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Starbucks, Mélusine and Me
The ‘brew-haha’ that recently percolated over the 2015 Starbucks holiday cup reminded me of the ever-popular accusation that Starbucks’s logo depicting the legendary Mélusine is ‘in fact’ a demonic image. Historically represented as a bare-breasted woman with the lower … Continue reading
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Tagged Angevins, Charles University, Coudrette, Czech Republic, demon, demonic, France, historical fiction, historical research, Jean d'Arras, Lusignan, Lusignans, Martin Nejedly, Mélusine, Parthenay, Starbucks, Starbucks coffee, The Serpent's Crown, The Sixth Surrender
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…on to Parthenay (Pt. II)
Parthenay: We breezed past Saint Maixent-l’École to get to Parthenay, again approached via a fairly flat ground. Parthenay has a population of about 10,000 and I worried, of course, about driving down a maze of streets to find the hotel, … Continue reading
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Tagged France, historical fiction, historical research, Lusignans, Mélusine, Parthenay
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On to Lusignan, Parthenay, Fontevraud and Parts beyond, Pt. I
A bit belated post, but here it goes. The lesson: research is often wet rather than dry…. Lusignan: Of course, it had to rain; intermittently, but it rained, a wet autumn for GB and western France. We survived the dozen … Continue reading
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Tagged France, Lusignan, Mélusine, medieval historical fiction, Parthenay, Poitou
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