Couldn’t resist another blog about my trip to the Metropolitan Museum last week (see Friday’s post for the Civil War photo exhibit). It was so fun to be able to spend almost unlimited time there for a change, as usually… Read More
On July 14, 1789, a mob stormed the Bastille, marking the beginning of the French Revolution. At his palace at Versailles, King Louis XVI’s diary entry for that day was: “14 juillet: rien.”