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LA SAGA DOWNTON ABBEY A VÉCU ET MOURU

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
5 min readJan 5, 2024

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DOWNTON ABBEY HAS REACHED EXTINCTION

DOWNTON ABBEY II A NEW ERA — 2022

The film will nurture the nostalgic minds of people who admired the long saga because it really gave a caustic vision of the extremely class-divided life of the aristocracy in England, mostly outside London, hence in the boonies. Differences between farmers (never landowners because the cultivator of the land in England in the period concerned and still today works on the land of a landlord, not on his (and today her) own land. Then the people in the village or small-town next door are hardly considered, except for an election, or with the ex-Irish activist who married one daughter and became presentable and started a car business (he is not a member of the aristocracy per se) in the small town. But mostly the servants of the Earl’s palace with a real and strict hierarchy from the butler at the top, the king of the downstairs kingdom, to the simplest maid cleaning corridors, stairs, and hygienic facilities. The kitchen people are set apart. The same hierarchy exists in the family itself with the absolute authority of the earl who often forgets to consult the members of the family, including his American wife.

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Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Written by Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, PhD in Germanic Linguistics (University Lille III) and ESP Teaching (University Bordeaux II) has been teaching all types of ESP

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