Xavier Gorce
• Hey, d'ja wanna buy a Mandela mug?
• Nope
• How 'bout a Mandela towel?
A Mandela tablecloth?
• Hold on, I got Mandela key chains, mousepads, USB keys, snow globes…
• I don't want any Mandela products
• Racist!
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Racist! Le Monde's Mandela Cartoon
Xavier Gorce
• Hey, d'ja wanna buy a Mandela mug?
• Nope
• How 'bout a Mandela towel?
A Mandela tablecloth?
• Hold on, I got Mandela key chains, mousepads, USB keys, snow globes…
• I don't want any Mandela products
• Racist!
Sunday, December 15, 2013
D-Day and the Bridge of Hope
The first place on French soil liberated by the Allies on D-Day was the Gondrée café by Pegasus Bridge. 
Five months after the British glider troops took the bridge (after midnight on June 6, 1944), the café couple's daughter was born, and in the intervening 70 years, she has remained true to her roots, remaining in the café, which now doubles as a Pegasus Bridge museum, and greeting all types of veterans and tourists on their visits to Normandy.
Now Françoise H. Gondrée has written a memoir of her life, Pegasus Bridge Le pont de l'espoir. Let's hope it is due to be translated so that an English-language version is available.
Five months after the British glider troops took the bridge (after midnight on June 6, 1944), the café couple's daughter was born, and in the intervening 70 years, she has remained true to her roots, remaining in the café, which now doubles as a Pegasus Bridge museum, and greeting all types of veterans and tourists on their visits to Normandy.Now Françoise H. Gondrée has written a memoir of her life, Pegasus Bridge Le pont de l'espoir. Let's hope it is due to be translated so that an English-language version is available.
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