Letter to the Portuguese kings who did not want the end of the world
Portuguese is gay, English is the ish said Pierre Desproges very relevant. Finally, ish, must be said quickly. Because Portuguese kings have sometimes been very silly by returning to their beloved studies the genoa Cristobal Colon and the native of Magellan.
By refusing their proposed maritime discovery, the crowned heads Lusitanian we have certainly saved a world where we would be obliged to speak this language friendly, hissing and difficult to pronounce. But the Spaniards that were the visionary Catholic Kings took the opportunity to buy up the ante, until the Treaty of Tordesillas
Gaily reactionary torquemadesque champion of the Inquisition, the precursor of returning home, politely but firmly advised our Muslim friends Isabelle the Catholic strangely given to the first vessels of the great socialist leaders. As Churchill was amused between two plates of whiskey, Cristobal Colon, not knowing where he was, not knowing where he went, but always at the expense of taxpayers, was the first socialist in history!
A first socialist who has done everything to become Portuguese. To think he had blinders on, like the revolution of the same name. He began by marrying the daughter of the governor of Porto Santo in the Madeira Islands. The gossips say he was more interested in maps of currents and winds brought as dowry by the father of the young by the charms Filipa hairy, hairy necessarily, the damsel.
On board his caravel, Cristobal was also not the last for kidding, not with jokes about the wily Portuguese, like "What is the difference between a sea lion and a Portuguese? One has whiskers, the hair shiny and smells of cod. ... The other is a marine mammal "
This does not prevent him from going to expose first Portuguese King John II of its project by joining the rising ponant in short, to go to India across the Atlantic. Helped by a group of experts, the Lusitanian monarch rejects the Cristobal Colon final. What a visionary! In one minute, assisted by experts whose role is always a mistake and does not deny, John II had lost half of the world. I hope he has his statue in Lisbon!
At its discharge, we must recognize that good Cristobal has sold China, India and Japan to finally find the Caribbean and Venezuela. But anyway, what sovereign disdain! And it would have been fun to see Chinese dancing fado ...
Not content with this failure Supreme Manuel I decided to make even stronger than John II in pushing the project to circumnavigate the globe (pronounced Vendee Globe today) Fernao de Magalhaes, ocean from an old noble family of northern Portugal. Of Suddenly, the strait that bears his name in Patagonia became Castilian (Estrecho de Magallanes), better known as the Strait of Magellan in good French. Sacred Manuel! It has been overtaken by a young English monarch, very promising, the future Charles V!
Carlos Quinte said besides the good fat jokes directory of Cristobal Colon to taunt his counterpart ports. "Why all the Portuguese called Manuel, he questioned. Because intellectual is not a first name ...". It's clever ...
It is, however, pleased that Magellan is set to English. In this end of the world of infinite beauty that is Patagonia, he had been pity that the lands where many sailors could see smoke, or Alakalufs Yamana Indians, will be appeléesTerra do fogo rather than Tierra del Fuego. Indeed, Francisco Coloane never wrote Terra do Fogo!
But the Portuguese can rest assured: the total absence of their monarchs vista saves them a destiny of beautiful losers and has avoided a worse reputation conquistadors bloody and barbaric. While the Spaniards ... The Portuguese
remains gay and English can be found ish. Pierre Desproges and lively!
Marco Polo
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