Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian
 
 
At home in Paris, Notre-Dame, Christmas Night, 2002
 
 
 
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France: From Sarkomania to Sarkosis? - 1/28/2008

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Dalmation tears of joy and tragedy - 12/31/2007

Moscow's grandeurs and get-used-to-it charms - 12/17/2007

Sarkozy entrenches his victory - 12/3/2007

Re-educating the French to education - 11/5/2007

Champagne: small bubbles, big dreams - 10/21/2007

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Dirty Business: Khadafi and the Bulgarian Nurses - 7/30/2007

France: Post-electoral tristesse - 7/16/2007

Is Paris becoming Amsterdam? - 6/18/2007

Ding-a-lings at France Télécom - 6/4/2007

Cherchez la femme…fatale? - 5/21/2007

How Tony Blair won the French election - 4/30/2007

Call the flics! -- but which ones? - 4/16/2007

"Le Grand" - survives to retirement - 3/19/2007

Merkel leads Germany to a new history - 1/22/2007




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Montparnasse yesterday and today

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Easy Rider in Paris

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Dying for excitement

Napoleon lays down the law

Lift your glass to Bordeaux

Bonjour tristesse

Of candles, cakes and Holy Mother Russia

Europe's disappearing ghosts

French women play politics

Holding Spain together -- again

Brussels -- Europe's beating heart

Playing post office in France

Why and How the "Street" Governs France

Islam in Europe: immigration, opportunity, identity

Coffee, philosophy and a little flirtation

 

 

 
 
 
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Life Sentences: Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian
,
Keith Spicer.

0-7710-8222-3 October 2004, 376 pages. $27.95 U.S. / $36.99 Can.