{"id":36198,"date":"2026-09-17T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=36198"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:23:31","slug":"the-accident-les-etats-et-empires-du-soleil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/the-accident-les-etats-et-empires-du-soleil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Accident\/Les \u00c9tats et Empires du Soleil\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have just been arrested for murder <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a mad primate was found hanging <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a embattled and fading tree <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cops were puzzled regarding my motive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I referred to the incident as an accident<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then the beautiful Yvonne entered my cell <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I confessed using one million words<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My confession was very sparse <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its title if you are still interested at this late hour <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Le Combat de Cyrano de Bergerac avec le singe de Brioch\u00e9, au bout du Pont-Neuf<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was sentenced to death by a host of deaf sparrows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the closed courts of the blind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I was born in the city of Avignon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as per the rule of law <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the location of my execution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be hung from fifth arch of Pont Saint- Benezet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I later found myself in the Rhone Mud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Yvonne of the Stars <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was as we were planning our freedom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That we were betrayed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By a  dying boatman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is supposed that we both drowned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one of the great rivers of the sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we were helped by a nun <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who hid us in a small chapel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where we remain to this day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been arrested for murder As a mad primate was found hanging From a embattled and fading tree The cops were puzzled regarding my motive As I referred to the incident as an accident And then the beautiful Yvonne entered my cell I confessed using one million words My confession was very sparse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36198"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36207,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198\/revisions\/36207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}