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While in France it is known as the Fête Nationale (National Celebration), for most of the world July 14 is known as Bastille Day, a day for Francophiles to wear their love of that country proudly on their sleeves. Bastille Day commemorates the 1790 celebration of the Fête de la Fédération (Feast of the Federation), [...]  Ok, it’s meme time! This thingie popped up on two of my friend’s blog over the weekend, so by the laws of the Internet I had to feature it as well. visited 10 states (4.44%) Create your own visited map of The World visited 8 states (16%) Create your own visited map of The United [...] French authorities discovered this morning someone had defaced the tomb of iconic French author Alexander Dumas, located inside the Panthéon, in the city of Paris. The police was called in early in the morning after a janitor, doing his pre-opening rounds, spotted the graffiti on the tomb of the beloved author. Authorities are still trying [...] Though Jules Verne may have been thinking of the one at Isla de los Estados, near Tierra del Fuego (off the southernmost coasts of Argentina and Chile), when he wrote his novel The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World, the description applies equally well to another such building in his native France, the lighthouse [...]  |
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