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Echoes Along The Seine - Robert Forrest Burgess - Whenever Hemingway wrote about Paris, the Seine River was always part of it, whether he mentioned it or not. Anyone who has ever lived in Paris is aware of the important role the river plays. It has been said that Paris makes love to the Seine. This is true. Parisians embrace their river with intense affection. Artists and lovers have always found this broad, meandering river with its wide stone quais, arched stone bridges, shade trees and many marble benches for lovers and admirers one of the reasons Paris is such a romantic, unforgettable feast for all the senses. Paris is the Seine is Paris even though Miss Stein may never have said it. Yet, nothing is truer.

The Freak Brothers in Paris - Richard Erickson - About the same time as the curtain came down on `Indian Summer' Ric thought he detected smoke signals in the air carrying the message that it was time to check out the `Freak Brothers' again.

French History - December - Events: France wins first Davis Cup title in 59 years 1.12.1991; The Battle of Dreux 18.12.1562; Van Gogh cuts his ear 23.12.1888; Charlemagne crowned 25.12.800. Births: Georges Seurat 2.12.1859; Jean-Luc Godard 3.12.1930; Gustave Flaubert 12.12.1821; Jean Genet 19.12.1910; Gerard Depardieu 27.12.1948.

The Paris Kiosque - 2000: 1 year ago:
Antoine Bourdelle - Thirza Vallois - The one-time home of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle narrowly escaped demolition when it was turned into a museum, Musée Bourdelle. In 1929 the sculptor's widow, generously backed by the art patron Ernest Cognacq, succeeded in buying up the premises so as to preserve her husband's heritage and offer it to France; but the state simply rejected her donation! So did the City of Paris, which, however, revised its opinion 20 years later.

The Paris Kiosque - 1999: 2 years ago:
Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - There's something about writing the last Letter From Paris of the century that kind of chills the bones - somehow one thinks that whatever is written should be momentous, earth-shaking, something future generations can look at and exclaim over as a precious document of an American's view of Life in Paris at the end of the twentieth century - Forget it.

The Paris Kiosque - 1996: 5 years ago:
La Mouffe! - Rue Mouffetard - Norman Barth -
Six hundred metres of street packed with at least twice as many years of history. Not as well known, as flashy, or as elegant as the Champs Elysées, La Mouffe out does it by far when it comes to character.