Let really scare him...
Posted on 04/02/2011 11:23:15 AM PDT by mandaladon
Various busts of Marianne, the traditional female embodiment of the French Republic in a Phrygian cap, at a moulding studion. The mayor of a town in France has thrown a Marianne statue out of his town hall because its breasts were too big, his aides said on Friday.
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LILLE, France (AFP) - The mayor of a town in France has thrown a patriotic female statue out of his town hall because its breasts were too big, his aides said on Friday.
The terracotta bust of Marianne -- the traditional female embodiment of the French Republic in a Phrygian cap -- was an original work by a local artist, installed in 2007 at the town hall in Neuville-en-Ferrain, population 10,000.
"It was making people gossip," said one town hall employee who asked not to be named. "Remarks were made, during weddings for example."
Mayor Gerard Cordon persuaded councillors to approve 900 euros (1,280 dollars) in this year's budget to buy a replacement, a more conventional bust of Marianne modelled on the statuesque French model Laetitia Casta.
The artist who made the rejected bust, Catherine Lamacque, said she gave it outsized breasts deliberately, "to symbolise the generosity of the Republic."
The town hall bought her terracotta statue in 2007 for 1,400 euros.
"The mayor has had it under his nose for several years. He chose it from among other designs even before I baked it," she told AFP.
"His decision is absurd. I only hope he will not have it destroyed."
Another town hall official who asked not to be named said he regretted the bust's removal, which was done "not by a joint decision but by the mayor alone." "It was a unique work," he said. "After all, Marianne is a symbol of motherhood."
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The artist who made the rejected bust, Catherine Lamacque, said she gave it outsized breasts deliberately, "to symbolise the generosity of the Republic."Hell yeah!
Ashcroft wannabe.
Here's one from long ago using Brigitte Bardot as the model
Makes sense now. The one of Bardot looks like a woman. The one the mayor removed looks like the one of Hillary posted at #9 by maggief: a glaring man-demon with lumps on it's chest.
Hmmm... seems the Mayor is indicating a sea-change.
They look OK to me!
The artist who made the rejected bust, Catherine Lamacque, said she gave it outsized breasts deliberately, "to symbolise the generosity of the Republic."How do what are obviously fake boobs "symbolise the generosity of the Republic"? Does the French Government provide Breast enhancement surgery?
Me too. It’s the action ‘’down below’’ that matters.
Dawn Wells, YOWRRRRR!!!!
Let really scare him...
Absolutely undeniable.
Yet, as with the other traits, this one is contrasted with their simultaneous self-loathing evidenced in many, many ways, with arguably the current most glaring expression being the man-made global warming hoax being used to cripple the economies of Western culture.
A close second, of course, is the refusal to be honest about Islam, enabling it's assault on the enough to transform a lame effort by lunatics into a viable threat to the future of freedom in the world.
Oh, yes, their nihilism and constructs for “values” are so irrational—(the reason Ayn Rand loathed the Postmoderns and Progressives) ...they are so irrational that they are set for self-destruct.
I just hate to see me and my children and this great country be taken down, too, because of their gross stupidity and unwillingness to see their ugly reflection of their pathetic souls through their eyes as they vainly gaze into the mirror while drooling like a basset hound and trying to waste their lives and brains away with trivial pursuits just to forget they are going to die.
Could they just do something productive once in a while and find virtue, instead of demeaning themselves and being so narcissistic and destructive?
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