Category Archives: Moulins

You Tell Me

Posted on June 6, 2007 by robhunt510

1751: Voltaire in the Le Siecle de Louis XIV described Europe as “a kind of great republic divided into several states, some monarchical, the others mixed…but all corresponding with one another. They all have the same religious foundation, even if … Continue reading →

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Terrible Kids: the other side of the Loire

Posted on June 6, 2007 by robhunt510

Sophie is 22, her grandmother – who she has never met, she left her French husband and moved to Australia in the 1950s – is English. “How did you manage in these places,” she says, “they are dead, terrible.” Briare, … Continue reading →

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In the knowedge not the know

Posted on June 4, 2007 by robhunt510

Difficult to juggle, this “betwixt” thing: living somewhere between Tom Coryat, history, art, Google and now, is hard. What the “memory stick” brings is a frame; but the towns of the Loire are their own boxed-frame. Family-centred; day-time centred: here … Continue reading →

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The Lady (and Man) Vanishes

Posted on June 4, 2007 by robhunt510

During the siege of Paris in 1870/1 the enterprising fellows at Thomas Cook created war holidays: for a few pounds a train and a boat, and then…see where those communards fell. These days the insurance premiums would be too high, … Continue reading →

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Moulins Roug-ish

Posted on June 4, 2007 by robhunt510

And listening to Camille: try her. The best French singer around.

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