Antoine

If we follow this page: www.hhogman.se/army-rank-in... it would seem that the grenade means artillery on Swedish uniforms, then

That’s a grenade (or rather a stylised depiction of a 18th-19th century one). Very common insignia for infantry (whether called grenadier or not) at least in the French and Swiss armies.

IDK how practical this is in your case (and doesn't answer the translation question) but the document itself refers to the Congregation itself as the author of its previous documents?

A load of bread branded for a traditional wrestling festival, made of a five square rolls arranged in the shape of a Swiss cross

Honey, are you alright? You’ve barely touched your Federal Wrestling Festival bread!

A Marseille, de très jeunes footballeurs surentraînés dans l’espoir de devenir le prochain Kylian Mbappé - Le Temps Poussés par des parents qui rêvent pour eux d’un destin de star, de plus en plus d’enfants suivent, parfois dès l’âge de cinq ans et en dehors de tout cadre fédéral, d’intenses programmes individuels ...

This reminds of the "coaching lab" craze in France: there are kids who go to technical coaches for at least an hour everyday because otherwise you can’t keep up with the other would-be-Mbappes, either to get into or even once you’re in professional club’s academy www.letemps.ch/articles/a-m...

Tbf French ministers are very often current (in which case they can go back once they’re no longer ministers) or former members of parliament, and the government can be brought down by the Assemblée nationale, so it’s not quite as disconnected as in the US

(Definitely the purpose it had when we drank it in high school)

And yet it got best actress instead of Amélie!

My eyes are like this too, In French that would count as "pers", which means blue-green, and is incidentally used to translate Athena’s "Glaukopis" epithet in Homeric texts

YouTube video by Vendaaik Chris de Burgh - Lonely Sky

This sent me into a rabbit hole and now I know there’s a Chris de Burgh song that mentions the Bise: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscG...

Yeah plum and apricot are the catholic-coded ones

Listening to the Wicked movie’s soundtrack and it feels like hearing a pre-HIP baroque recording lmao

This type of stuff always reminds me of this excellent thread by @laysfarra.bsky.social x.com/lymfhsr/stat...

Ah I see someone is already on the case 😶‍🌫️

I’m heading to the library tomorrow so I can get that for you!

Weirdly enough «naughty» would perhaps be better translated by «villain» in French! «Méchant» is more like «Mean» – «despicable» would be «méprisable» but I think that would be seen as too difficult a word for kids in French.

There’s a future-ex-boyfriend-in-a-Nancy-Meyers-movie looking American in our airport bus hogging four seats with his suitcases and his little looks of shamed panic at the people standing with their luggage are very amusing

A Betty Bossi-brand «Rösti à la Zürich Geschnetzeltes» pie on a supermarket shelf somewhere in Switzerland. It’s an open-faced pie topped with shredded potatoes (and presumably with a chicken and mushroom filling underneath, given the name).

d’gfällt er nied? da isch d’tüür

A daycare weekly lunch menu

Feeling pretty jealous of my daughter’s daycare lunches I have to say - she had venison cannelloni yesterday, braised steak today, and she’s having empanadas on Friday

Random Geneva encounter of the day: a tramload of teenagers from Derbyshire on a school trip to CERN

“… and he has this idea for a city called “The Line”, I really want to go check out the exhibition!”
The things you overhear at breakfast in Venice…