3 May 1230: Henry III lands at St. Malo wearing crown & holding sceptre to conquer #Normandy (McGlinchey)
It might have been a good look, but it didn't work
#Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said #Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of #Palestinian prisoners for the return of more #hostages.
While I was in college, I studied in Paris for a few months and while I was there, I visited the Normandy American Cemetery (Cimetière Américain de Normandie). The first photo is from that first visit. I remember looking for the headstone of a serviceman from Wisconsin and laying a flower in front of it. The second photo is from when I returned in 2019.
10 Jan 1591: William Harrison future archpriest of #England leaves #Paris#otd to supervise a school established at Eu #Normandy by Robert Persons - where St Lawrence O’Toole of #Dublin’s relics were - & those relics were the first relics taken to New France by the Jesuits...
Charles Norman Shay is believed to be the last living #NativeAmerican who stormed the beaches of #Normandy according to the Maine Department of Transportation.
The sea in #Normandy looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read #Condé, #Glissant, and a book on regional entanglements in the #transatlantic slave trade and the slave economies. #slavery#history
Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”:
“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”