Good move, lousy translation.
Bill
On Thursday, 19 May 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-il-offre-dix-chaises-poemes-au-jardin-du-palais-royal-03-03-2016-5595809.php#xtref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk
>
> [do see the pic via this link…]
> [this is how the google translation does over the French…]
>
> In the garden of the Palais Royal (I st ), Paul Verlaine dialogue with
> Mahmoud Darwish .
>
> "No color, nothing but nuance! "Exclaimed the friend of Rimbaud.
>
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> "My country is a suitcase, my bag, my country," replied the Palestinian
> poet.This exchange towards a century later, is the gift that comes to offer
> Parisians the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet . Fell under the charm of the
> capital it was 50 years ago, this artist 72 spring remembers being "struck
> at the time by the fact that here, we can move the chairs in the gardens."
>
> Half a century later, Michel Goulet returns with ten chairs-poems,
> "confidants" as he refers to seats assembled in pairs by him and he offers
> to the garden of the Palais Royal, thanks to the generosity of its gallery
> owner, Sylvie and Simon Blais and the Quebec government foundation. Under
> the sun, the 1921 chairs recovered and retyped look great. Especially since
> each file was laser drilled to inscribe a verse of a French or foreign poet
> (Baudelaire, Eluard, Cocteau , Pasolini ...), supplemented by the name of
> its author.
>
> Installed since March 2, the loveseats are welded by a shelf on which the
> artist has sculpted a small object in bronze, in this case a harmonica for
> Verlaine and Darwish. Inside, MP3 works with solar collectors, which allows
> the walker branch his headphones on the case, listen to a poem recited by
> the author or an actor of French comedy. A total of twenty French and
> foreign contemporary writers of texts are stored.
>
> Garden director (who already had 60 chairs) on behalf of the National
> Monuments Centre, Sylvie Vial welcomes this initiative to "recognize the
> literary tradition of the Palais Royal where lived Colette and Cocteau."
>
> As for Michel Goulet, he exults: "I am very proud of my confidants enter
> the garden of the Palais Royal. This is the most prestigious project I have
> ever done. " The artist also thanked the French François Massut, "one
> businessman lover of poetry who opened the doors to Paris! "
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