Belleville, Paris, France: I
Belleville, the site of my upcoming study in France, filled with other worlds and other tongues, other ways and other …
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Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part III
Once settled into their bungalow overlooking Stanley Pool in Brazzaville, the Vassals faced the problem of hiring household help, especially …
Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part II
Like many writers of her era, Gabrielle M. Vassal tended not to be very complimentary of Africans in Life in …
Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part I
When the French government appointed Dr. Joseph Vassal, Englishwoman’s Gabrielle Vassal’s French husband, Head of Health Services for Equatorial French …
Eating Around the Empire in a Day: The 1931 Paris International Colonial Exposition
To her sons who have extended the empire of her genius and made dear her name across the seas, France …
