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After an absence of many years, I returned to Alsace in November 1856, in response to the invitation of an old friend. During this first and short visit, I was greatly moved in recovering all the…
Contributor:
Auguste Widal (Daniel Stauben)
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Paris, French Republic
(Alsace, France)
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1849–1853
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Let us chant, my brothers,
this dirge together,
for God severed our hands
by this disaster.
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Unknown
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
ca. 1827
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For my daughter Nedjé
and for her husband Armand Bengui.
Where word and spirit make feeling divine
I see creation and I see poetry . . .
But I know I risk the sin of heresy
If I say the words and…
Contributor:
Sadia Lévy
Date:
1957
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How long did I wander in Caesarea,
That enchanting place where my heart had adored you.
—Racine, Bérénice, I, 4.
I was only a child of the peace, born into a strange postwar. How could I have…
Contributor:
Claude Gutman
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1981
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Every day at siesta time, when under the scorching heat of the sun the little town of Kenadza was breathing its last, Madame Karsenty would settle down on the sofa in the living room where her son…
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Marlène Amar
Places:
Evanston, United States of America
(Paris, France)
Date:
2005
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It’s a great question this question of washing. One never can find anyone who can be satisfied with anybody else’s washing. I knew a man once who never as far as anyone could see ever did any washing…
Contributor:
Gertrude Stein
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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My father and mother were left alone and sat down for a moment; then my father said: “Well, shall we go up to bed?”
“As you wish, dear, though I don’t feel in the least like sleeping. I don’t know why…
Contributor:
Marcel Proust
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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Alphonse Lévy
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(Alsace, France)
Date:
1903