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Do we all need a little music, laughter - a little joy? ( I do!)   If you're in the south of France... Please join us for Liberté, Baby! A rousing affirmation of freedom of expression We're partnering with  Fall Of Freedom  - so you get a chance to join artists like musician John Legend, film director Ava DuVernay and author Ann Patchett in making/riding creative waves for a better world.  (ok they won't be here in person - but they will be in spirit!) Singer/songwriter John

Many people go to the City of Lights for food, fun, shopping. ME, I'm on a mission - FINDING FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF FRANCE Who (and what) did I find this trip? A woman who is not forgotten - she's everywhere, in plain sight - but do we really notice her? THE VIRGIN MARY Mary and Jesus. No, her face isn't stained glass - one of the hazards of cell phone photography! Did you know the entire country of FRANCE IS CONSECRATED TO THE VIRGIN MARY? I didn't. I also didn't realize that a

I've been to Notre-Dame. Notre-Dame. Nice clean up job after the fire, non? I've been to the château in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. St-Germain-en-Laye. Cool place, no Marguérite. Nada. I've been looking for traces of Marguérite de Provence, the wife of Louis IX and eldest sister in my musical about four sisters in medieval Provence who all become queens (!). Marguérite upper left. Clockwise: Sancie, Béatrice, Aliénor. Next I head to Sainte-Chapelle. Heaven on earth to her husband,

Marguérite and Louis, Queen and King of France in the mid-1200's, live in lots of different châteaux in the course of their 36-year marriage. One day, I'd like to visit them all. Especially Pontoise...(below) - for salacious reasons (wink wink). Ramparts of the Château de Pontoise, where the love birds used to hide from his mother so they could play hide the sausage. Photo: Philippe Lhomel I have this vision of Marguérite appearing to me. It will be a spine-tingling, goose-b