Alons enfant de la patrie,
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dcseainLe jour du gloire est arrivé! Un Jour de la Bastille glorieu à tout le monde!
Growing up, and for several years with friends from 1989 to about 1994 when people began to move away, we observed Bastille Day. Each year i would dutifully go to a bakery on the 7th and order a sheet or half-sheet cake decorated as the tricolore with writing such as "Vive la revolution!" "Liberté Égalité Fraternité toujours!". The bakers always got it right, even though the script, whatever it may have been, confused them.
The only two hangovers i've ever had were on the morning (well, midday) of the 15th of 1990 and 1991. The former by accident, the latter just to be certain i never wanted to experience that again. Upon waking on 15 July 1990, it took me 20 minutes and a look out the window to determine why i was in my bed and how i got home. That i navigated from Burke to Fairfax without harming anyone or anything still amazes me, even allowing for the fact that i was travelling at about 4AM.
Growing up, and for several years with friends from 1989 to about 1994 when people began to move away, we observed Bastille Day. Each year i would dutifully go to a bakery on the 7th and order a sheet or half-sheet cake decorated as the tricolore with writing such as "Vive la revolution!" "Liberté Égalité Fraternité toujours!". The bakers always got it right, even though the script, whatever it may have been, confused them.
The only two hangovers i've ever had were on the morning (well, midday) of the 15th of 1990 and 1991. The former by accident, the latter just to be certain i never wanted to experience that again. Upon waking on 15 July 1990, it took me 20 minutes and a look out the window to determine why i was in my bed and how i got home. That i navigated from Burke to Fairfax without harming anyone or anything still amazes me, even allowing for the fact that i was travelling at about 4AM.
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Date: 2005-07-14 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-14 02:07 pm (UTC)Le jour du gloire est arrivé! Un Jour de la Bastille glorieu à tout le monde!
Best I can make out is:
Babes of the party
The day of glory has arrived! One day of the bastille glorious (something something) world!
How is that for someone who doesn't know french except the good words (four letter ones) and a smattering un petite like garcon, maitre d, bon appetite, bon jour, soup de jour, croissant... :D
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Date: 2005-07-14 02:16 pm (UTC)Alons enfant de la patrie, Go child of the fatherland,
le jour de gloire est arrivé! the day of glory is arrived.
Un Jour de la Bastille glorieu à tout le monde!
A Day of the Bastille glorious to all the world! Or in better Engsish:
A glorious Bastille Day to all!