La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Arises From Pelléas et Mélisande

Summary: La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse arises from the Achille-Claude Debussy opera Pelléas et Mélisande from the alike-named Maurice Maeterlinck play.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via Franch Galaad, Galahad) abandons his young bride and his young brother to one another's daily company. He abhors their like-aged activities. Pelléas (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς) and Mélisande (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) absorbed with one another in such ambiances abounding in isolated, natural beauty as a magical fountain and a shoreline cave network accelerates Golaud's adulterous suspicions; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch of cliffs by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse arises as short-story sequel of 2009 from the Achille-Claude Debussy opera Pelléas et Mélisande from the alike-named Maurice Maeterlinck play that perhaps archives European legends.

La Fille de Mélisande, by Kate Mosse for the Jeanette Winterson-edited, 2009-released Midsummer Nights, banishes anything bewildering the 1902-staged opera, the 1893-staged play Pelléas et Mélisande. The Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play commences 18-plus years before the Mosse sequel. Allemonde (from German allaz, “all”; German mann-, “men”? or French monde, “world”? via Latin Alemannī) King Arkel, Queen Geneviève and Prince Pelléas discuss dauphin Prince Golaud.

Arkel (from Old Norse arn, “eagle”; ketill, “cauldron”) and Geneviève (from German kunga, “lineage”; wiba, “wife”?; Gaullish genos, “family”? via Frenchified Genovefa?) expect a royal engagement.

The royal couple favor finishing futile feuds by fiancéing their dauphin (from French dauphin, “successor”; Latin delphīnus; Greek δελφίν, δελφίς, “dolphin” from δελφύς, “womb”) to Ursule.

Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via Franch Galaad, Galahad) gathers, not Ursule (from Latin ursa -ula, “she-bearlet”) from neighboring royal grounds, but Mélisande. Mélisande (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) has perhaps royal histories even as she heaves her crown into forest waters. Father-in-law Arkel and mother-in-law Geneviève invite, as their elder son Prince Golaud’s recentest wife and as their only grandchild Yniold’s stepmother, Princess Mélisande into Allemonde Castle.

La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) by Kate Mosse joins to that six-member royal family a royal grandchild.

Yniold (from German irmin, “great”; hilt, “battle” via Irminhild via Italian Imeldo) keepsakes his mother, perhaps killed, in his heart even as he knows stepmotherly kindness.

Golaud lets Yniold loose to lag after lithe Pelléas and lovely Mélisande to learn if two such like-aged lives lead to liking and loving one another. It maddens him that Mélisande minds her marriage ring so minimally that it merges with cave-moistened materials that he makes her meander with Pelléas and Yniold. Yniold notes Mélisande and Pelléas nuzzling, the former numbed from nudging her ring off for ring-tossing, ring-catching games that nestle it down among deep-water well niches.

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse never offers Miette the maternal ring that occasioned obnoxious outcomes from obstreperous, old, opinionated Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande.

Golaud, as Allemonde premier power-holder, prevents Pelléas peregrinating to whatever place that Marcellus (from Latin Mārs –cellus, “battle little[-spaced]”) picked for perishing protected by preferred people.

Quintessentially quarrelsome, Pelléas quests what qualifies as his truth even as Mélisande and Pelléas quest the quaint quietude of such quarters as Allemonde towers and wells. He resents Pelléas (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς) rounding Mélisande’s Rapunzel-like, tower-high long hair to willow trees even as Mélisande and Pelléas reprise another kiss. Nothing stops Golaud from sabotaging whatever Pelléas seeks or from shoving a pregnant Mélisande around their room until she succumbs even as their first child survives.

Pelléas et Mélisande and, by Kate Mosse, La Fille de Mélisande transmit no “more woe than this” Shakespeare:Romeo and Juliet:5:3:308-309) of mother, daughter and their Golaud.

A magical fountain accommodates Kate Mosse arightening with her short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) what Pelléas et Mélisande (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "the"; French Mélisande, “Millicent”), as Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, never asserts. What awaits a motherless daughter alone amid those whom an awful father awes?; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via Franch Galaad, Galahad) abandons his young bride and his young brother to one another's daily company. He abhors their like-aged activities. Pelléas (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς) and Mélisande (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) absorbed with one another in such ambiances abounding in isolated, natural beauty as a magical fountain and a shoreline cave network accelerates Golaud's adulterous suspicions; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch of cliffs by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dekorationsskiss_av_Carl_Grabow_-_SMV_-_DTM_1939-4129.tif

A magical fountain accommodates Kate Mosse arightening with her short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) what Pelléas et Mélisande (Frenchified Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "the"; French Mélisande, “Millicent”), as Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, never asserts. What awaits a motherless daughter alone amid those whom an awful father awes?; gouache paint on paper scenography sketch by Swedish artist Carl Grabow (1847-1922) for the March 17, 1905, premiere of Pelleas och Melisande at Svenska Teatern (Swedish Theatre) in Helsinki, Uusimaa region, southern Finland: Statens musikverk (Swedish Performing Arts Agency). Photographer: Narciso Contreras, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dekorationsskiss_av_Carl_Grabow_-_SMV_-_DTM_1939-4127.tif

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 17 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Acts as French Phrase Book." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse_17.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Admits Gold, Green, Red and White." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse_10.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Airs Field, Forest, Marine Animals." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 October 2023. "Field and Forest Plants Abound in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/field-and-forest-plants-abound-in-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 October 2023. "Kate Mosse Anchors in Allemonde her La Fille de Mélisande short story." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/kate-mosse-anchors-in-allemonde-her-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 October 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Adds a Pelléas et Mélisande Sequel." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Mosse, Kate. 1 January 2009. "La Fille de Mélisande." Pages 247-254. In: Jeanette Winterson (Ed.). Midsummer Nights. London UK: Quercus Publishing.

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Romeo and Juliet. Release date Nov. 1, 1998 [eBook #1513]. Most recently updated June 27, 2023.
Available @ https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1513/pg1513-images.html

Sotheby’s International Realty. “Historic elegance at the Palais Maeterlinck on Cap de Nice.” Côte d'Azur > Sotheby’s > Luxury real estate.
Available @ https://www.cotedazur-sothebysrealty.com/en/luxury-real-estate/details/941/historic-elegance-palais-maeterlinck-cap-de-nice/

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Acts as French Phrase Book

Summary: La Fille de Mélisande, short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the 1902-staged opera, the 1893-staged play Pelléas et Mélisande, acts as French phrase book.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Palais Maeterlinck (from French palais, “palace”) on the Côte d'Azur (from French côte de azur, “coast of [bright-, clear-skied] azure [blue]”), Mediterranean coastal southern France, abounds in elegant, refined architecture. Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) acquired Castellamare (from Italian castello a mare, “castle at [the] sea”) building for 2 million (2,000,000) Belgian francs at an auction actualized according to a Nice court decision against Comte Léon de Miléant (Feb. 18, 1878-1940?) of Krim, Ukraine. The latter added the 6,000-square-meter (64,583.46-square-foot) area in 1920, before which Frank Jay Gould (Dec. 4, 1877-April 1, 1956) of New York City, New York, admitted it among his private European residential addresses. The Maeterlinck mansion once again affirmed the Maeterlinck congenital affluence, with which it aligned with the Maeterlinckian appellation Villa Orlamonde (from French hors là monde, “out there world”), from a poem among the operatic libretto of his Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (from French Ariane, “Ariadne” [from Greek ἀρι-, “very”; ἀδνός, “holy, pure” via Ἀρῐάδνη]; et, “and”; barbe, “beard”; bleue, “blue”) with Paul Dukas (Oct. 1, 1865-May 17, 1935); Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, 14:29, image of Palais Maeterlinck, Cap de Nice, Baie des Anges (Niçois: baia dei Ange ou baia dei Àngels), southeastern France: Stéphane Marguet, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

La Fille de Mélisande, short-story sequel, for the Jeanette Winterson-edited, 2009-released Midsummer Nights collection, by Kate Mosse to the 1902-staged opera, the 1893-staged play Pelléas et Mélisande, acts as French phrase book.

La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “[Frenchified] Millicent [Anglicized Germanic amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) boasts French titling. It conserves respectively French and Belgian cultures of composer Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) and of playwright Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949). It designates people-naming proper nouns, such as Genevieve, Golaud, Melisande, Miette, Pelleas and Yniold even as it does not divulge Genevieve’s husband or her first daughter-in-law.

The English first name Genevieve ensues from Geneviève (Frenchified from German kunga, “clan, family, lineage”; wiba, “wife, woman”?; from Gaulish genos, “family, kin” via medieval Genovefa?).

That queen’s elder son, Prince Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via French Galaad, Galahad), favors a Frencified Biblical proper noun and topographical feature.

Queen Genevieve’s younger son, Prince Pelleas (Frenchified from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς), gets the first name of Lady of the Lake Niume’s Round-Table Knight husband. She has two grandchildren, of whom her granddaughter, by Golaud’s last wife, Melisande, hearkens to the first name Miette (from French Mélisande, “Millicent”; and miette, “crumb”). Yniold (from German irmin, “great”; hilt, “battle” via Irminhild via Italian Imeldo) is Golaud’s only child with his next-last wife and Queen Genevieve’s first-born, only grandson.

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse jubilates, in its linguistic journeys as French phrase book, the place-naming proper nouns Allemonde and La Fontaine des Aveugles.

The English-language prose keepsakes from the French-language opera and the Belgian-French play the imaginary-kingdom name Allemonde (from German allaz, “all”; mann-, “men, people” via Latin Alemannī).

Allemonde (from German allaz-, “all”; French monde, “world”?) lands lodge La Fontaine des Aveugles (from French la, “the”; fontaine, “fountain”; de les, “of the”; aveugles, “blind”). La Fontaine des Aveugles also may be monikered L’Abreuvoir des Aveugles (from French le, “the”; abreuvoir, “drinking fountain, watering hole”; de les, “of the”; aveugles, “blind”). It niches fresh water for Allemonde non-royals and royals and perhaps for that kingdom’s animal and bird life, such as sheep and as gulls and nightjars.

La Fontaine des Aveugles offers the French phrase book obtainable from common and proper nouns in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse a fictitious occurrence.

The Belgian capital, Bruxelles (from Germanic brōk, “marsh”; sali, “building, room”), preserves abreuvoirs-fontaines des aveugles sculpturally portraying Pieter Brueghel’s (1525?-Sep. 9, 1569) blind-led blind parabled painting.

La Fille de Mélisande short-story sequel quarters French sentences and sentence fragments, with La verite, Pas maintenant; Un, deux, trois loup queuing among verb-less phrases. La vérité; Pas maintenant; Un amour défendu; Un, deux, trois loup respectively reveal “The truth!”; “Not now!”; “A forbidden love!”; “One, two, three [beware the] wolf!” The sole sentences, Je te pardonne and Je te pardonne tout, suggest that “I forgive you[.] I forgive you [for] everything” (literally, “I you forgive all”).

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Moss from the 116-year-old play and the 107-year-old opera, transmits true-life phrases and sentences transmissible through a French phrase book.

Musical ability allowed Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918), composer of the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) from the same-named Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, to ally with far more affluent society than that of his parents, china-shop operator Manuel-Achille Debussy (May 10, 1835-Oct. 28, 1910) and seamstress Victorine Manoury Debussy (Oct. 28, 1836-March 23, 1915). Audiences ardently amassing to his Pelléas et Mélisande April 30, 1902, anticipated his social ascent from Saint-Germain-en-Laye newborn to Villeneuve-la-Guyard 2-year addressee (1902-1904) to 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch dying addressee; Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, 15:06, image of Achille-Claude Debussy's last residence, 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch, 16th arrondissement of Paris (le XVIe arrondissement de Paris), Right Bank (rive droite de la Seine): Ptelea, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Palais Maeterlinck (from French palais, “palace”) on the Côte d'Azur (from French côte de azur, “coast of [bright-, clear-skied] azure [blue]”), Mediterranean coastal southern France, abounds in elegant, refined architecture. Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) acquired Castellamare (from Italian castello a mare, “castle at [the] sea”) building for 2 million (2,000,000) Belgian francs at an auction actualized according to a Nice court decision against Comte Léon de Miléant (Feb. 18, 1878-1940?) of Krim, Ukraine. The latter added the 6,000-square-meter (64,583.46-square-foot) area in 1920, before which Frank Jay Gould (Dec. 4, 1877-April 1, 1956) of New York City, New York, admitted it among his private European residential addresses. The Maeterlinck mansion once again affirmed the Maeterlinck congenital affluence, with which it aligned with the Maeterlinckian appellation Villa Orlamonde (from French hors là monde, “out there world”), from a poem among the operatic libretto of his Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (from French Ariane, “Ariadne” [from Greek ἀρι-, “very”; ἀδνός, “holy, pure” via Ἀρῐάδνη]; et, “and”; barbe, “beard”; bleue, “blue”) with Paul Dukas (Oct. 1, 1865-May 17, 1935); Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, 14:29, image of Palais Maeterlinck, Cap de Nice, Baie des Anges (Niçois: baia dei Ange ou baia dei Àngels), southeastern France: Stéphane Marguet, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PalaisMaeterlinck.jpeg

Musical ability allowed Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918), composer of the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) from the same-named Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play, to ally with far more affluent society than that of his parents, china-shop operator Manuel-Achille Debussy (May 10, 1835-Oct. 28, 1910) and seamstress Victorine Manoury Debussy (Oct. 28, 1836-March 23, 1915). Audiences ardently amassing to his Pelléas et Mélisande April 30, 1902, anticipated his social ascent from Saint-Germain-en-Laye newborn to Villeneuve-la-Guyard 2-year addressee (1902-1904) to 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch dying addressee; Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, 15:06, image of Achille-Claude Debussy's last residence, 23 Square de l’Avenue Foch, 16th arrondissment of Paris (le XVIe arrondissement de Paris), Right Bank (rive droite de la Seine): Ptelea, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Debussy's_house,_Sq._de_l'av._Foch.jpg

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Admits Gold, Green, Red and White." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse_10.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Airs Field, Forest, Marine Animals." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 October 2023. "Field and Forest Plants Abound in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/field-and-forest-plants-abound-in-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 October 2023. "Kate Mosse Anchors in Allemonde her La Fille de Mélisande short story." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/kate-mosse-anchors-in-allemonde-her-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 October 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Adds a Pelléas et Mélisande Sequel." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Mosse, Kate. 1 January 2009. "La Fille de Mélisande." Pages 247-254. In: Jeanette Winterson (Ed.). Midsummer Nights. London UK: Quercus Publishing.

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Romeo and Juliet. Release date Nov. 1, 1998 [eBook #1513]. Most recently updated June 27, 2023.
Available @ https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1513/pg1513-images.html

Sotheby’s International Realty. “Historic elegance at the Palais Maeterlinck on Cap de Nice.” Côte d'Azur > Sotheby’s > Luxury real estate.
Available @ https://www.cotedazur-sothebysrealty.com/en/luxury-real-estate/details/941/historic-elegance-palais-maeterlinck-cap-de-nice/

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Admits Gold, Green, Red and White

Summary: La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse admits gold, green, red and white colors in this short-story sequel to the opera and the play Pelléas et Mélisande.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

The Gelée blanche (from French gelév blanche, "frost white") painting, achieved in 1893, by Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830-Nov. 13, 1903) acknowledges among its colors gold, green, red and white. Those four colors acquit themselves 135 years later in the short story, La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]), by Kate Mosse. That short-story sequel to the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) actualizes white for grief and remembrance, green for history and passing time, red for dying and gold for duty and loyalty; image of Gelée blanche (Deutsch: Rauhreif English: White Frost), 1873 oil on canvas by Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, collection Musée d'Orsay, Rue de Lille, 7th arrondissement of Paris (le (VII arrondissement de Paris), Left Bank (rive gauche de la Seine): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse admits gold, green, red and white colors in this short-story sequel to the Achille-Claude Debussy opera Pelléas et Mélisande, from the same-named Maurice Maeterlinck play.

La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) begins with white. That short story considers white, perhaps firstly and foremostly, as “the colour of remembrance” (Mosse:247) in colorless assertions as ghosts, hoar frost, shrouds and winding sheets. It perhaps defers to that literal color-free colorlessness as doing double duty with the aforementioned apparitions in declaring olfactory, physical, visual, vocal absence of those departed.

The omniscient narrator equates colorless white with “the colour of grief” (Mosse:247) experienced perhaps most emotionally, empathically and enduringly on an overlapping maternal death-, infant birth-day.

The short-story sequel to the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play secondly features green.

Miette (from French miette, “crumb”) glimpses green graying twilight-blackened trees in green-shadowed forests even as black goes as stave notes or as words on white pages. The omniscient narrator hails green, not black-and-white documents and scores, not graying chapels and tombstones, as “the colour of history” (Mosse:248) and “of time passing” (Mosse:249). That green invokes human-inscribed history, inexorable-passed time in emerald weeds, lichen and sabling olive moss respectively invading pathways no longer itinerated, castle walls and headstone letters.

Kate Mosse joins colors such as gold, green, red and white for short-story journeys of La Fille de Mélisande from Pelléas et Mélisande opera and play.

The first, white color kindles in its keepsakes the second and the fourth colors even as the second, green color knows as keepsakes white and yellow.

Memorable, mourning white lodges among historical, temporal green in beggars white-haired 18 years after Miette’s Uncle Pelléas (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς) lost his life. Yellow gold matches Mélisande, as Golaud’s (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via French Galaad, Galahad) wife and therefore Pelléas’ sister-in-law, missing her wedding ring. Flaming candles niche their “dancing yellow” (Mosse:249) along Allemonde (Latin Alemannī, from German allaz, “all”; mann-, “men, people”?; from German allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?) walls.

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse observes gold, green, red and white colors, the third of which offers itself as “the colour of dying” (Mosse:251).

One “single, red pearl of blood” (Mosse:250) from Miette’s knife-tip push against a thumb presages red perishing among fallen rose petals and as the setting sun.

That red questing, quickening and quitting no living quintessence quarters bloody fingers that perhaps forever quelled “the damaged beating heart” (Mosse:251) one, two, three times before. It perhaps reminds non-royal and royal residents of Allemonde Castle of raging recriminations and reprisals, of ravaging revenge every reunion of setting-sun rays rendering chambers crimson. Its souvenir nevertheless suggests yellow gold since that same gold fourthly serves as “the colour of loyalty” especially in its sustainability as a “duty fulfilled” (Mosse:254).

Kate Mosse transmits La Fille de Mélisande, short-story sequel to the Pelléas et Mélisande opera, as a tale told through gold, green, red and white colors.

Perhaps a yellow gold ring with green, red and white stones alike to this emerald, pearl, ruby gold armband adorned Mélisande's (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) wedding finger in the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]). Gold, green, red and white colors advanced 107 to 116 years after that 1893-composed play and that 1902-performed opera in the 2009-released short story, La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse. They advise the respective dutiful and loyal, historical and time-passing, dying and grieving memorial affirmations in that short-story sequel; Monday, April 25, 2016, 09:34, image of jeweled gold bracelet made to order for Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, per invoice dated July 2, 1897, by jewelry firm of Jacob Engelberth Torsk (Aug. 16, 1836-May 14, 1860), Stockholm, Sweden: Hallwyl Museum / Helena Bonnevier, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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The Gelée blanche (from French gelév blanche, "frost white") painting, achieved in 1893, by Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830-Nov. 13, 1903) acknowledges among its colors gold, green, red and white. Those four colors acquit themselves 135 years later in the short story, La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]), by Kate Mosse. That short-story sequel to the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) actualizes white for grief and remembrance, green for history and passing time, red for dying and gold for duty and loyalty; image of Gelée blanche (Deutsch: Rauhreif English: White Frost), 1873 oil on canvas by Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, collection Musée d'Orsay, Rue de Lille, 7th arrondissement of Paris (le (VII arrondissement de Paris), Left Bank (rive gauche de la Seine): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camille_Pissarro,_Gelee_blanche_(Hoarfrost),_1873.jpg

Perhaps a yellow gold ring with green, red and white stones alike to this emerald, pearl, ruby gold armband adorned Mélisande's (from French Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) wedding finger in the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera from the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande (from Greek πηλός, “clay” via Πηλεύς; French et, "and"; French Mélisande, "Millicent" [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]). Gold, green, red and white colors advanced 107 to 116 years after that 1893-composed play and that 1902-performed opera in the 2009-released short story, La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, “Millicent” [Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse. They advise the respective dutiful and loyal, historical and time-passing, dying and grieving memorial affirmations in that short-story sequel; Monday, April 25, 2016, 09:34, image of jeweled gold bracelet made to order for Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, per invoice dated July 2, 1897, by jewelry firm of Jacob Engelberth Torsk (Aug. 16, 1836-May 14, 1860), Stockholm, Sweden: Hallwyl Museum / Helena Bonnevier, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armband_av_guld_med_ädelstenar_och_pärla,_1897_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_110128.tif

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 November 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Airs Field, Forest, Marine Animals." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 October 2023. "Field and Forest Plants Abound in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/field-and-forest-plants-abound-in-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 October 2023. "Kate Mosse Anchors in Allemonde her La Fille de Mélisande short story." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/kate-mosse-anchors-in-allemonde-her-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 October 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Adds a Pelléas et Mélisande Sequel." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Mosse, Kate. 1 January 2009. "La Fille de Mélisande." Pages 247-254. In: Jeanette Winterson (Ed.). Midsummer Nights. London UK: Quercus Publishing.

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Romeo and Juliet. Release date Nov. 1, 1998 [eBook #1513]. Most recently updated June 27, 2023.
Available @ https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1513/pg1513-images.html

Sotheby’s International Realty. “Historic elegance at the Palais Maeterlinck on Cap de Nice.” Côte d'Azur > Sotheby’s > Luxury real estate.
Available @ https://www.cotedazur-sothebysrealty.com/en/luxury-real-estate/details/941/historic-elegance-palais-maeterlinck-cap-de-nice/

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Airs Field, Forest, Marine Animals

Summary: La Fille de Mélisande, as short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the opera Pelléas et Mélisande for Midsummer Nights, airs field, forest, marine animals.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Silk-moth (Bombyx mori) worms, accepted taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linaaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), perhaps account for satin slippers, something silken and velvet robes in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]). Their assumed appearance acts more aesthetically than the graveyard "worms and spiders" (Mosse:250) actualized in that short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play and the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera Pelléas et Mélisande; "Maulbeerbaum samt Frucht," illustration of mulberry tree and free by German entomologist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (April 2, 1647-Jan. 13, 1717), in Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung, Band 1 (1679), Plate 1: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

La Fille de Mélisande short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson for 2009 release, airs field, forest, marine animals.

The short-story sequel to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play and the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera perhaps bears silkworms. Golaud and Miette (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via French Galaad, Galahad; from French miette, “crumb”) clothe themselves in velvet robes created by silkworms. The dew-damageable satin slippers that Miette, la fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) dons, derive from mulberry-tree leaf-digesting silkworms.

Their host white-mulberry (Morus alba) trees enumerate silk-moth worms (Bombyx mori) among field animals even as crows (Corvus spp) entrench themselves in field and forest environments.

Crows (Corvus spp), ravens (Corvus corax) and wolves (Canis lupus) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Sunday, May 23, 2021, image of "A lone wolf with ravens and crows" in Kuhmo, southeastern Kainuu region, Eastern Finland: Jukka Lämsä, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Corvinae subfamily members fit among Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) wildlife.

Miette glimpses the sabling olive moss that guards between its overlying layer and the underlying walls of Allemonde Castle or Allemonde tower “crow’s feet cracks” (Mosse:248). An unspecified bird heads “out of the trees, the abrupt beating of its wings upon the air mirroring the rhythms of her own resolute heart” (Mosse:251). That Miette in one instance identifies something identical to a specific genus indicator and in another instance invokes the general Aves class identification indicates Allemonde-inhabiting crows.

That La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse judges hair jumbling “like a skein of silk” (Mosse:248) again justifies silkworms journeying among field, forest, marine animals.

Rabbits (Leporidae family) and sheep (Ovis aries) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Thursday, Sep. 4, 2008, image of "Rabbit warren in the tombolo," near The Braes, Isle of Skye, Scotland: Richard Dorrell, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Geograph Britain and Ireland

Miette knows domestic sheep (Ovis aries) as kineticizing Allemonde fields even as they keep daily time with their “twilight lament” both “mournful bleating,” mournful “grieving” (Mosse:249).

Golaud’s and Mélisande’s daughter likens nightly Angelus bell-ringing and castle gate-closing to Allemonde-lodged graves even as she never leaves Allemonde lodgings in all her 18 years. She matches them with grave-mobbing spiders (Araneae order) and such graveyard-marauding worms as eel-like roundworms (Nematoda phylum), lash-like whipworms (Trichuridae family) or ribbon-like tapeworms (Cestoda class). The “cries of the sailors and the rote and the gulls” (Mosse:250) number the latter among such other seaward, setting-sun, shoreward, westward marine animals as oysters.

La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse offers rabbits, wolves and oysters overheard, perhaps observed, perhaps obtained by Miette as respectively among field, forest, marine animals.

Miette's mother never adjusted to Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) kingdom. She always admired areas seaward, setting sunward, shoreward, westward of Allemonde Castle. The operatic and the play heroine of the Pelléas et Mélisande prequel to the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse perhaps always adored "the cries of the sailors and the rote and the gulls" (Mosse:250) such as those adorning the Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) painting Sailing ships and seagulls (from French voiliers, "sailing ships"; et, "and"; mouettes, "seagulls"); "Sailing Ships and Seagulls," ca. 1864 oil on canvas by French modernist painter Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) : Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Miette perceives forest “sighings and whisperings and chitterings” (Mosse:252); presents blood as oyster pearl-like; and pursues playing French un, deux, trois, loup (“one, two, three, wolf”).

Allemonde kingdom perhaps quarters fur-quested bears, beavers, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, lynxes, martens, muskrats, opossums and raccoons “caught fast in the metal jaws of a trap” (Mosse:253). That royal region perhaps realizes a habitat range from open fields to forested and wooded representations and minimum to maximum sea-level to 13,800-foot (4,200-meter) elevation ranges. Such scrubby and semi-scrubby shelters support 4- to 12-plus-year spans of dusk- to dawn-swooping nightjars (Caprimulginae typical-nightjar subfamily), whose chonk-chonk-chonk sounds similarize chopping or tapping wood.

The Allemonde kingdom, as territorialized in the Pelléas et Mélisande short-story sequel, La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, takes in field, forest and marine animals.

A lone nightjar (Caprimulgidae family), perhaps of the European species (Caprimulgus europaeus), advances through the darkening Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) ambiance. That bird vocally advises Miette (from French miette, "crumb") to alter how she anchors herself among her Allemonde associates. Crows (Corvidae family), gulls (Laridae family), nightjars (Caprimulgidae family), rabbits (Leporidae family), sheep (Bovidae family), spiders (Aranae order), wolves (Canidae family) and worms (Nematoda phylum, Trichuridae family, Cestoda class) are field, forest, marine animals attracted to royal Allemonde in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; illustration of Caprimulgus europaeus in Johann Andreas Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas, Band IV (1901), tafel 28: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Silk-moth (Bombyx mori) worms, accepted taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linaaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), perhaps account for satin slippers, something silken and velvet robes in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]). Their assumed appearance acts more aesthetically than the graveyard "worms and spiders" (Mosse:250) actualized in that short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play and the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera Pelléas et Mélisande; "Maulbeerbaum samt Frucht," illustration of mulberry tree and free by German entomologist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (April 2, 1647-Jan. 13, 1717), in Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung, Band 1 (1679), Plate 1: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Sibylla_Merian_Maulbeerbaum_samt_Frucht_plate_1.png

Crows (Corvus spp), ravens (Corvus corax) and wolves (Canis lupus) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Sunday, May 23, 2021, image of "A lone wolf with ravens and crows" in Kuhmo, southeastern Kainuu region, Eastern Finland: Jukka Lämsä, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_lone_wolf_with_ravens_and_crows_in_4K_HDR._07.png

Rabbits (Leporidae family) and sheep (Ovis aries) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Thursday, Sep. 4, 2008, image of "Rabbit warren in the tombolo," near The Braes, Isle of Skye, Scotland: Richard Dorrell, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Geograph Britain and Ireland @ https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/953376; Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rabbit_warren_in_the_tombolo_-_geograph.org.uk_-_953376.jpg

Miette's mother never adjusted to Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) kingdom. She always admired areas seaward, setting sunward, shoreward, westward of Allemonde Castle. The operatic and the play heroine of the Pelléas et Mélisande prequel to the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse perhaps always adored "the cries of the sailors and the rote and the gulls" (Mosse:250) such as those adorning the Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) painting Sailing ships and seagulls (from French voiliers, "sailing ships"; et, "and"; mouettes, "seagulls"); "Sailing Ships and Seagulls," ca. 1864 oil on canvas by French modernist painter Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) : Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89douard_Manet_-_Sailing_Ships_and_Seagulls.jpg

A lone nightjar (Caprimulgidae family), perhaps of the European species (Caprimulgus europaeus), advances through the darkening Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) ambiance. That bird vocally advises Miette (from French miette, "crumb") to alter how she anchors herself among her Allemonde associates. Crows (Corvidae family), gulls (Laridae family), nightjars (Caprimulgidae family), rabbits (Leporidae family), sheep (Bovidae family), spiders (Aranae order), wolves (Canidae family) and worms (Nematoda phylum, Trichuridae family, Cestoda class) are field, forest, marine animals attracted to royal Allemonde in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; illustration of Caprimulgus europaeus in Johann Andreas Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas, Band IV (1901), tafel 28: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caprimulgus_europaeus.jpg; Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/50999258535/; No known copyright issues, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34557303

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 27 October 2023. "Field and Forest Plants Abound in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/field-and-forest-plants-abound-in-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 October 2023. "Kate Mosse Anchors in Allemonde her La Fille de Mélisande short story." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/kate-mosse-anchors-in-allemonde-her-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 October 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Adds a Pelléas et Mélisande Sequel." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Mosse, Kate. 1 January 2009. "La Fille de Mélisande." Pages 247-254. In: Jeanette Winterson (Ed.). Midsummer Nights. London UK: Quercus Publishing.

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Romeo and Juliet. Release date Nov. 1, 1998 [eBook #1513]. Most recently updated June 27, 2023.
Available @ https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1513/pg1513-images.html

Sotheby’s International Realty. “Historic elegance at the Palais Maeterlinck on Cap de Nice.” Côte d'Azur > Sotheby’s > Luxury real estate.
Available @ https://www.cotedazur-sothebysrealty.com/en/luxury-real-estate/details/941/historic-elegance-palais-maeterlinck-cap-de-nice/

Field and Forest Plants Abound in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse

Summary: Field and forest plants abound in the short story La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Only juniper bushes abide as genus-named among anonymous field and forest plants in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, short-story sequel, to the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera and to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande, for the Midsummer Nights collection edited for 2009 release by Jeanette Winterson. Perhaps they abound as a common juniper species, common juniper (Juniperus communis) accepted into scientific nomenclature in 1753 by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778); Sunday, June 10, 2012, image of massive juniper trees at Les Planeresses, Walloon Region, Liège Province, southeastern Belgium: BUFO8, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Field and forest plants abound in the short story La Fille de Mélisande, as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel, by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited in 2009 by Jeanette Winterson.

The short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent"), as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel, bares no plant-species names. Yet Kate Mosse's short story from Achille-Claude Debussy's (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera and Maurice Maeterlinck's (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play configures terrestrial plants. Miette (from French miette, "crumb"), Golaud's (from Old Testament gilead, "heap of witnesses" via French Galaad, Galahad) and Mélisande's daughter, discerns ground- and wall-dwelling grass blades.

Green graying to twilight-blackened trees embellish green-shadowed forests even as juniper bushes and twisted undergrowth ensconce themselves near Allemonde (from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?) woods.

Miette (from French miette, "crumb"), as Mélisande's (from Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) daughter, accepts female-accommodating paper fans and ribbons, satin slippers and velvet robes. Dress, hair and slipper ribbons and paper fans acclaim cotton or jute non-native ancestry away from the perhaps European origins of the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent"), as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson. Fan- and ribbon-makers acclaim Carl von Linné- (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) acclaimed white jute (Corchorus capsularis) more than his scientific nomenclature-acclaiming wild jute (Corchorus olitorius); Beklädnadsväxter, in Nordisk familjebok, vol. 2 (1904): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cotton, esparto, flax, hemp, jute, manila and straw perhaps furnish Miette her royal fans and paper even as mulberry-tree leaf-fed silkworms perhaps fashion her satin slippers.

Her father, Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via French Galaad, Galahad), perhaps gets his royal velvet robes from those same mulberry-tree leaf-gallivanting silkworms. Perhaps Miette had ribbons, honed by those same mulberry-tree leaf-harvesting, from those same cotton or jute field plants, for happenings other than her 18 hapless birthdays. The day individually inspiring Golaud and Miette to itinerate amidst and past emerald weeds, environmental health-indicative lichen, sabling olive moss, is that birth- and death-invoking day.

Perhaps Allemonde sheep-jubilated barley, corn, hay, legume and silage join forb, grassy, leafy-bush, leafy-tree field and forest plants in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse.

Satin slippers, perhaps something silk, velvet robes accommodate as royal accoutrements Miette in her daily activities even as velvet robes accoutre Mélisande's husband and Miette's father, Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, "heap of witnesses" via French Galaad, Galahad). White mulberry trees (Morus alba), with their silkworm-accommodating leaves, achieve acclimatized areas, outside ancestral China and India. So perhaps they achieved such acclimatization in Allemonde kingdom (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?); Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, image of trail shaded by white mulberry trees (Morus alba) in Mèze, Hérault, Southern France: Christian Ferrer, CC BY 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Allemonde Castle keeps within its walls Golaud and Miette and those whose candle-making knowledge kindles keeping private rooms, royal corridors and shared rooms evening- and night-lighted.

Miette likens red to what leads to death, to “petals pulled from a rose, strewn on the cobbled stones of a garden no longer tended” (Mosse:251). Perhaps royal gardens messy with cultivation-maintained, wild-meandering red roses minus many petals, mustering maximum nectar-tube openings manifest floral nectar for honeyed makeovers in bee honey stomachs. Perhaps that red-rose nectar niched in bee honey stomachs nestled as candle-netting beeswax in Allemonde Castle (from Germanic Alamann- via Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?).

Perhaps the Pelléas et Mélisande sequel, La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, offers cherry, maple, rosewood, spruce and willow trees among field and forest plants.

The "cobbled stones of a garden no longer tended" (Mosse:251) on Allemonde royal grounds (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?) acquire red-rose petals. Perhaps red-rose nectar as bee honey-stomach beeswax acquits itself in candle-adorned evening and night rituals along Allemonde Castle corridors and at Allemonde Castle private and public rooms; Saturday, Sep. 8, 2007, 22:25,image of "bougies rouges" (red candles): Jonathan M (Absolutecars), CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Miette presents herself as paralleling the vibrational possibility of “an open string on a violin” (Mosse:251) in pondering possible pursuits that presage poorly for previous patterns.

The aforementioned five trees quarter wood quintessential to violin-making even as spear-quality ash-tree wood quickens “the memory of metal and spear” and of “hunting accidents” (Mosse:252). Perhaps the royal grounds realize regular rearrangements of cultivated and wild green leafy and root vegetables for all the rabbits “seeking cover in the undergrowth” (Mosse:251). Perhaps they similarly shelter such land birds as beetle-, cicada-, fly-, moth-swallowing nightjars and such sea birds as amphibian-, berry-, bird-, fish-, grain-, mammal-, reptile-swallowing gulls.

The short story La Fille de Mélisande, as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel by Kate Mosse, tempts non-royal and royal trekkers with purposeful field and forest plants.

Cherry-, maple-, rosewood-, spruce- and willow-tree woods traditionally act as violin-amenable woods even as ash-tree woods traditionally act as spear-amicable wood. Ash-, spruce- and willow-tree woods sometimes act as spear- and violin-amicable woods. Perhaps adaptable common-ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior), addressed taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), actualized respective military and musical memories behind Golaud's "memory of metal and spear" (Mosse:252) and Miette's moving like "an open string on a violin" (Mosse:251); Thursday, May 24, 2007, 17:11, image of Fraxinus excelsior, Parc du domaine d'Ardenne, Houyet, Belgique: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Only juniper bushes abide as genus-named among anonymous field and forest plants in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, short-story sequel, to the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera and to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande, for the Midsummer Nights collection edited for 2009 release by Jeanette Winterson. Perhaps they abound as a common juniper species, common juniper (Juniperus communis) accepted into scientific nomenclature in 1753 by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778); Sunday, June 10, 2012, image of massive juniper trees at Les Planeresses, Walloon Region, Liège Province, southeastern Belgium: BUFO8, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malmedy_-_genévrière_des_Planeresses.JPG

Miette (from French miette, "crumb"), as Mélisande's (from Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) daughter, accepts female-accommodating paper fans and ribbons, satin slippers and velvet robes. Dress, hair and slipper ribbons and paper fans acclaim cotton or jute non-native ancestry away from the perhaps European origins of the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent"), as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson. Fan- and ribbon-makers acclaim Carl von Linné- (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) acclaimed white jute (Corchorus capsularis) more than his scientific nomenclature-acclaiming wild jute (Corchorus olitorius); Beklädnadsväxter, in Nordisk familjebok, vol. 2 (1904): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beklädnadsväxter,_Nordisk_familjebok.png

Satin slippers, perhaps something silk, velvet robes accommodate as royal accoutrements Miette in her daily activities even as velvet robes accoutre Mélisande's husband and Miette's father, Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, "heap of witnesses" via French Galaad, Galahad). White mulberry trees (Morus alba), with their silkworm-accommodating leaves, achieve acclimatized areas, outside ancestral China and India. So perhaps they achieved such acclimatization in Allemonde kingdom (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?); Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, image of trail shaded by white mulberry trees (Morus alba) in Mèze, Hérault, Southern France: Christian Ferrer, CC BY 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trees_and_trail,_Mèze_cf01.jpg

The "cobbled stones of a garden no longer tended" (Mosse:251) on Allemonde royal grounds (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?) acquire red-rose petals. Perhaps red-rose nectar as bee honey-stomach beeswax acquits itself in candle-adorned evening and night rituals along Allemonde Castle corridors and at Allemonde Castle private and public rooms; Saturday, Sep. 8, 2007, 22:25,image of "bougies rouges" (red candles): Jonathan M (Absolutecars), CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Absolute_bougies_01.jpg

Cherry-, maple-, rosewood-, spruce- and willow-tree woods traditionally act as violin-amenable woods even as ash-tree woods traditionally act as spear-amicable wood. Ash-, spruce- and willow-tree woods sometimes act as spear- and violin-amicable woods. Perhaps adaptable common-ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior), addressed taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), actualized respective military and musical memories behind Golaud's "memory of metal and spear" (Mosse:252) and Miette's moving like "an open string on a violin" (Mosse:251); Thursday, May 24, 2007, 17:11, image of Fraxinus excelsior, Parc du domaine d'Ardenne, Houyet, Belgique: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fraxinus_excelsior_-_Ardenne_1b.JPG

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 20 October 2023. "Kate Mosse Anchors in Allemonde her La Fille de Mélisande short story." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/kate-mosse-anchors-in-allemonde-her-la.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 13 October 2023. "La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse Adds a Pelléas et Mélisande Sequel." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/la-fille-de-melisande-by-kate-mosse.html

Mosse, Kate. 1 January 2009. "La Fille de Mélisande." Pages 247-254. In: Jeanette Winterson (Ed.). Midsummer Nights. London UK: Quercus Publishing.

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Romeo and Juliet. Release date Nov. 1, 1998 [eBook #1513]. Most recently updated June 27, 2023.
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Sotheby’s International Realty. “Historic elegance at the Palais Maeterlinck on Cap de Nice.” Côte d'Azur > Sotheby’s > Luxury real estate.
Available @ https://www.cotedazur-sothebysrealty.com/en/luxury-real-estate/details/941/historic-elegance-palais-maeterlinck-cap-de-nice/