Debunked: French President Hollande: “Illuminati Behind The Paris Attacks” ['illuminés' = 'crazies']

[Steve Funk]

http://yournewswire.com/french-president-the-illuminati-are-behind-the-paris-attacks/
Here is a source that says the illuminati did it, quoting President Holland using the words "
ces illuminés ," (with the accent mark over the last e. However, My Harper Collins Robert dictionary says
illuminé as a noun means a pejorative term for visionary or crank. I'll have to check with a couple of native French speakers I know.

Update:, the context of the use of the word is:

Ceux qui ont commis ces actes ; ces terroristes , ces illuminés , ces fanatiques , n'ont rien a voir avec la religion musulmane

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Which means:

Those who committed these acts; these terrorists, these crazies, these fanatics, they have nothing to do with the muslim religion

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[Trigger Hippie]

http://yournewswire.com/french-president-the-illuminati-are-behind-the-paris-attacks/
Here is a source that says the illuminati did it, quoting President Holland using the words "
ces illuminés ," (with the accent mark over the last e. However, My Harper Collins Robert dictionary says
illuminé as a noun means a pejorative term for visionary or crank. I'll have to check with a couple of native French speakers I know.

http://context.reverso.net/translation/french-english/illuminés

I think you're right, in context "ces illuminés" means crank, crack pot, nutjob.

 

[Steve Funk]

That's a good source. I couldn't get anything useful from Google translate.

 

[WeedWhacker]

"ces illuminés" means crank, crack pot, nutjob.

I hope not to step on any toes....but this is interesting.

"Illumination" (usually, in the usage in English) means a sort of 'clarity'...(The vision of a light bulb above a person's head, for instance).

This must be the same "root" word? N'est pas? From the original Latin roots? Fascinating. Maybe it's the "ces", which is a pronoun if I recall my French from years ago? "ces" being a group pronoun, equivalent to the English "they".

Must be a cultural thing......I dunno......

(I can't help but be reminded of another iteration of the word..."Illuminati"....(wink)...

 

[MikeC]

according to google "illumines" has a meaning to enlighten in a spiritual or intellectual sense, so using it for "crackpot" looks like your basic irony - in that they are the only ones who know "the truth"....and we've all seen that in action on other topics!!

And yes both it and illuminate come from the same latin root "illuminare" - to cast light upon.

 

[Trigger Hippie]

http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/illuminé

(Par extension) (Familier) Malade mental peu dangereux. Doux dingue qu'il ne faut pas contrarier.

À mesure que le temps marche et qu'avec lui s'augmentent le dégoût de ce qui est et l'attente de la vérité, un grand nombre d'esprits, même parmi ceux qui n'ont point cherché, se trouvent plus ou moins illuminés. Tous seront des apôtres ou des prosélytes, des soldats ou des chefs de la foi nouvelle. — (Jouffroy, Comment les dogmes finissent,1823)

[…] elle est alors identifiée comme l’une de ces enfants formés [sic] par un illuminé à grossir les rangs d’une armée d’agents secrets qui déclencheront la guerre. — (« Salt : Angelina Jolie rallume la guerre froide à elle seule », Le Monde, août 2010)

Michelle Obama menacée de mort par une illuminée. — (Plurielle.fr, 24 décembre 2009)

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Translation: Insane.

"illuminés" seems to be a colloquialism... or at least it can be used in that way. The French president used a mildly derogatory term when referring to Hebdo murderers. I think he was being polite.

 

[WeedWhacker]

What was the last bit about Michelle Obama?

menacée de mort par une illuminée.

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?

Without a translator I already see the words 'menace' and 'death' ("mort").

Oh....translated....past-tense. The FLOTUS is "threatened with death by an illuminated". Very, very serious stuff, there.

Not touching that with a one-hundred foot pole.....

 

[Trigger Hippie]

What was the last bit about Michelle Obama?

menacée de mort par une illuminée.

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According to that dictionary the word "illuminé" can have a colloquial meaning: someone who is crazy, touched... someone who is best left alone. So they used it in a sentence for context, "Michelle Obama got a death threat from a nut"

I'm thinking the "ces illumine" issue should probably have it's own thread. I think it's getting some traction.

 

[deirdre]

I think in the context of the speech it is painfully clear the President is talking about radical islam.


from video:

ceux qui ont commis ces actes ; ces terroristes , ces illumines , ces fanatiques , n'ont rien a voir avec la religion musulmane

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from google: (note: google only recognizes the feminine illuminee
"those who committed these acts; these terrorists, these illuminated , these fanatics , have nothing to do with Islam."

and from face book french people:

NO HE DIDN'T lol i'm french and heard the whole speech, all he did was call the terrorists "illuminés" which is a way of calling them extremists. He went like this "Those who committed these acts; these terrorists, these "illuminated ones", these fanatics; have nothing to do with the muslim religion." This has nothing to do with the illuminati.
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"Illuminé" does not mean Illumanati . In this context"Illuminés" means insane. The person who wrote this should have asked a real french speaking person for the translation
13·January 12 at 1:09am·Edited

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"Illumines" in French also means crazy people. I'm French so in his sentence, he doesn't mean anything about the Illuminati. Stop seeing signs when there are none. I'm tots aware about Illuminati, free-masons and other "secret societies" but just cut out the BS sometimes.
9·January 12 at 5:49am

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Illumine, illuminee translation www.larousse.fr/

illuminé, illuminée

nom

• Définitions
• Synonymes

• Personne dénuée d'esprit critique, qui soutient une doctrine avec une foi aveugle, un zèle fanatique.
• Visionnaire en matière religieuse.
• Membre de sectes religieuses qui, à l'époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe s.), se disait éclairé directement par Dieu, sans le secours des sacrements. (On cite particulièrement les illuminés d'Espagne [alumbrados].)
• Grade suprême de l'ordre ancien de la Rose-Croix.
• Synonyme deilluministe.

Translated:
illuminated, illuminated

name

• Definitions
• Synonyms

• Nobody uncritical, which supports a doctrine with blind faith, a fanatical zeal.
• Visionary in religious matters.
• Member of religious sects that, in modern times (XVIth-XVIIIth . s), said he was informed by God, without the help of the sacraments.(Especially cites illuminated Spain [alumbrados].)
• Highest rank of the old order of the Rosicrucians.
• SynonymousEnlightenment.

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[Pete Tar]

So the person who decided he meant the illuminati doesn't even speak french? This is everything that's wrong with conspiracy theorists these days, that kind of shoddy work wouldn't have gotten much traction in the past.

 

[cloudspotter]

 

[Marcel Prout]

Native French speaker here (and new member as well)!

I confirm that "un illuminé" means someone who is crazy but in a spiritual/religious sense. Gurus can be called "illuminés" because they think they have been enlightened (or "illuminated") by a great spiritual entity. Same with radical Islamists.

And as cloudspotter noted, the French word for "Illuminati" is "Illuminati", it has nothing to do with "illuminé".

 

[Mick West]

It's an interesting word, as there's no direct equivalent in English I can think of. I went with the generic "crazies" for the title, but the word illuminé seems to imply some kind of "crazy person who thinks they have received some revelations about the world". In some ways the word "truther" or even the derogatory use of "conspiracy theorist" might fit. But here there's a distinct religious implication, so "religious extremist" might be a better translation of the intent - but then he's also trying to distinguish them from "genuine" muslims, so maybe just plain "crazies" might be best.

The French Wiktionary entry for illuminé translates as:

1. ( Figuratively ) Believing visionary who communicates with entities above.
2. ( Religion ) One of those mystics who once claimed to be enlightened by special favor from God or the Holy Virgin .
3. ( By extension )( Familiar ) Sick mind little dangerous. Slightly crazy that we should not upset.

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Google also translates the last as "Bit dangerous mental patient. Sweet crazy that we should not upset."

 

[cloudspotter]

Maybe the derogatory use of "touched" might be close

 

[Green Gogol]

HellO! Another native French speaker and a new member here.

I confirm what Marcel has said, it is a crazy person with religious connotation. But not crazy in the sense of insane. Maybe zealot could be a translation. It is difficult to translate this word. It is said of people who seems a bit too enthusiastic in their belief, that have strange belief, that lacks critical thinking, that are the only one to know the truth.

The term can in fact be applied to CT's quite well. It describes them perfectly.

 

[Green Gogol]

oh by the way, the direct translation is enlightened. It contains boths the concept of light and revelation.

For example, "la pièce est illuminée", means "the room is full of light" or something like that.

And "cette personne à reçu l'illumination" means "this person received a revelation". Like the Buddha.

 

[metamagical]

This is likely from the Illuminés of France who may have been associated with the Alumbrados (Illuminated), a mystical Christian group from Spain.

The Bavarian Illuminati are not related to either the Illuminés or the Alumbrados. The Illuminati's philosophy was opposite of those groups and scientifically motivated. The founder, Adam Weishaupt, actually wrote a long essay entitled, Lesson for All Members who are Inclined Toward Theosophical Fantasies, where he refutes these mystical beliefs. It's on page 302 in the book listed below.

And the Illuminati-affiliated individuals in Paris, such as Nicholas Bonneville and Thomas Paine, were aligned with the moderates (Girondists/Brissotins) and imprisoned by Robespierre, and nearly killed. So they weren't "fanatics" either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminés

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumbrados

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girondist

Weishaupt's The Improved System of the Illuminati with all its Institutions and Degrees
http://books.google.com/books/reader?id=aCNCAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA2

 

[Green Gogol]

Well, illuminati is in fact the latin translation of illuminés.

But one refers to a specific group and the other is said of a person who think he has the utlimate truth. So their is a link between the two words. And I am fairly certain that illuminé as a word meaning both light and truth came before the group in France.

 

[metamagical]

I believe illuminati itself is a Latin word, the plural of illuminatus (Latin). And that illuminati is the past participle of illuminare (Latin).

Illuminés is the masculine plural form of illuminer (French) and they are from illuminare.

 

[Karl Valentin]

french is a rather strange language...who the fudge would come up with a past tense form that is only applicable in writings...

so he talked about slightly crazy people...how charming a description for terrorists that killed numerous people...I mean, is there no other word that could´ve been used and prevented all the noise?

 

[Pete Tar]

He wasn't saying it for your or an english speaking audience's benefit - he was a using a word which has a precedent in usage in french.

 

[Green Gogol]

Yes, exactly, he was talking in French to a French audience, so no confusion there. It's only you English people that made the link between illuminati and illuminés. The word illuminés was appropriate in the context.

What do you mean about a past tense only used in writing?

 

[LouV]

so he talked about slightly crazy people...how charming a description for terrorists that killed numerous people...

Given, as was explained earlier, that the word has a "religious zealot" connotation, it is, on the contrary, completely appropriate.
And this french poster can confirm that this word is used widely without refering the Illuminati.

 

[GregMc]

There's an fairly close english equivalent used ironically/sarcastically in cases of misadventure such as "who is the 'bright spark' who forgot forgot to screw in the bung for the dingy?.. it's now at the bottom of the harbour making a home for fish"
"Who was the bright spark who thought it was a good idea to grease the brake pads on the bike?" etc