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Francis Cabrel “Comme Blind Willie McTell”

Posted on November 28, 2025 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in MusicLeave a comment

Kate Barry, Jane Birkin, Lou Doillon et Charlotte Gainsbourg

Kate Barry, Jane Birkin, Lou Doillon et Charlotte Gainsbourg photographiées par Jeanloup Sieff, 2000

Kate Barry, Jane Birkin, Lou Doillon et Charlotte Gainsbourg
Posted on November 20, 2025 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in Music, photographyLeave a comment

Birds on a Wire LIVE Radio France

Birds on a Wire live at La Philharmonie de Paris with La Maîtrise de Radio France, conducted by Morgan Jourdain. Augellin – Stephano Landi Choir arrangements by Mike Smith. Directed by Jeremiah

Rosemary Standley, voix

Dom La Nena, violoncelle et voix 

Posted on November 20, 2025 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in MusicTagged Augellin, Birds On a Wire, La Maîtrise de Radio France, La Philharmonie de Paris. Leave a comment

Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve

Young Catherine Deneuve in Paris, 1960s

Posted on November 16, 2025 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in CultureLeave a comment

US Catholic bishops stand up to Trump’s immigration crackdown

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a rare condemnation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and advocated for “meaningful immigration reform.”

Posted on November 14, 2025 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in Mon Dieu, politics, USATagged immigration, Trump Crime Family. Leave a comment

Françoise Hardy “L’été où je suis devenue jolie”

Posted on November 10, 2025 by THE HOBBLEDEHOYPosted in MusicTagged Francois Hardy, L'été où je suis devenue jolie. Leave a comment

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CITE MOI

"Spira, spera." (Breathe, hope.) - Victor Hugo
“Spira, spera.” (Breathe, hope.) – Victor Hugo
Jean Gabin
“The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling” – Jean Gabin
"Besides, he's a saint." - Au Hasard Balthazar
“Besides, he’s a saint.” – Au Hasard Balthazar
Sanctuary!
“Sanctuary!” – Quasimodo
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!”
It's Madison time...
It’s Madison time…
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
Gun that shot Rimbaud
“Departure” – Arthur Rimbaud
Jacques Tati Life magazine cover
Jacques Tati “You won’t find another Chaplin, you won’t find another Keaton, because the school is closed.”
Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani – portrait of Paul Guillaume
Charlotte Gainsborg
“You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you’d love to know what it’s like, wouldn’t you?”
"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
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
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
Toots
“The harmonica is a great instrument.” – Toots Thielemans
Camus
““I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.” – Albert Camus
Monet
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet
Jean Luc-Godard
“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl” – Jean-Luc Godard
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
Yann Tiersen
“Let’s play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did” – Yann Tiersen
Marc Chagall
“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” – Marc Chagall
Trenet
“One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days” – Charles Trenet http://yquotes.com/quotes/charles-trenet/#ixzz4NRfqbihb
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
“I am a child who is getting on.” - Marc Chagall
“I am a child who is getting on.” – Marc Chagall
"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
"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.”
Chgall
“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” – Marc Chagall
Jeanne Cherhal "If you come back, I'll cancel everything"
Jeanne Cherhal “If you come back, I’ll cancel everything”
Zaz
“I live in the corner of old Montmartre My father comes home sozzled every night” – Zaz
Brassen
“The greatest murderers attend the highest Masses” – Georges Brassens
Baudelaire
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.” – Baudelaire
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
Rodin
“I invent nothing, I rediscover.” – Auguste Rodin
Robert Doisneau
“Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.” – Robert Doisneau
Simone Weil
““All sins are attempts to fill voids.” – Simone Weil
"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
Leo Ferre
“C’est extra. C’est extra.C’est extra.” – Leo Ferre
Mistinguett
“Oh, My man I love him so” – Mistinguett
"Come, come, my baby come. I will show you the world" - Jain
“Come, come, my baby come. I will show you the world” – Jain
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