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ABCs of life in France – A to H
The ABCs of life in France
In my 33rd year in Paris, here is an ABCs of life in France (the French call that an abécédaire, from the Latin abecedarium, ...
Easy to mail holiday gifts from France
There’s still time!
Here’s a few suggestions of easy-to-mail gifts from France that you can share, pack in a suitcase or send home.
Bükk Jewelry
Handmade ...
The War to End all Wars, The Great War, La Der des Ders*
This is 2018, one hundred years after the end of World War I (and 74 years after the end of WWII). I realized how little I knew about this war that changed ...
Win circus tickets! See Saloon!
This is not just any circus, it is a Quebecois circus!
It is a Wild West circus with a story and it’s going to be great fun!
85 minutes of sure shootin’ ...
Remembering World War I with Willa Cather
One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather, an American writer, that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska ...
Bearing the Torch – the American Hospital of Paris during WWI
Since its inception, the American Hospital of Paris has played a unique role in French-American relations.
World War I was no exception to the rule.
On ...
