Jeanne Koré Salvato

questions à la française

questions à la française

There’s a French expression « se remettre en question. » It’s tricky to translate literally, but if you did, it would come out like this: to re-put yourself in question.  Which does not help a lot! On an on-line forum, a French speaker offered this...
La Seine à la Montaigne

La Seine à la Montaigne

We had a famous Wordsworth professor who would say, “My glance fell upon such and such in a Wordsworth poem,” as his way of opening a lecture.  I would like to borrow his words to say that this morning my glance fell upon a book on my shelf called, How to Live or...
cemetière montparnasse

cemetière montparnasse

I’d like to continue the story of the cemetery at Montparnasse.  I returned the next day with my intrepid Irish friend, who could not believe a puff a wind had closed down the cemetery the day before. Here’s a link to that sad tale. pilgrimage This time, the...
welcome (back) to the first post

welcome (back) to the first post

This post is the very first one ever published. We launched on Bloomsday in 2020 on June 16th. And since this Friday is Bloomsday 2023, I thought it would be fun to visit our earliest inspiration. It seemed an auspicious day, with everybody the world over out reading...
pilgrimage

pilgrimage

cemetery in Paris, anyone?  Many people think, oh, Père Lachaise, with its 70,000 tombs, many of which contain notable figures such as Chopin and the Doors’, Jim Morrison, to name a very few.  The name translates to Father Chair, or Father François d’ Aix de...