Since the weather is still uncertain as to fall back on local wildlife ... There is much to say besides their place in our mentality Flemish between clerks sleeping almost all day on the lap of their master to the hordes of felines Ypres, defending the grain but that one cast of top of the tower of the Cloth Hall in a frenzied celebration attics when empty ... 
takers, since we can no longer provide the good town of Ypres in cats and other felines, one among the four newcomers is reserved but the final choice is not made in three to reclassify remain, economically as they say today ... 
Born in 1690, he reached his twentieth year when acquiring land Cuvilly, in the Oise, the lords of Sechelles and shall immediately bring down the mansion to build way to modern castle ... Jean Moreau de Sechelles spends much of his life in our land: master of requests in 1719, it ensures the load Intendant of Hainaut Valenciennes from 1727 to 1743, then of Lille until 1754 but especially during the French occupation, it is Steward of Flanders from 1745 to 1748.
Noticed it replaces Jean-Baptiste Machault Arnouville as Comptroller General of Finance for two years, from 1754 to 1756. Difficult to straighten the royal finances: wars, the court in Versailles are all bottomless pits! However, trying to fill the bottomless pit given by Louis XV ... Like the enlightened economists, it tries to modernize the economy through a policy close to liberalism, and that many Enlightenment thinkers advocated " let it go, let " ... Viewed as for diplomatic issues, he has the confidence of the King but the stroke he had suffered in 1756 the terrace. Incapable of fulfilling his duties, he is succeeded by his son. Jean Moreau de Sechelles is not idle if: it is an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences in 1755, he became the year following the vice-president and then president in 1757. Until his death in 1761, it honors the charges assigned. Returning
despite all our famous "Y" ... Sechelles enjoyed a reputation for sure: we named the famous Seychelles islands in his honor, just before they were sold in 1756 to the French East India Company.
"While in their perverse works
Men are panting
Mars laughs despite showers
Prepares secretly Spring. "
These worms take of Theophile Gautier once again a full and particular resonance in our current political environment French. I will not comment otherwise I too indignant at the way Stéphane Hessel, because there are times when you wonder if it is still a little common sense and honesty in our world.
To not give in to pessimism I prefer to steer this column around the spring is going to happen and poets which this month is dedicated.
I recall first that this is not a recent invention that dedicating this month to poets and not a recent creation with a government of our republic appropriates a bit faster authorship, like that the music festival. long ago that poets have sung the month of March and spring. Furetiere in his Universal Dictionary says: "spring is summer, the temperate season, the new season, the green season . And he says that poets use the word in season to serve time.
exists in our region of the south a lovely story that goes back to those times not very distant when you could laugh and write. Not a village that has its narrator or his local scholar. Television has made it a bit away. But close to home, at the limit of Gard and Herault, Lunel, a city near Sommières known for its vagaries river Vidourle to mood swings feared that if the so-called "vidourlades" persists an old tradition that has such a close relationship with the moon that I make a point of telling you. The older readers of these reviews have already read from my pen! Too bad. It's too beautiful and it is the month of poets. There are Lunel a famous school of poets, Pescalunes. Henry terminal member of the French Academy (1825-1901) born in Lunel was one of them. Here's how this school of "fishers of moon came to the French Academy. Edmond Rostand elected to chair No. 31, that of Henry terminal, so did his eulogy in his acceptance speech under the dome, giving acclaim to "Pescalunes"
"Gentlemen, do you know what it's like fishing for the moon? It is a kind of fishing that is practiced in Lunel. I thought I saw on the banks of Vidourle achieve stealth an entire people fishing at night, carrying strange hawks. The moon shines in the water. Nets fall, it disappears ... Oh! The pretty fishing ! Sometimes, perhaps, by taking it very gently, ever does one see this glow and throb bream through the cracks, but when one wants to pull itself, it slips back, escapes , stretches in wrinkles rippling, and only reappears and round ironic, that when water is again smooth. Gentlemen, you understood that people are poets Lunel: They fish the moon. It is the finest fishing in the world because it is the only one that can never be in troubled waters. "
Here is a version this story that my preference:
"With the reawakening of nature, and probably since Valentine's Day, two young people loved each of Lunel. Ninon, loved Albin. Albin Ninon loved ... but their parents would not hear of marriage as Albin was of Jewish origin. It is known that the presence of Jews in Lunel is attested since at least the eleventh century. Here we find the famous dynasty Tibbonides Lunel. Jews from the nearby Spain, fleeing the caliphate? or Jews from Jericho - city of the moon-which would have founded the town of Lunel under Emperor Vespasian The first interpretation seems more plausible.
It happened that the Baron Gaulcem, lord and master of the house gave a party. After the festivities late into the night, dead drunk, the Baron made a horrible nightmare. The moon, overcome by the sun, had been driven out of heaven forever. Maybe it was due to a sudden change of weather so common in March. Distraught, he ran at night in the street. There he met the two young men. - Who had lingered, probably because they had much to say ... ! Albin, to reassure him said he had seen the moon in the middle of the water in the canal (this is the Canal du Midi passes there .. well almost since it was not widened at that time!) Las Baron realized that she drowned them. A great uproar, he mobilized the population, it was try to pick the moon, with a basket on the line of a fishing rod ... Curiously, the star disappeared whenever the they threw the trash in the water. Rabbi Lunel, which protected the young men, then had a brilliant idea: he said only Nino's wedding and Albin allow the star to regain his place. Parents, before public pressure, had to quickly give their consent before the moon shall not drown. So Albin, raised his eyes and began a long incantation, and the sun rose slowly in the sky, leaving Lunel and its inhabitants, a souvenir and a beautiful legend. "
With poets cultivate our garden and see what the moon in March and we are preparing throughout this month. March you know, is marked by the influence the sun at equinox. It intersects the celestial equator. Day and night are of equal duration, so is the etymology of the word "equinox Her regular course, the same year, his time of rule over us, its radiation, temperature The rise of the sap, and thus the seasons. But it steadily begins to collide with different rhythm of the moon, rhythm that I've often maintained here. Hence some changes with sometimes surprising and sometimes the weather that makes us believe that the bad days are over and sometimes bursts of bad which time severe damage to vegetation, trees and plants, because having too advanced nature, must be quickly disillusioned. March has not, in fact, the best reputations. It gave birth, his pranks, many of proverbs and sayings. "What March broods, we know after the thirty-first day. " or " Either at the beginning or at the end, Mars will show its venom. . The are early days for the month of March 2011 will be rather cold with temperatures below freezing in the morning at sunrise, until the new moon of 4 when she will be at the peak of its travel around the earth . But there will be sunshine and the days are quite nice, well above seasonal norms " when Mars was in disguise, takes his clothes stuffed in April. " Or: " When March is April, April's March! " The sleet and rain, with wind probably will take over around the full moon of the equinox of 19 and 20 March. This will cause tidal coefficients highest for the next six months, 20, with 117 and 118. We say that a flood of 120 is "exceptional." From show in perspective.
The lunar node of 25 will bring a new change of time corresponding to "the old days " or "cow days " the famous " Vaqueirieu " whose j 'I recalled the story last year.
After a start though in the cold but with bright sunshine in March we could few surprises towards the end of the month.
Between 13 and 25 lunar curve is rising. This will be the ideal time for the famous March sizes, " early size, size later, nothing beats the size of March " including roses fold and cut the vine. After March 25 in the waning moon will be time for planting.
Anyway, the weather is good or bad, we will advance our watches and clocks one hour, 27. This decision is attributed to a president of our republic draws its origins in very old observations the most original are those made by Benjamin Franklin and published by the Journal de Paris "from his speech entitled" An economial "in which he dealt with energy conservation natural. It begins by describing the demonstration of a new lamp oil, which he had attended the previous day. He relates the discussion that ensued about the ratio of oil consumed / generated light. Topic in mind, he comes home and sleep at 3-4 am. A noise woke him up around 6 am and he was surprised with great clarity in his room. He thinks first of the famous oil lamps on the eve of the demonstration, illuminating the room. But finds, in fact, that it is the rays of the rising sun entering the room. Reading an almanac he confirms that the sun will rise even more and earlier until late June.
" This event made me think about things more important and more serious. If I had not been awakened so early in the morning, I slept six hours longer in the sunlight, and, cons, have spent six hours the next night to light candles . "
And he continued: " Assuming that there are 100,000 families in Paris and that these families consume the night 1 / 2 pound of candles and candle day ... into estimates of 6 to 8 hours of average duration between the time of sunrise and ours ... so there are seven hours per night during which we burn candles, you get to the following statement: In six months between March 20 and September 20 , there are 183 nights. 7 hours per night of candle usage. The multiplication gives 1281 hours. These 1281 hours multiplied by 100,000 gives 128,100,000.
Each candle requires half pound of tallow and wax, a total of 64,050,000 pounds. At a price of thirty sols per pound of tallow and wax it comes to tournaments 96,075,000 book. "And he concludes by not" ... a huge sum that the city of Paris might save every year! " but with this sentence:" people are stubbornly attached to their old traditions and it will be difficult to get them to get up before noon ". He then proposes solutions Coercive
1) Taxing a louis per window residents who leave their shutters closed.
2) Candles rationed to one pound per family per week.
3) police officers to stop traffic after sunset except those of physicians, surgeons and midwives.
4) Every morning when the sun rises, church bells and, if necessary, canon inform the citizenry of the arrival of light.
An old proverb Occitan us to the same gesture of economy: " Oou my March, lou Caleu're down "Certainly it is the oil of the oil lamps, but it may be a good resolution to take for the month of March! Adissias!
This is a folder that poisoned the prefect for a few months ... Loos prison will be emptied of its inmates from June Annoeullin direction, south of Lille. Subsequently, this would be the demolition of buildings loossois, bordering the A25 at the exit of Lille and the reconstruction site of a new facility Prison 700 seats. ...
But Loos prison, obviously the prison, we can not miss when passing on the highway. But it also left the detention center ... built in 1820 in an old abbey. And not just any, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1146 where monks prayed until the French Revolution.
So when in the doldrums of last summer, the announcement of the demolition of the site is done, advocates of the regional heritage, but also elected premises on the frontline. "We are sure that the building is architecturally interesting and sumptuous site because it must conceal the remains," explains, in late January, a volunteer of the Renaissance old Lille, the association has taken such a hard time to Martine Aubry folder Grimonprez-Jooris. A project suitable
In Dunkirk, a street bears his name since 1814 ... Guy de Dampierre was the last of the Counts of Flanders still independent of neighboring French.
Of all the regions of Europe, two are in advance: Northern Italy and Flanders .... She really has generally fertile land, peasants and enterprising bourgeois entrepreneurs and daring in the city, many shops open. For cities like Bruges or Hondschoote for ports such as Dunkirk, trade is vital ... The Counts fully understand the situation in Flanders, ideally located on major trade routes.
A belated emancipation
Born around 1226, Guy de Dampierre Count of Flanders, was proclaimed in 1253 by his mother, Margaret of Constantinople, but it carries real power to the abdication of the latter in 1279. During that time, he learns the hard exercise of power by following the orders of "Marguerite Black" ... During his youth, his family struggle constantly referred to the family of Avesnes for succession to the Counts and Hainaut. The two families feuded viciously tough but accept the compromise drafted by St. Louis in 1256. Gui has been jailed for three years in prison after the battle Zealand Westkapelle the former island of Walcheren, captivity that peace does not clear ... He must gain power through the possession of new lands: in 1263, Gui bought from Baldwin II of Courtenay rights he has on the marquis of Namur but it conflicts with Henry V of Luxembourg, which has won the coveted stronghold by the Flemish. The war began but the two men were reconciled. The peace treaty concluded by them is sealed by Gui marriage to the daughter of Henry, who then waived his rights to Namur. But Flanders is not the world, times are difficult for Christianity. The Crusaders lost Jerusalem and has long been the ideal of the Crusades is a pious remembrance ... St. Louis may want to take back the city that thrice holy that it has undertaken in the Holy Land at the previous crusade is more ... He therefore decided on one last expedition ultramarine. His fleet anchored outside Tunis. He laid siege to the city. The Crusaders face the onslaught of the plague. The Holy King of the French off before seeing Jerusalem, the Crusades died under the Tunisian sun ... Gui de Dampierre can return to Flanders ...
The Lily the Lion cons
Like Comte, he favors the wool trade with England to guarantee the Economics cloth towns. Seeking to control local finances, he faces the aldermen too jealous of their power and which are supported by the King of France who eye on these neighboring lands, so rich and populous. The small nation is heading for the Count of Flanders, the guardian of their interests. The kings of France invited in Flemish policy when, in 1297, Guy tries to marry Philippine daughter to Edward, heir to the throne of England ... What a fantastic set policy that would make! This is too much for the fiery Philippe le Bel, his lord, who then comes in Flanders, up garrisons in the towns where he goes, fights Furnes and occupied the country! Gui, rebellious vassal to his commitments, is imprisoned after a visit with two of his son and fifty knights. This is not counting on the people's anger rumbling! On the morning of Friday, May 18, 1302, the Matins of Bruges are bloody means any person suspected of being a supporter of Lily of France is murdered by the followers of Comte. We must face the royal army. Too confident in the Flemish foot soldiers, knights of Philip the Fair were massacred by the militia at the Battle of communal Kortrijk 11 July 1302. Ultimate affront, the golden spurs of the flower of French chivalry are then hung from the ceiling of the Church of Our Lady of Kortrijk. Philip the Fair holds its revenge! In 1304, his first defeat ships fleet Gui south of Holland and his Knights crush the Flemings at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle August 18, under a scorching heat ... Gui de Dampierre has, since its release , told the County to his son Robert, but he is powerless: the French have already taken control of Flanders ... for a while! As for Guy, he is again imprisoned and died in captivity at Compiegne the following year. Gui, the soul of the struggle against the Ogre French, could not keep out of reach of Flanders neighbor.
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Seen on the rear of a parked car where, Benedict, the author of these lines roasting a small cigarette, quietly in the cold ... and say that, although faded, although the colors were just a memory, the message remains devilishly news ... 
