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Le Parcellaire Content : La Bastide de Sérou, rue d’Arize - Foix - 14 July
La Tour Lafont - Pamiers -18 July
Giant chestnut trees - Le Temps des Cerises - The wild Boar - Land Parcel 234-235, 21 July
Faydit de Brouzenac - 22 July
Mr de la Bastide
Apple-trees, Notre Dame de Sabart, Land Parcel 20, 8 August
Mr l’Escoussière, Land Parcels 228, 229, 242, 251, 9 August
Mimine at Eychenat
From one mill to another ...
Mélanie of the Goats, 11th August
The Knight of the ferruginous waters, Baron of Alzen
The black bicycle
Land Parcels 169, 172,12 August - The Arize / Mr Fallacy
Land Parcels 229, 234, 228, 13 August – Mr L’Escoussière / Norbert Casteret
Land Parcels 58, 78, 79, 14 August - Pompeia Primilla
Parcels 52, 54 - Carrier Pigeons
Land Parcel 640, 15 August - The Land Parcel of God
The Colonel Bravadida
Honoré d’Urfé - L’Astrée - Bathylle - Leda - Mr L’Escoussière - 26 July, Land Parcel 88
Xanthippe and Socrates - The Pear-trees - Land Parcel 85 bis, 27 July
The Fountain-basin-wash house - Land Parcel 1002, 28 July
The Garum - La Balmo - Land Parcel 998
Pierre Bayle - Toulouse Lautrec - Yvette Guilbert - Wednesday 30 July, Land Parcels 1017/1018
Abbé Breuil - Father Teilhard de Chardin - Prehistory - Elohin, Jahwe, God of Pity - Land Parcel 104, 1 August
A miner’s pick - 2 August
The Wild Boar - 2 August
Mr Fallacy - Land Parcels 87, 88, 89, 3 August
La Madelon - La Der-des-Ders (1914-1918) - Mr Limebrick - Massat - 4 August
The Farrier - Land Parcel 1002, 5 August
The Blacksmith - Mr Irjava-scriptter - Pepi’Stieni- Land Parcel 87, 7 August
The Mill of Malarnaud
Festos de Fouix (Festival of Foix), 8 September
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The Colonel Bravadida

 

           The Colonel Bravadida, alumnus of the school of Uriage and, consequently, ex-colleague of these buffoons, dynasts of orderly citizenship  wearing the boots of Grand Guignol  who passes, before acceding - pontiffs with thoracic vocal flourish - to the Presidency of the juries of Schools of Holy Fathers, allocating to the better intentioned of the moment the parcels of an earth eternally promised, the retired Colonel of the Station district, two steps from the gendarmerie barracks, switched off his Philips 7 valves radio, after having absorbed his daily ration of war communiqués particularly reconstructive (“The Obersturmführer SS Mikael Wittmann  destroys 21 tanks in 20 minutes” : a long dozen, he said chest thrown out) or of lenifying concerts, with his favourite pieces : “Germany, a nation of aviators”, such as conducted by the bandmaster Seidel  at the head of the music of the general staff of the Luftwaffe or the défilé of the exceptional german Women at the Dome of Lohengrin (the Gertrude Scholz-Klink , the Hanna Reitsch , etc.) accompanied by the bandmaster Klamberg, at the head of the clique of the commandant of “gross Paris” and giving the rhythm - as if that did not suffice - to Bilse’s * deafening march : “With bombs and grenades”, thundering response, if one exists, to all those with a degenerate tympanum who crammed their ear, in the absence of the palate, of the turkeys and sheeps of La Mascotte *, of the asininity of Véronique * or of the ducks of Marie Bizet *at the Moulin Rouge * (MON. 63.26) ; if not martial repartee to all these escapees from the cataract who rinse their eyes with the roundness of the “Nus  44” of the Concert Mayol *, in order to better mock, no doubt, the meanness of the official map of the "Textile Outlets", since one didn’t have, so to speak, anything to put on, or to all these irresponsible people  ignoring  that  two  steps  from  there, the Isolde of the century made her debut as Cherubin  of the  Veuve  Joyeuse * on the stage of the Mogador theatre (musical Direction Aimé Courtioux, failing that of Siegfried Wagner).

           The colonel Bravadida opened his preferred newspaper, the  best  informed  of  the  dailies of the Hexagon  (“If up to now our tools had made more noise, the anglo-american bombs would make less today” or “In the Reich, your existence and your patriotic opinions are assured and respected” or also “The German dogs are mobilized since 16 October 1939, without distinction of race”, declarations he emphasized with a proud movement of the chin), had a look at the serial story of the adventures of the General/Marshal (or vice versa)  who,  according to the Colonel’s Wife  (she reproached him untiringly with the slow progress in his advancement), “had made a success of their career, those two, by "Le Fil de l'Epée"*, putting to the sword - such was the rumour -  the same Mariannes”. The colonel Bavadida went out with a martial step dissembling a beginning of arthrosis of the hip attenuated only by this depurative recommended by the Pharmacist of the Grand’ Place, who, indeed, scorned well and truly the “Genastrin”, much vaunted by the enemy, but who nonetheless carried out the sales promotion of “the Enthanol” deadly to mites, to fleas, to bugs (if not to the Colorado beetle). The Colonel raised his hat when meeting the Tax-Inspector’s lady and went back, gaiters turned down, to his observation post in his sitting room with the closed Venetian blinds in order to attend in due course and standing to attention the changing of the Guards of Maréchal-nous-voilà *, such as retransmitted in the morning of this 14 August by Radio Vichy National.

*Bilse’s March : Benjamin Bilse : March, Waltz, Polkas Cf : WDR Rundfunkorchester
Köln / CD
*La Mascotte, comic opera, (1880) by Edmond Audran (1842-1901)
*Véronique  (1898), operetta by André Messager (1853-1929)
*Marie Bizet (1905-1998) at the Moulin Rouge had her big success in the song :
L’Hôtel des Trois Canards
*Concert Mayol, 10 rue de l’Echiquier
*La Veuve Joyeuse. The Merry Widow, Die Lustige Witwe. Theater an der Wien
(1905). Operetta, viennese opérette by  Franz Lehar (1870-1947), austro-hungarian
born  and died at Bad Ischl (Austria).
*Le Fil de l’Epée - The Edge of the Sword - Charles de Gaulle (1932)
*Maréchal-nous-voilà...words by André Montagnard to the operetta tune :
La Margoton du bataillon by Casimir Oberfeld. Interpreted by Andrex and André
Dassary.The Maréchal-nous-voilà was a major element in the Vichy propaganda.
Regularly broadcast on the waves of Radio Paris and of Radio Nationale, played and
sung in all the territories of France and of the Empire in particular in schools but also in youth camps, barracks and the meetings of the Milice française.

 

 

Claude d’Esplas (Le Parcellaire)
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Translation : Dagmar Coward Kuschke (Tübingen) 

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