The Fat Woman by sandra46
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It looks that the good denizens of Chambéry are destined to be unsatisfied with their statues. This is the statue of the Sasson, a sobriquet meaning 'the fat, stupid woman' in the local Arpitan language. Made by the French sculptor Alexander Falguière (1831-1900),it was erected in 1892. The term Sasson, actually, is a familiar diminutive of Savoyard patois, ironically dubbing a henwtted female, more developed in body than in brain.
The statue is an allegory meant to be a Savoyard woman with giant shoes, clutching a French flag. The monument was inaugurated in 1892 in ceremonies commemorating the centenary of the first annexation of Savoy to France at the time of the Revolution (November 1792, then the region was part of the Piedmont-Sardinia Kingdom, to become French again much later). The statue was confiscated by the Germans in World War II, and was found decapitated in a train station in Germany. In 1950 it went back to Chambery, and in 1982, the statue, restored, was put in its original location.
The Franco-Provencal, or Arpitan, or Romand (in Switzerland), or patoà (in Italy) is a Romance language with several distinct dialects that form a linguistic sub-group separate from the Langue d'Oil and the Langue d'Oc. Today, the largest number of speakers reside in the Aosta Valley, an autonomous region of Italy. The language is also spoken in the Italian Alpine valleys near Turin and Ivrea, two isolated towns in Foggia, and in rural areas of the Romandy region of Switzerland.
A bit of postwork helped.
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Comments (49)
Awesome Image:)
wonderful photo and excellent effects on it
belle photo!!
Really fabulous perspective! Nicely done!
Marvelous shot! I always enjoy reading your bylines. Thanks for sharing them with us.
politic correction again lol. wonder what they going to name it. like the name of a road in texas call Jap road. it the name of a man that lives there and he is from Japan. he loves the name for it is his but some politic correction group like to change the name. They change the name ; guess that what going to happen here too
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Very good work!!!
Cool, it has a surrealist feel to it!
Fantastic work.
Beautiful shot erland
Very interesting narrative and excellent image. Nicely done!
excelletn capture Sandra ! Thanks for your very interesting informations !
very nice shot and PW.
Beautiful Capture, POV and postwork. Wonderful narrative also. Informative! Dana
That's an excellent shot and postwork... what makes it more special for me, are those two vans: that's my kinda vehicle!
Fantastic info`s and a great capture too !!!!!!! "Five stars" :) Hugs Karin :)
Beautiful picture!
Great photo and history of this lovely statue and the dialect of the region.