March 2019
Hunger Strikes
For what cause or reason might someone go on a hunger strike? In 1966 Pierre Vallières (1938-1998) and Charles Gagnon (1939-2005) held a hunger strike in front of the United Nations in New York [...]
« Madame, répliqua Florine, je mange des astrologues, des musiciens et des médecins. »
Extrait du conte « L’Oiseau bleu » (1697), Madame d’Aulnoy (1650-1705): [...] « Quoi ! Ce barbare est devenu sourd à ma voix ? disoit-elle. Il n’entend plus sa chère Florine ! Ah ! [...]
February 2019
American Food in the 1918 Diet of Parisian Schoolchildren
In 1918 the American Red Cross tried to improve the diet of schoolchildren in impoverished parts of Paris. This project began after Dr. John B. Manning, who was working at a Rockefeller Commission dispensary in [...]
January 2019
December 2018
A Student-Run Soup Kitchen in the Latin Quarter
University students in Paris during the Great Depression took the initiative to open a soup kitchen in the Latin Quarter even though they themselves neither did the cooking nor had enough money. Part of their [...]
