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25 octobre 2008

Thank you!

Dear Everyone, I thought that my birthday would pass with no fuss...Being away from Bucharest for the first birthday in 5 years, I didn't want to celebrate it. I told noone, so anyone who knew did so off their own bats - thank you for all the e-mails,...

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31 octobre 2008

Happy Hallowe'en?

Happy Hallowe'en, one and all. If you're trick or treatin', may you return home with full bushels and if you're at home hiding from the trick or treaters, best nail down your letter box! I was shocked by how many of people had no idea of the origins of...

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25 octobre 2008

Du Shtetl à New York

I’ve just bought the most wonderful CD – ‘Du Shtetl à New York’ with the Sirba Quartet and Isabelle Georges… see http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JAvH88zFJP0 and... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KuipfheDSnk From the shtetl to New York, 'Rozhinkes mit Mandlen'...

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31 octobre 2008

Dark Deeds Indeed...

That Napoleon I was something else...how on earth can such a man be so admired??? It's like saying Alexander The Great was a nice geezer... Nicole has sent me a 'tidbit' about the treatment of poor Pope Pius VII, sometimes even very seriously ill, by...

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5 novembre 2008

Dvorak and the New World

Dear Everybody, This night as Americans across the pond await the result of their elections, I found this programme on BBC Radio 3. Donald Macleod tells the story of Dvorak's friendship with Harry T Burleigh, a young African-American singer and composer,...

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5 novembre 2008

The Galaxy Song

How small and insignificant we are - beautifully summed up in Monty Python's Galaxy Song...shame we can't sing this on Friday evening as a Finale! As Dvorak inspired me, so does the Galaxy Song. I'm in the mood for something silly. (From: Monty Python's...

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1 décembre 2010

Hamidovic criminal network busted

For anyone's info who considers all 'gypsies' in France to be from Roumania, nah nah na nah naaaaaah! Take a look at this from RFI and think again: French police dismantle European pickpocket ring A girl begging in the Paris metro. Most petty crime in...

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19 novembre 2010

Louis-Auguste Blanqui, france's radical lefty jail-bird

Another wonderful article from the Hidden Paris series of RFI: A revolutionary on the Paris map Louis-Auguste Blanqui By Amanda Morrow He spent most of his adult life in French prisons; Lenin and Marx thought he was a bit extreme; and today he might well...

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28 octobre 2010

No Lipp Service for Mehdi Ben Barka - 45 years today

Spies, Nazis, gangsters and cops - the mysterious disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka RFI By Clea Caulcutt Forty-five years ago, French police officers abducted Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka outside Paris's famous Brasserie Lipp. He is believed...

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25 juin 2010

French strike over pension reform plans Unions

French strike over pension reform plans Unions want government to revisve plans to raise retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018 Reuters in Paris guardian.co.uk, Bernard Thibault, head of CGT said: 'The workers have decided to take to the streets to prevent...

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27 juin 2010

70th Anniversary of CDG's radio appeal

This from The Economist: De Gaullemania The indomitable de Gaulle Why is France swooning over its old president? Jun 17th 2010 | Paris A model of modesty A SPECIALLY spray-painted Eurostar train, carrying ex-fighters of the French resistance from Paris...

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2 octobre 2010

Musée Jaquemart-André

Yesterday morning, we decided to pay a visit to the beautiful Musée Jaquemart-André for the Poussin and Rubens exhibition, though really, I just wanted to be surrounded for a while by luxury and beautiful objets d'art! The exhibition itself was, I have...

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4 août 2010

A day in the 5th

Dear Everyone, Had a lovely day today with Martine in the Vè arrondissement, starting out at the Grande Mosquée de Paris (haven't been there for a good year). Our idea to lunch there fell by the wayside, for it was packed to the gills, so instead we popped...

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21 mai 2010

Paintings nicked

Paris art thief appears more no-frills than thrillseeker Christophe Girard, deputy Paris mayor, gives a press conference outside the Musee d'Art Moderne. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters The Guardian The deputy culture secretary at Paris city hall...

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7 mai 2010

Britain sees a hung parliament

And so, one awakes this morning to a hung parliament, the Tories with the most seats, Labour clinging on behind and Lib Dems nowhere to be seen. It appears that the British voters preferred to stick with what they knew. The outrageous news of polling...

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27 mars 2010

An afternoon with Chopin

Hi everyone, I just got back from a lovely afternoon with Fa visiting La Musée de la Vie Romantique and an exhibition in homage to Chopin. It is the bicentenary of his death this year and so we'll be seeing quite a lot of him - remember how it was for...

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6 novembre 2009

What a spectacle

Please may I have a pair for Christmas? The below article from the BBC: Smart spectacles aid translation The spectacles are due to go on sale in Japan in 2010 Spectacles that can provide subtitles have been created by hi-tech firm NEC. Resembling glasses...

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9 novembre 2009

November 9th, 1989

How emotional this day is. Exactly twenty years ago, Germans were reunited after decades of division: the wall came down, a city that had been divided for so long could embrace its other half once again. It is not just a celebration for Germany, however,...

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5 octobre 2009

South Western France by Franck

If you go to the south west of France, you will discover a lot of fascinating places loaded with history: prehistoric sites and caves, for example. Landscapes are beautiful (Quercy and the Vallée du Lot...) and many of the most beautiful villages in France...

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5 octobre 2009

Music and French Ambiance by Marie Jo

Le Limonaire is a very nice place at the Cité Bergère, a small street off rue Montmartre in the 9è. I love it because it's one of the places in Paris which permits the discovery of really talented artists who do not pass by the media due to their political...

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2 octobre 2009

The Bastille by Anne

My next victim is Anne who has chosen, as her specialised subject on Mastermind, The Bastille: "This is a famous place in Paris which had a very bad reputation because of its history: the Revolution in 1789. At this epoch, Bastille was a jail and represented...

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2 octobre 2009

Mont St. Michel by Sylvaine

Friday...last day of the week, and it begins with Sylvaine who has chosen Mont St. Michel in her beloved Brittany as the subject for her post. "The Mont St Michel, a wonderful island of rock, is based at the limit of Normandy and Brittany in the north...

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1 octobre 2009

The Arc de Triomphe by Julien

My classes over my last few days in Paris are revolving around my blog. As I am leaving France next week for six months, everyone is writing a post about something they associate with France: musicians, poets, food, history, monuments, literature, films,...

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1 octobre 2009

Maurice Fanon and La Petite Juive by Marie Jo

I am sitting here in a class with Marie Jo who is telling me about Maurice Fanon, singer, composer and performer who died in 1991 at the age of 61. He belongs to a category of musicians termed 'cursed'. A pascifist, horrified by war and the consequences...

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27 septembre 2009

Unchartered 15è

Dear Everyone, I've just got back from a lovely exploration of the 15è: places I have walked past so often and yet didn't know were there. Huh. And I thought I knew Paris. I began on rue Lecourbe. It's hard to find streets such as this around these days....

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