Recommended blog : Après-moi le déluge (spanish blog)

Posté par admin
dimanche 28 août 2005 [n° 356]

31/08 is officially declared “Blog Day”

The concept is simple :

- Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting

- Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending on them on BlogDay 2005
- Write a short description of the Blogs and place a a link to the recommended Blogs

- Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and

- Add the BlogDay tag using this link: BlogDay2005 and a link to BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org

Recommended blog : “Après-moi le déluge”

My first choice is “Après-moi le déluge, a spanish weblog written by Silmarillion.
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Confession of a post-deluge visitor or how to make a fool of oneself for the sake of a royal welcome

The name of Silmarillion’s blog is familiar to the french reader : Après-moi le déluge. King Louis XV1 ‘s last words were “apres moi le déluge” (“after me, the deluge”).

The prophecy proved to be accurate, at least, for those who think of the Revolution and Terror, as “flooding violence“.

But the most amusing when you enter “Après moi le déluge” blog, if you will pardon this ill-spirited remark, is not the posture of the deluge King defying modesty with his historical grandeur on the upper left side of the home page, but the incremential link placed just above the royal painting .

If you happen to be the sole visitor on the page, the link reads : “1 person on line“. But the message illustrates so perfectly the arrogance of French absolutism , and it fits so perfidly the revolutionary cultural mold as regards the monarchic regimes, that it renders the link politically subversive.

At least, for the bad intentioned, and probably the idiot who followed the link (sorry, i did it) , it seemed reaonable to assume that the deluge King would invariably remain the only person who matters to himself, even when visitors keep flooding to Silmarillion’s site.

A deluge of quality posts

As any visitor will admit it, when arriving to the “Après le deluge” home page, a royal welcome keeps the post-deluge reader at his high-minded best.

For this reason, but they are numerous, the reading of “Après moi le deluge” becomes rapidly addictive.

The blog is mainly written in spanish, but scattered with genuine quotation jewels, most of the time, directly extracted from text in original language, making it easy for the reader to switch back to the source document.

The articles cover a wide spectrum of topics ranging from literature to history, which not surprisingly, makes ‘Après-moi le déluge” the perfect place for being “deluged” with culture-centered qualilty posts, providing multilingual food for thoughts to the “honnest” mind (in the acception of the term given at the Renaissance), for the greatest pleasure of the reader.

For example, our attention was recently brought by Silmarillion on Textos: Maragatos y maragatería.

“Maragatos” ? Who are they ?

In George Borrow’s “The Bible in Spain” published in 1824, chapter 23, the author writes : “The Maragatos are perhaps the most singular caste to be found amongst the chequered population of Spain. (…) Their name is a clue to their origin, as it signifies, “Moorish Goths”.

I had know of the “Mozarabes”, the “Marranos”, the “Moriscos” (deported from Spain in 1609), of course the Jews (deported in 1492), but was totally ignorant of the Maragatos. In the catholic Spain, obsessed by the purity of blood, (“limpieza de la sangre“), these “mixed-blood” who survived through ages were probably kept under close scrutiny by the almighty and ever suspicious Inquisition.

The more you learn, the more you want to learn.

Needless to say more. Après moi le déluge is a quality weblog worth the visit. The more you read it, the more likely you are to add it to your blogroll.


  1. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset The Gutenberg Project [back]
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Commentaire par apresmoiledeluge le August 28, 2005 @ 6:10 am

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