Monsieur et Madame

Saturday 12 January 1833 Norfolk Chronicle -
THE FRENCH LANGUAGE Taught Moderate Terms,
MONS. VLIELAND,
ST. GILES' BROAD STREET,
ON a Plan by which/Pupils will be able in a
much Shorter Time to Write and Speak
correctly, than by following the usual methods.
The Italian and German Languages
taught means either the French
OR the English Language.
N. B.—Monsieur Vlieland will resume his attend
ance, and Madame Vlieland will be happy to receive
her Pupils on January 23rd..
This add from 1833 is a great find ! Thanks Ray !
It tells us that Madame Vlieland which means Sarah Heath was a teacher as well .

Saturday 14 July 1838 Norfolk Chronicle -
FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS SUPPLIED WITH GOVERNESSES AND TEACHERS

And the name is monsieur  Vieland .

Johanna Wilhelmina 6

And so we recognised one of the voyages of Jan Vlieland .

We heard  the story from one of the passengers Benjamin Silliman

You can read the ebook with the complete story and it is amazing what 

he describes of his voyage in 1805.

More on the Johanna Wilhelmina 

Johanna Wilhelmina 5

Johnanna Wilhelmina 4

Johanna Wilhelmina 3

happy easter

from French Chit chat  By J.N.Vlieland

The Sicilian Vespers (1282 - 1302)

How do you pronounce "Cicero"?

If you mispronounced it in Sicily in 1282, you'd have been in serious trouble! Why, you may be asking. Well, it's a long and complicated part of Sicilian history, but to cut a long story short, Cicero was the word Sicilians used to unmask their French (Angevin) enemies during the Sicilian Vespers, one of the island's most well-known historical events. It all started on Easter Monday as the bells were ringing out, calling the faithful to Vespers. An insult from a French soldier directed at a Sicilian lady was the straw that broke the camel's back. Since 1266, in fact, the Angevin French had been ruling Sicily with an iron rod, imposing high taxes and generally insulting and mistreating the local population at will.

As rioting broke out in the streets of Palermo, the French were massacred in their hundreds. News quickly travelled around the island and the revolt became evermore widespread until the entire island became practically free of Angevin rule.

The last stagglers of the Angevin army were given shelter in the Castle of Sperlinga by the townsfolk. They lasted a year. Testament to this kindness is testified to by a phrase engraved into the walls: "Quod Siculis placuit sola Sperlinga negavit" (Sperlinga alone refused what pleased the Sicilians).

On hearing the news, the King of Naples, and therefore Sicily, Charles of Anjou, was furious. War was announced and the Sicilians, not having an army of their own appealed to various sponsors for protection.

They made rather a bad miscalculation by asking the Pope for aid - his reply, so it is said, was to excommunicate the entire island. Eventually, however, after the inevitable twists and turns, plots and counterplots, the Sicilians turned to Peter III, King of Aragon, who accepted to take Sicily into his kingdom and launch a war against the Angevin Kings of Naples that would last 20 years. And so started 400 years of

Spanish domination in Sicily.


More history of Sicily > >

Johanna Wilhelmina continues

Johanna Wilhelmina

Remember the story about  Jan Vlieland.?

He sailed with his ship the Johanna  Wilhelmina and here is the story by one of the passengers

so tomorrow we continue .or read the Ebook by Silliman now 

a compliment

RECOLLECTIONS OF SEVENTY-TWO YEARS .

 BY THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM WARREN VERNON

 I have not mentioned any mathematics, nor was our school as good for them as for its other branches of teaching.

 For modern languages we had an old Dutchman, Herr Vlieland, 1 from the island of that ilk, who used to come over from Norwich, and teach us French, Italian, and German. 

 I got the French prize one year, and my Italian was very fairly kept up, preparatory to Eton.

 Wed 24 Nov 1847 IN THE PAPER. 

 Vernon, and Lambton, all of whom were pupils of Mons. Vlieland, of this city. 

We are informed that this is the sixth year tbat tbe pupils of this gentleman have occupied high rank at this college for their proficiency the Languages. 

 Sat 11 Oct 1851 NORFOLK NEWS 

A few days after this saw me back at Eton, and the prin-
cipal event of this half was my cousin Frederick (surnamed
Dick) Lambton winning the first German prize and I
simultaneously winning the first Italian prize. What joy
for our mothers, who were sisters ! and what joy for my
father away in Italy, who had set his heart on my winning
this prize ! He bestowed 20 again on me for books, but
he was not pleased at the way I expended it, for I entrusted
the binding of the books to Ingalton, the Eton bookseller,
and my father, with his fastidious taste in bookbinding,
said he would not touch one of them with a pair of tongs !
My tutor gave me a beautiful Chaucer, and was heartily
pleased at my success. I did very fairly well, too, in the
French examination (won by Cowell, Francis Byng being
second), and was placed high up in the Select. There was
one young competitor in the Italian and French examina-
tions who distinguished himself a great deal. This was
A. C. Swinburne, afterwards the poet. He did quite a
remarkable Italian ode, which was much and justly praised.
In the French examination, when Monsieur Delille made us
his annual valedictory harangue, he spoke in terms of great

 The Hon. William John Borlase-Warren-Venables-Vernon, second son of the fifth Baron Vernon, was born in 1834.

After several years spent in Italy, whither his father had removed for financial reasons, he went to Eton, where he won (in 1850) the Prince Consort's first prize for Italian.

From Eton he went up to Christ Church as a gentleman-commoner. He left Oxford in 1855 in order to be married, without taking a degree, an omission which he repaired 20 years later.

General Ordinations

He made him an April fool

April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commission of good-humoured or otherwise funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc.

In France and Italy children (and adults, when appropriate) traditionally tack paper fish on each other's back as a trick and shout "april fish!" in their local language ("poisson d'avril!" and "pesce d'aprile!" in French and Italian respectively).

In Holland April fool’s is closely linked to the fact that on 1st of April 1572 the Dutch rebels against the King of Spain, the Watergeuzen, captured the town of Brielle in the  province of South-Holland, a seminal event in the formation of the Netherlands .