{"id":7438,"date":"2011-06-18T00:16:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T22:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=7438"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:21:42","slug":"bow-to-his-supreme-french-excellency-lhomme-providentiel-the-providential-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/bow-to-his-supreme-french-excellency-lhomme-providentiel-the-providential-man\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Homme Providentiel (The Providential Man)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">L&#8217;Homme Providentiel<\/span>&#8220;, <\/em>the &#8220;Providential Man&#8221;<em>, <\/em>the &#8220;Savior of the Masses&#8221;,\u00a0is one of those &#8220;dynamite figures&#8221;, so to speak, that have for long\u00a0<em>jalonn\u00e9 <\/em>(punctuated) the History of France: From Louis XIV, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/le-roi-soleil-etre-a-la-hauteur-to-measure-up\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<em>le Roi Soleil<\/em>&#8221; (The Sun King)<\/span><\/a><em>, <\/em>to his Supreme Highness,\u00a0<em>le Grand Empreur<\/em> Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte&#8212;To, finally, the much less sophisticated &#8220;parodical figureheads&#8221; of later pedigree&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\nMuch to the &#8220;<em>d\u00e9ception<\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0of course, of the French people!<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\nBut to each their own disappointment, to each their own &#8220;Waterloo&#8221;: Napoleon had his on the exact same date as today, the 18th of June, some 196 years ago&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">What a Corsican with a &#8220;Napoleon complex&#8221; would have probably looked like <em>deux si\u00e8cles plus tard<\/em> (two centuries later)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"04. silmarils - L&#039;homme providentiel\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-5eyp1bcCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">SILMARILS &#8211; &#8220;L&#8217;Homme Providentiel&#8221; (The Providential Man)<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>* S I L M A R I L S &#8211; &#8220;<em>L&#8217;H o m m e \u00a0P r o v i d e n t i e l<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;The \u00a0Providential \u00a0Man&#8221;):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Dormez, dormez tranquille quand je vous l\u2019ordonne<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sleep tight when I order you to<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR53X22_VDFisJi9MbjhMOe350z7o1TxA2gHb6_rXw8MsTIrMsjqA\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"90\" \/> <em><strong>Placez vos esp\u00e9rances en moi et que Dieu vous pardonne<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Put your hopes into me and may God forgive you<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Applaudissez mes actes et buvez mes\u00a0paroles<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Applaud my actions and drink my words<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Affichez ma photo dans toutes les \u00e9coles \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Display my picture in all schools<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Assez! Nous allons dire, nous allons faire<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Enough! we will say, we will do<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Nous allons bient\u00f4t rendre sa fertilit\u00e9 \u00e0 la terre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We shall give to the land its fertility back<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Nous allons faire de vos femmes de bonnes m\u00e8res\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We shall make of your women good mothers<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Votez pour moi vous aurez la lumi\u00e8re<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Vote for me and you shall see the light<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Voyez je n\u2019ai pas un seule ennemi<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Look I have not a single enemy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Car mon discours se situe bien au dela des partis\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">For my speech is beyond patisanship<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>J\u2019accueille \u00e0 bras ouvert tous les nouveaux venus<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I welcome with wide arms all the newcomers<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>L\u2019heure de changement de vestes et enfin venu <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"> The turncoat time is finally upon us<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Merci aux ralliement de derni\u00e8re minute\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thank you to the rallying of last minute<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Aux Stackhanovistes du demi-tour aux fils de @#%$&amp;!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"> To the Stakhavonites of about-turns, to the sons of <em><strong>@#%$&amp;!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Vous avez tellement tellement fait pour moi \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">You did so much for me<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>La nation ne vous oubliera pas <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The nation won&#8217;t forget you<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Je rendrai fertile la terre\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I shall make the land fertile again<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Je changerai en or la pierre <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"> I will turn stones into gold<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Les hommes seront de bons p\u00e8res\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Men will be good fathers<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>Je suis\u00a0l\u2019homme providentiel <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I am the providential man<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/06\/white-napol-350x213.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/06\/white-napol-350x213.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/06\/white-napol.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>&#8220;L&#8217;Homme Providentiel&#8220;, the &#8220;Providential Man&#8221;, the &#8220;Savior of the Masses&#8221;,\u00a0is one of those &#8220;dynamite figures&#8221;, so 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