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French Fried: The Culinary Capers of an American in Paris, by Harriet Welty Rochefort, 2001. Harriet continues her attempts to demystify the French with French Fried, the saucy-sometimes spicy - and often hilarious tale of one American woman's 30-year foray into the byzantine world of French cuisine. And when it comes to food, Rochefort's experiences are anything but dull or traditional. When she first arrives in France, she dines on onion soup with her concierge. When she finally gets a decent apartment with a kitchen it turns out that there's both a shower - and a cop - in it.
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Letter From Paris -
Harriet Welty-Rochefort -
With two sons marking rites of passage this year, Harriet points out some
of the differences between the American and French approaches toward
schooling and education...... and tells us about getting locked out of
her apartment the other day.
Take a Slow Boat To Bastille
- Richard Erickson -
If you are ever on the south side of the place de la Bastille
and you look in the direction of the Seine,
you wil see a public marina in the section of canal known
as the Port de l'Arsenal.
The Bastille -
Thirza Vallois -
With Bastille Day (14 July) looming in the horizon, you may wish to go for a saunter
into the 11th arrondissement, where it all began. The Bastille actually
stood on the other side of Place de la Bastille, on the edge of today's
4th arrondissement, and its story is quite different from the one that
history books like to tell school children!
(This piece is excerpted from Thirza Vallois' book Around and About Paris.)
Storming the Bastille -
Excerpt from K. Baedeker's 1888 travel guide Paris and Environs; Handbook for Travellers
Published in Leipsig 1888. -
Written less than 100 years after the fact, this colorful
account of the storming of the Bastille gives some of the details
of what actually happened
Paris Libéré -
Commemorating the liberation of Paris, 25 August 1944.
French History - July -
Events:
Volume 1 of Diderot's Encyclopédie published - 1.07.1751;
Bikini first modeled - 5.07.1946;
Paris Métro opens - 10.07.1900;
Bastille is stormed - 14.07.1789;
Robespierre executed by guilloting - 28.07.1794;
:
George Sand - 1.07.1804;
Erik Satie - 1.07.1925;
Jean Cocteau - 5.07.1889;
Georges Pompidou - 5.07.1911;
Edgar Degas - 19.07.1834;
French History - August -
Events:
Germany declares war (WWI) - 3.8.1914;
Battle of Mons (Belgium) - 14.8.1678;
Society of Jesus founded, in Paris - 15.8.1543;
Mona Lisa Stolen - 21.8.1911;
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - 24.8.1572;
Liberation of Paris - 25.8.1944;
Births:
de Maupassant, Guy - 5.8.1850;
Bonaparte, Napoléon - 15.8.1769;
Chanel, Gabrielle (Coco) - 19.8.1883;
Cartier-Bresson, Henri - 22.8.1908;
Debussy, Claude - 22.8.1862
French Fried: The Culinary Capers of an American in Paris
Letter From Paris
Take a Slow Boat To Bastille
French History - July