A not-so-random meander through the internet on Bastille Day Since it is Bastille Day, the classical internet radio stations have been playing La Marseillaise, usually the arrangement by Berlioz (listen to this while you continue to read, https://youtube/watch?v=bOvCkTFy9R4) So stirring, and a lot easier to sing than the Star Spangled Banner, if you know the words. We need to look up La Marseillaise with the words, the translation and a 19th century versification in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise). Very bloody stuff... Hey, who is this traitor Bouillé in the third verse? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Claude_Amour,_marquis_de_Bouill%C3%A9) Seems like a nice enough guy who was caught on the wrong side of history and got buried on the wrong side of the channel, in St. Pancras Old Church (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_Old_Church) in London, reputedly the oldest Christian church in England and about 1 km away from one of my favorite haunts in London, St. Pancras - New Church (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_New_Church#mediaviewer/File:St_Pancras,_London,_north_elevation,_R_Waller_April_2006.jpg) Architecturally fascinating! But back at the old church, among the people who wound up buried there are Johann Christian Bach (the London Bach), William Franklin (the bastard son and royalist governor of New Jersey - seems like several of the governors of New Jersey have been bastards), and Sir John Soane (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Soane), the man who never met a gargoyle he didnt like (theprisma.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/A-quella-casa-Soane-Museum-3.jpg). Have a nice day enfants de la Patrie!
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:44:09 +0000
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