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Heidelberger in Paris, Enjoying Art, Architecture, Puns

Last updated on 2013.01.06

Did I mention I'm in Paris?
CAH at the Louvre
Here I am at the Louvre, with our guy Pei's great glass pyramid out front. The drastic contrast the the architecture of the old fortress still doesn't well with some observers. But it creates a spectacularly light and airy entryway to the museum.

Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People"

Maybe this painting is why some American conservatives get ants in their pants about France: they don't like women taking leadership roles in the fight for liberty.

Jacques-Louis David, "Le Sacre de Napoléon"
Jacques-Louis David, "Le Sacre de Napoléon

Just after the French got all excited about liberté, fraternité, and égalité, they let this bully declare himself emperor. You've got to watch out for those little guys who say they are fighting tyranny, only to become tyrants themselves.

Here's where Napoléon held that coronation, in Notre Dame de Paris.

Notre Dame de ParisRemarkable building, even to non-Catholics.

By the way, what does every hungry classical music aficionado need before heading to the supermarché for groceries?

Poster for Chopin and Liszt

You can see more of my Paris photos as I post them on my French teaching website, cah-spearfish.blogspot.com.

31 Comments

  1. Jana 2012.07.19

    Have fun! We'll try and keep South Dakota in line as best we can!

    Had a family friend that quit teaching for a couple of years to tour Europe and the sculptural icons and art museums on the $10 a month plan back in the 70's.

    Do they sell Freedom Fries in France? ;-)

    Stay safe and thanks for checking in on your "students" in the new world.

  2. Michael Black 2012.07.19

    You must be doing something very well to be able to go to France.

  3. Justin 2012.07.19

    You must be doing very poorly if you've never saved up any money to tour the world.

  4. Bill Fleming 2012.07.19

    That David of the Napoleon coronation is unbelievable, huh? Especially if you've just the day before stood in the exact same spot as the painter was standing. Good for you, Cory. We went when I was 51 and I've always told those younger than I not to wayt. Especially if you love art. Go. There. Now.

  5. Bill Fleming 2012.07.19

    "wayt"?

  6. Justin 2012.07.19

    I prefer the Musee d'Orsay and the Musee de Rodin not a huge Renaissance fan.

    Next time I go I want to check out where Ben Franklin lived and dissected human bodies.

  7. Barry Smith 2012.07.19

    While your there you should hop on the train for a couple hours and get your picture taken in Heidleberg :- ) Have fun Cory!!

  8. grudznick 2012.07.19

    Those are neat pictures, Mr. H. And a very swell hat.

  9. grudznick 2012.07.19

    "watch out for those little guys who say they are fighting tyranny, only to become tyrants themselves"

    Huh. That's good advice.

  10. Tom Lawrence 2012.07.19

    Cory, c'est magnifique ... aka way cool.
    Thanks.
    But the Corsican Corporal, like most great leaders, did both good and ill, and during a time of great upheaval caused by others.
    Although, to be fair, he only had to worry about rotten royals, mobs of peasants and several opposing armies, not persistent, informed, aggressive bloggers.

  11. Troy Jones 2012.07.20

    CH, just enjoy yourself knowing you are missing a heat wave we haven't seen for at least 15 years as well as this weekends air show where the are expecting 100,000 people both days.

  12. Eve Fisher 2012.07.20

    The trouble is, almost every revolution devolves into so much chaos that everybody is relieved when a strong leader takes over. That's why, back in the day, most people wanted to make George Washington king. (True, folks; read contemporary diaries, newspapers, etc.)
    Anyway, enjoy the art, the atmosphere, the food... Wow. Hope to go there myself some day.

  13. Bill Fleming 2012.07.20

    p.s. Be careful around there Cory. If you read your Dan Brown, you'll recall that there's one of those Knights Templar secret thing-a-ma-jiggers down under that glass pyramid at the inverse apex underground. I don't remember what... maybe an anti-matter bomb, or the holy grail or something. Better check with Sibby. LOL.

  14. Steve Sibson 2012.07.20

    "Just after the French got all excited about liberté, fraternité, and égalité, they let this bully declare himself emperor."

    Guiseppe Balsamo, a student of the Jewish Cabala, a Freemason, and a Rosicrucian, became known as Louis XVI's court magician Caliostro. He wrote how the German Illuminati had infiltrated the French Freemason lodges for years and added, "By March 1789, the 266 lodges controlled by the Grand Orient were all 'illuminized' without knowing it, for the Freemasons in general, were not told the name of the sect that brought them these mysteries, and only a very small number were really inititated into the secret." (ibid)

    In other words, Freemasonry was and is the vehicle for the Illuminati revolution.

    French Masons too were heavily involved in the political events of that day. Webster noted, "All the revolutionaries of the Constituent Assembly were initiated into the third degree" of Illuminized Masonry, including revolutionary leaders such as the Duke of Orleans, Valance, Lafayette, Mirabeau, Garat, Marat, Robespierre, Danton, and Desmoulins. (ibid)

    Even more sinister, was the Illuminati's uses of public deception to enslave the masses into violent revolution:

    Honre-Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, a leading revolutionary, indeed espoused ideals which were identical with Adam Weishaupt, founder of Bavarian Illuminized Masonry. In personal papers Mirabeau called for the overthrow of all order, all laws, and all power to "leave the people in anarchy." He said the public must be promised "power to the people" and lower taxes but never given real power "for the people as legislators are very dangerous as they only establish laws which coincide with their passions." He said the clergy should be destroyed by "ridiculing religion." (ibid)

    Liberty, Equality and Fraternity are still the siren's call of Freemasonry. Liberty is an empty promise used to take away Freedom. Equality means that we will be equal to the other Illuminati slaves worldwide.

    And then there's Fraternity. Otherwise known as Brotherhood. This is the most dangerous deception of all. Under the promise of Universal Brotherhood, we find ourselves abandoning our National Identity and embracing a globalist one.

    In the past, dual loyalty by those in positions of influence would have rightfully been called "Treason". Those that practice dual loyalties would have also been rightfully called "Traitors".

    In the era of multi-national corporations, free-trade agreements, global treaties and regional government, it shouldn't be too difficult to see the "Traitors" in our midst.

    http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/oldsite/article.asp?ID=11779

  15. Bill Fleming 2012.07.20

    Ha! Sibby comes through, right on cue. Excellent!

  16. Bill Fleming 2012.07.20

    (The Knight's Templar were the first bankers.)

  17. larry kurtz 2012.07.20

    Sibby: talk about the Knights of Columbus.

  18. Steve Sibson 2012.07.20

    The first President of the United States, George Washington believed that the Illuminati intended to separate the people from their government in his letters in the Library of Congress. The original manuscript is on the Library of Congress website here. Here is the text as written verbatim:

    Mount Vernon, October 24, 1798.

    Revd Sir: I have your favor of the 17th. instant before me; and my only motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter, is to explain, and correct a mistake which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged, often, to write letters, have led you into.

    It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

    The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects; and actually had a seperation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.

    My occupations are such, that but little leisure is allowed me to read News Papers, or Books of any kind; the reading of letters, and preparing answers, absorb much of my time.

    http://consciouslifenews.com/library-congress-confirms-george-washington-aware-nefarious-illuminati/1122149/

  19. PrairieLady 2012.07.20

    Hope you have a great time! I really wish you would have taken Marie ANNtoinette Romney with you and left her there....and Mitts too.

  20. Steve Sibson 2012.07.20

    Marie Antoinette (PrairieLady just blew her cover):

    French Masons too were heavily involved in the political events of that day. Webster noted, "All the revolutionaries of the Constituent Assembly were initiated into the third degree" of Illuminized Masonry, including revolutionary leaders such as the Duke of Orleans, Valance, Lafayette, Mirabeau, Garat, Marat, Robespierre, Danton, and Desmoulins.

    Honre-Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, a leading revolutionary, indeed espoused ideals which were identical with Adam Weishaupt, founder of Bavarian Illuminized Masonry. In personal papers Mirabeau called for the overthrow of all order, all laws, and all power to "leave the people in anarchy." He said the public must be promised "power to the people" and lower taxes but never given real power "for the people as legislators are very dangerous as they only establish laws which coincide with their passions." He said the clergy should be destroyed by "ridiculing religion."

    Mirabeau ended his tirade by proclaiming "What matter the means as long as one arrives at the end?" - the same end-justifies-the-means philosophy preached from Weishaupt to Lenin to Hitler.

    Contrary to popular history the storming of the Bastille was not the spontaneous action of a downtrodden mob. "That brigands from the South were deliberately enticed to Paris in 1789, employed and paid by the revolutionary leaders, is a fact confirmed by authorities too numerous to quote at length... In other words, the importation of the contingent of hired brigands conclusively refutes the theory that the Revolution was an irrepressible rising of the people," wrote Webster.

    We see in the French Revolution the first time where grievences were systematically created in order to exploit them," wrote author still.

    Such exploitation began with the Freemasons as early as 1772 when the Grand Orient Lodge was firmly established in France, counting 104 lodges. This number grew to 2,000 lodges by the time of the Revolution, with 447 lodge members participating in the 605 member Estates-General. One of their primary goals was the Nationalization of all Church property to help pay off the large debts Revolutionary France incurred in assisting their Jacobite Masonic brethrens plans during the American revolution.

    Meanwhile, buoyed by the situation in France, Masonic-based revolutionary clubs sprang up in other countries, including England, Ireland, the German states, Austria, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland. Tensions between outside nations and France rose until 1792 when France declared war on Austria and Prussia.

    Confronted with both a war and a revolution, France degenerated into the Reign of Terror, during which time King Lous XVI, Marie Antoinette, and many thousands, chiefly aristocrats, were executed.

    http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/frenchrevolution.html

  21. Robert J. Cordts 2012.07.20

    Tired of the hopeless, endless, political debates and nonsense. Take the utlimate existential leap of faith - join the Legion.
    A new opportunity for a new life awaits in France:
    http://www.legion-recrute.com/en/?SM=0

  22. Douglas Wiken 2012.07.20

    Have a big piece of cake, Sibby.

    Traveling abroad is not in the economic interests of South Dakota. More hard-earned money leaving the country.

    Are French women all really thin?

  23. Barry Smith 2012.07.20

    We will keep an eye out for you in the crowd on Sunday Cory- Looks like team Sky will win it this year. Watch out for tack throwers and dogs :-).

  24. Bill Fleming 2012.07.20

    "Are French women all really thin?" In Paris? Yeah, pretty much.

  25. Douglas Wiken 2012.07.20

    Bill, Good to know, my wife taught high school French. Maybe there is hope for her diet yet.

  26. John Hess 2012.07.20

    We could hit the tip jar so he has some extra spending money. If we were really nice.

  27. Matthew Siedschlaw 2012.07.20

    Sibson you have me sold on the Free Masons. Where do I sign up at?

  28. Steve Sibson 2012.07.20

    Do you suppose Obama will conduct a "Reign of Terror" of his own once he takes away our guns justified by the latest shooting in Colorado?

  29. kwn 2012.07.20

    LOVED Paris! I'm sure you'll have a GREAT time too!

  30. Vickie 2012.07.20

    Have a great time Cory! We'll sit here awaiting your return and your stories of even more cool things that you've done and seen.

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