Our hostess had set up a stage on the lawn and put out a hundred or so chairs for guests. But by the time we sat down it had begun to rain. The chairs were wet. A Frenchman gallantly wiped off Elizabeth’s chair. Your editor sat down in a puddle…and the play began…
August 5th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Shakespeare"
The French Can’t Understand Shakespeare…
We explained how we had followed the annual bicycle migration out of Paris on Friday night. On the last day of July, Parisians load their bicycles on racks behind their cars and head for the country. We followed the bicycles out of town. The highways were jammed…traffic was start and go for hours.
August 4th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued