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The fall 2006 issue of divide, the literary magazine of the University of Colorado at Boulder, will focus on “Travel and Enlightenment.” The call for submissions which editor Ginger Knowlton e-mailed me frames the theme wonderfully, beginning with this quote … Continue reading →

Madame Gisele of Montpelier writes her address for us as the TGV approached Lille today. Hôtel Brueghel,5, Parvis Saint-Maurice Lille Our train excursion to Lille today involved some unplanned excitement in Paris. The TGV sped us from Cannes to Paris … Continue reading →

Darlene turns at least one head as she walks down a pedestrian mall this afternoon in Lille.  Tweet

A boy prepares to boot a soccer ball this afternoon in the busy Place Charles de Gaulle in Lille.  Tweet

View from my table at the Deep Sun Cafe, Boulevard Carnot, Cannes.  Tweet

It’s bizarre, to use a favorite word of the French, that my preferred way of exploring France can be done from a café or from the apartment. I am fascinated by what I find in the newspapers, on television, on … Continue reading →

I have just a few minutes left of battery life. What would you write if your battery was about to die, your last words on the blog? Dread thought. It’s a lovely morning here on Boulevard Carnot near our apartment. … Continue reading →

Today I wake up at the epicenter of an ideological earthquake. The French rejected the European Constitution yesterday, 55 percent of the voters casting a “Non.” Here at the Deep Sun Café in Cannes, where someone forgot to turn off … Continue reading →

Fifi and Léonard received certificates from the Institut de Français this afternoon. Students and teachers gathered in the chateau’s grand salon for champagne, the ritual sing-a-long to Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose,” and then the presenting of the certificates. … Continue reading →

Fifi receives her certificate from Frederic in the grand salon.  Tweet