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Page one - President Gaston Doumergue, an atypical portrait with a brief mention of his political past, but above all some intimate details, like those we like to repeat to each other in the family: a detailed description of his home in his native country, including furnishings and paintings, his grandmother's spinning wheel, his ancestors, his upbringing in Aigues-Vives, the schooling of 'Gastounet', his reading and a poem in his own hand, signed 'Gaston Doumergue, simple troubade de 2 ème classe'.

And Gaston Doumergue's Facebook page, a fictional autobiography based on real events

Aigues-Vives in the Gard

And on the same page - Three previously unpublished poems by J.H. Fabre. They are: le Mulot, le Grillon et le papillon and above all a sensational novelty: the reproduction of the author's music for la Libellule with the handwritten score, on the occasion of the announced publication of "Poésies françaises et provençales" before the winter.

Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, scientist, humanist, naturalist and poet. His laboratories, his cat Jaunet, and more than 1,000 works to consult, listen to and download, providing an opportunity to prepare a wide range of winter reading by the fireside.

Page two - A Willette exhibition at the Galerie Lochard at 182 boulevard Saint-Germain in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Gracious or tragic little marvels, such as the "projet du trumeau" or the series of the 7 deadly sins, a 20-metre long frieze and other works to discover.

Adolphe Léon Willette

Page four - Among the small exhibitions, Jean Peske, painter of trees, Madame Marthe Solange, alias Marthe Bonnard and the ingenuous imagination of her pastels, the watercolors of Monsieur Henri Lebasque, the paintings of Madame Mela Muter and the retrospective exhibition of George Lacombe

And for the exhibitions a century later, coincidence of the calendar? La Bignole found in its calendar, the exhibitions of Monsieur Bonnard, “BONNARD AND JAPAN” presented at the Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence, from May 3, 2024 to October 6, 2024

“BONNARD AND ORDINARY POETRY. VARIATIONS AROUND A VASE” organized and presented at the Bonnard museum, Le Cannet, from June 29, 2024 to November 3,

2024 MATISSE-BONNARD: FRIENDSHIPS” organized and presented at the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, from June 28, 2024 to October 6, 2024 With in particular the table: The source or Nude in the bathtubA closer view is essential here by its great geometric rigor. The simplicity and simplicity of the composition conceal a complex play of diagonals. The body of the model, inscribed in the parallelepiped of the bathtub, forms a diamond. The angle of the folded leg draws a triangle with the edge of the bathtub. The elongated arm, parallel to the lines of flight, divides it into two equal parts. The head, at the intersection of three lines, is placed on the trajectory of a vertical going from the corner of the room to the left foot of the model. The restricted palette, dominated by the ocher of the body, contrasts with the nuanced whites of the bathtub and contributes to the economy of the composition (see Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris), 1917. Who is the model?

Same page - Constantin Meunier: the Belgian workers' party exhibits its works.

Constantin Meunier

And Also - Himalayan homicide: two English climbers kill themselves while climbing Everest. We will have to wait before this summit is conquered.

Everest

Page one - the superstitions of Jean Moréas, who turned pale if he knocked over a salt shaker... between the superstitions which are the fruit of ignorance and those which are only glimmers of clairvoyance...

Jean Moréas

In the News - In the news, the women's outfits to wear during the Olympic Games.

And a century later?Suzie Kondi, with a little red Chania crocheted cotton top at 790 euros, the Petit Écho de la Mode would have loved it, obviously with a free pattern. Otherwise there is Vogue Collection - VOGUE Paris sweatshirt | Limited Edition already on sale, that's for the blue, and a little skirt: Miu Miu - Sablé miniskirt with pleated design for 1300 euros, a slightly dirty white! La Bignole greatly appreciates the finish at the bottom of the skirt, which goes perfectly with the gray Miu Miu or Prada corkscrew socks for friends  

Page three - As the days go by, a bird paradise, the island of Heligoland, between larks and golden-crested wrens, which darken the sky as they take flight, but also the Farne archipelago also in the North Sea, terrestrial paradises, the numbering of the roads of the vast Canadian plains of the state of Ontario and other little nuggets to discover.

Heligoland, whose avifauna is one of the most varied in Europe, with more than 370 species. And a century later? And the Farne archipelago, in the north-east of England

Page four - The housewife's notebook with some seasonal recipes. Of course a range of dishes for lunch and dinner. The composition of the menu is made according to everyone's pleasures. And the recipes for: 163 lamb braised with chicory - 164 Provençal-style eggplants - 165 duck with turnips with roast fat in butter - 166 Portuguese-style eggs - 167 Italian-style red mullet - 168 rhubarb tart, an English tart that is eaten cold.

As well as the good cuisine of France, the recipe for chicken with truffles, a work of the Marquis Cussy, who conquered the heart and stomach of Napoleon and a cooking process founded in physics. And Nîmes brandade, different from Cettoise brandade and Provençal brandade

A little more about the marquis and on French cuisine, physics, chemistry and molecular gastronomy, there is Hervé This a century later.

And just for fun, in video, Hervé This 10 years ago during the night of sciences, another dimension of cooking and gastronomy. You wouldn't look at your frichti the same way afterwards. It's not fun math, it's fun physics-chemistry. Courses to be urgently integrated into the shock reform of knowledge. And still molecular cuisine on video.