Antipodes

Every family has a few black sheep, either in the present or in the past. Most often both. And a family historian, believing that every effe...

This low-quality drawing is so amateurish that it looks like the fuzzy work of a child. So, I would understand you for thinking it's wor...

In France, I've always found that the very British habit of "being offended" is relatively rare. Let's say that taking off...

That's not meant to be a trick question, but it is surely a tricky question. And I'm not at all certain that I can indeed reply corr...

For centuries, an old-fashioned bank in Paris, the Crédit municipal , has enabled ordinary citizens to deposit valuable stuff such as jewel...

A couple of months ago, in my blog post titled Ring-ins [ display ], I evoked the existence of a significant number of out-of-wedlock birth...

Thanks to Google Maps (which is an extraordinary device for a virtual globetrotter), I can wander leisurely through the narrow streets of t...

Not long after our return from Sydney in 1968, Christine and I decided to rent a small house out in the country, in a commune named Houdan,...

I guess I could say that this is the first official certificate I've ever received from an American institution. And I didn't even h...

The initial November 11 was in 1918, when the Armistice was signed on a cold wet day [like today at Gamone] in a railway carriage at Rethond...

In memoriam: Christian L For the last couple of years, I've been participating as a guinea pig in a project conducted by the French medi...