December 24th, 2005

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move [...]

August 12th, 2005

I have thought, and thought again, about whether I should write about this. Does civilisation still mean anything when something so abominable can happen in the heart one of the world’s oldest and greatest civilisations? I have just read in Le Monde, here at Saint-Tropez, that several organisations have demonstrated to protest against the public [...]

August 5th, 2005

La Virginité, comme toutes les monstruosités, a des richesses spéciales, des grandeurs absorbantes. La vie, dont les forces sont économisées, a pris chez l’individu vierge une qualité de résistance et de durée incalculable. Le cerveau s’est enrichi de l’ensemble de ses facultés réservées. Lorsque les gens chastes ont besoin de leur corps ou de leur [...]

July 3rd, 2005

I’ve decided to keep a blog. I’ve always enjoyed writing down my thoughts, but before the Internet, this took the form of a diary I kept at school, which I’ve sporadically updated, with very long interruptions, ever since. But this was really for my own personal use, as I find it useful to compare my [...]