A Box of Postcards

How inspiring to pull a postcard from Paris, France - as I visited the City of Lights for the first time in 2014! I didn't get to this cafe, Cafe de la Paix, but did sit in a few outdoor cafes. This one is located in the Grand-Hotel de la Paix, and was opened in June, 1862 to serve hotel guests. It was declared a historic site by the French government in 1975. In many European cities the habit is to dine in one location and take coffee on a terrace in another. Back on November 11, 1967 (the year of Expo in Canada) Margaret and Harvey were in Paris. "This was a very interesting and moving experience - Nov 11 - in Paris!  Mr. De Gaulle shared the memorial service with the people too." Margaret doesn't mention that General Charles De Gaulle, the President of France, wasn't popular with everyone in Canada that year - although most Canadians likely knew who he was. Her remark about sharing with the people "too" may have been harking back to a diplo