Le Jardin du Luxembourg
| Archive | |
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| Name: | Le Jardin du Luxembourg |
| Date(s): | 1999–2003 |
| Archivist: | Ursula |
| Founder: | Ursula |
| Type: | fanfiction, fanart, other content |
| Fandom: | Les Misérables |
| URL: | http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Orchestra/4185/ (1999) http://altern.org/miserable (2000) http://tbns.net/ursula/ (2000–2019) http://melodramatic.frenchboys.net/ (2001–2003) |
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Le Jardin du Luxembourg was Ursula's Les Misérables fansite and multi-author archive.
The site was a member of several webrings, including the Enjolras webring, Les Misérables Fan Fiction Ring, Les Amis Webring, LesMis Ring, and You Know NOTHING of Javert![1][2]
The site name comes from the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, France, which are featured prominently in the Les Misérables novel as the place where Marius and Cosette first meet.
It was last updated on August 29, 2002.
Site History
The site was founded by Ursula, an American high-school student,[3] on GeoCities by April 1999. Ursula writes of choosing the name: "Le Jardin du Luxembourg is the garden where Marius and Cosette meet for the first time.... This is not a Marius and Cosette website. I just thought the web already had a few excellent 'barricade' sites, and I wanted to try something different."[4]
It moved to altern.org by early 2000 and shortly thereafter to TBNS.net, when Altern was forced to cease free webhosting following a lawsuit and new legislation in France.
The site was revamped and "Le Jardin du Luxembourg 2.0" went online on July 17, 2000.[5] It moved again less than a year later because of TBNS's intrusive ad content, this time to Frenchboys.net, a Les Mis domain started by Ursula and Manon.
Le Jardin du Luxembourg was last updated on August 29, 2002, with the note that "it could be quite some time before this site is updated again."[6] It was taken offline in February or March 2003.
The site was left online at TBNS.net although the main page pointed to Frenchboys.net and the navigation menu was removed. Content could be access through direct links until TBNS.net went offline around mid-2019.[7]
Fanworks
Fanfiction was divided into the categories "Multi-Part Stories", "Stand-Alone Stories", "Sillyfic", and "Poems & Songs".
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Other Content
- Photos and Other Images, including photos taken by Ursula of the real-life Jardin du Luxembourg
- The Les Mis Purity Test
- The Miserable French Translator
- Peter Lockyer fanpage and pictures
- Campaign 2000
Site Images
Le Jardin du Luxembourg 2.0 main page (2003). Features an illustration of Marius in the Jardin du Luxembourg by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot from an early edition of Les Misérables.
Updates page (2002). Features an illustration of Marius by Gustave Brion from an early edition of Les Misérables.
References
- ^ Le Jardin du Luxembourg - Webrings at GeoCities, archived 06 October 1999 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Le Jardin du Luxembourg - Webrings at Frenchboys.net, archived 06 February 2003 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ The Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index Interview with Ursula, 11 February 2001.
- ^ Le Jardin du Luxembourg at GeoCities, archived 06 October 1999 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Le Jardin du Luxembourg - Site Info at Frenchboys.net, archived 13 August 2001 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Le Jardin du Luxembourg - Updates at Frenchboys.net, archived 11 December 2002 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Last Wayback Machine capture was 23 April 2019. Site offline as of 30 December 2020.