The Evil French Revolution
Today is Bastille Day, the national holiday of France, a country I love. Bastille Day is always difficult, because I want to celebrate France, but not the French Revolution. Why not the French...
View ArticleThe End Of A World
Thousands of Churches are being demolished across France. Today, they are destroying the Chapel of St.Martin’s in Sablé-sur-Sarthe#France pic.twitter.com/0PRLg02xtF — ArchitecturalRevival...
View Article‘Le Pari Bénédictin’ Est Arrivé
Today is a big day for me, personally. The French translation of The Benedict Option is published today in France. The French title is Comment être chrétien dans un monde qui ne l’est plus: Le pari...
View ArticleFrench Anti-Semitism
Does this Jewish Parisian have a future in France? Do his children? (Cdrin/Shutterstock) Alexander Aciman [sorry, readers, I originally, and mistakenly, said “Andre,” his father] asks in the NYT, “Can...
View ArticleAu Revoir, M. Bocuse
“Classic or modern, there is only one cuisine … the good.” — Paul Bocuse, 1926-2018 A great man has passed. The French chef Paul Bocuse died today at 91. From the NYT obit: Paul Bocuse, the most...
View ArticleFrench Catholic Agrarianism
Zbyszko/Shutterstock Next month, I am going to France to participate in a conference called Journées Paysannes (Peasant Days), a national gathering of Catholic small farmers and agrarians. They have...
View ArticleArnaud Beltrame, Hero-Martyr Of France
France has produced a second martyr — the first was Father Jacques Hamel, slain at the altar while saying mass — in the contemporary battle against radical Islam. From Familie Chretienne, this news...
View ArticleView From Your Table
Cancale, Brittany, France This is the first VFYT that ever brought literal tears to my eyes. Cancale is the oyster capital of France. I have never been there. More from the same reader:
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Mont-Saint-Michel, France Notice the horizon. Patrick Deneen and his wonderful wife are having a great vacation.
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Toulon, France The reader writes: This isn’t your usual VFYT in Provence; it’s a piece of the American South in France. My husband, two children and I are visiting my husband’s grandmother in Toulon,...
View ArticleFear Of Being Soft On Bigotry™
Earlier this month, I blogged about a fascinating Mark Lilla essay in NYRB about new currents emerging on the French Right. It caught my attention in part because I know some of the young Catholic...
View ArticleDisintegration And Its Discontents
Sit down, folks, this is going to be one of those long, rambling posts. TL;DR? Read Houellebecq. I see that there’s a lot of online controversy over this out-of-context quote from my Christchurch post...
View ArticlePeople As They Are
Here’s a post that’s bound to make everybody mad. More mush from the Christian cuck! More excuses from bigotry from the Christianist! Et cetera. I use this blog as more of a notebook to write down my...
View ArticleVatican Diplomat’s Indelicate Situation
Archbishop Luigi Ventura, accused of grabbing Gallic male buttocks (Lozère-Nouvelle/Screengrab) A Catholic priest e-mails to say: The Holy See has stripped Archbishop Luigi Ventura of his diplomatic...
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Reims, France Don’t forget to drink Champagne in Reims! Another one from France, this one taken by Fred, this blog’s Paris bureau chief. It’s a limoncello & Prosecco cocktail, enjoyed on the...
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