goofy Vash acted. Not his anime-typical comedic looking beneath women's skirts but the loud, harmless looking part of himself. But well. Maybe in season 2? Also I wanna see Milly. (And please cover Meryl's shoulders how does she not get sunburns dressed like that. Also give Nicholas longer pants or socks or higher shoes or anything that covers his ankles because looking at him makes my feet burn.)

Le Vieux Fusil, 1975

Fusils à Pompe Radio Show Episode 16

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