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I survived the Siege of Paris and all I got was this token.

Okay, let me start by saying that the title of this post is sort of a joke. I am going to talk about a commemorative souvenir token that…

Apr 26

I survived the Siege of Paris and all I got was this token.

Apr 26

Walking Lessons

The perils (expected and otherwise) of walking with a toddler

Mar 25

Mar 25

Please take out your pencils

Please take out your pencils

Jan 7

Please take out your pencils

Jan 7

Four things I wish I’d had when I was learning French

Autumn has finally come to Paris. In the Tuileries Gardens, I admire the flowers the gardeners have planted and savor the cool air on my…

Oct 23, 2023

Four things I wish I’d had when I was learning French

Oct 23, 2023

Time traveling, basements, and other news

Researching the past isn’t easy — and I’m learning that certain time periods are even more difficult to visualize and understand than I…

Feb 28, 2023

Time traveling, basements, and other news

Feb 28, 2023

Making a Siege of Paris holiday dessert

Paris, December, 1870: Under siege by the Prussians since September 19, the city has run out of a number of basic cooking ingredients…

Dec 18, 2022

Making a Siege of Paris holiday dessert

Dec 18, 2022

Let’s check out the Musée de la Poste’s impressive collection of Siege of Paris artifacts!

Located near the busy Gare Montparnasse (Montparnasse train station), le Musée de la Poste (The (French) Postal Museum) contains one of the…

Oct 15, 2022

Let’s check out the Musée de la Poste’s impressive collection of Siege of Paris artifacts!

Oct 15, 2022

Strange Paris history bonus: Marat’s bathtub

I’m going to interrupt this blog’s usual content about life during the 1870–1871 Siege of Paris, to travel back nearly eight decades from…

Sep 18, 2022

Strange Paris history bonus: Marat’s bathtub

Sep 18, 2022

This modern-day boulangerie commemorates a famous Siege of Paris hot air balloon escape

Amid the bustle of the long, tree -lined avenue Gambetta in Paris’s 20th arrondissement is a particularly eye-catching sight. A bakery with…

Aug 20, 2022

This modern-day boulangerie commemorates a famous Siege of Paris hot air balloon escape

Aug 20, 2022

France’s 2022 mustard shortage and Paris’s 1870 cheese shortage

Sometimes, war and natural disasters end up influencing everyday life in unexpected ways. During the 1870–1871 Siege of Paris, for…

Jul 6, 2022

France’s 2022 mustard shortage and Paris’s 1870 cheese shortage

Jul 6, 2022

Alysa Salzberg

Alysa Salzberg

A writer & worrier. Author of “Hearts at Dawn”, a Beauty & the Beast retelling set during the 1870 Siege of Paris.

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