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Mathilde Montpetit

@mathildegm.bsky.social

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PhD student & translator (French-English) studying medieval West Africa, eunuchs, and the Mediterranean. Plus contributing editor at The Auflauf and the Public Domain Review

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Surreal to see this in the acknowledgments of YESTERYEAR. I'd been wondering throughout why the protagonist was dark-haired rather than Ballerina Farm blonde, and seems like it was intentionally to tee up Hathaway to start in the film adaptation. Is this where we're at now?

“When this novel was nothing but a first draft, I was given the extremely bizarre and wholly undeserved privilege of workshopping it with some of the greatest living artists and thinkers in the world. My conversations with Anne Hathaway in particular were instrumental in bringing Natalie to life. Thank you to Somewhere Pictures, Entertainment 360, and the Amazon film team for your passion, curiosity, and tireless championing of this novel.”

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

... and then an investigation into the weird, precocious, maybe sui generis dioramas of the early-nineteenth-century Surinamese artist Gerrit Schouten. publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

1830 diorama by the artist gerrit schouten depicting a du, a ritual dance performed by enslaved people

1820 diorama of the paramaribo harbor by the artist gerrit schouten

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I have two new pieces up at @publicdomainrev.bsky.social this week: first, about the human-animal hybrids of Louis XIV's court painter Charles le Brun... publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...

eighteenth-century pencil drawing of the facial similarities between a man and a lion

eighteenth-century pencil drawing of the facial similarities between a man and a parrot

eighteenth-century pencil drawing of the facial similarities between a man and an ox

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

This morning, The Berliner began – against the will of its staff – posting a series of advertisements for the Nova Festival Exhibition. Our concerns having been dismissed and stonewalled, we have had no choice but to strike.

The decision of The Berliner magazine to run an ad campaign for the Nova Festival Exhibition was taken against the explicit objections of its editorial staff and regular freelance contributors.

As we expressed in a letter to management, we freelancers consider these ads clear evidence of ownership taking a political stance on Gaza, having for months pressured the magazine to suppress editorial coverage of Palestine.

As such, we have no other choice but to protest the campaign by withdrawing our collective labour for the magazine's next issue.
We demand that The Berliner withdraw the ads. If the ads continue, our protest will continue.

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