| The first of My stories | | I did a discussion here asking people if they would like to read my stories and I got positive responses. I have these stories all published on another site and I retain copywrite on them.I will publish the stories daily, some stories may need a bit of background which I will place at the beginning of the story and I will place a discussion question at the end.Here goes:This story centers around when I went back to school in 2006 for french classes I was looking for a job and since I live in MOntreal, Quebec the employers were saying my french was not good enough for the business world.Now for the story:A Single Fig,By Me:She sat beside me on the first day of French Class; she smiled though she did not talk very much. Like me she was older than most of the students. I wasn't sure of her age, I knew she was a bit younger than me, yet I could still see the quiet wisdom in her eyes. As with some many other new landed immigrants in Canada, I felt that perhaps she was just shy, feeling bewildered in her new country; so far away from home.Mina did not talk very much but did ask a lot of questions and it quickly became apparent that she was a hardworking... | |
| | France stages funeral for Louis XVII's heart | | (AP) French royalists staged a pageant-filled funeral Tuesday for a tiny, rock-hard relic they hailed as the heart cut from Louis XVII, who died at age 10 in a filthy revolutionary prison. A hearse brimming with lilies — the symbol of the French crown — delivered a crystal vase containing the heart to the Saint-Denis Basilica. There, it was placed in a royal crypt containing the remains of Louis XVII's parents, Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI. After two centuries of mystery surrounding the boy's fate, DNA tests have convinced many historians that the relic passed secretly from person to person was truly the royal heart. A faction of royalists — who want to turn back the clock and restore the monarchy — seized on the DNA tests to press the government to allow the funeral at the Gothic basilica north of Paris, the resting place of France's kings. Trumpets sounded and incense wafted in the air as a small boy marched up the aisle with the vase draped by a purple veil. Outside, a crowd of royal-watchers followed the Roman Catholic Mass on a huge screen. Afterward, cries of "Long live the king!" greeted the Duke of Anjou, Louis-Alphonse de Bourbon, one of several... | |
| | Have you ever been in a movie? | | When i lived in china i was in a movie. I was part of the royal French Family. I was the daughter. Our mansion was being invaded by the chinese, (we were the bad guys) i had to run around screaming while the guards tried to protect. the ppl outside the gates were throwing tomatos and eggs and other crap at us. i was covered in vegetables at the end of the night. it was alot of fun..
i wish i could find this movie but i dont know how to find it as it was filmed in china and probablly never made it to the US.
:) Please share your experience!!!!!!!!!!!! wafted in the air as a small boy marched up the aisle with the vase draped by a purple veil. Outside, a crowd of royal-watchers followed the Roman Catholic Mass on a huge screen. Afterward, cries of "Long live the king!" greeted the Duke of Anjou, Louis-Alphonse de Bourbon, one of several pretenders to the French throne. To this day, the Bourbons dispute the rights of succession with the Orleans dynasty that followed. The Mass recognizing the royal heart attempted to end 209 years of legend and... | |
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