Tag: Holidays and Celebrations
Love and Latkes
Melinda Mayor, "the Menschette of Montmartre,” has a gentile husband who says “oy” and who cooks better than she does and two children with whom she’d like to share her Jewish heritage, leading her on the search for the perfect potato latke in Paris.
Dear Notre-Dame: A Letter for Pentecost Time
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.
Happy New Year – Bonne Année
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.
Va-nu-pieds, the Barefoot Photographer, Goes Christmas Shoe Shopping in Paris
Our favorite fetish photographer Va-nu-pieds, The Barefoot Photographer, went out Christmas shoe shopping in Paris and came up empty soled.
‘Tis the Season of Christmas Markets in France
A tour of some of France’s most lively of the Christmas markets: Alsace (Strasbourg, Colmar, Mulhouse), Champagne (Reims), Provence (Avignon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence) and Paris.
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 Locks on the Bridges of Paris
Some see them as graffiti, others view them as symbols of love placed at the heart of a romantic city. They are the love locks of Paris, attached to historic bridges over the River Seine. A France Revisited audio-slideshow.
The Harsh Reality of the End of Daylight Saving Time
There’s something therapeutic about turning the clocks back in the fall—harsh reality therapy that makes us aware of our own dwindling time... and the arrival of All Saints Day. November 1, when Catholic tradition in France invites people to place chrysanthemums on the tombs of loved ones.