So tonight toi_marguerite (AKA Elyse) and I went to the theeeatre to see Musset's Les Caprices de MarianneI was resolved to turn OFF my fangirl brain for this. No, I told myself, Marianne is not an allegory for France. She is a teenage girl who was raised in a convent and immediately married off to a creepy old judge. This shit was written before Les Mis was ( Read more... )

So. I have taken the plunge, and started to explore Google Books--prompted by a giant collaborative nerdy fanfic project over on Abaissé. (Yes, that is a plug. I know there are plenty of people on my flist who'd be interested in gleefully and self-indulgently geeky research fic, and we have ten Frenchboys and only four typists so far.) Since we ( Read more... )

Have been working diligently on the horribly, awfully nerdy tour guide of Mizzie d00m, which has given me some lovely time with Google, Googlemaps, and old maps of Paris. This has led to an ever-growing list of things I didn't know when I actually visited Paris ( Read more... )

Holy shit guys, Camden lock is burning downI had forgotten how minuscule the print is in my annotated LM. The text of the novel itself looks to be about 10pt, the notes more like 8pt and half of them are in italics. When I had it from the library a couple years ago, I actually bought a pair of reading glasses even though my vision is perfectly ( Read more... )

I feel... I don't know. Ignored might be the word. Like I keep shouting into the void about things that really excite me, and the answer isn't just "Oh that's nice, you loser," it's silence. I know I'm an enormous nerd and I have this compulsive drive to be a know-it-all, but I try to share my nerd-dom and my sources and the reasons for my squee ( Read more... )

So apparently when I hit up the Rue du Champ de l'Alouette in Paris, I had the wrong street--right general vicinity, but the old Rue du Champ de l'Alouette goes by rue Corvisart these days. Since the two are very close together, I wouldn't ordinarily care that much except I was looking for some remnant of a field when I visited and the rue ( Read more... )