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Alysa Salzberg

Walking Lessons

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

8 min readMar 25, 2024

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Alysa Salzberg

Please take out your pencils

Please take out your pencils

8 min readJan 7, 2024

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Please take out your pencils

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Alysa Salzberg

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…

8 min readOct 23, 2023

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

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Alysa Salzberg

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…

4 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Time traveling, basements, and other news

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Alysa Salzberg

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…

11 min readDec 18, 2022

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Making a Siege of Paris holiday dessert

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Alysa Salzberg

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…

11 min readOct 15, 2022

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

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Alysa Salzberg

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…

10 min readSep 18, 2022

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Strange Paris history bonus: Marat’s bathtub

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Alysa Salzberg

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…

8 min readAug 20, 2022

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

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Alysa Salzberg

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…

7 min readJul 6, 2022

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

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Alysa Salzberg

What was the view of Paris from Montmartre like in the 1870’s and 1880's?

The view of Paris from Montmartre is one of the most breathtaking sights in the city — a sea of slate rooftops and white buildings…

18 min readJun 5, 2022

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What was the view of Paris from Montmartre like in the 1870’s and 1880's?

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Alysa Salzberg

Alysa Salzberg

is a writer & worrier. She recently published her first novel, “Hearts at Dawn”, a Beauty & the Beast retelling set during the 1870 Siege of Paris.

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