Section: Videos

T-Shirts and the T-Shirt Song

A blogload of thanks to the readers who wrote to say me how much they loved France Revisited’s number one musical hit of the season “She Walked Along the River, a.k.a. The T-Shirt Song”! Includes music video.

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Picnicking on the Pont des Arts

Over the past ten years Parisians and visitors alike have gotten into dinnertime picnicking as a way of enjoying the nonchalant beauty of Paris in spring and summer. What had previously been isolated Seine-side clusters [...]

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Lafayette and the American Flag: The Fourth of July Ceremony

“Lafayette, we are here!” Those words are often attributed to U.S. General John Pershing when, on July 4, 1917, having arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force upon the U.S. entrance into WWI, he [...]

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Vichy: Not That Vichy, This Vichy

For many people, both French and foreign, something uncomfortable lurks in the name Vichy. Vichy calls to mind first and foremost the provisional French government of the years 1940-1944 that collaborated with the Nazi Germany [...]

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Music video: She Walked Along the River (The T-Shirt Song)

France Revisited is thrilled to announce the release of our first travel music video, She Walked Along the River (The T-Shirt Song). The song (Rated-R) was inspired by a ride along the Seine and a part [...]

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Republican U.S. Senator Declares an End to Freedom Fries

Republican U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee declared an end to Freedom Fries last week when he converted to Francophilia. On April 25 Senator Alexander gave the Republican Weekly Address in which he explained that [...]

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Fancy Tiles and the King’s Virginity

I was headed to the Hôtel de Beauvais, one of the grand mansions in the Marais, former home of Catherine de Beauvais, thinking that I’d complement my series of articles about Versailles with mention of the woman who [...]

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Tumbleweed: Playthings for the Whimsical Shopper

To watch Lynn Rovida demonstrate the whimsical selection of handcrafted toys, finely cut puzzles, inlaid puzzle boxes, and animated sculptures available in her little shop in the Marais, you’d think that she was more intent [...]

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