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Guillaume Coatalen
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Senior lecturer in early modern lit at CY Cergy Paris Université. Manuscript fanatic. https://www.earlymodernhands.guillaumecoatalen.com/
Great news. I'll be full professor at a new university starting this September

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June 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Such beauty.
June 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Cranach is such a genius!
June 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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En 20 ans +119% pour les 0,1% les plus riches pendant que leur taux d’imposition réel a baissé de 26% quand celui des français a augmenté.
Pensez-y la prochaine fois que votre voisin de table défendra comme si c’était son daron Bernard Arnault qui chouine sur la fiscalité
February 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, un "pirate de la république" (Le Figaro), le "petit légionnaire qui a rassemblé l'extrême-droite" (Le Parisien), une figure "controversée" (AFP) qui aimait "la danse" (Le JDD). Ces médias qui alimentent le mythe d'un gentil papy alors qu'il s'agissait d'un ancien tortionnaire...
January 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
December 31, 2024 at 6:11 PM
I agree with Peter Brown, I cannot be wrong "The historian’s job is about the past, and especially about how and why the past is not the present. People in history are usually most interesting to us when they are not like us." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
A Past in All Its Fullness | Peter Brown
“We should remember that the people we study lived in a world crowded with invisible beings,” Peter Brown writes in our June 6, 2024 issue, as part of his
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December 28, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Truest thing ever written.
December 26, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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A blissful Christmas, from The Master of Flémalle (1420), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
December 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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This sums it up, yes.
December 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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I think everyone should get to know the west African term “wahala”.

It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck.

I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work.

Because—- *gestures at everything*

See wahala?!???
December 19, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Meeting at a conference
December 19, 2024 at 12:52 PM
December 18, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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"It’s as if Democrats see politics as a stable landscape — a static field with clear rules. They [...] cannot shape the basic orientation of the electorate. By this view, most Americans are fixed in place and Democrats must meet them where they are."

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
Opinion | What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party.
Now is not the time for surrender.
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December 18, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Pirkei Avot 4:20

He who learns when a child, to what is he compared? To ink written upon a new writing sheet. And he who learns when an old man, to what is he compared? To ink written on a rubbed writing sheet.
December 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
precision
December 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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