Comment du Jour

Bonjour from France!!

Here in beautiful Paris for a bit of R&R.

Alas, Europe in the Summer is crowded and warm BUT still has that special charm and fine food and wine.

Just a bit of history here--the Paris City Hall--Hotel de Ville is decked out with French and American flags and a huge photo of General Charles de Gaulle, the man who embodied spirit and salvation of wartime France and later became the President. France is commemorating the 70th anniversary of de Gaulle's famous Appeal of 18 June 1940, the broadcast via the BBC in London which urged a defeated and stunned France to resist the Nazi occupation.

The 18th June 1940 was actually the date most French became aware of a man who would lead Free France during the war and later serve as President until 1969.