Any excuse for a picture of Dieppe, especially if it's by Sickert – and today's excuse is a piece by me on Oscar Wilde (and others) in Dieppe that's in the September issue of the excellent online magazine British Intelligence, out today.
This paragraph should be the one moment to feel happy in the Wilde story, but the poignance of these momentary kindnesses moved me almost to tears; "Others were kinder. On one occasion when Wilde was being publicly humiliated in a café, Fritz Thaulow walked over and loudly invited him to dinner en famille. And Mrs Arthur Stannard, who wrote bestselling novels under the name of ‘John Strange Winter’, took pains to make him feel welcome, on one occasion intervening when Wilde had been pointedly cut by a group of English visitors to demand in a loud voice, ‘Oscar, take me to tea!’ " Beautiful piece
An awful lot of Canadians died in the calamitous Dieppe raid, mown down by the Germans who had little trouble defending the port from seaborne invasion. There's a museum in Dieppe devoted entirely to the terrible events of the Dieppe raid – and a memorial garden – and monuments all along the esplanade. Movingly, there are even little monuments to individual soldiers who made it into the old town before being killed. Ties between Dieppe and Canada (particularly Quebec) go back centuries.
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
I was looking forward to one of those common entrance tyoe essays: Write about tying a shoelace; write about a threepenny bit; write about a plug.
ReplyDeleteHo ho. Hope you're not disappointed Zoe!
ReplyDeleteThis paragraph should be the one moment to feel happy in the Wilde story, but the poignance of these momentary kindnesses moved me almost to tears;
ReplyDelete"Others were kinder. On one occasion when Wilde was being publicly humiliated in a café, Fritz Thaulow walked over and loudly invited him to dinner en famille. And Mrs Arthur Stannard, who wrote bestselling novels under the name of ‘John Strange Winter’, took pains to make him feel welcome, on one occasion intervening when Wilde had been pointedly cut by a group of English visitors to demand in a loud voice, ‘Oscar, take me to tea!’ "
Beautiful piece
Excellent. Here,in Brazil,we use in an awful french, dieppe is a kinda decadence Avec elegance
ReplyDeleteAnd dieppe was liberated by canadians,isn't It?
ReplyDeleteAn awful lot of Canadians died in the calamitous Dieppe raid, mown down by the Germans who had little trouble defending the port from seaborne invasion. There's a museum in Dieppe devoted entirely to the terrible events of the Dieppe raid – and a memorial garden – and monuments all along the esplanade. Movingly, there are even little monuments to individual soldiers who made it into the old town before being killed. Ties between Dieppe and Canada (particularly Quebec) go back centuries.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, and the Canadians did indeed liberate Dieppe in 1944.
ReplyDeleteMy granchildren are canadians. Thai's the reason why I am só interested in history of canadians
DeleteMy son in law too, so two of my grandchildren are half Canadian.
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