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Our family lived in France for the 1988-89 school year, in Chevreuse, a small village 30 km southwest of Paris.

We loved the place and the people, and we miss them very much.

 

torchlight

Tova, Harriet & George in torchlight parade,
wearing their French Revolutionary costumes for the village festival.
Chevreuse, 1989

 

2cvs

What's the plural of
"deux cheveaux"?
Chevreuse, 1989

 

eiffel_interior

Paris, 1989

 

eiffel_night

Paris, 1989

 

beaubourg_fountain

Paris, Beaubourg, 1989

 

Traction_Avant

Citröen "Traction Avant", St. Malô, 1989

 

monet

Monet's Garden, Giverny, 1989

 

Musette

Paris, Montmartre 1989

 

Velo_dame

Paris, Montmartre 1989

 

yvette

L'Yvette, Chevreuse, 1989

 

signs-chevreuse

Signs, Chevreuse 1989

 

petitsponts

Les Petits Ponts, Chevreuse, 1989

 

mtstmichel

Mt. Saint Michel, Normandy, 1989

 

l_epi_d_or

L'Epi d'Or, Chevreuse 1989

 

bisquine

A "bisquine", an unusual type of fishing boat, Cancale 1989

 

Chevreuse roofs

Chevreuse, 1989

 

Racine

Le Chemin de Jean Racine, Chevreuse 1989
With my Gnôme Rhône bicycle.

 

barge

Seine barge, Paris 1989

 

parispano

Skyline from the Centre Pompidou, Paris 1989

This is 9 photos joined together, taken with a Kodak Retina IIc camera.

If this isn't enough for you,
I have more photographs on my Photography Page

See also my pages on Cycling in France

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