Sylvain Piron - ‘Lune’ 

A Breton jig.

It’s way too hot so I’m indefinitely posting things that remind me of water and thus by association 18th-early 20th century seaside life in attempt to cool myself off. Pirate people go away you make me hate liking this stuff.

(Source: archive.org)

Prince et Princesse -  (1989) by Micheal Ocelot

VERY funny spin on the The Frog Prince tale, perhaps the funniest and cartooniest bit Michael Ocelot had done. My favorite bit is when they are a giraffe and dachshund. My copy had subtitles, this does not however, but it’s still pretty enjoyable even if you don’t know French (I only understand a tiny tiny bit without subtitles myself).

Les Trois Inventeurs (1980) by Michael Ocelot

Mon Oncle (1958)

Gilbert Bécaud  - ‘Quand Tu Dances’ (1953)

Django Reinhardt Et Son Orchestre & Nelly Kay -“Mélodie Au Crépuscule” (1943)

Un chant d’amour dans le soir, doucement, au gré du vent se promène
Cette chanson, dans mon mon cur, vient de glisser un peu de peine
Mélancolie, la mélodie me fait songer à de beaux jours enfuis
Et je revois, lentement comme en un rêve
Tous mes souvenirs d’antan.

liquidnight:

Édouard Boubat

Stanislas at the window

France, 1973

From Édouard Boubat: A Gentle Eye

(via oldtimeycats)

I made a toile out of 19th century illustrations by Félix Bracquemond I think meant for porcelain and heavily influenced by Hokusai’s Japanese woodcuts. Features rabbits, gourds, butterflies, swallows, carnations, mongoose, ducks and a rooster. Great for a children and or nursery room because of all the animals and color palette. Uploaded it to spoonflower, where a clearer/better image is available (with watermark) but not for sale there as they take way too much profit.

This film is the best. As in it is also, the worst. ABSOLUTE WORST.

hitrecord:

If you listen to one RECord today, consider this fancy-free feast of francophonica:

Metaphorest wrote it and sang it; the lass writes in French too? She’s a regular Nabokov!  Suzyrene played magnificent piano.  Today Madrond101 resurrected in true french form with his accordion, which inspired themetafictionist to sing a harmony part, which has inspired me to sing this.

I think it probably sounds a bit too much like ol’ Tom.  En plus, mon français peux être plus claire.  Mais putain, c’est écrit par une irelandaise alors merde.

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<3

J

Bernard Boutet de Monvel ”Claude et sa Soeur” Children Gazette du Bon Ton (1912)

‘Papillons et Feuilles de Mauve’ textile design, produced by Bianchinni-Ferrier in 1907.