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Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - French friends called to express their horror, shock, indignation and sympathy. Only days after it happened, an ecumenical service (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim) held at the American Church on the Quai d'Orsay was attended by French President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, and members of the government. I was surprised to see signs on the storefronts of shops in my street announcing a special mass at our local church in memory of the American victims of the September 11 tragedy, a mass held in English and French. This was truly extraordinary for to my knowledge there are no English-speakers in the parish.

Mourning in Paris - Richard Erickson - At noon on Friday, France stopped for three minutes to remember those lost in the tragedy in the United States on Tuesday. A few minutes before noon, all of Notre-Dame's bells tolled, while all radio and TV stations stopped their broadcasts for three minutes.

Not Getting to Clichy - Richard Erickson - I wanted to go up to Clichy. Probably not Clichy exactly, but Epinettes. It is beyond where the Avenue de Clichy turns to the northwest and runs out of Paris to the Hauts-de Seine's suburb of Clichy.

French History - October - Events: The Battle of Tours (732); Napoléon exiled to St. Helena (1815); History's first Getaway Car used by thieves in Paris(1901); Births: Diderot (1713) Yves Montand (1921); François Mitterand (1916).