We are talking about a hair dryer…
That Cynthia Jouberjan, head of heritage for the town of Vitrolles, pointed just before Christmas at silicone which in the cold did not harden quickly enough. Provence tells us that it happened at the top of the bell tower of the Saint-Gérard church, whose bells resounded fearless and tenacious, where the silicone had to take the precious imprint of a 2000-year-old inscription, in the Gaulish language but written in Greek characters and including the Latin word Praetor, which under Rome designated a magistrate…
And I’m counting on your Clémence, even if the hair dryer moves me with its DIY triviality, it’s obviously the inscription that fascinates us – the sentence is engraved on a soft limestone surrounded by plaster. It would come from a very old disappeared church whose stones could have been used to build Saint Gérard in 1744 – there were quarries in the area in the time of the Romans and the Gauls and Greek travelers who mixed the local culture.. This is not the first Greco Gallic inscription in the region, but the first from Vitrolles, the first trace of writing in the town. This writing is beautiful, well aligned, perhaps there was a Greek school nearby, the first decipherings suggest a dedication, a text honoring dignitaries of the time, but the text is incomplete, there must have been other stones engraved on a monument in the past imagine the journey of the stone and the words to us…
We won’t be climbing the bell tower of Saint-Gérard but soon we will be able to contemplate these words from before… That’s why we made the molding that Provence tells us, a thin layer with a wax brush of release, two layers of liquid silicone enhanced with a catalyst, the hair dryer to perfect the masterpiece.
After that, it’s nerd because it’s great, I vibrate a bit less in the Liberation file on the renovation of our lady where the fairness of the Parisian limestone lives again, Philippe Villeneuve who is the chief architect of historical monuments has decided to crystallize therefore to freeze a wall altered to the masonry split by the flames, for which a trace of the fire remains, he also preserved a lead drip which fell on the hand of Christ from the Pieta by Nicolas Coustou, work of the 18th century placed in the choir. He is right.
In the Cross and in the Voix du Nord I am told about monuments that children have been visiting every day since yesterday – human monuments, aged 65 – I am almost thin there – at 96, residents of the Ehpad les Charmilles in Barlin Pas-de-Calais, Ehpad which since yesterday has been hosting a kindergarten, named Maryse Bastié who was a great aviator, the thirty-two toddlers will have their lunch, celebrate the cake on birthdays, in the common canteen with their new friends, the word pretty is from Cornelia, caregiver and mother of four-year-old Ornella, who has already seen elderly people at mum’s work… In short, yesterday was the start of the new school year, and day 1 of a project led by the mayor Julien Dagbert, who no longer wanted the old to isolate themselves in a vacuum, his daughter is in school, he had to talk a lot to reassure, everything will be done smoothly, little by little, everything is to be invented read I, how lucky they are.
In the same Voix du Nord and on a full page of Nord-littoral, we salute Marie Louise Dambre Dubois, dean of Calaisis, who left at 111, who had been the first woman on the Municipal Council of Brockerque in 45; her closed eye on the photo of Nord littoral gives her a mischievous look she liked beer and white wine…
We also talk about a tired man…
In the same North-coast, a man no longer has the heart to reinvent himself and yesterday rue de Judée in Calais advanced towards the railway in Calais turned to receive in the back the impact of the train which was going at Arcelor Mittal in Dunkirk, the man waved goodbye to the screaming witnesses, volunteers from the Salam association who distribute breakfast to the exiles he was 29, a Sudanese migrant, for a few days he had not took more than coffee…
His story echoes the file that the Dauphiné devotes to the activists of Solidarity Refuges who last year hosted nearly 4,500 migrants from Italy, in their center located on the road from Grenoble to Briançon – the mayor of the city refuses to help them … It also echoes this story of one of our films coming out today, it impresses Télérama le Canard enchainé and the voice of the North, it is called “The survivors” and says the meeting in the snow of a widower come to hide his pain and a migrant who will be two warriors in a hostile country…
This day of cinema, the Figaro Télérama again, the Cross, so many others forcefully invite us to an Italian film, “Nostalgia”, the return to Naples of a man who made his life and his fortune in Egypt; we are told in Le Monde an actor, Pierfrancesco Favino with a loose voice whatever the language. He says that in Arabic one says “this glass is mine” rather than “I have a glass”, it is a matter of spirituality, and that in Neapolitan the subject is pushed to the periphery of the sentence, this makes fatalistic.
We are also told in our newspapers of little girls who observe adults on vacation in the Landes, “Cetété-là” and of young Romanians who seek carelessness in clandestine parties at the time of the Ceaucescu dictatorship, “Radio Metronom”, “a revelation” say Les Echos, “a subtle perversity” says Le Figaro, and then two French teenagers who love each other despite social and cultural barriers: “16 ans” by Philippe Lioret, is “a cursed love” says the Figaro and for Les Echos “the eternal return of Romeo and Juliet”… Liberation and Télérama also tell us of the grace of a short film and made with as little means as possible, a Spanish trip, “Venez voir”, where young couples visit each other in the suburbs; Jose Trueba, the director, told Liberation that films should be made that the industry doesn’t want… He’s right. We invent…
We are finally talking about wolves!
In Le Figaro, wolves who for the species have to seek territories and therefore reinvent themselves and they are pushed there, I learn, by a parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, which pushes its hosts to change in their own interest, it disinhibits, it would be a psychiatric risk for us, is that necessary?
Le Figaro also tells us about a huge historian, who broke borders, his name was Jules Isaac, author of a famous manual, a secular Jew who after the war that mowed down his family accomplished his great work – his son had asked him to do so. : he wrote about Jesus who had lived as a Jewish man and he became the friend of a pope, and with John XXIII undertook to undo the teaching of contempt and to eradicate Christian anti-Semitism.
On a more modest scale. You know that McDonalds and other fast foods now have durable cutlery, the Parisian tells me that customers are already stealing them, they will be relics.
A very nice site finally, Kool invites me to assume my daron side and organizes me it’s Wednesday, an itinerary in Paris for kids in the footsteps of great cartoons, Ratatouille Anastasia and the Aristocats.
A text in Gallic language and Greek characters, 2000 years old, in a church in Vitrolles, Provence