A Commonplace Book

Category: France...

  • exploring the caves of Lascaux, France, and the 20,000-year-old wall paintings
  • where cooking is a serious art form and a national sport
  • the Tour de France's yellow jersey
  • flowered towns patisseries, paisley scarves, antique fairs, medieval villages, olive farms, cooking school, sunflowers
  • the wine route of Alsace, the Loire Canal, Arles, Versailles
  • Julia Child describing her first meal in France
  • Denis Diderot's historic encyclopedia
  • a French pique-nique
  • renting a French farmhouse for the summer
  • a French steam laundry
  • filoche bags
  • the uvular r of French
  • Republique Francaise
  • 265 kinds of cheese
  • the age of enlightenment and the French Revolution
  • Anything may happen in France. (F. de la Rochefoucauld)
  • France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. (Mark Twain)
  • France is every man's second country. (Thomas Jefferson)

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