Going postal in France: tales from French bureaucratic hell
Post office of the living dead This tended to encourage [...]
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11, 2013
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10, 2013
The jewel of French culture & scrapheap of French history
Founded in 910 AD, the Abbey of Cluny was Europe’s [...]
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10, 2013
The Ranting Clunologist
A number of factors make me think that I would [...]
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10, 2013
My (imaginary) life as a monk in medieval France
In which a trip to the Abbey of Cluny inspires me to speculate on what My French Life would have been like a millennium or so ago.
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09, 2013
On French wine: how much is too much of a (really) good thing?
In which I confess to a fondness for one of France’s finest products. And then wonder how much fondness I should confess, and to whom...
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08, 2013
The Ranting Frenchologist: not quite a native
Are you a foreign resident of France? Do you think you’ll ever feel like a native?
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08, 2013
The Ranting Frenchologist
Are you a foreign resident of France? Do you think you’ll ever feel like a native?
30
08, 2013
The Ranting Frenchologist
Are you a foreign resident of France? Do you think you’ll ever feel like a native?
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08, 2013
“Opening bookshop in Paris. Please send money.” Sylvia Beach, bygone expat
So read the telegram that Sylvia Beach, founder of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, sent to her mother. These were the humble beginnings of a bookstore known the world over and coveted by book fiends who flock to the store on Paris’s Left Bank to explore its dusty shelves.
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07, 2013
Secret lives of Parisians: the great Fitzgerald en France
The world is inundated with the glitz and glamour of Gatsby fever but it is neither Baz, nor Leonardo we have to thank for the beautiful prose transformed into box office hit, but a French ex-pat named Francis.
