A blog post concerning Saint Vincent de Paul in Paris

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Peter's Paris is a very informative blog on the French metropolis, much to be recommended.

 Today, 7 July 2015, the subject is the life and locations of
Saint Vincent de Paul and his Lazarist foundation.

Read on….

Vincent de Paul 

- 1581 to 1660 -

was nominated by cardinal duc de Richelieu to be responsible for the souls of the new inhabitants of his cité idéale who were from a part of France much affected by poverty and the bloody

'Wars of Religion' -  i.e. the Hugenot (protestant) / Catholic contests of Europe's 17th century.

He founded a Lazarist mission in the new town itself, no doubt modelled on his base in Paris, referred to in this fascinating post 'by a retired Swede'.

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'av 'n Nappy Xmas...

joyeux noël 2011

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Hippolyte (Paul) Delaroche - Napoleon I crossing the Alps 1849-50

St Vincent de Paul

Éminentissime Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, appointed his clerical chum, Vincent de Paul, to look after the christian souls of the new inhabitants of his Ideal Town, particularly while the community established itself. As cardinal, one might well think that he might take on this task himself but he no doubt thought that his Responsibilities of State would not allow him time for such provincial pastoral responsibilities.

The cardinal duc scrubs up well...

the statue of the cardinal duc on the place Cardinal, in front of the porte de Châtellerault

before...

after...

This newly-cleaned statue stands between the cité idéale and the domainal parc and château.

It was carved in 1828 by sculptor Claude Ramey (29 Oct 1754 - 4 June 1838)

and formerly located on the Pont de la Concorde in Paris.

Now maintained by the French 2nd Regiment of Marines

 of whom A-J d P was

and is now a patron.

more on this statue HERE

many thanks to
http://inandaroundbraye.blogspot.com/

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Another blog, this time from Braye-sous-Faye, just outside the Parc walls

'Colin and Elisabeth' covered the Ascension day brocante on Thursday 2nd of June 2011 rather well on their own blog.  

CLICK HERE

The large market of interesting second-hand objects and antiques filled the place du marché and les halles. Abbé Henri Proust was sorely tempted, and finally purchased three things; a pewter plate, an old shotgun, a 'Lefaucheux', marked St. Etienne 16.8mm side-by-side pin-fire hunting piece - un fusil à broche - from about 1880 - HP's era - (but can this really be a man of the cloth, one asks?), and a small sea scene in oils in a gilt frame.

originally from Chatillion-sur-Indre in Berry to the East

All the town's other shops closed for the afternoon.

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A link to a nice post all about the Palais Cardinal in Paris, latterly (since about 1650) the Palais Royale.

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for a connection to the posts describing aspects of the cardinal-duc's Paris mansion describing the development of this famous site over the years.

'Peter's Paris' is a very good blog about the City of Paris

and its detailed history, location by location.

http://peter-pho2.blogspot.com/

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Henri Proust now has an I-pod touch g4

Hello.

For the first time a blog post has been made from a handheld device operating on a wi-fi system, in this particular case in France.

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The new music widget

Henri Proust has added a music 'widget' in the side bar to the right, having found it on another blog http://versaillesdailyphoto.blogspot.com/. 

All one has to do is click on the little arrow and a playlist of French period music will play while you look at the blog site.  HP couldn't figure out how to implant a new playlist of his own, so he has filched the one from the site about daily Versailles photographs.  

One day when he has time he will try to work it all out and get music from the seventeenth century rather than the eighteenth.

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Back from la douce France

The Abbé Henri Proust has returned to the ghastly metropolis outre-manche and will very shortly continue  his works on the

Cité Idéale de RICHELIEU.

On his congés he only took his fishing equipment, and so there was  a brief caesura in the e-ther........

relax at the keyboard with a glass of Chinon

One must be careful not to spill wine into the keyboard as this can quickly mean a new replacement, which often comes expensive.  Coca Cola Lite is the absolutely the worst, I understand.  Same goes for crumbs from one's bacon sandwich of a morning.

www.usbwine.com

Richelieu en Fête blog

The committee that organise festivals in the ville idéale of Richelieu have started their own blog at this address.  CLICK ON IT!

http://richelieuenfete.canalblog.com/

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THIS BLOG HAS A NEW URL ADDRESS

I have just changed this blog's www address (actually its URL - uniform resource locator) from the former cumbersome leblogdeleminencerouge to:

http://richelieu-eminencerouge.blogspot.com/

The name I picked long ago was a) long and cumbersome, b) in French - hard for some, c) required one to know that cardinals of the Roman church are addressed as 'Eminence', d) that cardinals have a red robe.  

Crucially, it did not include the word Richelieu, and so was not to be found in a Google search for Richelieu.  

Now that you have found the blog-site at the new address (presumably), maybe you should update your 'bookmark' for the site.

This NEW ADDRESS is surely better, even if it frustrates my current faithful readers for a while.

Jean-Louis' photos of Richelieu in the snow.

* La CITÉ IDÉALE fully whitened in early January 2009 *

The author of the french-language blog for the people of the Richelieu canton, Jean-Louis Laurence, has put up a splendid set of pictures of Richelieu in the recent snows. 

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to a direct link to his public Google PICASA album of photos. Try clicking on the 'diaporama'- slideshow - button.

All credit to Jean-Louis Laurence, the Eugène Atget of Richelieu - do we have any competitors?

Here's another Atget site this time recreating the views he took.

Backing up BLOGSPOT blogs

The more one writes on a blog the more nervous one becomes that the growing content might go on the blink out there in Google-land (including Picasa-land). This is because all Google Blogspot blogs are archived on a remote computer 'in the clouds' rather than on the hard-disk of the author. For some IT reason I do not understand, Blogspot does not formally offer any method of backing up data, either text or images/videos (WHY NOT?).

As this silly little blog is now 'probably' the deepest data source in the English language on our little ideal town of Richelieu in Touraine, this situation makes me nervous...

So, blogmasters, what can one do?

1 Download a copy of the 'open-source' web-browser Firefox. On macs the latest version is 3.0.3; pc's - well you can find out for yourself...

2 Prior to starting Firefox for the first time, download an extension (they call it an 'add-on') to Firefox called 'DownThemAll' 1.0.3 and install it into the Firefox browser.

3 The DownThemAll extension will appear in the Firefox main menu under 'tools'.

This (with a little improvisation) will allow you to download the data from any viewed web page.

4 If you want to download the entire blog (as I did), the way to do this is by allowing the blog's 'first' page to have a very large number of posts on it, i.e. the total number of posts written. Then all the data will be downloaded from this new super 'single page'. Remember, it may take quite a time for all those posts to download from out there onto your own computer screen!

5 Once the precious data is backed up into the file folder of your choice on your own machine (probably as an html file), remember to change back the blog's 'items per page' to a sensible number (say 12), to allow a normally quick download for your readers.

6 It needs a bit of playing with, but it has worked for me!

Another rather more prosaic method of backing-up posts is to set Blogspot so that it sends oneself an e-mail copy of the text of a new post each time a new post is loaded. If one files these e-mails carefully, one has a digital record of all that one has typed, which would in turn allow an easy recreation of any post at some time in the future. Only the first loading of a post is sent on; revisions are not forwarded (an important point if one edits repeatedly or late in the posting process). I am trying this method out too. It does not cover digital images, but these can usually be re-created from one's own photo source unless one has been so imprudent as to delete all other copies. Images nicked from the web can be re-found.

6 November 2008.  This method is working rather well too.

The new look

Do you find the 'new look' more alluring?  Most of Abbé Henri Proust's flock do...

Blog followers

Writing a blog, like all writing, is a rather lonely activity.  Each post is shot off into the  e-choing e-ther when one hits the publish post button.  But is anyone out there....?

FOLLOWERS are simply those who read and follow the blog.  Now one can show the author that you really are there, and further, show this fact to other readers.  It can build a sort of community of interest, as it also allows one to get in contact with other readers of the blog.

So how does one become a follower?

(sounds a bit biblical, n'est-ce pas!)

On the top panel on the left there is a Follow this Blog button that highlights in red when the cursor is over it.  Click on it to reveal a dialogue box.  It asks you to get a Google account (this is 'free'). This allows Google to connect other followers with your Google 'profile' and maybe your e-mail address, all fully protected with a password.  You can decide to remain mysteriously private to the world, or more confidently have your picture added along side those in the community already displayed.  

(24 October 2008 - 2 followers so far)

Please try it out!

bisous (hugs)

feu Abbé Henri Proust

Back in the saddle

Abbé Henri Proust, who writes most of these blog posts, has finally arrived back at his presbytery computer, so the stream of Éminence Rouge blog posts, all about the gorgeous little town of Richelieu, can now resume after les vacances.

Welcome back M. l'Abbé!

The tomb of Henry Armand Proust

Your webmaster took the name of Abbé Henry Armand Proust b.1817-d.1897 as his 'avatar' for the publication of this blog.  

Recently we paid a visit to "henriproust's" tomb that is in a prime spot in the cemetary to the north of the parc quinconce at the northern Chinon end of the town of Richelieu.  Quite a grand mausoleum for a parish priest - he must have been popular on earth  - and we hope in heaven too!

Another post on Henry

World-o'-Bloggers

The town of Richelieu is served by two separate blogs; the one you are reading at present, created mainly for the visitor and written  in the English language, and the other and original created in French by Jean-Louis Laurence and called 'Le blog du Cardinal'.

Jean-Louis is an IT expert and runs this computer centre now relocated to impressive premises right on the Grand Rue.  He offers all sorts of IT-based services, including a 'internet café' and a wi-fi zone that allows visitors disconnected from their usual IT bases to contact the world during their sojourn in the town of Richelieu.  

Citizens of the town can rely on him to solve their IT installation and running problems. Well done for building the entreprise in the real world as well as in the virtual.

Bonne année 2008, Jean-Louis!

http://www.richelais.eu/blogducardinal/