The Grandma is not a person of habits, but on Thursdays, when she is not outside of Barcelona, she usually does one of her favourite activities: having breakfast with her friends.
As soon as she leaves her home, she crosses the street that separates Sants from Les Corts and, in five minutes, she is in front of the Camp Nou where, after looking at it for a while and discussing with the grandparents in the neighbourhood the current state of the works, she has breakfast with her friends, including Claire Fontaine. Some of them work in a public administration department and others in one of the best clubs in the world.
Breakfasts always serve to catch up on national health issues and dark sports stories of those that are only told to you off the record and that later, after a more or less short time, end up appearing in the national press, because one of the important things that all these friends point out is that sooner or later you always end up knowing the truth.
After breakfast, if weather permits, The Grandma heads to the gardens of LaMaternitat, where she spends the rest of the morning reading a good book. Today she has chosen Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné by Victor Hugo, the author who was born on a day like today in 1802.
The weather has changed from grey clouds to bright sunshine and a cool breeze that has made reading enjoyable. It has also been a good opportunity to read in French, a wonderful language.
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802-22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, humanrights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles. Hugo was at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. His works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera Rigoletto and the musicals Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment and slavery.
Although he was a committed royalist when young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, serving in politics as both deputy and senator. His work touched upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. His opposition to absolutism, and his literary stature, established him as a national hero. Hugo died on 22 May 1885, aged 83.
He was given a state funeral in the Panthéon of Paris, which was attended by over two million people, the largest in French history.
Hugo
was at the forefront of the romantic literary movement. Many of his works have inspired music, both
during his lifetime and after his death, including the musicals Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables.
He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned
for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's
views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate
supporter of republicanism; his work touches upon most of the political
and social issues and the artistic trends of his time.
Victor-Marie
Hugo was born on 26 February 1802 (7 Ventôse, year X of the Republic)
in Besançon in Eastern France and died on 22 May 1885.
Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamnéis a novella by Victor Hugo first published in 1829. It recounts the thoughts of a man condemned to die. Victor Hugo wrote this novel to express his feelings that the death penalty should be abolished.
Victor Hugo witnessed the spectacle of the guillotine several times and was outraged that society coolly gives itself permission to do what it condemns the accused for having done. It was the day after crossing the Place de l'Hotel de Ville where an executioner was greasing the guillotine in anticipation of a scheduled execution that Hugo began writing The Last Day of a Condemned Man. He finished very quickly. The book was published in February 1829 by Charles Gosselin without the author's name. Three years later, on 15 March 1832, Hugo completed his story with a long preface and his signature.
Hugo's text was translated twice into English in 1840. The first translation was published by George William MacArthur Reynolds, author of penny blood novel The Mysteries of London (1844-48), as The Last Day of a Condemned. The second translation in 1840 was completed by Sir P. H. Fleetwood, titled The Last Days of a Condemned. Fleetwood also added his own preface to the book, outlining why it was important that British anti-capital punishment campaigners ought to read it, whereas Reynolds did not add any substantive new material but reprinted Hugo's preface and provided a few footnotes which he signed as Trans.
Though The Last Day of a Condemned Man is lesser known than some of Hugo's other works, the novel had the distinction of being praised as absolutely the most real and truthful of everything that Hugo wrote by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who referenced it in both his letters and his novel, The Idiot.
Notably, Dostoyevsky had suffered the psychological insight of himself being condemned to death and suffered a mock execution after reprieved. Furthermore, Dostoevsky pays tribute to the novel in the format of The Meek One, citing Hugo's novel as a means of justifying the fantastic idea of writing down a person's thoughts at a moment of distress.
Today, The Grandma has been reading LesMisérables, a masterpiece written by Victor Hugo, that has become one of the most successful musicals in Broadway.
Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television and the stage, including a musical. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims, and The Dispossessed.
Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
Examining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love.
Les Misérables, colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a sung-through musical and an adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name,by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics) and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics).
The original French musical premiered in Paris in 1980 with direction by Robert Hossein. Its English-language adaptation by producer Cameron Mackintosh has been running in London since October 1985, making it the longest-running musical in the West End and the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks.
Set in early 19th-century France, Les Misérables is the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption, released in 1815 after serving nineteen years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a bishop inspires him with a tremendous act of mercy. But a police inspector named Javert refuses to let him escape justice and pursues him for most of the play. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists attempt to overthrow the government at a street barricade in Paris.
Les Misérables was originally released as a French-language concept album, and the first musical-stage adaptation of Les Misérables was presented at the Palais des Sports in 1980.
In 1983, about six months after producer Cameron Mackintosh had opened Cats on Broadway, he received a copy of the French concept album from director Peter Farago. Farago had been impressed by the work and asked Mackintosh to produce an English-language version of the show. Initially reluctant, Mackintosh eventually agreed.
Mackintosh, in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company, assembled a production team to adapt the French musical for a British audience. After two years in development, the English-language version opened in London on 8 October 1985, by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Centre, then the London home of the RSC. The success of the West End musical led to a Broadway production.
Today, The Grandma has received the wonderful visit of Tina Picotes, one of her best friends. They have been talking about the next travel to the Caribbean Islands and about old travels together.
They have remembered how many times they have visited Paris, a city that they love crazily, an open-air museum with great monuments and an amazing history to be explained and shared. They have also talked about the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, the monument that honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic Wars and WWI, a monument that was inauurated on a day like today in 1836.
Before Tina's arrival, The Grandma has studied her Ms. Excel course.
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, literal translation Triumphal Arch of the Star is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile -the étoile or star of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The location of the arc and the plaza is shared between three arrondissements, 16th (south and west), 17th (north) and 8th (east).
The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, Paris
As the central cohesive element of the Axehistorique,
historic axis, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a
route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la
Défense, the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806,
and its iconographic program pits heroically nude French youths against
bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public
monuments with triumphant patriotic messages.
Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Italy, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 metres, width of 45 m and depth of 22 m, while its large vault is 29.19 m high and 14.62 m wide. The smaller transverse vaults are 18.68 m high and 8.44 m wide.
Three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, marking the end of hostilities in World War I, Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane under the arch's primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.
Paris's Arc de Triomphe was the tallest triumphal arch until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in 1938, which is 67 metres high. The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982, is modelled on the Arc de Triomphe and is slightly taller at 60 m. La Grande Arche in La Defense near Paris is 110 metres high. Although it is not named an Arc de Triomphe, it has been designed on the same model and in the perspective of the Arc de Triomphe. It qualifies as the world's tallest arch.
The Arc de Triomphe is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues. It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes. Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810, when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with his bride Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed. The architect, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811 and the work was taken over by Jean-Nicolas Huyot.
La Bataille d'Aboukir Sculpture on Arc de Triomphe
During
the Bourbon Restoration, construction was halted and it would not be
completed until the reign of King Louis-Philippe, between 1833 and 1836,
by the architects Goust, then Huyot, under the direction of Héricart de
Thury.
On
15 December 1840, brought back to France from Saint Helena, Napoleon's
remains passed under it on their way to the Emperor's final resting
place at the Invalides. Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was displayed under the Arc during the night of 22 May 1885.
The sword carried by the Republic in the Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916. The relief was immediately hidden by tarpaulins to conceal the accident and avoid any undesired ominous interpretations.
On 7 August 1919, Charles Godefroy successfully flew his biplane under the Arc. Jean Navarre was the pilot who was tasked to make the flight, but he died on 10 July 1919 when he crashed near Villacoublay while training for the flight.
Following its construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day military parade. Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.
A United States postage stamp of 1945 shows the Arc de Triomphe in the background as victorious American troops march down the Champs-Élysées and U.S. airplanes fly overhead on 29 August 1944. After the interment of the Unknown Soldier, however, all military parades, including the aforementioned post-1919, have avoided marching through the actual arch. The route taken is up to the arch and then around its side, out of respect for the tomb and its symbolism. Both Hitler in 1940 and de Gaulle in 1944 observed this custom.
Names on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris
By the early 1960s, the
monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust,
and during 1965–1966 it was cleaned through bleaching. In the
prolongation of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a new arch, the Grande
Arche de la Défense, was built in 1982, completing the line of monuments
that forms Paris's Axe historique. After the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and the Arcde Triomphe de l'Étoile, the Grande Arche is the third arch built on the same perspective.
The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin (1739–1811), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture. Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot; François Rude; Antoine Étex; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.
The main sculptures are not integral friezes but are treated as independent trophies applied to the vast ashlar masonry masses, not unlike the gilt-bronze appliqués on Empire furniture.
The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 (Cortot), Resistance and Peace (both by Antoine Étex) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called LaMarseillaise (François Rude). The face of the allegorical representation of France calling forth her people on this last was used as the belt buckle for the honorary rank of Marshal of France. Since the fall of Napoleon (1815), the sculpture representing Peace is interpreted as commemorating the Peace of 1815.
In the attic above the richly sculptured frieze of soldiers are 30 shields engraved with the names of major French victories in the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars.
The inside walls of the
monument list the names of 660 people, among which are 558 French
generals of the First French Empire; The names of those generals killed
in battle are underlined.
The German army pass the Arc de Triomphe, 1940
Also inscribed, on the shorter sides of the
four supporting columns, are the names of the major French victories in the Napoleonic Wars.
The battles that took place in the period between the departure of Napoleon from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo are not included.
For four years from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière topped the arch. Titled Le triomphe de la Révolution, The Triumph of the Revolution, it depicted a chariot drawn by horses preparing to crush Anarchy and Despotism. It remained there only four years before falling in ruins.
Inside the monument, a permanent exhibition conceived by the artist Maurice Benayoun and the architect Christophe Girault opened in February 2007. The steel and new media installation interrogates the symbolism of the national monument, questioning the balance of its symbolic message during the last two centuries, oscillating between war and peace.
Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins' fire was extinguished in the fourth century. It burns in memory of the dead who were never identified, now in both world wars.
A ceremony is held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier every 11 November on the anniversary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 signed by the Entente Powers and Germany in 1918.
It was originally decided on 12 November 1919 to bury the unknown soldier's remains in the Panthéon, but a public letter-writing campaign led to the decision to bury him beneath the Arc de Triomphe. The coffin was put in the chapel on the first floor of the Arc on 10 November 1920, and put in its final resting place on 28 January 1921.
The slab on top bears the inscription ICI REPOSE UN SOLDAT FRANÇAIS MORT POUR LA PATRIE 1914–1918, Here lies a French soldier who died for the fatherland 1914–1918.
In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by President Charles de Gaulle. After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.
Today, The Jones have said goodbye to Noelia Jones, the member of the family who has decided to return to Scotland.
Before the last goodbye, the family has revised some aspects of the English Grammar like the Future Simple and the Relative Pronouns.
The Jones have read another chapter of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and they have received a surprise when MJ has appeared to talk about calendars, exams and other proposals.
After this interesting visit, The Grandma has explained a long story that connects two amazing cultures -Gypsy and Occitan- and one target: secrets to be revealed. She has talked about poetry, metric, music and about the capacity of guessing the future using 22 interesting cards.
An Occitan troubadour in the royal court
She has also remembered Frederic Mistral, the Occitan Nobel Prize and Victor Hugo, one of the best writers in the universal literature, the author of The Miserables and The Hunch of Notre-Dame.
Finally, The Grandma has told how important is to pay attention about the lyrics of the poems and the songs, about the real meaning hidden in them, about the great quantity of secrets that can be revealed thanks to them and about the importance of the popular culture and the oral tradition to keep cultures alive and avoid their extinction.
Oral tradition is around us: in our lullabies, in our legends, in our popular songs, in our names and surnames, in the names of our streets and squares because something lives as time as the last person who remembers it. Don't forget your past because it's the key to understand your present and to try to fight a better future.
Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914) was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language.
Mistral received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literaturein recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist. He was a founding member of Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille.
A troubadour, in Occitan trobador, was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word troubadour is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz. The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry and courtly love. Most were metaphysical, intellectual, and formulaic. Many were humorous or vulgar satires. Works can be grouped into three styles: the trobar leu (light), trobar ric (rich), and trobar clus (closed). Likewise there were many genres, the most popular being the canso, but sirventes and tensos were especially popular in the post-classical period, in Italy and among the female troubadours, the trobairitz.
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Victor Marie Hugo (1802 -1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as The Contemplations and The Legend of the Ages.
Hugo was at the forefront of the romantic literary movement with his play Cromwell and drama Hernani. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the musicals Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism; his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon in Paris. His legacy has been honoured in many ways, including his portrait being placed on French currency.
This afternoon, The Jones are visiting Notre-Dame de Paris. This wonderful building, meaning Our Lady of Paris, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, and it is among the largest and best-known church buildings in the Catholic Church in France, and in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass serve to contrast it with earlier Romanesque architecture.
The Jones on the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral
Many small individually crafted statues were placed around the outside to serve as column supports and water spouts. Among these are the famous gargoyles, designed for water run-off, and chimeras.
The statues were originally colored as was most of the exterior. The paint has worn off. The cathedral was essentially complete by 1345.
The cathedral has a narrow climb of 387 steps at the top of several spiral staircases; along the climb it is possible to view its most famous bell and its gargoyles in close quarters, as well as having a spectacular view across Paris when reaching the top.
In the 1790s, Notre-Dame suffered desecration in the radical phase of the French Revolution when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. An extensive restoration supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc began in 1845. A project of further restoration and maintenance began in 1991.
Today, The Jones have had a day full of news. This morning, Noelia Jones has communicated to her family that she has decided to live in Urquhart Castle forever and don't continue travelling with the family.
Noelia has reached her dream and the family are the happiest people around the world knowing that she is going to stay in Loch Ness and enjoy her life in Scotland.
Carla Jones has decided to travel to Bahamas Islands to live there forever with an old native Caribbean friend who is going to be her husband in a few days. Congratulations both girls, Carla and Noelia, you deserve the best in your lives.
After this news, the family has continued with their English classes. They have revised some Social English, The Superlative and the Relative Pronouns.They have also read another chapter of Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray and they have been choosing transports and talking about their advantages and disadvantages.
Finally, MJ has sent some bureaucratic papers to fill them and the family has been talking about some international holdings which had humble origins and nowadays they are important enterprises around the world.
This afternoon, The Jones are visiting the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile -the étoile or star of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.
The Jones and their transports
The Arc de Triomphe should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre.
The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
As the central cohesive element of the Axe historique, historic axis, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense, the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pits heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments with triumphant patriotic messages.
Inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 metres width of 45 m, and depth of 22 m, while its large vault is 29.19 m, high and 14.62 m, wide.
The Grandma in the funeral ceremony for Victor Hugo
The smaller transverse vaults are 18.68 m high and 8.44 m wide. Three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, marking the end of hostilities in World War I, Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane under the arch's primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.
The Arc is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues. It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes.
Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810, when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with his bride Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed.
The architect, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811 and the work was taken over by Jean-Nicolas Huyot. During the Bourbon Restoration, construction was halted and it would not be completed until the reign of King Louis-Philippe, between 1833 and 1836, by the architects Goust, then Huyot, under the direction of Héricart de Thury.
Napoleon Bonaparte
On 15 December 1840, brought back to France from Saint Helena, Napoleon's remains passed under it on their way to the Emperor's final resting place at the Invalides. Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was displayed under the Arc during the night of 22 May 1885.
Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldierfrom World War I. Interred on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins' fire was extinguished in the fourth century. It burns in memory of the dead who were never identified, now in both world wars.
A ceremony is held at the Tomb of the UnknownSoldier every 11 November on the anniversary of the armistice signed by the Entente Powers and Germany in 1918.
In 1961, American President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle. After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.
Today, The Bonds have visited some places in Paris like Notre-Dame and the Eiffel Tower. They have taken lots of photos and they have had enough time to practise some Telephoning English and Second Conditional.
The family is working a lot and they need some time to rest and sum up all the information that they are receiving. They have written a little post about Columbus and have listened the interesting presentation of Mariona Bond who has talked about her new future project.
After all, The Grandma has explained the importance of being the owner of your land during the Middle Age and its influence in our history from then to nowadays in the industrial evolution, and the importance of keeping strong in front of the worst moments to be ready to start a new hope when the moment arrives.
All generations have lived hard moments and have passed them resisting and creating the most incredible art, like old cathedrals, from Notre-Dame to the Sagrada Família, like masterpieces from Victor Hugo's Les Misérablesto Salvador Espriu's Inici de Càntic en el Temple and being strong and perseverant from The Uffizis to The Medicis; from The Güells to The Bonds.
Tomorrow, The Grandma is going to take a free day to try to resolve some personal business meanwhile the family is continuing visiting the city of love and light which creates a magic triangle with Venice and Barcelona.
Life is not pink but The Bonds are going to offer their colour tone in the city of art and vanguards. We're ready to enjoy the city!
Who knows where the world may turn us, only a fool would say. Who knows what the fates may have in store. Follow the light of truth as far as our eyes can see. How should we know where that may be? How should we know?
Then the angry skies, the battle cries, the sounds of glory, and for all those years our eyes and ears were filled with tears.
La Sagrada Família the war is won the battle's over. La Sagrada Família for the lion and the lamb. La Sagrada Família we thank the lord the danger's over. La Sagrada Família behold the mighty hand. La Sagrada Família the night is gone the waiting's over. La Sagrada Família there's peace throughout the land.
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