I do not believe that atheism is a substitute or can fulfill the same function as a religion, any more than I believe that violence can become a substitute for authority. But if we follow the exhortations of the Conservatives, who at the moment have a fairly good chance of being heard, I am quite convinced that we will have no difficulty in producing such substitutes, that we will use violence and claim to have restored authority or that our rediscovery of the functional usefulness of religion will produce an ersatz religion — as if our civilization wasn't cluttered enough with all sorts of pseudo stuff and nonsense stuff.
Month: October 2016
Show “But times always come back…” – 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991)
Show “But times always come back…” — 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991) by Emmanuel Di Rossetti on Vimeo .
On August 31, 1991, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment celebrated its 150th anniversary during an exceptional cinéscénie, the battle of El Moungar and its return from Operation Daguet, the first Gulf War. 30,000 spectators from Nîmes will attend this event which began during the day with the legionnaires dressed in authentic costumes placed in the conditions and sets of different eras, and which will continue late into the night with the show itself performed by François Gamard, Jérôme le Paulmier and Richard Bohringer 1 in front of the Costières stadium (180 meters from the stage!).
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Pius X at the beatification of Joan of Arc
On December 13, 1908, at the beatification of Joan of Arc, Pius X pronounced these words which remain in the memories:
"You will tell the French that they treasure the wills of Saint-Rémy, Charlemagne and Saint-Louis which are summed up in these words so often repeated by the heroine of Orléans: long live Christ who is king of France ! By this title alone is France great among nations. At this clause, God will protect her and make her free and glorious. On this condition, we will be able to apply to it what in the Holy Books is said of Israel that no one was found who insulted this people except when they distanced themselves from God. »
Paul Bourget on France since 1789
Paul Bourget wrote:
" it's necessary to choose ; or else the people of 1789 were right and the whole ancient edifice must fall; or else they were wrong and it is their work that must be destroyed to restore France. »
Antigone, rebellious and intimate (4/7. Freedom)
Antigone did not come to life at dusk. Antigone is born with dawn. It is at daybreak that Antigone becomes anti , which means facing and not against . At the reflux of the army of Argos, Antigone emerges from the shadows where she could have resided all her life, not to solve the riddle of the sphinx like her father, not to solve the riddle of the stages of the life, but to fill the space between each of them. Oedipus tore off his skin, his nails, his knuckles. Dusk describes an uncertain state in the morning as well as in the evening. Antigone rises with the day, with the dawn, when freedom takes life, and therefore body.
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