Gâteau?  Usually less complicated than one’s relationship with time.  The student of literature might think of Proust’s madeleine, the journey on which this petit gâteau takes the narrator of A la recherche du temps perdu [...]

Ingesting vinegar-soaked sorrel or medicinal lemon syrup may or may not be of much help in times of plague, whereas “Le courage, le sang-froid, la frugalité, sont les meilleurs préservatifs"— this proposal is found on page 330 of [...]

What might catch your eye at the marketplace?  A load of grapes being taken from or hoisted onto a harvester’s back?  A pickpocket?  Someone’s grocery basket despite the snowstorm?  The shopper over there?  That child [...]