Category: Living in France
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Living In France: A Day in the Life of an American Living in Small Provencal Village
Our street was narrow, unpaved, and fenced by two large stone walls. This was before the jolies maisons sprang up like mushrooms surrounding us, eating up the vineyards and olive trees. This was before our town became a bedroom community for Marseille. This…
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And Now She Has Me in Paris
For the last several weeks my friend Annie has not felt well. Nothing seriously wrong, rather a long drawn out general fatigue. Of course she had a flu shot, and her doctor came by regularly (to her home) as well…
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Dream Road Map
This is a child's map I found the other day in a French children's newspaper called, "La Journal Rose" it was dated 1901. Do you know that France is made up of regions. Each region has its specialty and they…
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The Many Doors in my Neighborhood
I live in the center of a very old French village, which isn't saying much because most French villages are old. Our house is documented four hundred years old. But so are most in the center of town.…
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French Laundry
French Husband came home with a twinkle in his eye, handing me a note that had the name and phone number of someone I didn't know. "A certain Monsieur wants you to decorate his home on the French Rivera,…
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The Crush That Started With Victor
Flashback 1987 I raced into the bookstore, around the corner from my apartment in San Francisco, to find some books for the long flight to France. Glancing over the rows of books I read titles of the current bestsellers,…