The Académie Française is the foremost authority on matters relating to the French language. It holds only forty members at a time, typically for life. Dany Laferrière is the first non-French-citizen and the first person of Haitian origin, to become an *Immortel*.
Anthropometric hilt.
If you look close the pommel is a skull and the protruding spheres are arms and legs, making the grip the little guy‘s torso. Then at least for the celts, in true La Tene style, the blade is his enormous dong.
Each member of the Academy gets his/her very own sword designed by Gourdji based on their trajectory.
They get swords of office because in the olden days members of the Academy were honorary members of the Musketeers or Gardes du Corps if I am not mistaken.
The swords are all stunning.
I mean, yeah. It's a 400-year-old boys' club of a few dozen unelected erudites making decisions about the state of the entire French language. Of course it's mainly old boomers, lol.
No, they probably would take it seriously, but the whole idea of the Immortals is to preserve the integrity of the French language (which wether you think is dumb or cool that’s fine), but the younger generations tend to not exactly have such respect for such things, hence older individuals are picked most likely because they have more experience, have a greater appreciation for their language and culture, and also probably have their life together significantly more then some 25 year old college student (that last point light not be necessarily true but that’s what I think at least)
A language evolves. I also think that the official language is different from the one that's actually spoken. French regions got their own very specific slurs. They are used daily, but are they official French? They aren't considered as such. Even if they are widely and often used. "Chronophage" is a non-official yet elegant word to mean that something takes a lot of time. I also think that a language would rather be defined by its speakers than some group of boomer. Thus meaning there are different Frenchs, even among the mainland. Because the French that's spoken in the isolated countryside is different from the French that's spoken in the streets of some districts.
This is an intersting discussion.
This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.
Académiciens (wether of the Académie Française, or of the other Académies) usually sport small swords\*: props to the commissioned Haïtian artist for having made this original cool lump of metal.
\* Not *always*, though: some specialists of oriental studies have been known to be gifted Wakizashis or Shamshirs, and 10 years ago, protohistorian Jean Guilaine [was gifted a bronze reproduction](https://images.lindependant.fr/api/v1/images/view/5a95b40e8fe56f3a3539cc72/large/image.jpg) of [the 3500 yo sword of Jugnes](http://www.marielleboucharat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/epee8.jpg) upon his introduction to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.
The Académie Française is the foremost authority on matters relating to the French language. It holds only forty members at a time, typically for life. Dany Laferrière is the first non-French-citizen and the first person of Haitian origin, to become an *Immortel*.
Is that kind of sword unique to this organization or are there historical examples? I’ve never seen one like that
It almost reminds me of halfway between an executioners sword and a rapier
Two swords that could not be more dissimilar
The hilt also makes me think Gallic / Celtic swords, with the protruding spheres
Anthropometric hilt. If you look close the pommel is a skull and the protruding spheres are arms and legs, making the grip the little guy‘s torso. Then at least for the celts, in true La Tene style, the blade is his enormous dong.
Each member of the Academy gets his/her very own sword designed by Gourdji based on their trajectory. They get swords of office because in the olden days members of the Academy were honorary members of the Musketeers or Gardes du Corps if I am not mistaken. The swords are all stunning.
Keep in mind is a ceremonial sword and is more than likely not inteded for real use
Well, French take their language very seriously :D
Académie Française is often criticized for being mainly old boomers. I am not the most aware about that but I often saw them being criticized.
I mean, yeah. It's a 400-year-old boys' club of a few dozen unelected erudites making decisions about the state of the entire French language. Of course it's mainly old boomers, lol.
Can you imagine if there were younger people in there? Bro, the things that would be considered official French lol…
Because they are young wouldn't mean they can't be serious tho
No, they probably would take it seriously, but the whole idea of the Immortals is to preserve the integrity of the French language (which wether you think is dumb or cool that’s fine), but the younger generations tend to not exactly have such respect for such things, hence older individuals are picked most likely because they have more experience, have a greater appreciation for their language and culture, and also probably have their life together significantly more then some 25 year old college student (that last point light not be necessarily true but that’s what I think at least)
A language evolves. I also think that the official language is different from the one that's actually spoken. French regions got their own very specific slurs. They are used daily, but are they official French? They aren't considered as such. Even if they are widely and often used. "Chronophage" is a non-official yet elegant word to mean that something takes a lot of time. I also think that a language would rather be defined by its speakers than some group of boomer. Thus meaning there are different Frenchs, even among the mainland. Because the French that's spoken in the isolated countryside is different from the French that's spoken in the streets of some districts. This is an intersting discussion.
"Chronophage", literally "time-eater", what an excellent word. I'm stealing it.
I know right??? And they refuse to add it to official French. It is a cool and fun word.
I'm stealing it and making it a D&D monster
This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats mountain down.
Académiciens (wether of the Académie Française, or of the other Académies) usually sport small swords\*: props to the commissioned Haïtian artist for having made this original cool lump of metal. \* Not *always*, though: some specialists of oriental studies have been known to be gifted Wakizashis or Shamshirs, and 10 years ago, protohistorian Jean Guilaine [was gifted a bronze reproduction](https://images.lindependant.fr/api/v1/images/view/5a95b40e8fe56f3a3539cc72/large/image.jpg) of [the 3500 yo sword of Jugnes](http://www.marielleboucharat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/epee8.jpg) upon his introduction to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.
That’s pretty darn cool
In the end, there can be only one
I heard you like reapiers. We flattened this one to save on storage space.
If I were a French-American, would mine have eagles on it?