Archive: January, 2016

  Part One : Horror Chapter One Saturday, March 11, 1944 In the early evening of Saturday, March 11, 1944, the telephone rang on the desk of the duty officer at the Porte Maillot station house. Until then, Rue le Sueur in Paris’s elegant sixteenth arrondissement had made it into the news just once. It […]

Once – forty years ago – a shop where one could help oneself (self-service) was difficult to find in Paris. Indeed in France. Today, though, one will have a problem finding a shop where a kindly couple will welcome one at the door asking what they could show one. Today, here in France, the self-service rules, […]