French History
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Fascicle 9, Livre III – septembre 2025 La Vie continue
3 September – Domaine L’Oulivie Revisited Maybe you remember that this means a bus to the end of the line, a stroll toward Pic Saint-Loup, and into vineyards, but it was all worth the effort to have a new supply of Picholine and Lucques olive oils. (We took an Uber home.) 5-7 September – La…
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Fascicle 8, Livre III – 2025 La vie continue August 2025
31 July-4 August – Annecy Redux Some of you may recall that on Bonny’s and my «Tour de France» in September 2021 we paid a brief visit to this city in the Alpes just a few miles from the Swiss border and close to Mont Blanc – and one of Bonny’s favorite places in France.…
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Fascicle 6, Livre III – juin 2025 La vie conƟnue
1 May – 30 June On the first of May, a perfect spring day here, after a leisurely stroll to the Lez (where along the way I made this picture of one of the fountains around Montpellier) we shared a glass (bottom right) of Château d ’Yquem of the 1997 vintage at our favorite boîte,…
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Fascicle 5, Livre III – mai 2025 La vie continue
9 -11 April – Marseille Revisité (This picture was taken 16 December 2023 on our first visit to Marseille; the sky was as blue then as it was this time.) At over 500 feet above the Mediterranean and the highest point in Marseille, la Bonne Mère, the Basilica Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, is Marseille’s best known and most…
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Fasc. IV, Lvr. II – juin 2024 La vie continue
May Was a Marvellous Month And a merry one too! With warmer (but not too warm) days, longer hours of daylight, and more sun webegan to really enjoy spring. Clear blue skies over Place de la Comedié (below) made it delightful, while the Ligne 5 tram’s rails are starting to go in place (above) and…
La Vie de Montpellier 