I hate blog posts that start with “Sorry, I haven’t updated this blog in a long time” but… Sorry, I haven’t updated this blog in a long time… If you follow me on social media (if you don’t you should, check the links in the top bar), you know that […]
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The following post is in French, as there’s no real point in writing it in English. Sorry for those among you who can’t read the language. François Corbier, je t’aimais bien à l’époque de Récré A2. J’avais même pas 10 ans, tu étais ce grand fou chantant en […]
Some old pictures (10-11 years old) of the Luxembourg Gardens, back from when I used to live in Paris.
Apparently, it’s quite wet in Paris today, but here, in my neck of the woods in Japan, it snowed – barely. That reminded me of that evening in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower on a snowy night, a few years ago:
I posted a similar picture a year or so ago, but here is an updated one from last summer (the previous one being almost 10 years old). This is the Dordogne River valley, seen from the village of Domme. It is in my opinion, one of the most […]
So, I just returned from spending a little more than three weeks in France. For you, if you’re a “typical” foreigner, France might be this amazing place you dream of visiting (unless you’ve already done it), or instead, if you’re an idiot loser, you may think that it is […]
If you’re interested in Paris or in French history, you have most likely heard of the Hôtel des Invalides. Located in the 7th Arrondissement of Paris, this very large complex of buildings dates from the late 17th Century (when Louis XIV reigned). Its original purpose was to house the […]
Blâmont is a small village in Meurthe-et-Moselle in Northeastern France. I don’t really know anything about it, except that my grandfather’s cousin stopped there at some point during World War One and sent that postcard to his family. (trying to find a similar contemporary view on the village […]
Just some old pictures from back when I used to live in Paris (their time stamp says February 10th 2006, that’s 11 years and one day ago!) of the Parc de Bercy and Jardin Yitzhak-Rabin on a very cold winter morning. Note that Jardin Yitzhak-Rabin was my favorite […]
This is the Gare Matabiau in Toulouse (the city’s main train station), circa 1900. A very interesting picture – at least for me – as I rode the train there several times a month in the mid-90’s when I was an undergraduate student in Toulouse. All things considered, […]