{"id":1229,"date":"2022-12-02T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T10:25:02","slug":"the-queen-of-rouen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/02\/the-queen-of-rouen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Rouen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"782\" src=\"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/reine_rouen-1024x782.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/reine_rouen-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/reine_rouen-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/reine_rouen-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/reine_rouen-900x687.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/reine_rouen-1280x977.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 13 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are eight. Eight female statues seated on Gabriel&#8217;s sentry boxes all around the Place de la Concorde. They represent eight French cities: Brest, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Rouen and Strasbourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I chose Rouen&#8230;<br> <br>First of all, a brief presentation of the city. From the 13th century, the city experienced an economic boom thanks to the development of textile factories. It was claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years War. Joan of Arc was imprisoned there, judged and then burned alive in 1431. Very damaged by Red Week in 1944, it regained its grandeur thanks to its seaport, among other things. It is the leading French grain port and the leading European grain exporting port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rouen is also and\nabove all a city &#8220;invaded&#8221; with historical monuments,\nmuseums, half-timbered houses, pedestrian streets, cycle paths, green\nspaces, religious buildings (hence its nickname the &#8220;city to the\nhundred steeples&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, a little\npersonal delirium with a story straight from my brain. This is the\nstory of a very young and very beautiful woman named Diane. She comes\nto spend her holidays in Rouen. Completely by chance. We are in the\n19th century. She meets a man, an artist, completely dazzled by her\nbeauty. He, then, decides to immortalize their meeting, their\nadventure, their budding love. He, then, embarks on the creation of a\nstatue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And not just any\nstatue. A statue that would be one of a kind or not quite. A statue\nthat would have all its legitimacy on the Place de la Concorde in\nParis. The ambition of a lifetime, of his entire life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diane, meanwhile, is\nflattered. Admittedly a little nervous but she is literally driven by\nthis crazy project. She strikes a pose, thinks of something else.\nLong weeks follow one another, successes, failures. The life of an\nartist is not easy every day! And then it&#8217;s over&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three go to the capital: he, his muse and his statue. He\ncarefully chooses the location, in fact exclusively selfish\u2026 So, he\nputs down his art. He is so proud of his work. Diane, at his side, is\nvery moved and yet a huge disappointment invades her. Her statue\nturns her back on the great iron lady&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil on cardboard \u2013 9,5 x 13 inch \u2013 Unique work They are eight. Eight female statues seated on Gabriel&#8217;s sentry boxes all around the Place de la Concorde. They represent eight French cities: Brest, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Rouen and Strasbourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}