June 1: VICTOR HUGO移靈 1885； International Children's Day

June is named after the Roman goddess Juno – the god of marriage and childbirth. Here she is seated in a chariot, with a peacock perched on her shoulder. In Greek mythology, Juno’s equivalent is Hera. http://ow.ly/pNyu30c9aN2

Catafalque below the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, 1 June 1885

Definitions of catafalque

noun

a decorated wooden framework supporting the coffin of a distinguished person during a funeral or while lying in state.

It was 11.15 am when the bearer party, their faces strained in concentration, came into the crisp, morning sunlight having lifted the coffin from the catafalque in the great Westminster Hall where it had rested since Friday.

[名詞]

1. 1棺台：葬礼で遺体を安置・運搬する台.
2. 2霊柩れいきゅう車.
3. 3カタファルク：埋葬後の鎮魂ミサの際に置かれる棺に似たもの.

語源

1641.＜フランス語＜イタリア語 catafalco＜後期ラテン語 *catafalicum SCAFFOLD=cata- CATA-+fal(a)木造の攻城塔+-icum(-icus -IC の中性形)

On this day in 1855, more than two million Parisians joined Victor Hugo's funeral procession.

Vintage: Victor Hugo’s Funeral (1885)

Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Victor Hugo's death from pneumonia at

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ALFRED PHILIPPE ROLL, “THE FUNERAL OF VICTOR HUGO”

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Alfred Philippe Roll (French, 1846–1919), The Funeral of Victor Hugo, 1885, oil on canvas, 27″ x 33″. Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, 1951.07.249.

Alfred Philippe Roll studied at École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Taught by several prominent academic painters of the day, he achieved some success during the early 1870s. Late in that same decade, he decided to paint subjects of everyday life and portraits. His personal style subsequently became less romantic and more realistic.

The artist’s 1880 work, A Miner’s Strike (La Grève de Mineurs), established his reputation as one of France’s premier painters, and he was quite successful for the remainder of his career. He eventually became the French government’s official painter and was commissioned to create numerous works—including murals, ceilings, and other building decoration—for governmental buildings.

Roll’s The Funeral of Victor Hugo offers a nighttime view of Hugo’s casket as it rests on a tall and ornately decorated platform beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

This daytime photograph shows Hugo’s casket and the platform upon which it rests beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was a giant of French literature and beloved throughout France. He died in May 1885 at the age of 83. Forty thousand people spent the night on Paris streets hoping to view his casket as it moved from the Arc de Triomphe to the Pantheon on June 1, 1885. Between two and three million people ultimately observed the funeral procession—the first such reverence ever accorded a celebrity.

International Children's Day

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