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Entitled ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’, this site contains 625
primary documents including personal memoirs, eyewitness
accounts, official reports, newspaper articles and treatises
relating to the French Revolution with the text documents
translated into English. It also includes background articles and a
number of maps and revolutionary songs and images.
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The new centre for the Charente branch of Maisons Paysannes de France is
intended to be a showcase for some of the attention to detail and basic principles of
restoration that the association holds dear. Lindsay Woodster has been following
each stage
La Ferme des Bouchauds
was the 19th-century
farmhouse of a wealthy
vintner, which was derelict for
40 years, and is now owned by
Rouillac district. It is typical
of the region: a two-storey
house, enclosed in a high
stone wall, with stabling and
storerooms.
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
À la Sainte Madeleine (le 22), la noix est pleine
Hemerocallis, or to use the common word
day lily, is spectacular. This is one of the
most intensively hybridised groups of
garden plants in the world. Each flower lasts for
one day as the name suggests, although blooms
do bloom at night sometimes. They are natives
of Japan and the Far East. Plants migrated to
North America and Europe with people. The
Yanks are very keen on them and an amazing
30,000 cultivated varieties have been created,
many yellow ones and various oranges, pinks,
reds etc. There are no whites.
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
Once upon a time… was a
charming town
called Foix. Foix,
its castle, and its
jazz festival, run
this year from July
23 to 29. Quite a
few interesting
names in the
programme:
pianists Larry
Willis, Alain Jean-
Marie and Gene
Dinovi, accordionist Richard
Galliano, violonist Florin
Niculescu, saxophonists Pat
LaBarbera and Xavier
Richardeau, drummer
Sangoma Everett…
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
Right off the bat, I can't
think of any other group
with as uncommon an
instrumentation as the Laurent
Coq Blowing Trio: two
saxophones (alto and tenor)
and a piano, and that's that.
‘The Thing to Share’
(Cristal Records 7 94881
84122 6) is the second CD by
this trio, five years after ‘Live
@ the Duc des Lombards’ –
which was awarded the Grand
Prix du Disque de l’Académie
Charles Cros in 2002.
“This group,” Laurent
says, “sometimes sounds like a
chamber orchestra, a
characteristic I wanted to
stress by turning to softer
moods. The pieces are shorter,
thus contrasting with the
energy and the lengths of the
pieces on the ‘Live au Duc des
Lombards’ CD. We recorded
this music wishing to do more
with less — less is more.”
But… let me introduce
you to the members of this
trio, beginning with the leader,
pianist Laurent Coq, born in
Marseille in 1970 and a
former student of Mulgrew
Miller, Bruce Barth and John
Hicks. On alto saxophone,
Olivier Zanot, on tenor
saxophone, David El-Malek,
and vocalist Laurence Allison
as special guest on two of the
10 tracks, including ‘Cradle
Song’ – two compositions by
Laurent Coq, incidentally, like
most of the pieces on this CD.
There’s something
incredibly airy about the
music played here, due to the
absence of bass and drums of
course, and also to the
delicacy of Laurent's playing
and the ethereal tones of
Zanot’s and El-Malek’s
saxophones ('Seaweed’s
Dance’ and Gabriel Fauré’s
beautiful ‘Clair de
Lune’) and
Laurence
Allison’s voice
(‘The World
Belongs to Those
Who Dare’), even
on the faster
tracks : '257
Church St.’. The
arrangements are
at the same time intricate and
self-evident – just check the
trio’s rendition of ‘Monk’s
Mood’ or of George Russell’s
bluesy ‘Ballad of Hix Blewitt’.
Recommended – and so is a
visit to Laurent’s website at
www.laurentcoq.com and to his
MySpace page at
http://www.myspace.com/laurentcoq
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