Today is World Logic Day, the aim of which is the development of logic throughout the world: "the dissemination of logic, a discipline developed by different civilizations and based on the virtues of discourse and argumentation, can contribute to the establishment of a culture of peace, dialogue and mutual understanding between nations." Perhaps we should have 365 or 366 Logic Days a year, reading newspapers or turning on the radio to hope for a bit of pacifying logic.

"All cats are mortal. Socrates is mortal. Therefore Socrates is a cat," the logician tells the old man. "That's right, I have a cat called Socrates," the latter agrees (Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco)

La Bignole salutes the "Felis catus", commonly the raminagrobis, mistigris or grippeminauds, whose day it is, rebel, revolutionary or republican. So to put the kitties in the spotlight, La Bignole has chased a few mice from contemporary information. Otherwise there remains The Bignole of Yesterday and the Logic of Yesterday: Logic, or the Art of Thinking... (by Antoine Arnauld and Nicole.)

It can still be useful: The Overseas Indian Citizenship Card available this month... It will allow Martinicans of Indian origin to strengthen their connection with their cultural and historical identity... To benefit from it, it is sufficient to prove Indian ancestry going back six generations, by providing documents attesting to this (for example example, a family record book).

The census of the Indian population of Martinique between 1853 and 1907

Indian immigration to Martinique (17Mo pdf to download in french)

Martinique: the list of 25,509 Indian migrants published

Good news: welcome to Quisqueya: The reforested area in the Dominican Republic has increased by 829% in 10 years

The other news: Quisqueya wishes you a safe return: The Dominican Republic uncompromising in the face of illegal immigration of Haitians

The Dominican Republic

Welcome to Saint-Pierre: They chose St-Pierre and Miquelon to get married: These couples came from elsewhere to unite in the archipelago thanks to the fashion of "destination weddings"... Getting married in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon: "so romantic".. .a dozen days, the time to publish banns and prepare the civil ceremony. It is therefore possible to come on holiday and get married at the town hall, whether you are French or foreign... According to a study by the Spherical Insights agency, the size of the global destination wedding market has been estimated at 29 .7 billion dollars in 2023. This figure could increase tenfold by 2033

Article 58 of Law No. 2009-594 of May 27, 2009 for the economic development of overseas territories

And in space? And virtual weddings with avatars? That's also developing  !

Welcome to North Korea: Ban on hot dogs, imprisonment of divorced couples, withdrawal of budae-jjigae… Kim Jong-un launches a new “repression” of Western culture (lindependant.fr)

Duochromy of Western Life and Capitalism in North Korea: How Ikea Arrives in North Korea...  ? Poäng in Pyongyang... the store in Kim Jong-Un's flagship mall apparently occupies only a very limited space among the countless other stores.... the Ryugyong Mall, which spans about 87,000 square meters of sales area, also houses luxury brands such as Mont Blanc and Gucci... (bild.de)

Welcome to China: The globalization of hassles: "having a drink is nice..." Due to lack of money, the XXL construction site of the Chinese version of the Cité du vin in Bordeaux to the stop near Beijing... This Universal Wine Museum, which represents an investment of 43 million euros, was supposed to open its doors at the end of 2024, but the work has completely stopped, due to financial problems... The idea of ​​building a tower to recreate the atmosphere of a church steeple in a French village was abandoned, as it was incompatible with the town planning regulations in the area... [and that avoids complaints from neighbors about the disturbance of the ding, dang, dong sound] everything cultural has been postponed to 2025, 2026. (francebleu)

And a little practical advice from La Bignole: how to age piquette, or any other wine..., in record time 

And what do you think the mayor of Beaune, Alain Suguenot who promises to start learning Mandarin...

Wine in China (dico-du-vin.com ) : Finally, the Burgundy Wine City in China? Or the Chinese Wine City in Burgundy?

After the Islands and the Asian Continent...

Welcome to the Moon -  Music lovers' optimism: This piece of symphonic music is going to the Moon, listen to it... This piece "will stay for thousands, maybe millions of years", marvels Jean-François Verdier, director artistic director and conductor of the Victor Hugo Orchestra (france3)

The musical galaxy of the late Hubert Reeves, (podcast... in french to listen to) “Making music is recreating the link with a man who has long since disappeared, walking in his footsteps, finding him at his work table. Hearing the music that is built and fixed in its final form... "Music fascinates me, because it is like the Universe that always makes something new out of something eternal, seven notes and then... "The mystery begins" (Hubert Reeves)

Hubert Reeves here ... Hubert Reeves there...

And finally...

Welcome to the Puritans : With or without panties? : Without panties... Exhibited in Saint-Malo, this painting that Bernadette Chirac wanted to censor... Claudine au bain: this large-format work – 1 m 30 by 1 m 95 – painted in acrylic by Frédéric Brandon, came close to causing a scandal in Paris in 1980... At the sight of this naked, a tribute to Pierre Bonnard's "Marthe au bain", her blood boiled. "Immodest", she decreed. She asked for it to be taken down... " "It's not possible, there are children coming to the exhibition." She left angry... (actu.fr)

Frédéric Brandon's site     Nude in the bath (this is Marthe Bonnard, companion of Pierre Bonnard), Nude in the bath and, among "the small Exhibitions": Mrs. Marthe Solange, aka Mrs. Pierre Bonnard, and the ingenuous imagination of her pastels. And Tomorrow will open, rue Royale, the Marthe Solange exhibition

And, to stay in the spirit of Bernadette: With panties: Some time ago, it was a pair of panties that caused a scandal and disturbed the municipality of Saint-Raphaël and its mayor Frédéric Masquelier:

An amateur painter revisits Courbet's "The Origin of the World", the mayor of Saint-Raphaël censors his paintings. The first shows the sex of the model Constance Quéniaux wearing painted panties, while the second is simply covered with real women's underwear directly stuck on the canvas, judged to be "absolutely vulgar...". Frédéric Masquelier also refuses that children should potentially be confronted with these two paintings, because "  they would learn nothing but vulgarity "

The solution: "The Bather's Manual Without a Bathtub", (download pdf 3MB) or "Simple, economical and easy way to treat a large number of illnesses", based on the principles of Professor Mayor... Published and edited by some friends of the poor and the sick.