Showing posts with label Château de Versailles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Château de Versailles. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2026

Did Trump Just Versailles America?

Jun 19, 2026 | This week’s Elephant in the Room is Trump’s humiliation at Versailles. After months of threats, chest-thumping, and promises of strength against Iran, Trump arrived claiming leverage and left defending a deal that has critics asking whether America gained anything at all.

Rick Wilson breaks down the symbolism of Versailles, the political fallout of Trump’s Iran reversal, the growing cracks inside MAGA, and why this moment may be remembered as one of the defining foreign policy embarrassments of his presidency. History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes—and this week, the rhyme scheme sounded a lot like surrender.



Strong language alert!

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Trump Signs Iran Peace Plan, Claiming Deal Averts ‘Worldwide Depression’

THE GUARDIAN: Details of the 14-point agreement revealed as senior US officials claim ‘major win’ despite significant concessions to Tehran

This screenshot is from this Guardian article. | President Trump signs the memorandum of understanding with Iran at palace of Versailles. Photograph: The White House YouTube

Donald Trump has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran, claiming it delivered a “major win” for the United States – even as it made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a “worldwide depression”.

In extraordinary remarks on Wednesday, Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with a new wave of attacks to suggesting the country had basic rights to enrich uranium for civilian use, that he would not pressure Tehran to abandon its ballistic missiles programme and the US was “going to have to give back” billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets.

Those remarks, as well as the full text of the agreement – which was hailed by the Hezbollah chief, Naim Qassem, as a “great victory” – are likely to fuel anger in Israel and among hardliners in the Republican party who had urged Trump not to make a deal with Tehran.

Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed the agreement on Wednesday from Tehran. The US vice-president, JD Vance, is also expected to sign the deal at a more formal ceremony in Geneva on Friday.

Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said: “The agreement is a record of US failure. People will see it and judge.”

Defending the deal, Trump said no US president had ever been as tough on Iran as him, and “there is nothing as smart as the market – and the market loves it”. » | Andrew Roth in Washington and Patrick Wintour in Évian-les-Bains | Thursday, June 18, 2026

If Trump really is averting a “worldwide depression” with this signing of the MOU, and one cannot doubt that the world was in danger of, and could still well be in danger of experiencing a worldwide depression, it will/would be a depression of Trump and Netanyahu’s own making!

Fact is, Trump has LOST this war for America and Americans. VICTORY belongs to Iran and Iranians. Moreover, and very importantly and significantly, because of his folly and extremely poor geopolitical judgment, Trump has given Iran and the Mullahs the prestige of being a new world power! So much for the ART of Trump’s DEALs!

Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER!

This must surely be the high price a nation pays for electing into the highest office in the land a man who is not only incompetent and inexperienced in geopolitics, but who is also in the throes of brain rot, caused by galloping dementia! — © Mark Alexander


ALSO READ:

Donald Trump’s Iran deal met with anger, relief and incredulity: G7 leaders and mediator Pakistan hailed the release of the memorandum of understanding, views that were not widely shared in Israel and among US Republicans »

Saturday, September 09, 2023

Versailles - Le palais retrouvé du Roi-Soleil | ARTE

Sep 9, 2023 | S’appuyant sur les dernières avancées technologiques et scientifiques, ce documentaire explore le passé architectural du château pour ressusciter le Versailles disparu de Louis XIV.

Dans les années 1660, le jeune Louis XIV, désormais seul aux commandes du royaume, prend l'habitude d'investir les jardins du domaine de Versailles pour y donner des fêtes somptueuses. Au fil de son ascension, le monarque va métamorphoser le château bâti par son père, modeste gentilhommière difficile d'accès, en palais éblouissant, devenu résidence permanente de la cour à partir de 1682. Chantier ininterrompu au cours de son règne, Versailles n'a ensuite cessé d'être remodelé par ses occupants successifs. Plus de trois siècles après le crépuscule du Roi-Soleil, les chercheurs recomposent peu à peu la genèse du château et ressuscitent les espaces disparus, en s'appuyant sur la numérisation des plans de l'époque, de récentes découvertes archéologiques et de minutieuses modélisations en 3D.

Instrument de domination

En suivant dans leurs recherches les meilleurs spécialistes, Marc Jampolsky (Mont-Saint-Michel - Le labyrinthe de l'archange) propose une exploration inédite de Versailles tel que l'a conçu Louis XIV. Matérialisations symboliques de son pouvoir absolu et de ses rêves, le fabuleux bosquet du labyrinthe, agencé par André Le Nôtre autour des fables de Charles Perrault, la grotte artificielle de Téthys, animée par la féerie des jets d'eau, les luxueux appartements des courtisans ou encore la galerie Mignard, le musée privé de Sa Majesté, reprennent ainsi vie sous nos yeux. Entrelaçant témoignages d'experts, séquences de fiction et reconstitutions en 3D, ce documentaire plonge dans le passé architectural du château et éclaire les visées politiques qui ont préludé aux différentes étapes de sa construction.

Documentaire de Marc Jampolsky (France, 2018, 1h32mn)
Disponible jusqu'au 08/11/2023



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