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Goodbye Fred: On Love, Chocolate, and Immortality

HOMMAGE On Friday, near midnight, Frédéric Chollet passed away after a long illness. I learned the news in a message sent from South Africa:  “Fred est parti.” Fred… he was the one who picked me up at the Marseille airport when I moved to France. I’ll never forget stepping off the plane in my cowboy boots, fresh from the Arizona desert—a sharp contrast to Fred’s … Continue reading Goodbye Fred: On Love, Chocolate, and Immortality

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Snapshots of France: the Basque town of Bidarray. lecteur (lek-tuur) noun, masculine    : reader The feminine of "lecteur" is "une lectrice" Listen to today's word and the following quote: Download lecteur.wav. Download lecteur.mp3 En réalité, chaque lecteur est, quand il lit, le propre lecteur de soi-même.In reality, each reader is, when he reads, the own reader of himself.                                                             -Marcel Proust  A Day in a French … Continue reading lecteur

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