Nom d'un chien! (Brount).

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This may be a silly question, but what does the name 'Brount' mean? Does it translate as anything, or is it just for the sound - like calling a dog 'woof'? There's a Middle-English (medieval) word 'brount' meaning strike/blow - so I wondered if maybe it's an Old French/regional equivalent of calling a dog 'Buster' (or Tyson!)?

Also, does anyone know the source of the story that it was a Great Dane (Danois)? Is this just a historians' guess? (It was a fashionable dog breed at the time, as was a Mastiff - they're both insanely huge! Only the wolfhound is bigger - my cousin has one - it eats chairs).

Giant Saint-Just head on BBC2!

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Just turned on BBC2 after that last post to see a man wheeling a giant gold head of Saint-Just across a stretch of lawn! Which was very unexpected!
It was an item on the late Ian Hamilton Finlay's 'Little Sparta'! - so if anyone here can get the 'within-7-days' BBC watch again facility for The Culture Show it should be online for a few days (23.20, BBC2, Thursday 24th). The presenter seems weirdly unaware that the garden is a homage to Saint-Just and the Revolution...duh!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/videos/2008/07/s5_e8_land2/index.shtml
This might work (? - the Land Art 2 article on the website).