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Being In Paris Mediaeval - Richard Erickson - Now that Paris is fully launched into the fever of its municipal election campaign - joyously known locally as the 'Battle for Paris' - it seems safe enough to slip back to mediaeval times when affairs weren't quite so tidy as they are today.

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Chapel of the Miraculous Medallion - Paul Jensi - Many people know the story of Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, where in 1858 the Virgin appeared to a child and began performing miraculous healings. Yet except for the five thousand people who visit the Chapel of the Miraculous Medallion daily, few know that the exact same story took place in the heart of Paris twenty-eight years earlier.

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Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - What do most respectable Parisians do when gray old January rolls around? Simple: they head for a spa.

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French History - February - Events: France signs treaty with American Colonies 6.02.1778; Treaty of Paris signed 10.02.1763; Bernadette Subirous has a vision of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes 11.02.1858; Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims himself First Consul 19.02.1800; Births: François Truffaut 6.02.1932; Jules Verne 8.02.1828; Voltaire 20.02.1694; Michel Legrand 24.02.1932;

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