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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Love from Hélène, February 1919

December 22, 2011

I wonder why Hélène picked this particular card. And what lies behind her uncertainty about her future? Why are the …

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Noël en Alsace (1)

December 20, 2011

I’m missing being in Alsace at this time of year. Haven’t been in December since the Great European Freeze in …

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Nécropole nationale, Sigolsheim

December 20, 2011

Le Tréport. Almost a hundred years on.

December 18, 2011

Before a decade had passed, a city of billowing white hospital tents transformed the scene and the grand hotel Trianon was …

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