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Tag Archives: france
Planned Parenthood and The Marseillaise: Aux Armes, Citoyens!
To arms, citizens, Form your battalions Let’s march, let’s march Let an impure blood Soak our fields This is the refrain of the Marseillaise, forever the battle-song of oppressed humanities. It was composed by Claude Rouget de Lisle in 1792 … Continue reading
Visiting the Musee Rodin in the Wake of World War II
For me, the reopening of the Musee Rodin unleashed floods of memories. In April 1946, a month before my nuclear family was to immigrate to the United States, my mother, who was somewhat of a tyrant, surprisingly let me visit … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art collecting, art exhibits, art museums, belgium, brussels, family, france, french art, hotel biron, modern art, modernism, musee rodin, rainer maria rilke, rilke, rodin, sculpture, world war ii, world war ii history
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Arles Revisited
Fifty years ago, when my children were eight and ten, they, my mom and I drove from Oxford, England to Rome. We had a week to cover a thousand miles via Europe’s then old, double-lane, tree-lined highways. The trip was … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arles, art, art museums, cafe de la nuit, church of st trophime, cloisters, cloitre de le saint trophime, europe, european art, france, medieval architecture, medieval art, metropolitan museum of art, new york, new york city, provence, rhone river, road trips, roman architecture, Saint Guilhem-le-Désert, saint trophime, travel, trophimus, van gogh, vincent van gogh, yale art gallery
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