Alizée and Corsica, Corsica and Alizée

[VVVACCPLPNLY]

Epicroflmao!!!:d:d:d:d:d:d:d:d

[User22]

AlizeeINsPIRED that is the greatest Alizee GIF I have seen yet.

I congratulate you for this epic feat you have just reached.

That is sooooo funnnnny!!!!

[Zeerre]

Originally Posted by AlizéeInspired

I figured that I would make this post special And this seemed like an appropriate place to post it.

And so, for my 300th post ...

http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/y...sIsCorsica.gif

That is awesome AlizéeInspired, kudos!

[FanDeAliFee]

Originally Posted by AlizéeInspired

I figured that I would make this post special And this seemed like an appropriate place to post it.

<table cellspacing="10"><tr valign="top"><td width="500">Corsica being an island bathed by the bashful tides of the vast Med, it has had intercourse with innumerable peoples from the most ancient of times. Among these were the Hellenes, or Greeks, albeit never specifically the Peloponnesian Spartans, to our best knowledge.

Greeks were active in the western Med by the mid-eighth century BC, founding settlements including what today is the oldest city in France, its largest commercial port, the vast metropolis called Marseille. Thus the very name of today's French national anthem derives from the name of this ancient Greek colony, Μασσαλία ("Massalia").

Herodotus credits the Phocaeans of Ionia (on the west coast of Anatolia, or Asia Minor) as being the first Greeks to make long sea-voyages. It is they who are responsible for founding both Marseille, and the first city on Corsica, today the village of Aléria, which they had called αλαλίη ("Alaliē"). The very brief tenure of this ancient Greek colony, which culminated in the naval Battle of Alalia, pitting 60 Greek ships against a combined fleet of 120 vessels from Carthage and Etruscany, is recounted here.

Just as the Persian conquest of Ionia circa 546 BC by Cyrus The Great led to the large-scale evacuation of Phocaea by its Greek denizens for their colonies, including the young one in Corsica, in a later millennium, another invading Asiatic power would drive a fresh batch of Greeks to settle in Corsica.

Crete fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1669 AD and set into motion the modern Greek immigration on Corsica. As guests of the ruling Genoans, Greek relations with the native Corsicans would often be strained and both integration and segregation emerged as themes. Curiously, at one time in the early 18th century, a fifth of Ajaccio residents were Greek. The whole history of this migration and settlement is outlined here.</td><td align="center" width="250"><Img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Corsica-Romana.jpg/250px-Corsica-Romana.jpg" width="250" height="504"><br>The ancient peoples, cities and roads of Corsica</td></tr></table>

[Marquis<3Alizée]

Originally Posted by AlizéeInspired

I figured that I would make this post special And this seemed like an appropriate place to post it.

And so, for my 300th post ...

http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/y...sIsCorsica.gif

Hahah I love you GIF AI!!

[wasabi622]

Originally Posted by AlizéeInspired

http://i805.photobucket.com/albums/y...sIsCorsica.gif

This is AWESOME! Hahahaaa!! Good stuff there.

no... this is CORSICA!
*lilly kick*

LULZ

[AlizéeInspired]

Thanks everyone

And very interesting stuff there doc.
Also, this:

Originally Posted by docdtv

Corsica being an island bathed by the bashful tides of the vast Med, it has had intercourse with innumerable peoples from the most ancient of times. Among these were the Hellenes, or Greeks, albeit never specifically the Peloponnesian Spartans, to our best knowledge.

just further supports that this isn't Sparta! THIS IS CORSICA!!!

[FanDeAliFee]

How often do you get to watch a free lecture by an educated, articulate American who has led a tour of Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica? Today is your lucky day! In the video below, John Merriman, professor of history at Yale, favors you with his thoughts.

As fans of Alizée know, she spent her childhood in Ajaccio, then set out to conquer much of Europe, and even some places beyond it, however briefly. Retiring from the field, she eventually returned, and has remained active far beyond a Hundred Days! Today she makes her professional headquarters in the artsy Paris neighborhood of Montmartre, as a musician and sometime glamor-puss at Institubes.

I hope you know that another Corsican August baby had a somewhat parallel experience! After spending his first decade in Ajaccio, Napoleon received a military education in continental France. His later exploits did not shame the effectiveness of his preparation, and he went on to conquer much of Europe, and even some places beyond it, however briefly. Alas for his ambitions, others cut short his career, and the most interesting part of his life ended with Russian Cossacks encamped in the very same Montmartre where today Alizée hangs her beret, as Professor Merriman relates in the video below. And after a long time abroad, these days the ex-Emperor himself also hangs out in the Paris he briefly made the capital of Europe.

An enormous part of the lecture below examines the question of how "Corsican" Napoleon really was, both in his sentiments and in his methods. Members of AAm who are not Americans, especially those who are French, may especially enjoy the opportunity to hear what at least one informed American, and frequent French resident, thinks about France, including issues which transcend the Little Corporal.

Four years ago, the Yale Daily News profiled the musical interests of this aging 6'2" Baby Boomer academician. A single-minded fan of the Rolling Stones, he still manages to get along with his wife, a fan of the Beatles.

To my surprise, he finds that listening to the Stones helps him focus on writing! "[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on," he says, "or else I get bored." Do you think Alizée could get her little woodland friends to whistle Angie for this Yale professor? I'm not sure the two would get along too well - Merriman seems to be too angry and Bohemian - not to mention bookish and obsessive - for the Alizée I think I know. But if you disagree, you can sing her praises to him by e-mail. His address is recorded on his university Web page here.

Napoleon - "Corsican" or not?
<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/I2JgaYCUuH0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/I2JgaYCUuH0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>


Tempête by Alizée
<object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/464KVSS0RxI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/464KVSS0RxI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object>


Angie by the Rolling Stones
<object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2RTWzsGO4Zc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2RTWzsGO4Zc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object>

[Jake04]

Originally Posted by FanDeAliFee

How often do you get to watch a free lecture by an educated, articulate American who has led a tour of Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica? Today is your lucky day! In the video below, John Merriman, professor of history at Yale, favors you with his thoughts.

As fans of Alizée know, she spent her childhood in Ajaccio, then set out to conquer much of Europe, and even some places beyond it, however briefly. Retiring from the field, she eventually returned, and has remained active far beyond a Hundred Days! Today she makes her professional headquarters in the artsy Paris neighborhood of Montmartre, as a musician and sometime glamor-puss at Institubes.

I hope you know that another Corsican had a somewhat parallel experience! After spending his first decade in Ajaccio, Napoleon received a military education in continental France. His later exploits did not shame the effectiveness of his preparation, and he went on to conquer much of Europe, and even some places beyond it, however briefly. Alas for his ambitions, others cut short his career, and the most interesting part of his life ended with Russian Cossacks encamped in the very same Montmartre where today Alizée hangs her beret, as Professor Merriman relates in the video below. And after a long time abroad, these days the ex-Emperor himself also hangs out in the Paris he briefly made the capital of Europe.

An enormous part of the lecture below examines the question of how "Corsican" Napoleon really was, both in his sentiments and in his methods. Members of AAm who are not Americans, especially those who are French, may especially enjoy the opportunity to hear what at least one informed American, and frequent French resident, thinks about France, including issues which transcend the Little Corporal.

Four years ago, the Yale Daily News profiled the musical interests of this aging 6'2" Baby Boomer academician. A single-minded fan of the Rolling Stones, he still manages to get along with his wife, a fan of the Beatles.

To my surprise, he finds that listening to the Stones helps him focus on writing! "[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on," he says, "or else I get bored." Do you think Alizée could get her little woodland friends to whistle Angie for this Yale professor? I'm not sure the two would get along too well - Merriman seems to be too angry and Bohemian - not to mention bookish and obsessive - for the Alizée I think I know. But if you disagree, you can sing her praises to him by e-mail. His address is recorded on his university Web page here.

Napoleon - "Corsican" or not?
<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/I2JgaYCUuH0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/I2JgaYCUuH0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>


Tempête by Alizée
<object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/464KVSS0RxI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/464KVSS0RxI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object>


Angie by the Rolling Stones
<object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2RTWzsGO4Zc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2RTWzsGO4Zc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object>

As always, thanks for the info and the videos. You really are a walking encyclo...I mean, Wikipedia!

[Bigdan]

This guy obviously know what he is talking about... ( and must have stay many times in France...)