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Tutankhamun in Paris
Category: France
Update: Butehamun’s letter is now online!
Today permission arrived from the Louvre to use my photos of Butehamun’s letter to the coffin of his wife, Ostracon Louvre N 698, not just in academic publications, but also online in the website I’ve created about Butehamun. You can…
Visiting the Louvre Archives
As part of my research into Butehamun, and to help create a website about the famous scribe of Deir el-Medina, the Wångstedts Foundation awarded me a travel grant. Trip 1 was to the Louvre Museum in Paris, whas has a…
Waterloo More Important Than Midsummer?
Midsummer is the most important holiday in Sweden and Denmark, after Christmas. Anyone who has experienced the darkness of the Scandinavian Winter can appreciate the desire to celebrate the light of Summer. Yet every year, it seems, the European Union…
Amazing Changes in France
Yesterday and today have come news that two of the things I thought were the worst or weirdest about France are being changed, the stores being closed on Sundays, and the schools being closed on Wednesdays. Yesterday France24 reported, on…
Opponents of Gay Marriage Don’t Understand What Marriage Is
I’ve written about this before, but in the light of the US Supreme Court striking down the Defence of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, and the recent demonstrations against the legalization of same sex marriage in France, it needs…
The French go to the polls
The French go to the polls to vote for president, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. A polling station at a school in Strasbourg, April 22, 2012. The first round of the presidential elections.
Election in France – Battle of the posters
Election in France – Battle of the posters, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Rival candidates for the French presidency fighting for poster space, Strasbourg, April 16, 2012.
One week to the French elections
In one week people here in France go to the polls in the first round of the presidential election. The two candidates with the most votes will face off in the second round. There’s extensive coverage in the media, and…
The world’s narrowest street passage?
The world’s narrowest street passage?, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Very narrow passage in Niedermorschwihr, on the Route des vins in Alsace, France. Video: