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Thursday, June 18, 2015

The day that England thrashed France

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In France, it's a fact, rightly or wrongly, that few folk celebrate the Battle of Waterloo , which took place exactly two centuries ago,...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Heavy heritage

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During my wonderful three-year stint with Pierre Schaeffer at the Service de la Recherche de l’ORTF, I had countless encounters with amazi...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Liberation of Paris, 25 August 1944

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Exactly 70 years ago, on 25 August 1944, General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque arrived in Paris at the head of tanks of his celebrated a...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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