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#568

Feb 02, 2011 20:09

Today I snapped portraits. Portraits. ME. First time in my life and probably not going to happen anytime soon. All hail my wonderful luck which happened to make me pass by right in the middle of a procession of actors from the Sherlock Holmes shooting.
They were so fucking pretty <3 ( Read more... )

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glareola February 2 2011, 19:14:49 UTC

AWESOME!!! THOSE COSTUMES!!! *faints*

umi_no_suzume February 2 2011, 19:40:31 UTC

They were just wonderful, I was stunned.
You've seen the nuns? They were so cute

glareola February 3 2011, 15:58:01 UTC

Of course I did! :D They don't look like any congregation I know, though. Or are Alsatian nuns special? I only know about the Anbetungsschwestern being founded in Alsace (in Bellemagny, to be precise), oh, and about the Niederbronner Schwestern, of course. :D

umi_no_suzume February 4 2011, 12:21:09 UTC

First time ever I see nuns dressed like that in the area, so I have no idea.
They're not supposed to be special but I have no idea how turning Germans affected them at all.

glareola February 6 2011, 17:45:28 UTC

Apparently it didn't affect them much at all. The only effect was, that a lot of German girls joined the Alsatian orders, so most convents were mixed. When Alsace returned to France, the French kicked all the German nuns out and that was a problem for the convents because suddenly approx. 50% of their working power was gone. For the German nuns, who were chased away, it was also difficult, because they had no money and no place to go.
I just wrote a diploma thesis about that (well, it was not about this case exactly, but I wrote a "clarification" chapter about the nuns from Alsace).

umi_no_suzume February 7 2011, 07:58:11 UTC

The funny thing is that I think returning to France caused more problems than becoming German.

glareola February 10 2011, 20:09:01 UTC

Hm, I guess it's because those were different times. Returning to France was part of a whole world war, so of course those were worse times. I guess. Well, you are much more of an expert when it comes to Alsace, and I can only make guesses aided by my magical history books. XD

umi_no_suzume February 11 2011, 12:25:49 UTC

Don't think it's only that.
See, during the time we were Germans laws in France changed, when they wanted to apply these laws in Alsace too, everyone was unhappy.
It's like we never know what we want XD

glareola February 11 2011, 18:17:33 UTC

Haha, sounds like Bavaria. (And Austria, half of the time, although Austria seems a bit more decided than Bavaria to me).

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