Dear Notre-Dame: A Letter for Pentecost Time
Dear Notre-Dame, I understand that only the pope is infallible and that his eyes can’t be everywhere, but the next time you’re printing up a poster to place in front of the most visited monument [...]
Section: Holidays and Celebrations
It’s Official: Springtime Comes to Paris
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 be sunny in Paris on March 20, which it won’t [...]
Happy New Year – Bonne Année
France Revisited wishes readers around the world a happy new year and une très bonne année 2013 with the image below of the Smiling Angel of Reims. Wishing you healthy, happy travels throughout the year [...]
What Parisians Want, Exhibit 9
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?
Memorial Day Ceremony at the Escadrille Lafayette Memorial Near Paris
The Escadrille La Fayette Memorial, 6 miles west of the center of Paris, honors the flying corps comprised of American pilots who, having volunteered to take part in the First World War under French, lost their lives in aerial combat. Sixty-eight of them are entombed below in a wide semi-circular crypt. The monument is easily accessible from by suburban train.
France Revisited Newsletter, Feb. 14, 2012
Feb. 14. Love is in the air, that’s what the calendar says: courtly love, big heart love, flower love, filial love, parental love, fraternal love, sisterly love, lost love, Facebook love (well, like), commercial love, [...]
The Harsh Reality of the End of Daylight Saving Time
Nov. 2, 2011. There’s something therapeutic about turning the clocks back in the fall—harsh reality therapy. For an hour or two we can fool ourselves into believing that we’ve gained an hour of Saturday night [...]
An afternoon nap on the French national holiday, July 14, 2011
Paris, July 15, 2011 – I had a delicious nap on the afternoon of le Quatorze Juillet, the French national holiday, known outside of France as Bastille Day. There had been the annual military parade [...]
Four French lessons I learned in February
March 6, 2011. Here are four French lessons that I learned in February on the Riviera and in Alsace. 1. Carnival in Nice Nice’s Carnival, the 3-week period of parades leading up to Mardi Gras [...]
