Re: Ré Zozo ( né de Fresnel)

Quel talent !
Thankz you very much for all zoze prezious ezplanazions !
No doubt I'll try to meet his zpirit... Ziz evening.

Hugues

In a message dated 19/03/04, Guy Glorieux wrote:
>Hi Hughes,
>
>I did a little bit of additional research on ze
>translation proposed by Christophe:
> "réseau zôné de Fresnel"
>Oeuf corse, you should take ze results with a grain of salt...
>(Note to my friends who don't speak any french
>at all: most of the following is based on a play
>of words starting from Christophe's translation
>of the term Zone Plate (Fresnel) to Hughes's
>interpretation and which is impossible to
>retranslate into English. Nonetheless, the play
>of word is just the starting point for a little
>story around pinhole and zone plates and is not
>absolutely essnetial to catch)
>
>You quite correctly rewrote Christophe's words as
> "ré zozo né de Fresnel"
>no doubt refering to ze obscure XIXth-Century inventor known as
> Ré Zozo (né de Fresnel).
>
>Perhaps you'll be interested in ze following
>bits of gossip that I was able to find after
>considerable reseach. 
>
>Ze "de Fresnel" family was a very old French
>nobility family (ancestors going back at least
>to ze Cruisades) which - out of financial
>necessity - found it necessary to get maritally
>involved with a wealthy but very smallish and
>uneducated Parisian mobster, known as "Ré Le
>Zozo".
>
>Born from unknown parents and afflicted with a
>speech impediment, René got quickly known in
>Pigalle as "Ré Le Zozo". No one survived who
>dared to call him that name in public. All were
>found lying in their blood in an obscure chamber
>with a pin hole in the chest.
>
>Ré's reputation - or should we say that of his
>growing wealth - began to spread in circles...!
>It eventually reached the attention of the aging
>Monsieur de Fresnel, whose only wealth was a
>particle and an unmarried, slightly myopic,
>daughter.
>
>Since this was a time when royal and noble heads
>would easily separate from their bodies,
>Monsieur de F. was quite amenable to trading
>both the family particle and the family daughter
>in exchange of hard bullion...
>
>The parties met and quickly came to a mutual
>understanding (Hmmm... Sorry, Ré! Paper money
>just won't work on this deal). The marriage was
>celebrated privately in a remote village, to
>avoid unnecessary embarrassments to Mr.
>Fresnel's last few remaining particled friends.
>
>Actually, when they subsequently heard about the
>deal, they called it the greatest reciprocity
>error in history! (The term was coined! It
>layed dormant until film makers picked it up
>again as they tried to explain their failure to
>come up with an emulsion that could fit the most
>simple camera system of all.)
>
>A son was born nine month after, officially
>named René after his father. But he was
>nicknamed "Ré Zozo (né de Fresnel)" to tell him
>apart from his father. His life was short but
>he kept inventing bewildering contraptions of
>dubious usefulness, the most confounding being a
>series of concentric rings on a piece of
>transparent film. (Amazing what goes on through
>the human mind...)
>
>You are unlikely to find any reference to this
>obscure inventor in any dictionnary. But if you
>look carefully at the reflections in a glass of
>half-decent wine, you might see him wink at you
>behind your shoulder! -:)
>
>Bonsoir à tous,
>
>Guy
>
>
>>
>> De: Hugues <asveyou@skynet.be>
>> Date: 2004/03/18 jeu. AM 10:29:11 GMT-05:00
>> À: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
>> Objet: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Zone plate question
>>
>> How strange, I've never heard about that before.
>> Not very practical to pronounce I'm afraid: ré zozo né de Fresnel
>> Just kidding ;-)
>>
>> Merci,
>>
>
>
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