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MORE TRÈS FRENCH . . .
Update on what is now, all over France, known as 'Le Tweet'. For the story continues, and gets juicier. This morning, on the highly respectable radio station France Inter, one of the editors passed on what she had heard from people who work at the Presidential palace, L'Elysée. Tuesday morning, it seems, just after President Hollande had published ( Read more... ) -
HISTORY IN SMALL OBJECTS
In the Dutch city of Apeldoorn, in 1920, the Roman Catholic Labour Association opened a sanatorium for tuberculosis-patients. (At that time, 2% of the Dutch population died annually of the disease, especially prevalent among the working class.) The sanatorium was called ‘Berg en Bosch’ (Mountain and Forest), and its slogan was ‘ ( Read more... )
