Today, 12/12/12, Notre Dame de Paris is celebrating its 850th birthday. –from artdaily.org –from Shakespeare and Company’s Facebook page –from my camera phoneWordless Wednesday
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Late Wordless Wednesday: Notre Dame
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Notre Dame and the Christmas Markets
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–Charlemagne to the right. –I enjoy walking around Notre Dame. Sometimes there is a mass going on, or a rehearsal and people are singing, and so there is pleasant background noise. Most of the visits I have made to Notre Dame have been quiet, except for the shuffle of feet and a low murmur. And…
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June 16, 1904
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–Sylvia Beach and James Joyce in front of Shakespeare and Company, 12 rue de l’Odeon, Paris –Sylvia Beach in her shop, Shakespeare and Company (Gisèle Freund) Today is Bloomsday and there are tributes to James Joyce on many book and literature blogs. However, I want to pay special homage to Sylvia Beach this day. With…
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Legacy Books
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I have been meaning to write about the new, independently-owned bookstore where I went to hear Kathleen Kent speak and get her book The HERetic’s Daughter autographed. Legacy Books (www.legacybooksonline.com) is the non-chain bookstore located at The Shops at Legacy (Dallas Parkway and Legacy Drive in Plano) next to the Williams-Sonoma at Home store. When…
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