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‘Tis the Season!

Posted on December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in ArtsTagged Christmas, France, Joyeux Noël, St. Nicholas. Leave a comment

Félix Thiollier “Lady and her horse on a snowy day” 1899

Lady and her horse on a snowy day, 1899
Posted on December 2, 2024 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in photographyTagged 1899, Félix Thiollier, Lady and her horse, photo. Leave a comment

Piaf and Django

Piaf and Django
Django Rheinhardt as his palm read by Edith Piaf
Posted on November 30, 2024 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in Music, photographyTagged Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf. Leave a comment

Jean Gabin

Posted on November 21, 2024 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in Movies, photographyTagged Jean Gabin. Leave a comment

Rest in Peace

Dominique A
Posted on November 19, 2024 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in MusicTagged death, Dominique A. Leave a comment

Vivian Maier

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from Vivian Maier’s photographs

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  • Juliette Gréco sings Jacque Brel’s “Ça Va Le Diable” January 15, 2026
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  • Pauline Croze “T’es Beau” January 8, 2026
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Jacques Tati Life magazine cover
Jacques Tati “You won’t find another Chaplin, you won’t find another Keaton, because the school is closed.”
Jean Luc-Godard
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl” – Jean-Luc Godard
Camus
““I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.” – Albert Camus
"Come, come, my baby come. I will show you the world" - Jain
“Come, come, my baby come. I will show you the world” – Jain
Sanctuary!
“Sanctuary!” – Quasimodo
Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir
"Besides, he's a saint." - Au Hasard Balthazar
“Besides, he’s a saint.” – Au Hasard Balthazar
Gun that shot Rimbaud
“Departure” – Arthur Rimbaud
Simone Weil
““All sins are attempts to fill voids.” – Simone Weil
Rodin
“I invent nothing, I rediscover.” – Auguste Rodin
Mistinguett
“Oh, My man I love him so” – Mistinguett
It's Madison time...
It’s Madison time…
Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani – portrait of Paul Guillaume
Toots
“The harmonica is a great instrument.” – Toots Thielemans
Monet
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet
Charles Baudelaire
“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters; that’s our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time’s horrible burden one which breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without cease. But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk!”
Baudelaire
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.” – Baudelaire
Camille Claudel
“I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.” – Camille Claudel
Yann Tiersen
“Let’s play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did” – Yann Tiersen
Jacques Cousteau
“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.” – Jacques Cousteau
Brassen
“The greatest murderers attend the highest Masses” – Georges Brassens
Zaz
“I live in the corner of old Montmartre My father comes home sozzled every night” – Zaz
Marguerite Duras
“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable” – Marguerite Duras
Jeanne Cherhal "If you come back, I'll cancel everything"
Jeanne Cherhal “If you come back, I’ll cancel everything”
Charlotte Gainsborg
“You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you’d love to know what it’s like, wouldn’t you?”
"All right, Popeye's here! get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!" - The French Connection
“All right, Popeye’s here! get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!” – The French Connection
“I am a child who is getting on.” - Marc Chagall
“I am a child who is getting on.” – Marc Chagall
Robert Doisneau
“Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.” – Robert Doisneau
"Spira, spera." (Breathe, hope.) - Victor Hugo
“Spira, spera.” (Breathe, hope.) – Victor Hugo
Chgall
“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” – Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” – Marc Chagall
"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."
“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.”
Jean Gabin
“The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling” – Jean Gabin
jacques brel
“When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension.” – Jacques Brel
Breathless
“Although I felt ashamed of it at one time, I do like Breathless very much, but now I see where it belongs – along with Alice in Wonderland. I thought it was Scarface.” – Jean-Luc Godard
Trenet
“One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days” – Charles Trenet http://yquotes.com/quotes/charles-trenet/#ixzz4NRfqbihb
"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet." - Colette (Portrait by Jacques Humbert
“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.” – Colette (Portrait by Jacques Humbert
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Degas
Leo Ferre
“C’est extra. C’est extra.C’est extra.” – Leo Ferre
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