Holidays and Celebrations

Bastille Day fireworks at the Eiffel Tower, Paris - LS/GLK

Bastille Day, a Paris Vignette

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Is it worth a 7-hour wait on the Champs de Mars to watch 14th of July (Bastille Day) fireworks at the Eiffel Tower in Paris? Watch and read this Paris vignette for one experienced point of view.
On Winter Solstice Night, the awning

On Winter Solstice Night (Includes Audio)

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A solstice night tale of darkness poetry and wonder in Paris. Sometimes, late in the evening, I’d look out the window and see him sitting on his stool just beyond the edge of the awning, in the light of the streetlamp, writing in a notebook.

Scraps of 2014, Inspiration for 2015

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Anyone else would likely sweep them into the trash, but for me the scraps of paper scribbled with my handwriting that cover the horizontal...

The November Newsletter: From Le Black Friday to Le Cyber Monday

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At first, last Friday, I thought it was the ad campaign for a new American horror film opening in Paris. I then realized that the notices for a mind-control experiment meets an invasion of the body snatchers were real: BLACK FRIDAY had arrived in France. Not just any Black Friday, but LE Black Friday

Labor of Love Day

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Monday, September 1, Labor (of Love) Day -- It's a schizophrenic day for Americans living in France, aware as we are that it's Labor Day...

Dear Notre-Dame: A Letter for Pentecost Time

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Dear Notre-Dame. On the occasion of Pentecost, rest assured that I am not mocking you—certainly not in the way that someone has recently ridiculed poor Corneille up on the hill near the scant relics of your beloved St. Geneviève.

It’s Official: Springtime Comes to Paris

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If you missed the latest France Revisited Facebook quiz—no prize this time, just glory, but isn’t that plenty already?—the question was: If it were to...

Happy New Year – Bonne Année

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France Revisited wishes readers around the world a happy new year and une très bonne année 2013. May we all be as amused and bemused as the Smiling Angel of Reims Cathedral.

What Parisians Want, Exhibit 9

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Paris, June 2012 -- Michelangelo it ain't, but this ad poster for taking the Eurostar to London for the Olympics, now showing in the Paris metro system, manages to make fun of the English, refer to great art and show genitalia. What more could a Parisian want?

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