Category: France
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Paris . . . for book lovers
A man plays a discordant but beautiful tune on a piano in a tiny garret upstairs at Shakespeare and Company. A few steps away, a man in a tiny alcove tentatively pecks out the words of a future bestseller on an ancient Underwood, while in the front room I sit on one of the available…
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Desperately seeking Oscar Wilde
“Where are you Oscar? You scamp,” I muttered to myself as I gazed upon the endless rows of the dead at Cimetière du Père Lachaise. It made me smile. Oscar, I’m sure, would find it funny. Someone he’d never met searching in vain for his lipstick covered tomb. “You know Oscar, I l spent a…
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Versailles: Wandering in the Sun King’s Private Gardens
Versailles. Few names conjure up images of total decadence, beautiful art and aristocratic ego run amok as the Château de Versailles. Located on the outskirts of Paris, France’s kings ruled their country and overseas empire from the sprawling palace from 1682, when Louis XIV (the Sun King) shifted his court here, until the French Revolution…