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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8327491, member: 110350"]Wonderful coin and wonderful photos, [USER=118780]@kirispupis[/USER]. Your disappointment in the cgb store parallels mine in the Spink store in London a long time ago -- it looked like a bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only place in France I've ever been is Alsace (Strasbourg and Colmar) back in 2018, on side-trips from Freiburg. I'd love to go to Paris someday, but, for now, will have to do so vicariously through my son, who leaves on May 14 for a vacation of almost an entire month in Paris, followed by a couple of weeks elsewhere in France, followed by two weeks in southwestern Germany (Cologne and elsewhere) pursuant to a research grant he obtained in connection with his History of Art PhD program at the U of Toronto. I'm sure he has all the museums he wants to visit in Paris already picked out; I'm afraid he has no interest in numismatics! (Does the BNF have any exhibits worth seeing?)</p><p><br /></p><p>The one place I've specifically asked him to visit is the Paris Pantin cemetery in a northern suburb (OK in the daytime, supposedly) to photograph the tombstone of my mother's grandmother, who died in Paris in 1944 shortly after her liberation; she had spent four years in French-run concentration camps. We still have cousins in Paris on my mother's side, and my son hopes to get together with one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, my paternal grandfather was born in Paris in 1887, in the Marais in the 4th arrondissement, but the specific street (the old Passage St. Pierre) no longer exists. His parents, who came from Poland and Lithuania respectively but both lived in Paris for a number of years on their way to the USA and married there, left for NYC when my grandfather was 13 months old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8327491, member: 110350"]Wonderful coin and wonderful photos, [USER=118780]@kirispupis[/USER]. Your disappointment in the cgb store parallels mine in the Spink store in London a long time ago -- it looked like a bank. The only place in France I've ever been is Alsace (Strasbourg and Colmar) back in 2018, on side-trips from Freiburg. I'd love to go to Paris someday, but, for now, will have to do so vicariously through my son, who leaves on May 14 for a vacation of almost an entire month in Paris, followed by a couple of weeks elsewhere in France, followed by two weeks in southwestern Germany (Cologne and elsewhere) pursuant to a research grant he obtained in connection with his History of Art PhD program at the U of Toronto. I'm sure he has all the museums he wants to visit in Paris already picked out; I'm afraid he has no interest in numismatics! (Does the BNF have any exhibits worth seeing?) The one place I've specifically asked him to visit is the Paris Pantin cemetery in a northern suburb (OK in the daytime, supposedly) to photograph the tombstone of my mother's grandmother, who died in Paris in 1944 shortly after her liberation; she had spent four years in French-run concentration camps. We still have cousins in Paris on my mother's side, and my son hopes to get together with one of them. In addition, my paternal grandfather was born in Paris in 1887, in the Marais in the 4th arrondissement, but the specific street (the old Passage St. Pierre) no longer exists. His parents, who came from Poland and Lithuania respectively but both lived in Paris for a number of years on their way to the USA and married there, left for NYC when my grandfather was 13 months old.[/QUOTE]
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