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| The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
Today, The Jones have revised some Social English and some grammar with the Future Continuous.
After remembering some past experiences in Hogwarts and in Urquhart Castle, the family has welcome Eli Jones again. Scottish Navy found her in the Loch Ness shore waiting for being rescued. It was a terrible experience that Eli wants to erase as soon as possible.
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The family has started to read Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, a masterclass of the literature that talks about people who don't accept being old and try to avoid that is not possible to stop.
After reading the first chapter, The Jones have practised how to sum up all the chapter with only one sentence keeping the syntactic order. The Grandma has explained a long story that connects different European wars since the 18 century, different places but one thing in common: the resistance and resilience of the population and its effort to survive building refugees and opening new paths of exile. The Grandma has also talked about one of the most important and clever characters of the last century: Winston Churchill.
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| Winston Churchill |
It has been a sad story, full of dignity and courage but terror and death. Some people say that History repeats again and again but History is only the reflex of human behaviour and humans don't learn from the past and do the same mistakes again and again.
This afternoon, the family has decided to visit Champs Elysées, one of the most important and beautiful places in Paris and also, one of the most historical places witness of the parades that celebrated the Allied victory in the WWI in 1919, and the parades of Free French and American forces after the liberation of the city, respectively, the French 2nd Armoured Division on 26 August 1944, and the U.S. 28th Infantry Division on 29 August 1944 during the WWII.
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, 1.9 kilometres long and 70 metreswide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theatres, cafés, and luxury shops, for the annual Bastille Day military parade, and as the finish of the Tour de France cycle race. The name is French for the Elysian Fields, the paradise for dead heroes in Greek mythology.
The lower part of the Champs-Élysées, from the Place de la Concorde to the Rond-Point, runs through the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, a park which contains the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, the Théâtre Marigny, and several restaurants, gardens and monuments.
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| The Jones at Le Jardin des Tuileries |
The Élysée Palace, the official residence of the Presidents of France, borders the park, but is not on the Avenue itself. The Champs-Élysées ends at the Arc de Triomphe, built to honour the victories of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Until the reign of Louis XIV, the land where the Champs-Élysées runs today was largely occupied by fields and kitchen gardens. The Champs-Élysées and its gardens were originally laid out in 1667 by André Le Nôtre as an extension of the Tuileries Garden, the gardens of the Tuileries Palace, which had been built in 1564, and which Le Nôtre had rebuilt in his own formal style for Louis XIV in 1664.
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Le Nôtre planned a wide promenade between the palace and the modern Rond Point, lined with two rows of elm trees on either side, and flowerbeds in the symmetrical style of the French formal garden. The new boulevard was called the Grand Cours, or Grand Promenade. It did not take the name of Champs-Élysées until 1709.
The books that the world calls immoral
are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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