Arcs

"A Beautiful city, count, an exceedingly beautiful city," said Cleek, as the carriage which had been sent to meet them at the station rolled into the broad Avenue des Arcs, which is at once the widest and most ornate thoroughfare the capital city of Mauravania boasts.

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

"A beautiful city, Count -- an exceedingly beautiful city," said Cleek, as the carriage which had been sent to meet them at the station rolled into the broad Avenue des Arcs, which is at once the widest and most ornate thoroughfare the capital city of Mauravania boasts.

Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

I asked, trusting Jean-Claude to paint a sensitive portrait of life here in Les Arcs-sur-Argens during WWII.

WWII soldiers remembrance 2009

Marika, The cabanon is located high in the garrigue (scrubland) above the village of Les Arcs-sur-Argens

chouia - French Word-A-Day 2009

Your story brings back a lovely memory of your old village "Les Arcs" where I spent two years healing from my accident in the jungle of Mexico.

lavoir - French Word-A-Day 2009

Changing the subject, Jean-Claude handed me the black and white images, explaining that the photos were of the Libération, * taken when American solders arrived in les Arcs-sur-Argens, freeing the village from German occupation.

WWII soldiers remembrance 2009

Of all her coming and goings, this visit has been the least eventful (apart from Le Big Fry): no riding to Marseilles, weekly, in an ambulance, no standing in the soup line (and getting chewed out by her "stickler-for-rules" daughter), no pilfering through the local poubelles for Secret Garden lawn furniture, no running away from her hostess-daughter's home, in Saint Maximin (... and again in Les Arcs ....).

bousculer - French Word-A-Day 2009

Of all her coming and goings, this visit has been the least eventful (apart from Le Big Fry): no riding to Marseilles, weekly, in an ambulance, no standing in the soup line (and getting chewed out by her "stickler-for-rules" daughter), no pilfering through the local poubelles for Secret Garden lawn furniture, no running away from her hostess-daughter's home, in Saint Maximin (... and again in Les Arcs ....).

French Word-A-Day: 2009

Of all her coming and goings, this visit has been the least eventful (apart from Le Big Fry): no riding to Marseilles, weekly, in an ambulance, no standing in the soup line (and getting chewed out by her "stickler-for-rules" daughter), no pilfering through the local poubelles for Secret Garden lawn furniture, no running away from her hostess-daughter's home, in Saint Maximin (... and again in Les Arcs ....).

Jules 2009

Of all her coming and goings, this visit has been the least eventful (apart from Le Big Fry): no riding to Marseilles, weekly, in an ambulance, no standing in the soup line (and getting chewed out by her "stickler-for-rules" daughter), no pilfering through the local poubelles for Secret Garden lawn furniture, no running away from her hostess-daughter's home, in Saint Maximin (... and again in Les Arcs ....).

French Word-A-Day: 2009