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I was thinking we could have a thread about Bernard Palissy because he's one of the most single-track monomaniacs of European history and I think it's a great story, but I thought I'd ask first because I've bored people into catatonia before now doing things like this.

no please tell spot it should be really interesting ,the more posts the better:-6

























i'm have to for the day tough luck you fg ers online :wah::wah::wah:

Go and boil your bottoms, son of a silly person. I blow my nose on you.

That's the chap. Pottery, back in the 16th century.

Wendybird;662759 wrote: Palissy - he was the one that ended up in prison wasn't he? I remember a few snippets from College - his theory on fossils, his use of snakes and lizards etc.I was reading a chapter about him in "Self Help; With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance, by Samuel Smiles". Shall I chop into the thread a bit about how he died, without paraphrasing since it has so many quotes?The king, Henry III, even went to see him in prison to induce him to abjure his faith. "My good man," said the King, "you have now served my mother and myself for forty-five years. We have put up with your adhering to your religion amidst fires and massacres: now I am so pressed by the Guise party as well as by my own people, that I am constrained to leave you in the hands of your enemies, and tomorrow you will be burnt unless you become converted." "Sire," answered the unconquerable old man, "I am ready to give my life for the glory of God. You have said many times that you have pity on me; and now I have pity on you, who have pronounced the words I AM CONSTRAINED! It is not spoken like a king, sire; it is what you, and those who constrain you, the Guisards and all your people, can never effect upon me, for I know how to die." Palissy did indeed die shortly after, a martyr, though not at the stake. He died in the Bastille, after enduring about a year's imprisonment.He was just as pig-headed and intransigent all the way through his life, he must have been hell to put up with.

spot;662745 wrote: Go and boil your bottoms, son of a silly person. I blow my nose on you.




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