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Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - A 30 carpet garden, gospel in Paris, a sea water treatment in Basque country and the weight of history in France.

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Paris Gallery: Panorama, rue Madrid, rue Portalis; perspective rue du Rocher - VIIIth Arrondissement - Norman Barth - From the vantage point of rue du Rocher, you can look out onto rue Portalis (left) and rue Madrid (on the right).

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Paris Gallery: Fontaine Charlemagne - IVth Arrondissement - Norman Barth - Some authorities claim this fountain was built in 1846, although its inscription says 1840.

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Paris Gallery: Rue Eginhard - IVth Arrondissement - Norman Barth - In the 13th century this small 'street' was known as Ruelle Neuve-Saint-Paul. Beginning in the 17th century, it was Neuve-Sainte-Anastase. Only in 1864 did it take the name Eginhard - an historian of the 8th and 9th century.

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French History - April - Events: France cedes Newfoundland & Gibraltar to Britain 11.04.1713; Mapoléon abdicates and is exiled to Elba 11.04.1814; Henri IV issues the Edict of Nantes 13.04.1598; Births: Gustave Moreau 6.04.1826; Raymond Barre 12.04.1924; Mme. de Staël 22.04.1766; Eugène Delacroix 26.04.1798.

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