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Don't miss this - From Eric Dean, PAHS '69 -  Excellent Review in the Wall Street Journal of the Cathedrals of Paris, Saint-Denis; Notre Dame, Chartres, Sainte-Chapelle, Amiens and Reims  

Paris and Her Cathedrals' Review: The Architecture of Praise

 

https://www.wsj.com › ... › Books › Bookshelf

France gives its highest honor to 100-year-old WWII paratrooper from Florida who fought on D-Day

(Florida Times Union) France on Thursday officially thanked Earl Mills at his farm in Live Oak, Fla., almost 78 years after he parachuted from a U.S. Army plane over Normandy, part of a wave of Allied soldiers determined to liberate the country and the rest of Europe from the threat of the Nazi regime. Read More

Sabine Weiss, Last of the 'Humanist' Street Photographers ... 

https://www.nytimes.com › 2022/01/04 › arts › sabine-we...

4 days ago — Sabine Weiss, whose arresting photographs of dirty-faced children, ... Weiss, 'Humanist' Who Photographed Streets Of Paris, Is Dead at 97.

 

At a Paris Market, Costs Rise, Even for the Humble Baguette 

https://www.nytimes.com › paris-france-inflation-prices

Meat prices at a nearby butcher are up 10 percent since the summer. Some French cheeses are expected to rise 20 percent in the new year. Even ...

Paris wants the Seine swimmable for the 2024 Olympics - The ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com › world › 2021/12/29

2 days ago — Paris wants to make the Seine swimmable for the Olympics and the public. French officials hope that the Seine will be clean enough for ..

The fire that came so close to a total destruction of an iconic work of religious art.

Opinion | Sorry, Internet: Notre Dame is not being wreckovated.. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com › 2021/12/08 › notre-...

Opinion: Sorry, Internet: Notre Dame is not being 'wreckovated' ... Elizabeth Lev is an author and a professor of art history at Duquesne ...