It’s Sunday and we’re at the airport, heading home. It’s been an amazing trip.
We left Lyon for Normandy on Wednesday. On the way, we stopped overnight in the Loire region and visited Chenonceaux, a Renaissance chateau that belonged to … Read More
Bonjour again, this time from Lyon, France. We’re staying in an incredible sixteenth century building on a very narrow cobbled street in the old part of the city. Here’s the street–just out of the frame, on the left, would be… Read More
On Friday I blogged about a notorious mother, Agrippina, in honor of Mother’s Day. Today’s Evil-Mother-Blog is about Catherine de Medici (1519 -1589), the staunchly Catholic queen of France, who gets at least part of the blame for starting the… Read More
Seventeenth century French Cardinal Richelieu was so annoyed by dinner guests picking their teeth with their knives while sitting at the table that he ordered all his household’s knives to be ground to rounded ends.
Source: Reader’s Digest Everyday Life… Read More