The Bell Tolls for These
Douglas BullisThese thirteen Substack threads titled "The Bell Tolls for These" re-creates events experienced by a single member of a thousand-year French clan named Lefief on a single day — one day per century — starting in 1003 and ending in 2024.
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The Bell Tolls for These, 1905
The Last Remains of La Familie Lefief
She stares out from an old photo wearing a shapeless wool dress. She appears ill at ease being the center of attention. One hand holds a Bible, the other drapes over a carved wooden table. The photo...
The Bell Tolls for These, 1889
The Day He Threw Away His Name
Claude Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare (Interior View of the Gare Saint-Lazare, the Auteuil Line), 1877, oil on canvas, 75 x 104 cm (Musée d’Orsay).
A hundred years ago the hardest metal France knew wa...
The Bell Tolls for These, 1788
Pilloried
King handing documents to courier on horseback. Konrad von Ammenhausen, Schachzabelbuch, Erscheinungsort: Hagenau, 1467.
The taille land tax falls due at the end each quartier, and when that quarter embraces the harvest...
The Bell Tolls for These, 1669 Part II
Not By Bread Alone: the world of Brun Lefief
Georges de La Tour, Old Woman, ca. 1618–1619. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection.
Theodule Lefief left home with five sacks of gra...
The Bell Tolls for These, 1669, part I
Not by Bread Alone, the world of Theodule Lefief
Georges de La Tour, Old Man, ca. 1618–1619. Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection.
Wheat achieves its perfection by way o...
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