“My France” by Jean Ferrat

Viva la belle France, a country close to my heart; one I have visited many times to enjoy the food, the culture, the sun, the landscape, people, the architecture, the vin, and just that certain je ne sais quoi!

that’s a lovely song – France has the most beautiful history of all – in the past 2 millennia – I think –

The Templars – whatever anyone says of the Templars – they are heroes – the people that now hate on the Templars are unknowledgable about how great they were – it was not the Templars that fought other Christians –

Chartres – Where those divine poems of Natura were written by the sweet teachers – what a divine place on earth that was – the seven liberal arts – Arithmetica – Musica – Rhetorica – Astronomia — what else ? Geometrica I suppose – that’s only five – anyway I adore the ‘text book’ of that great teacher Alain De Lille – where it describes the chariot of Prudence and her sisters – that go to the universe to find something – I have to read it again – is it called Cosmographia ?

The Cathedrals in Paris where the Schoolmen discussed how to unite Knowledge and Faith – to no avail – Thomas Aquinas went to his grave without resolving this huge problem of uniting science with religion – of course, in the person of Jesus Christ you have the both of them united, physical and divine. the Apocalypse tells us that in almost every chapter –

I don’t really know why Thomas thought it was so difficult – but he also re-translated all of what remained of Aristotle’s work, from the Arabic – back into the Greek – amazing eh ? Aristotle went from Greek to Syriac to Arabic back to Greek – then into all the modern languages – no wonder we find it difficult to understand –

Anyway – then there was the great French Resistance movement — such brave people fighting and working together, kind of like we are now I suppose – only in more immediate danger personally – now its globally more dangerous

And over there in poor Germany there was the White Rose Resistance – who all got caught – so young – and executed one by one –

I’ve never been to France, but I know that French equitation is the best in the world –

To work around the difficulties of hot horses, instead of plowing through the resistance – French vs German – truly its discussed constantly in academic equitation – –

Riding now has become so commercial and corrupted – its disgusting, but Saumur – in France — still has that great riding school –

Philippe Karl is from that school and is the best horseman, now that Jean Claude Racinet has gone – and both of them their methods I have studied –

Anyway that was a great song – thanks so much Claude – I can’t believe he’s been banned from French television – how pathetic –

When will this dear France and the dear earth be freed from this web of evil ?