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Fascicle 11, Livre III – 2025 La vie continue
7-11 Novembre – Reims Revisité We stayed just two nights in Reims on our 2021 “Tour de France” (just before a week in Paris) but they producedmany fine memories. So when our friends, Monica and Sean, invited us to join them along with others for a weekend in Reims attending the Salon des Vins des…
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Fascicle 10, Livre III – octobre 2025 La Vie continue
Barcelona – 17-20 October Barcelona from Park Guell (01) or from the terrace at the top of the Occidental Diagonal 414 hotel (02-05) takes your breath away. Its beginnings go back over 5,000 years before the Roman colony, Barcino, was established around 218 BCE, but legend has it that it was founded when Hercules and…
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Fascicle 9, Livre II – novembre 2024 La vie continue
October – Anniversaries Here – and There Monday, October the 14th marked the first anniversary of our departure from the United States on a rainy Saturday from Dulles InternaƟonal on an Air France to Paris, Charles De Gaulle arriving the next morning and connecting to a flight here. What a year it has been for…
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Fascicle 5, Livre II – juli 2024 La vie continue
June “Busted” Out All Over (Apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein) June (on the 12th) marked the beginning of a new year for me, and all I will say about that is “keep ‘em coming!” There is nothing that we enjoy more than playing tour guides for those who come to visit us here, and this…
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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…
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Fasc. 3, Lvr. III – mai 2024 La vie continue
April Was for Avignon And for a lot of other things too, but Avignon was the highlight for us. This April is noticeably cooler than what we experienced last year, and with a lot more wind. We also had a marvelous return visit to Palavas-les-Flots at the beginning of the month. Situated at the mouth…
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Fascicle 2, Livre II La vie continue
– Aux Armes ! Citoyens ! … Mon panthéon des auteurs des très belles-lettres de France This is my panthéon of my French literary “heroes” and “heroines”, the authors whom I consider to be the best in the history of French literature. It is personal and quite arbitrary. I have selected them from a very long list…
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Fascicle 1, Livre II, Notre Avenue des Champs-Élysées
(Also known in Montpellier as Avenue Georges Clemenceau) Clockwise from top left: 1. the entrance to our building 2. looking back toward our building at 55 bis Ave. Georges Clemenceau 3. looking up toward Cour Gambetta 4. looking down Ave. Georges Clemenceau from Cour Gambetta The name of a mysterious place in Greek mythology –…
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Quelle est la ville?
Qu’est-ce que Montpellier? What is the city? What is Montpellier? I want to describe what Montpellier is for me, but to do that I first must tell you what I think the city is. Arguably the city is the crowning achievement of our over 40 thousand years of civilization; and, for me, Montpellier is one…
La Vie de Montpellier 