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JEAN-PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN

“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project

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JEAN-PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN JEAN-PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN

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Jews were expelled from Lithuania. By order, all Jews were to be gone from Portugal by 1497.

A syphilis epidemic spread outward from Naples to all of Europe.

When the Catholics of the Iberian Peninsula determined again to attack French Catholics on the Italian Peninsula, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar was put in command of the expedition and would achieve the sobriquet “El Gran Capitán.”

1495

ANTISEMITISM

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Charles VIII entered Naples and was crowned King of the Neapolitans. He then retreated to northern Italy. Pope Alexander VI formed the Holy League which aimed at expelling Charles VIII from the peninsula. This alliance was defeated at the Battle of Fornovo. Ferdinand II reconquered Naples. The French fleet was defeated at Rapallo, and the French army surrendered at Novara. The Holy League ended. Charles VIII returned to France. A peace was negotiated between Spain and France in Italy, with Lodovico Sforza as its agent. This was the first indication of what would become a tradition of a balance of power in European politics.

Looking Just Grand





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Whatgoesaroundkeepscomingaroundandaroundandaround...




It’s so dreary:This is of course the column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, which is now surmounted by a statue of St. Paul.


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March 6, Thursday: Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian was born at the château of Florian, near Sauve in the south of France. His mother, Gilette de Salgues. a Castilian, would die while he was still a child and he would be brought up by a grandfather. He would be educated at St-Hippolyte.

Thomas Baker of Littleton got married with Bulah Dakin of Sudbury in Concord.

NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT

1755








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Voltaire purchased an estate called “Fernex” near the French-Swiss border, where he would live until just before his death. He would rename it “Ferney” and make it the intellectual capitol of Europe.

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s uncle and guardian, the Marquis of Florian, would marry a niece of Voltaire, and introduce the lad at the château de Ferney.

LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD?— NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES.

LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.

1759








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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian became page at the Château d’Anet near Dreux, France, in the household of the Duc de Penthièvre — a first cousin of King Louis XIV who was probably the richest man in France, and who would remain his benefactor throughout life.

After Jean-Pierre had studied for some time at the artillery school at Bapaume, his royal patron would obtain for him a captain’s commission in the dragoon regiment of Penthièvre (he would soon absent himself from the military life, however, and begin to write comedies).

THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1768








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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s comedy LES DEUX BILLETS.

1779





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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s one-act prose comedy LE BON MÉNAGE, and his comedy LES JUMEAUX DE BERGAME. His verse epistle VOLTAIRE ET LE SERF DU MONT JURA was crowned by the French Academy.

1782





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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s romantic pastoral GALATÉE, an imitation of the GALATEA of Cervantes.

Antoine Lavoisier assigned a new name which in Greek meant “generated from water” — “hydrogen.”

French aeronauts were going aloft in hot-air and hydrogen gas balloons (two years later Jean-Pierre Blanchard would venture across the English Channel in one of these devices).1

1783

1. By encouraging Europeans and North Americans to credit that technology could create a future markedly different from the past, these aeronauts would participate in the generation of the 19th-Century cult of human progress! By innovating an industrial process of hydrogenation of cheap oils to render them digestible, these scientists would participate in the generation of the 20th-Century epidemic of heart attacks and strokes due to atherosclerosis!





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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s play LE BON PÈRE. His eclogue RUTH was crowned by the French Academy. His song PLAISIR D’AMOUR, for which he used words from his novel CÉLESTINE:

Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment. (The pleasure of love lasts only a moment,)chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie. (The grief of love lasts a lifetime.)

J’ai tout quitté pour l’ingrate Sylvie. (I gave up everything for ungrateful Sylvia,)Elle me quitte et prend un autre amant. (She is leaving me for another lover.)


Tant que cette eau coulera doucement (“As long as this water will run gently)vers ce ruisseau qui borde la prairie, (Towards this brook which borders the meadow,)

Je t’aimerai me répétait Sylvie. (I will love you,” Sylvia told me repeatedly.)L’eau coule encore. Elle a changé pourtant. (The water still runs, but she has changed.)


THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT

1784








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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s NUMA POMPILIUS, an undisguised imitation of Fénélon’s LES AVENTURES DE TÉLÉMAQUE.

1786





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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s ESTELLE, a pastoral of the same class as GALATÉE. He was elected to the Académie Française.

1788





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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s romance GONZALVE DE CORDOUE, the initial of the three volumes of which consisted of a Tableau Chronologique des Souverains Arabes ou Maures, qui Régnèrent en Espagne, followed by a Précis Historique sur les Maures d’Espagne.

1791

GONZALVE DE CORDOVE, IGONZALVE DE CORDOVE, II

GONZALVE DE CORDOVE, III




http://www.kouroo.info/kouroo/transclusions/18/28/1828_GonzalveDeCordoue_I.pdf

http://www.kouroo.info/kouroo/transclusions/18/28/1828_GonzalveDeCordoue_II.pdf

http://www.kouroo.info/kouroo/transclusions/18/28/1828_GonzalveDeCordoue_III.pdf


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Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s collection of fables, which now are available online.

• The Blind man and the Paralytic• The Monkey and the Magic Lantern• The Monkeys and the Leopard• The Fable and the Truth• The Crocodile and the Sturgeon• The Child and the Mirror• The Old Tree and the Gardener• The Nightingale and the Prince• The Two Travelers

1792

THE FABLES, ONLINE




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September 13, Saturday: On the outbreak of the French Revolution Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian had retired to the Château of Sceaux just outside Paris under the protection of his wealthy royal-family patron, but had soon been discovered as that grand château was being demolished by the revolutionary mob.

Although the death of Robespierre had saved him from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror, on this day he died still in the prison for royalists.

DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.

1794

(rebuilt after the Revolution)








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The Temple Prison in Paris for Royalists





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Published posthumously, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s LA JEUNESSE DE FLORIAN, OU MÉMOIRES D’UN JEUNE ESPAGNOL.

1807





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Published posthumously, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s abridgment of Cervantes’s DON QUIXOTE.

1809





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Published posthumously, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s MÉMOIRES D’UN JEUNE ESPAGNOL.

1812





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Republication of Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s romance GONZALVE DE CORDOUE, OU GRENADE RECONQUISE (3 volumes, [Poitiers. — Imp. de F.-A. Saurin, Successeur de Calineau. Lecointe, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, No. 4] [Paris: Guillaume de cie.]).

A copy of this set would somehow come into the personal library of Henry Thoreau.

CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT

1828













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July 3, Friday: Henry Thoreau made reference in his journal to an exceedingly rare trio of volumes in his personal library (where and whence he obtained this set is unknown), Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian’s GONZALVE DE CORDOUE, OU GRENADE RECONQUISE:

July 3, 1840: When Alexander appears, the Hercynian and Dodonean woods seem to wave a welcometo him.

Do not thoughts and men's lives enrich the earth and change the aspect of things as much as a new growth ofwood?

What are Godfrey and Gonsalvo unless we breathe a life into them, and reenact their exploits as a prelude toour own? The past is only so heroic as we see it; it is the canvas on which our conception of heroism is painted,the dim prospectus of our future field. We are dreaming of what we are to do.

The last sunrise I witnessed seemed to outshine the splendor of all preceding ones, and I was convinced that itbehooved man to dawn as freshly, and with equal promise and steadiness advance into the career of life, withas lofty and serene a countenance to move onward through his midday to a yet fairer and more promisingsetting. Has the day grown old when it sets? and shall man wear out sooner than the sun? In the crimson colorsof the west I discern the budding hues of dawn — to my western brother it is rising pure and bright as it did tome, but the evening exhibits in the still rear of day the beauty which through morning and noon escaped me.When we are oppressed by the heat and turmoil of the noon, let us remember that the sun which scorches uswith brazen beams is gilding the hills of morning and awaking the woodland quires for other men.We will have a dawn — and noon — and serene sunset in ourselves.What we call the gross atmosphere of evening is the accumulated deed of the day, which absorbs the rays ofbeauty, and shows more richly than the naked promise of the dawn. By earnest toil in the heat of the noon, letus get ready a rich western blaze against the evening of our lives.

Low-thoughted, plodding men have come and camped in my neighbor's field to-night, with camp music andbustle. Their bugle instantly finds a sounding board in the heavens, though mean lips blow it. The sky isdelighted with strains which the connoisseur rejects. It seems to say — now is this my own earth.

In music are the centripetal and centrifugal forces. The universe needed only to hear a divine harmony that everystar might fall into its proper place and assume a true sphericity.

[Written in pencil on a fly-leaf of the Journal, we find: “I have heard a strain of music issuing from a soldiers'camp in the dawn, which sounded like the morning hymn of creation. The birches rustling in the breeze and theslumberous breathing of the crickets seemed to hush their murmuring to attend to it.”]

“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY

1840










Whenever and wherever you see this little pencil icon in the pages of this Kouroo Contexture, it is marking an extract from the journal of Henry David Thoreau. OK?







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COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In addition to the property of others,such as extensive quotations and reproductions ofimages, this “read-only” computer file contains a greatdeal of special work product of Austin Meredith,copyright 2014. Access to these interim materials willeventually be offered for a fee in order to recoup someof the costs of preparation. My hypercontext buttoninvention which, instead of creating a hypertext leapthrough hyperspace —resulting in navigation problems—allows for an utter alteration of the context withinwhich one is experiencing a specific content alreadybeing viewed, is claimed as proprietary to AustinMeredith — and therefore freely available for use byall. Limited permission to copy such files, or anymaterial from such files, must be obtained in advancein writing from the “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo”Project, 833 Berkeley St., Durham NC 27705. Pleasecontact the project at <[email protected]>.

Prepared: October 22, 2014

“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over untiltomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.”

– Remark by character “Garin Stevens”in William Faulkner’s INTRUDER IN THE DUST




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Well, tomorrow is such and such a date and so it began on that date in like 8000BC? Why 8000BC, because it was the beginning of the current interglacial -- or what?

Bearing in mind that this is America, "where everything belongs," the primary intent of such a notice is to prevent some person or corporate entity from misappropriating the materials and sequestering them as property for censorship or for profit.


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ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by ahuman. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested thatwe pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of theshoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What thesechronological lists are: they are research reports compiled byARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term theKouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such arequest for information we merely push a button.





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Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obviousdeficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored inthe contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then weneed to punch that button again and recompile the chronology —but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary“writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of thisoriginating contexture improve, and as the programming improves,and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whateverhas been needed in the creation of this facility, the entireoperation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminishedneed to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expectto achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring roboticresearch librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge.Place requests with <[email protected]>. Arrgh.




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