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<h2 class="c2">Centennials, Bicentennials</h2><img src="cafe819a.jpg" alt="photo: cafe zever" align="middle"
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<p class="c3">Controlled rush-hour.</p>
<h3 class="c4">Ton Amie, Mabutu Mosa</h3><span>by Ric
Erickson</span>
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<p class="noindent"><b>Paris:- Monday, 5. May 2003:-</b> There are 39 good
reasons for this much abbreviated issue, and the restaurant
Closerie des Lilas failling short of 200 years old is only
one of them.</p> <div style="width:300px;height:250px;float:right;clear:right;margin:1em 0 1em 1em;">
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<p>Last week I confidently expected to do a more or less
complete issue, even though I knew I would be
'house-sitting' the Cadillac Ranch from Friday until today,
with nothing to do there except feed Tiger the cat and
trash 563 emails a day.</p>
<p>But I find I can not work correctly without my reference
books at hand, or with an QWERTY keyboard, or with a PC -
and water 103 thirsty plants at the same time. Now that
this is all behind me, I am find my AZERTY keyboard doing
QWERTY things. This would be okay if I were Alfred Jarry,
but I'm not.</p>
<p>The 'typical' street feature promised this week goes on
hold. Instead, I have found a few more 'count-downs' than
usually appear at the bottom of the page. If you thought
'01 was a watershed, '03 is turning out to be a
dilly.</p>
<b>The Weather Report</b>
<p class="noindent">Yesterday was one of the summer<img src="cafe819b.jpg"
alt="photo: fountain, plastic cup" align="left" height="235" width="175" vspace="2" hspace="5" /> days this spring
of '03 is becoming famous for. It was clear, it was warm,
its breezes were light, but it did not survive sundown when
rain pelted the Cadillac Ranch as if I had not watered the
outside plants.</p>
<p>Today it is drizzling between the times it is not
raining. Le Parisien's forecast confirms today's weather.
But TV and the newspaper have different opinions about
tomorrow - the paper says 'status quo' while showing a
different graphic from today and insists on temperatures of
15-16 degrees.</p>
<p>Tonight's TV-weather news draws a worse picture than the
paper's 'status quo,' but ups its temperature to 18
degrees. Both the paper and TV agree that Wednesday will be
fine, and warmer - up to 22.</p>
<p>Then on Thursday, the paper votes for rain and a cool 19
degrees while TV-weather goes the other way with 24 degrees
and pretty sunny for Paris - if the front coming from the
west doesn't get here in a hurry.</p>
<p>For Friday, Le Parisien has an almost perfect copy of
its Thursday weather map. What I think doesn't matter. I
haven't got a license to practice weather.</p>
<p class="c7">Café Life</p>
<b>Metropole's
Countdowns</b>
<p class="noindent">These began with the years-long countdown to midnight of
31. December 1999, which many believed ended the 20th
century and kicked off the 21st. On account of ending the
20th century after only 99 years, the real change to the
3rd Millennium a year later went largely uncelebrated, and
we have been suffering from our scientific detachment since
then.</p>
<p>Between learning how to type QWERTY, feeding Tiger and
watering the plants, I had time to look around the Web for
'03 dates worth remembering. The following are what I
found.</p>
<b>1503 - Mona Lisa</b>
<p class="noindent">In his second Florentine period, Leonardo da Vinci
painted the wife of Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del
Giocondo, who was named Monna or Mona - and Lisa - for
short.</p>
<p>He did the painting using the 'sfumato technique,' which
included the kind of sketchy smile. Because the painting is
in the Louvre in Paris, it is also called 'La
Gioconda.'</p>
<p>Other historians are not so sure it is of<img src="cafe819e.jpg" alt="photo: fish market, av gen leclerc"
align="right" height="175" width="235" vspace="2" hspace="5" /> Signora del Giocondo. Some say it is really a
likeness of Pacificia Brandano or Isabella d'Este, the
Marquisa of Mantua. Others think Leonardo dreamed her up.
The painting was considered to be a prototype of a
Renaissance portrait by everybody except Leonardo.</p>
<p>Leonardo liked the painting so much - it took him four
years to paint it - that he carried it around with him
until just before he died, when he talked François I
into buying it. He probably did a copy of it for the
original customer, Francesco del Giocondo.</p>
<p>Vincenzo Perugia boosted it from the Louvre's Salon
Carré on Friday, 21. August 1911. At first everybody
thought this was a prank, but it wasn't recovered until
December 1913, in a hotel in Florence, where it started
out.</p>
<p>The Mona Lisa was also hung in Amboise, Fontainbleu and
Versailles where Louis XIV had it in his collection. The
Révolution moved it to the Louvre until Napoleon saw
it there and took it home and hung it in his
bedroom.</p>
<b>1603 - Champlain Visits Canada</b>
<p class="noindent"><img src="cafe819d.jpg" alt="photo: metro entry" align="left" height="235" width="175" vspace="2" hspace="5" />Samuel De Champlain visited Nouvelle- France for the
first time in 1603. On his return to France he convinced
Henri IV that Nouvelle-France was a suitable location for a
French colony in North America. Québec was thus
created in 1611 and Champlain became governor of it in
1633, two years before his death.</p>
<p>In Paris, to commemorate the 400th anniversary, the
<a href="http://www.monnaiedeparis.fr/">Monnaie de
Paris</a> has stuck a series of coins for the event. At the
Monnaie de Paris, 11. Quai de Conti, Paris 6. Métro:
Pont-Neuf. InfoTel.: 01 40 46 58 34.</p>
<p>More about this event may be found on the Web site of
<a href="http://www.francophone.net/afi"">L'Année
Francophone Internationale</a>.</p>
<b>Corbeile-Essonnes,
Update</b>
<p class="noindent">Last Tuesday, I was more than a little surprised to find
a postcard in my real mailbox, from Monsieur Mabutu Mosa.
You may recall that I lent a temporarily embarrassed
gentleman three euros so that he could return to
Corbeile-Essonnes.</p>
<p>Here is the gist of the message written on the postcard
- "Merci pour les sous. Je suis rentré à
Sénégal. Je suis trés trés
content. A trés bientôt! Ton amie." The
reverse side of the postcard is illustrated with a 1930s
advertising poster for the popular drink, 'Banania' -
slogan, 'Petit déjeuner familial.'</p>
<p>If any readers happen to meet Monsieur Mabutu Mosa in
your travels, please tell him I am very toched by the
thoughtfulness of his gesture.</p>
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