I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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Bar Des Boulistes
Far from home, but close to marseille
Is a little cute town, where we decided to stay
Everything was fine, and nothing that we missed
Where we spent all night
At the bar des boulistes
A pluspoint is, if you drive a french car
And laugh about jokes bout the second world war
But if you dont, mr. fernandel will clinch his fist
And knock you out
Out of the bar des boulistes
The bar des boulistes
All our problems so far away
So we drank all night and slept all day
For a beer drinking german its hard to exist
With french wine junkies
At the bar des boulistes
At the bar des boulistes
Bar des boulistes, hey hey
Bar des boulistes
All our problems so far away...
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China
(jack hues / nick de spig)
China, china, on the sea shore
China, china, on the dance floor
China, china, I must have seen your face before
Ive been to cairo and Ive been to khartoum
Ive seen them places from my rented room
Ive been to paris and Ive been to marseille
But that was nothing till I got to cathay
Ive been to new york and Ive been to l.a.
Ive been to delhi and Ive been to bombay
Ive been to venice and Ive been to rome
But now its peking that I think of as home
China, china, on the sea shore
China, china, on the dance floor
China, china, theres no finer place on earth
China, china, I must have seen your face before
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My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
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Ocean Of Wisdom
Ocean of love and the ocean of wisdom,
Bring me Marseille and let me teacg you all;
For Akkra is the friend of Cassandra and,
Elijah will visit us all tonight for the feast.
Have pity on me oh my love!
For i have toiled enough for your love;
And it was just like a dream when i met you,
For the feast tonight is all prepared in your name.
Death and roses and sex and guns!
Are you still not satisfied with my flesh? ! !
Then inform Armin that i am still waiting with my love,
But the ocean of wisdom is all that you need to move on.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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La porte
La porte de l'hôtel sourit terriblement
Qu'est-ce que cela peut me faire ô ma maman
D'être cet employé pour qui seul rien n'existe
Pi-mus couples allant dans la profonde eau triste
Anges frais débarqués à Marseille hier matin
J'entends mourir et remourir un chant lointain
Humble comme je suis qui ne suis rien qui vaille
Enfant je t'ai donné ce que j'avais travaille
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When my Geography teacher draws French Alps on the Blackboard?
She could draw maps nicely
and once she said; 'Here the French Alps.'
I was not interesred of the mountains those days?
And mesmerized of of her magical smile!
O that dimples on her both cheeks
When she smiles.
Once a week my usual routine
out of the class without a cause
Probably my mysterious looks at her?
When I was in the port of Marseille in France
A French lady walked along the pier
towards the yacht harbour.
I just came down on the ship's gangway
with a cigarette in my mouth.
And she smiled with me
her dimples on the cheeks
dragged me to my Geography class.
I verified of French Alps
with a stevedore near by
'O it's far away'
he said annoyingly!
I had a sad nostalgic feeling
that how far I was from my motherland?
It haunts me everywhere
in the same manner being an alien
to this unknown World?
nimal dunuhinga
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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A des oiseaux envolés
Enfants ! - Oh ! revenez ! Tout à l'heure, imprudent,
Je vous ai de ma chambre exilés en grondant,
Rauque et tout hérissé de paroles moroses.
Et qu'aviez-vous donc fait, bandits aux lèvres roses ?
Quel crime ? quel exploit ? quel forfait insensé ?
Quel vase du Japon en mille éclats brisé ?
Quel vieux portrait crevé ? Quel beau missel gothique
Enrichi par vos mains d'un dessin fantastique ?
Non, rien de tout cela. Vous aviez seulement,
Ce matin, restés seuls dans ma chambre un moment,
Pris, parmi ces papiers que mon esprit colore,
Quelques vers, groupe informe, embryons près d'éclore,
Puis vous les aviez mis, prompts à vous accorder,
Dans le feu, pour jouer, pour voir, pour regarder
Dans une cendre noire errer des étincelles,
Comme brillent sur l'eau de nocturnes nacelles,
Ou comme, de fenêtre en fenêtre, on peut voir
Des lumières courir dans les maisons le soir.
Voilà tout. Vous jouiez et vous croyiez bien faire.
Belle perte, en effet ! beau sujet de colère !
Une strophe, mal née au doux bruit de vos jeux,
Qui remuait les mots d'un vol trop orageux !
Une ode qui chargeait d'une rime gonflée
Sa stance paresseuse en marchant essoufflée !
De lourds alexandrins l'un sur l'autre enjambant
Comme des écoliers qui sortent de leur banc !
Un autre eût dit : - Merci ! Vous ôtez une proie
Au feuilleton méchant qui bondissait de joie
Et d'avance poussait des rires infernaux
Dans l'antre qu'il se creuse au bas des grands journaux. -
Moi, je vous ai grondés. Tort grave et ridicule !
Nains charmants que n'eût pas voulu fâcher Hercule,
Moi, je vous ai fait peur. J'ai, rêveur triste et dur,
Reculé brusquement ma chaise jusqu'au mur,
Et, vous jetant ces noms dont l'envieux vous nomme,
J'ai dit : - Allez-vous-en ! laissez-moi seul ! - Pauvre homme !
Seul ! le beau résultat ! le beau triomphe ! seul !
Comme on oublie un mort roulé dans son linceul,
Vous m'avez laissé là, l'oeil fixé sur ma porte,
Hautain, grave et puni. - Mais vous, que vous importe !
Vous avez retrouvé dehors la liberté,
Le grand air, le beau parc, le gazon souhaité,
L'eau courante où l'on jette une herbe à l'aventure,
Le ciel bleu, le printemps, la sereine nature,
Ce livre des oiseaux et des bohémiens,
Ce poème de Dieu qui vaut mieux que les miens,
Où l'enfant peut cueillir la fleur, strophe vivante,
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Biography
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, a French poet, was born Oct.20,1854, in Charleville. His childhood was marred by a 'cantankerous and vindictive' mother and by the discipline of the local school, but his poetic virtuosity was extraordinary. By the age of fifteen he had written verse in imitation of the Romanticists (Vers de College,1932) , and one of his teachers, Izambard, introduced him to contemporary poetry. He was fiercely revolutionary, and wrote the words 'Down with God' on the public benches of Charleville. He ran away from his native town, twice to Paris and once into Belgium, and once he spent 10 days in prison for travelling by train without a ticket. During these escapades, he wrote such poems as Ma Boheme and Le Cabaret vert.
In 1871, in Charleville, he wrote his first prose poems and the Lettres du voyant, and sent to Verlaine a copy of his poem Le Bateau ivre. Verlaine was enthusiastic with the work and encouraged Rimbaud to come to Paris. At this time he had already started the composition of his Illuminations, which was not published until 1886. Verlaine and Rimbaud drifted into an affair. He served in the army of the Commune, and after its fall he went abroad with Verlaine, travelling in England and Belgium. In 1873, in Brussels, he was shot in the wrist by Verlaine, who was condemned to 2 years' imprisonment in the city of Mons for the act. After the incident, Rimbaud wrote a new Illuminations and Une Saison en Enfer.
In november 1893, Rimbaud gave up the writing of poetry and started traveling through Europe on foot. He returned once more to Paris and then disappeared for 16 years. Part of this time he spent in the East, but the greater part was in Ethiopia, where he dealt in contraband firearms, in ivory and gold, and perhaps in slaves. In 1891 he became ill, returned to France to have one leg amputated, and died on November 10 in a Marseille hospital.
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La conquête
De l'Est à l'Ouest, du Sud au Nord,
Stridents et violents,
Ils vont et fuient ;
Et leurs signaux et leurs sifflets déchirent
L'aube, lejour, le soir, la nuit ;
Et leur fumée énorme et transversale
Barre les cités colossales
Et la plaine et la grève et les flots et les cieux.
Et le tonnerre sourd de leurs roulants essieux,
Et le bruit rauque et haletant de leurs chaudières
Font tressaillir, à coups tumultueux de gongs,
Ici, là-bas, partout, jusqu'en son coeur profond,
La terre.
Et le labeur des bras et l'effort des cerveaux
Et le travail des mains et le vol des pensées,
S'enchevêtrent autour des merveilleux réseaux
Que dessine l'élan des trains et des vaisseaux,
A travers l'étendue immense et angoissée.
Et des villes de flamme et d'ombre, à l'horizon,
Et des gares, de verre et de fonte se lèvent,
Et de grands ports bâtis pour la lutte ou le rêve
Arrondissent leur môle et soulèvent leurs ponts ;
Et des phares dont les lueurs brusquement tournent
Illuminent la nuit et rament sur la mer ;
Et c'est ici Marseille, Hambourg, Glascow, Anvers,
Et c'est là-bas Bombay, Singapour et Melbourne.
Oh ces navires clairs et ces convois géants
Chargés de peaux, de bois, de fruits, d'ambre ou de cuivre
A travers les pays du simoun ou du givre,
A travers le sauvage ou torpide océan !
Oh ces forêts à fond de cale, oh ces carrières
Que transportent, le dos ployé, des lourds wagons
Et ces marbres dorés plus beaux que des lumières
Et ces minéraux froids plus clairs que des poisons,
Amas bariolé de dépouilles massives
Venu du Cap, de Sakhaline ou de Ceylan,
Autour de quoi s'agite en rages convulsives
Tout le combat de l'or torride et virulent !
Oh l'or ! sang de la force implacable et moderne ;
L'or merveilleux, l'or effarant, l'or criminel,
L'or des trônes, l'or des ghettos, l'or des autels ;
L'or souterrain dont les banques sont les cavernes
Et qui rêve, en leurs flancs, avant de s'en aller
Sur la mer qu'il traverse ou sur la terre qu'il foule,
Nourrir ou affamer, grandir ou ravaler
Le coeur myriadaire et rouge de la foule !
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poem by Emile Verhaeren
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Dina Vieny, Maillol And Matisse
When posing for Maillol she looked quite obese,
since Aristide thought fat is fine,
but having been drawn by his good friend Matisse,
she left him reduced to a line.
Inspired by an obituary of Dina Vierny, Aristide Maillol’s model, by William Grimes (“Dina Vierny,89, model for Maillol’s sculptures, ” NYT, January 27,2009) :
Ms. Vierny was a 15-year-old lycée student in Paris when she met Maillol, in the mid-1930s. The architect Jean-Claude Dondel, a friend of her father’s, decided that she would make the perfect model for the artist, who was 73 and in the professional doldrums. “Mademoiselle, it is said that you look like a Maillol and a Renoir, ” Maillol wrote to her. “I’d be satisfied with a Renoir.” For the next 10 years, until his death in a car accident in 1944, Ms. Vierny was Maillol’s muse, posing for monumental works of sculpture that belied her modest height of 5 feet 2 inches. By mutual agreement, the relationship was strictly artistic….Her Rubenesque figure and jet-black hair indeed made her, as Dondel had predicted, “a living Maillol, ” memorialized in works like “The Seated Bather, ” “The Mountain, ” “Air, ” “The River, ” and “Harmony, ” his last, unfinished sculpture. Maillol also turned to her as a subject for drawings and painted portraits, like “Dina With a Scarf, ” now in the Maillol Museum.
In 1939, Maillol took refuge at his home in Banyuls-sur-Mer, at the foot of the eastern Pyrenees. There, Ms. Vierny, who had already begun working for a Resistance group in Paris, was approached by the Harvard-educated classicist Varian Fry, whose organization in Marseille helped smuggle refugees from occupied France into Spain. Unbeknownst to Maillol, she began working as a guide, identifiable to her fleeing charges by her red dress. The work was doubly dangerous because she was Jewish. Ms. Vierny soon began dozing off at her posing sessions. The story came out, and Maillol, a native of the region, showed her secret shortcuts, smugglers’ routes and goat paths to use. After several months of working for the Comité Fry, Ms. Vierny was arrested by the French police, who seized her correspondence with her friends in the Surrealist movement but failed to notice stacks of forged passports in her room. A lawyer hired by Maillol won her acquittal at trial, and to keep her out of harm’s way the artist sent her to pose for Matisse in Nice. “I am sending you the subject of my work, ” Maillol told Matisse, “whom you will reduce to a line.” Matisse did several drawings and proposed an ambitious painting that he called a “Matisse Olympia, ” after the famous painting by Manet. When Maillol heard that the project would take at least six months, he hastily recalled her to Banyuls. She also posed for Dufy and for Bonnard, who used her as the model for “Somber Nude.” In 1943, Ms. Vierny was again arrested, this time by the Gestapo, in Paris. She was released after six months in prison when Maillol appealed to Arno Breker, Hitler’s favorite sculptor.
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poem by Gershon Hepner
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L'Europe
Un soir plein de clartés et de nuages d'or,
Du fond des cieux lointains, rayonne au coeur d'un port
Léger de mâts et lourd de monstrueux navires ;
L'ombre est de pourpre autour des aigles de l'Empire
Dont le bronze géant règne sur les maisons.
On écoute bondir, dans leurs beffrois, les cloches ;
D'héroïques drapeaux pendent aux frontons proches,
Et la gloire en tumulte envahit l'horizon.
Et c'est l'heure où le songe et l'effort se confondent,
Où l'on s'attarde, regardant au loin la mer,
A rêver ce que sont et l'homme et l'univers
Grâce à l'Europe intense et maîtresse du monde.
Depuis cent et cent ans
Que le sang roule en son coeur haletant,
Toujours, malgré les deuils et les fléaux voraces,
Et les guerres criant la haine à travers temps,
Elle éduqua ses races
A ne jamais planter
Les arbres de leur force et de leur volonté
Que dans le jardin clos des réalités sûres.
Clairvoyance, méthode, ordre et mesure ;
Routes dont nul brouillard ne dérobe le bout ;
Vendange immensément et dûment poursuivie
Au long des rameaux clairs des vignes de la vie ;
Calcul dans le travail universel qui bout ;
Hâte, calme, prudence, audace,
Fièvre mêlée à la lenteur tenace,
Ô la complexe et formidable ardeur
Pour les luttes et les conquêtes
Que l'Europe porte en sa tête
Et thésaurise dans son coeur !
Elle est partout présente
Et agissante,
Les yeux hallucinés par les rouges trésors
Qu'en leurs replis obscurs, profonds et méandriques,
Les montagnes d'Asie et les forêts d'Afrique
On ne sait où, là-bas, lui réservent encor.
Les arbres violents des forêts millénaires
Inclinent vers ses mains leurs fruits délicieux :
Les poings de leurs rameaux semblent tordre les cieux
Et leur front ferme et haut se buter aux tonnerres.
Au coeur des archipels, elle explore des îles
Dont le sol est strié d'amiante et d'argent
Et dont les grandes fleurs, aux vents des soirs, bougeant,
Lui présentent leurs sucs ou leurs venins dociles.
Les monts sont perforés et les isthmes fendus
Pour que des chemins d'eau moins longs et moins perdus
Joignent entre eux les ports merveilleux de la terre.
Même la nuit et ses étoiles feudataires
Collaborent, là-haut, avec leurs feux unis,
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