Versailles or Vichy?

I have moved the post with this title to my new blog, Geoplots, my goal being to protect the tenor of personal and, for quite a while now, poetic content here on Like a Log from the political tirades to which I am wont. Geoplots does have its inner logic, though, and will be residing somewhere along the boundary between the factual and the counterfactual, roughly the same zone where poetry finds its home, and our notions of self take root.