Letter From Paris -
Harriet Welty-Rochefort -
The song is "April in Paris" but from what I can see, May is really the
month for romance - simply because the weather is better! For both me, and France, this last
month of May had more to it than usual.
Election Stupefication! -
Richard Erickson -
The first round of the French election for President took
place on Sunday 21 April. Here Ric Erickson reports the results and
reaction to them on the following day, Monday 22 April.
France Wins! -
Richard Erickson -
As soon as polling stations
closed at 20:00 on 5 May in France, the first estimates
of the results gave presidential candidates Jacques Chirac a score
of 82.1 percent and Jean-Marie Le Pen 17.9 percent.
Dark Places in the City of Light -
Robert Gray -
Strolling down the Rue de Rivoli on an afternoon in the month of April, my eyes swam
with images of the dead. Looking up into a bright blue Paris sky, I tried to lift my
mind from the damp, dank confines of the Catacombs, tried to pull away from the stilled-life
portraits we'd inspected so closely, tried to shake the midday chill that hung like a mist in
Cimetière Montmarte.
Fluency by CD: Champs-Elysees -
Lauren Elkin -
It's often lamented by Francophiles in exile that we "lose our French" when
away from French-speaking countries. Watching French movies we guiltily sneak a
peak at the subtitles, and reading Le Figaro we invariably reach for the
Petit Robert a few times.
French History - June -
Events:
D-Day / Jour-J 6.06.1944 ;
Treaty of Tientsin - 9.06.1885;
Rudolf Nureyev defects in Paris - 16.06.1961;
La Poste - Postal Service - created - 19.06.1464;
Napoléon crosses the River Niemen - 24.06.1812;
Births:
Nicolas Carnot - 1.06.1796;
Paul Gauguin - 7.06.1848;
Jacques Cousteau - 11.06.1910;
Louis XII - 27.06.1462;
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 29.06.1900;
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