Monthly Archives: July 2025

A Word or Two from the Wise – 2016

July 14, 2025 – 8:54 am

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld Every writer compiling a book of quotes will have to include several icons of the well-turned phrase such as; Oscar Wilde, Mae West, and the ever-apt Francois de La Rochefoucauld, duc de La […]

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Bastille Day Beauties

July 14, 2025 – 5:52 am

Candida en Corse. Chez Gabby. Karinne de Aix en Provence. Katie 1984. Mirabelle Le Bad. We’ll always have Paris.

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Les Miserables

July 14, 2025 – 1:42 am

A year ago at a dinner on the Upper East Side an American art collector mentioned that he had called a hotel in France to rent a room and the desk clerk informed Devlin that the only available room was on the ground floor. “Where is the entrance?” “Next to the desk.” “So your guests […]

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Bastille Day 1789

July 14, 2025 – 1:11 am

2 July 1789 Paris. Le Bastille In the afternoon the infamous Marquis De Sade, who had been incarcerated in the stone fortress on charges of perversion, shouted from a barred cell window through an improvised megaphone, “Ils tuent les prisonniers.” The guards subdued the inmate, but his words sparked a smoldering rumor and the rumor […]

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Drunk in Moscow, Not Idaho 1994

July 13, 2025 – 1:23 am

In 1994 after a month long limbo in Penang I traveled from Malaysia to Paris on Aeroflot. The Kuala Lumpur-Karachi-Dubai-Moscow-Paris flight time to Moscow totaled about 24 hours. None of them were comfortable in the flimsy chairs of the Soviet era jetliner. Disembarking at night in Moscow, I discovered that my connecting flight to Charles […]

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