France is a religious enigma! Every day of the French calendar is connected to a Roman Catholic saint. Thursday was Saint Benoit's day. Yesterday belongs to Saint Olivier. We walked along Saint Michael's Boulevard browsing the historic Latin Quarter. So many saints for so many streets! Yet when our host Jany Chassatte detoured down a side street in District 6 near the Luxembourg Gardens to take us to the building where her family gathers together with 150 evange...

Thursday Travels: We rode the Metro M6 train to the Arc de Triomphe and then walked the Champs Elysees to the Louvre Museum. The arch celebrates the heroes of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Under it lays the remains of the Unknown Soldier. Adolf Hitler stood here in vain glory. The Champs Elysees was lined with French flags in preparation for Sunday's Bastille Day celebrations. Seating for the parade lines the street, including the presidential bo...

Paris! City of revolution, romance, Renoir and the beautiful River Seine! Considered by many to be the cultural heart of Western Europe, Paris' twenty districts and surrounding suburbs are invaded every year by twenty nine million tourists. Haddon and I invaded on July 9. Our hosts, Benoit and Jany Chassatte and their boys David, Lucas and Pierre, live on Rue Chateau des Rentiers in District 13, south of the Seine. It's wonderful to be reunited with past JICF fri...