Going postal in France: tales from French bureaucratic hell
Post office of the living dead This tended to encourage [...]
Post office of the living dead This tended to encourage [...]
Founded in 910 AD, the Abbey of Cluny was Europe’s [...]
A number of factors make me think that I would [...]
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.
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...
Are you a foreign resident of France? Do you think you’ll ever feel like a native?
Are you a foreign resident of France? Do you think you’ll ever feel like a native?
Are you a foreign resident of France? Do you think you’ll ever feel like a native?
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.
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.