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Detail from “The Entombment of Christ,” 1672

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In Saint-Martin Church in Arc-en-Barrois (Haute-Marne, France).

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French poster for “Ghost in the Shell” (2017)

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Paramount Pictures.

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French cover to “The Dark Knight III: The Master Race” #4, Frank Miller, 2017

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DC Comics.  I noticed here that the words “The Master Race” were eliminated from the title for the French edition.

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“Les Merveilles de la Nuit de Noël”

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“Christmas Eve Wonders.”  Engraving.   Donated in 1844 with the work Le Foyer Breton by Emile Souvestre to the Brittany Museum, Rennes, France.

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Detail from Vimy Ridge World War I Memorial

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Vimy, France.  Memorial designed by  Walter Seymour Allward, circa 1936.

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Photo credit: By Cbone (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

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Mascaron in Strasbourg, France (Photo)

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Photo credit: By Ecelan (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.

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“Here’s how you can help victims of the Paris terror attacks.”

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There’s a terrific set of links and resources over at Mashable.com, and it’s updated continuously:

http://mashable.com/2015/11/14/paris-attacks-how-to-help/#HcMKlkEchkqT

For a little perspective, we Americans should remember the support and friendship the French people showed us after September 11, 2001.

L’Amérique se tient avec la France.
 

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“Tonight, all good people sing this song.”

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Someone named Eric McConnell posted this in a comment on Trace Beaulieu’s Facebook wall.  I thought it was a particularly nice idea.

Greg Camp said in the comments for this Youtube video, “Tonight, all good people sing this song.”

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A combats partisans français aux côtés de soldats alliés de reprendre les villes de France, vers 1944.

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Pour les gens de France:

Comme un garçon en Amérique, je entendu des histoires de mon père à propos de la bravoure de la résistance française.  Je me souviens clairement; mon père a lu beaucoup de livres sur la Guerre Mondiale Deux.

Vos amis aux États-Unis savent ce soir que vous allez convoquer à nouveau la même bravoure.

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