Comments by "" (@sylviecoutelle) on "British Landeur"
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Thanks for your video. I knew about Britain's so unfavorable comparison with Russia on free speech, but indicting a 9 years old, that seems unbelievable. I wish I could share the information around me, with only your video it seems inadequate, from a document point of view. Anyway, I am indebted for just knowing about it .
Right and left : Sandrine Rousseau, one of our députés at the Assemblée nationale, far left group LFI= "la France insoumise ", proudly proclaimed her support to girls who chose to wear a veil as a sign of their freedom as women.
As you probably know the wearing of a veil has been officially banned from schools where it had never been worn before integrist moslems infiltrated ( no other word comes to mind ) the long established moslem community. I used to teach in the "disfavoured" parts of the city, never saw any veil even on mothers, let alone pupils. Many of my pupils came from moslim families, I'm speaking of the early 1970's, the parents had arrived from north Africa neither reading nor writing, but they were the best behaved and best working young people, because I only had to write a note, the family would set them right back on course, with the help of reading neighbours or elder siblings. I then taught the lower secundary school level, 11-15, as I didn't want my daughter to have the disadvantage of a mother in her school, so when I went to visit her teachers my ex-pupils gathered around to kiss me ( this being France) and one of them told me I mustn't leave that lower school "we need teachers like you there". Only many years later ,when we met in a demonstration against the extreme right founder of the present far right movement, he explained : I used to hate you, you made me work for 2 years when it didn't interest me, and I vowed I would stop when I changed teachers. So I did, and was barred from proceding to high school. I was so shamed that I worked so hard, because you had showed me that I could, now I'm an accountant at the bank. But I went to take a degree in English after my accounting degree. Of no use in my job."
I could tell many such stories. I have seen things worsen but not so much because the incoming population changed ( in my school the large "input" of turkish immigrants brought violence, sexual aggressivity,) it changed because at the same time as those new problem brewing people arrived, teaching assistants were taken away in large numbers, and no information was given to the schools about the new situation to be expected.
Don't know if this long text shall get to you... 👏🤞🏽🙏
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@BritishLandeur
How extremely disappointed I am about my country to be still so unwelcoming , not to say arrogant with foreigners. I decided to teach English precisely because the English had a bad name in France 70+ years ago. But the population is completely different now. I hoped it had changed. From 1957 on I fell in love with your people, precisely for their welcoming , socially easygoing qualities. As a young girl I never felt in danger, as I did every day in Marseille. When I was 19 I spent a year as a "French mademoiselle ", giving conversation classes, in Bromley Kent. I travelled to London several times a week , even late at night after concerts I felt safe. I cycled all over the south of England during that year, down to Land's End, a very old bicycle and a repair shop on the saturday before Easter refused to take my money for their repair job, I probably looked both poor and very foreign ; in France I would have been sent away or overcharged, for my appearance.
After my daughter and husband each going their separate way left me free to choose my holidays I started hiking again, at 50, and there again I didn't find pleasant encounters until I came to Italy. I kept to the high parts of the Alps for solitude sake...
I am looking foreward to following your travels. Right now the interest and anxiety is about Tommy 's security ; I am listening while writing this. In between the American election...
Best wishes on your travels ; with heartfelt thanks.
P.S: until he was swallowed by a snowdrift my companion was an Italian alpinist ! Living in Italy😁. I am still an honorary aunt to the Italian babies I gave their first bottle to while the parents were mountaineering.❤🤩
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@BritishLandeur
Every year some journalist recalls Russia rather than the USA was a real agent in the end of WW2, and the shame of keeping them away from the celebrations to make believe liberation came from accross the Atlantic. It used to be the contrary. It all changed when the globalist world trade agenda was activated, already in the 80ies with the reassignation of productivity to different countries in Europe ; I very well remember the social shock when perfectly functionning plants were closed and all the north of France was devastated, not by war, but by international agreements about policies the people in our country did not agree with, as who would gladly see work go away. Not to India or China then, but to Spain and Italy for the textile industry, to Germany for steel . Today french wool has to go to Italy to be cleaned and tinted , not so very far but still... work lost. The great plan was to have agriculture and tourism as the main french industries . Not sustainable. And when we voted against the European Union superpower ( as did the Nederlands) in 2005, our vote was ignored with a transeuropean meeting of the chiefs of states in Lisbon which made a treaty of it without popular vote. At the same time our government decided to stop teaching history in schools. It didn't pass, but you see the tendency.
You are quite right about the french being generaly unpleasant. That was why I decided to teach English when i went t England for the first time when I was twelve. When I was 50 I visited Germany for the first time and when I came back I went straight from the station to buy a german learning combine book/ audio...😀
Marseille has a high number of violent deaths, but the risk would have been more for your possessions. Even old cars can be robbed... to ram shops or gates with 🤪
I grew up in the very center, but when we had a child we moved to the hill , with a great view, trees and boars. If you came back you would have to park behind my gate for protection and use the buses and metro. This is where you meet people, at least I do 🤩
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Once I wrote about my only military ancester, a captain in the French revolutionary army who was head of the captive baloon crew at the battle of Fleurus. Which saved the young revolution from the allied royal armies of Europe. The story was rather long because he was a protestant from the Cévennes, a region of protestant tradition, from where many had emigrated over a century before to escape the king& church killings of protestants. So that when that captain met and married one of the descendants of the ex-french protestants in northern Italy during the napoleonian campaigns, they not only had the same religion but spoke the same dialect. Our family still has the travelling "matrimonial piemontese bed" ( a bare thing) at the Cévennes home. That bed travelled to Egypt, where the family name was engraved with those of the other inventors in the army ( not the military names 😯 ) on a very famous antique monument. So much for French arrogance... and yet when I visited the ancester 's valley in the Italian mountains, the village lady I asked about an ancestor who had married a member of the occupying army corrected me with indignation : the liberating army, madam !
It changed my own point of view, about armies and wars.
Something else about those protestant ancestors : Napoléon had to drop his non roman-catholic followers to get the pope to come crown him emperor in Paris Notre Dame. The name Coutelle could not be erased. But the stories were changed, as efficiently as those in Stalin's Russia. The captain retired in the Cévennes mountains with his wife; his sabre hung behind the door of the room with the piemontese bed when I was a child. The name is not rare, but his line ends with my generation. Long live yours, your own war may be what you are doing now 👍👏🤩
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@BritishLandeur
Thank you 😁
I am surprised at your surprise about my knowing about some of my ancestors: those who lived in the same place for many generations are known and remembered. Beside, the family Bible served as a repertory of the family members, as they were born, married, died. In that manner my father ( born 1921 ) knew the family birthname of the "Italian" wife of the capitaine. When I asked about her in the protestant mountain village, using the Italian pronounciation of "Michelin", the Italian lady answered using the FRENCH !!! After over 500 years !!! You see, centuries are nothing... memory is everything. At least I think so.
We also learnt about ancestors of 500 years ago and more around the time the internet came into the international communication practice of the European burocracy. My Coutelle grandmother was born Bense, in a village about 25 km from Marseille, and her nephew ( who bore the name ) recieved a letter from a danish lady called Bense, saying we with the name Bense had jewish ancesters , who in the year 1500 had been obliged to add the name of the village to the usual "son of..". Then were obliged to leave , then obliged to be killed or convert. Obviously the surviving Bense had converted ancesters. But the first born son had the duty to remain a secret jew, and call his son "Given by god,"( you will know the german for it, ) and instruct his son when he came of age. After so many centuries, so much fleeing through Europe, my great grand father in the south of France was Dieudonné Bense. My grand mother, being a girl, never knew 😯😯😯
What about that !!! I hope your mother ( and you) find more about your families. On my mother's side we are sedentary families ( though the actual family mills here and there have disappeared ) but one great great grand mother, being an orphan with home and pastures, was able to marry for love and married a gypsy. He was a horse peddler and rarely home, his family and life we may never know... but the chromosomes remain 😁
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Hello BL, in the comments of Pa ul Thorpe's video after visiting Tommy Robinson, several people suggested HE, Tommy, should be knighted. The mayor of London seems to be one of those civil servants ( perhaps this is not the word for an elected "servant" of the people ?) who would be targeted by the DOGE team...
Our own "Légion d'Honneur" has become a despicable trinket by association with the moral and patriotic level of the persons on which our French leaders bestow the distinction.
But let us keep our spirits up to be ready for better days...
Last night I listened to Mr Lavrov, the Russian foreign affairs secretary, ( a very admirable politician, we can all envy Russia for him ), as he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson ( 👍👏🙏 ) and the commentaries coming from all around the world at the same unorthodox hour , and keeping on exchanging, was trully gratifying. Several Russian young 18 yro men , English or Russian speaking ( Google translation went to sleep after a while ), evidently older people too, expressed their emotion at the goodwill they discovered coming to them from all around the world, when they thought they were hated because they had only found hate mail on YouTube up to then.
After two hours of witnessing such exchange I felt both extremely grateful and hopeful.
I will not explain why... because it seems everyone of you will understand.
Good luck , keep your spirits up. ❤
Change may be on the way. 🤞🏽🌟
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Dear British Lander, thank you for your clarification about what a nuclear strike could be, in the present provocation. Still hoping the hawks on Putin's side of the divide can be neutralised as well as the Pentagon's.
As for your considering Ukraine as a historicaly distinct country, I believe it is not so. That it was indeed a part of the Russian Empire under the czars, and even before that was well established. If I may be forgiven to refer to a great sovietic period film, Alexander Nevski, Kiev is mentionned as the Russ of Kiev. In literature and politics those people were a part of the Empire, were they not? For hundreds of years.
Perhaps the nations on the continent have had more fluctuating confines than those in the british isles; perhaps it is my generation ; anyway, Russia ( and the countries in that empire if you want to make a distinction) has always felt like a cousin, a neighbour, a country you will perhaps fight but must come to an understang with; inevitably; as you must with your neighbour/ your brother. British sovereigns have often married with germans, but the people ? There is an islandish isolation ( it seems to me) that the continental people don't share.
My generation and my mother 's read stories for children written by la comtesse de Ségur, who was russian born and bred. Not that I think highly of the stories, what I mean is that we are more one people "de l'Atlantique à l'Oural", ( in the words of Général de Gaulle) than you may perhaps think. The soldiers who walked the continent fighting could not but discover that the soldiers and the people in those distant lands were like their own. It must have infused a sense of belonging together, quite beyond the reach and understanding of the governing isolated class.
That is what I feel. I have been very distressed all these last years by the double tongue of our French and German leaders who had promised Ukraine would never be part of Nato ,nor of the EU, then went back on their word. When Russia invaded Ukraine I immediately thought of the Cuba missiles crisis, and that politics never get wiser.
Thanks again for your video. My friends in northern Italy and Normandy sent photos of so much snow, you seem to have little .
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