August1991 Posted January 30 Report Posted January 30 On 1/24/2026 at 1:15 AM, SpankyMcFarland said: You are a tough marker! Do you not think much of Tolstoy? War and Peace was good I thought. What am I saying? I really wouldn’t consider myself worthy of rating anything by Tolstoy or the other great Russians. Nearly all of it flies over my head. I’ve read Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities. Great Expectations is one of my favourite books - I strongly identify with Magwitch, a self-described ‘varmint’ in the colonies sending money home. I’ve only read Maupassant in French because I had to at school! Atwood I find rather 20th century English in her style. The prose is fairly spare. I prefer something more ornate. Compare Zola with Hemingway. Huh? Compare Netflix with NBC. In 2125 - three generations from now, what will kids read? I suspect they'll still read Maugham. Quote
John Stone Posted February 15 Report Posted February 15 On 12/16/2025 at 5:58 PM, SpankyMcFarland said: Britain was far more anxious to tolerate Catholicism in Quebec than in Ireland because it needed the local population on side to defend against the Americans. Indeed. ............ Lord Durham's report notwithstanding - the conquering Brits, considering the context in history, treated the Quebecois with decency, post Plains of Abraham. The Acadians didn't fare nearly as well. Quote
August1991 Posted February 20 Report Posted February 20 On 2/15/2026 at 2:25 PM, John Stone said: Indeed. ............ Lord Durham's report notwithstanding - the conquering Brits, considering the context in history, treated the Quebecois with decency, post Plains of Abraham. The Acadians didn't fare nearly as well. I have thought long about the events in the Seven Years War. Stanley Kubrick made a good movie of the time in Europe: Barry Lyndon ====== Modern Quebec? Off island - that's the best I can do. Quote
John Stone Posted February 22 Report Posted February 22 On 2/20/2026 at 2:07 AM, August1991 said: I have thought long about the events in the Seven Years War. Stanley Kubrick made a good movie of the time in Europe: Barry Lyndon ====== Modern Quebec? Off island - that's the best I can do. ....... yeah, def groomed the Continent and fueled, 'Manifest Destiny'. Quote
August1991 Posted February 23 Report Posted February 23 19 hours ago, John Stone said: ....... yeah, def groomed the Continent and fueled, 'Manifest Destiny'. sign The Seven Years War had two peace treaties. At the time, the most important was the Treaty of Hubertusberg - which decided the critical war between Prussia and Austria-Hungary about Saxony. The later Treaty of Paris (in fact in Fontainebleau) was to sign this paper as we would among the G-7. Quote
August1991 Posted February 23 Report Posted February 23 En effet les Canadiens en 1763. Seuls. ===== Between 1763 and 1864, no ship arrived from France. Quote
John Stone Posted February 23 Report Posted February 23 7 hours ago, August1991 said: The Seven Years War had two peace treaties. At the time, the most important was the Treaty of Hubertusberg - which decided the critical war between Prussia and Austria-Hungary about Saxony. The later Treaty of Paris (in fact in Fontainebleau) was to sign this paper as we would among the G-7. ........the fall of Quebec 1759 was indeed a significant victory for Britain and forged North American history. Quote
SpankyMcFarland Posted April 29 Author Report Posted April 29 France just didn’t show enough interest in its North American colonial project. There was no excuse for letting the colonies from a considerably less populous country at the time become so much bigger. Quote ‘How small we make our worlds. Gather them in, tighten them up into little castles of fear.’
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