VE-Day - Stylo du 80e Anniversaire

Le Jour de la Victoire en Europe, également connu sous le nom de VE-Day, est le jour commémorant l’acceptation officielle par les Alliés de la reddition sans condition des forces armées allemandes, et qui marqua la fin officielle de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Europe.

Le 8 mai 2025 marquera le 80e anniversaire de ce jour capital, et de la libération de l’Europe de la tyrannie nazie.

Pour commémorer ce 80e anniversaire, Conway Stewart a lancé le VE-Day 80th Anniversary Pen, orné sur le corps d’un extrait du célèbre discours du VE-Day de Winston Churchill. Voici l’intégralité de son discours prononcé depuis le balcon du ministère de la Santé à Whitehall, Londres, devant la foule en liesse :

 "God bless you all. This is your victory! It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. In all our long history we have never seen a greater day than this. Everyone, man or woman, has done their best. Everyone has tried. Neither the long years, nor the dangers, nor the fierce attacks of the enemy, have in any way weakened the independent resolve of the British nation. God bless you all. My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It’s a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny. After a while, we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. We were all alone for a whole year. There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? [The crowd shouted “No.”]  Were we down-hearted? [“No!”]  The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and child in the country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London can take it. So we came back after long months from the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. When shall the reputation and faith of this generation of English men and women fail? I say that in the long years to come not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done and they will say: 'Do not despair, do not yield to violence and tyranny, march straightforward and die if need be-unconquered.' Now we have emerged from one deadly struggle - a terrible foe has been cast on the ground and awaits our judgement and our mercy." 

Le tour du capuchon est également orné d’un extrait du célèbre discours de la Victoire du roi George VI, diffusé au monde entier à 21h le 8 mai 1945.

"There is great comfort in the thought that the years of darkness and danger in which the children of our country have grown up are over and, please God, for ever. We shall have failed, and the blood of our dearest will have flowed in vain, if the victory which they died to win does not lead to a lasting peace, founded on justice and established in good will. To that, then, let us turn our thoughts on this day of just triumph and proud sorrow; and then take up our work again, resolved as a people to do nothing unworthy of those who died for us and to make the world such a world as they would have desired, for their children and for ours. This is task to which now honour binds us. In the hour of danger we humbly committed our cause into the Hand of God, and He has been our Strength and Shield. Let us thank Him for His mercies, and in this hour of Victory commit ourselves and our new task to the guidance of that same strong Hand."

Pour écouter le discours du Roi, cliquez ici

Un stylo qui raconte une histoire

Le Conway Stewart VE-Day 80th Anniversary Pen est plus qu’un instrument d’écriture : c’est un fragment d’histoire. Façonné avec l’élégance qui fait la réputation de Conway Stewart depuis 1905, le stylo-plume est doté d’une plume en or bicolore 18ct. Le stylo est réalisé en acrylique noir haute densité, orné de bagues en argent sterling, et la large bague du capuchon est poinçonnée pour attester de sa qualité et de sa provenance. Le sommet du capuchon arbore le célèbre coquelicot rouge (lest we forget). Ce magnifique bouton coquelicot, gravé en guilloché et en émail vitrifié, est réalisé en argent sterling. Mais ce qui rend ce stylo véritablement unique, ce sont ses gravures : sur le corps sont gravés des mots tirés du discours emblématique du VE-Day de Churchill, prononcé devant la foule en liesse, avec des expressions telles que « jaws of death » et « while all the world wondered » qui font écho à la résilience d’une nation ayant refusé de céder, tandis que le capuchon porte un extrait du discours de la Victoire du roi George VI, en hommage à l’allocution royale qui a marqué ce jour historique.

Édition limitée à 80 exemplaires dans le monde. Chaque stylo porte son numéro d’édition gravé au bout du corps.

Disponible en stylo-plume ou en roller