tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post5551630876786715251..comments2024-03-24T08:26:00.732+00:00Comments on photopol: ANNE-SOPHIEPólóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-5195150644391129812019-02-15T11:26:14.740+00:002019-02-15T11:26:14.740+00:00I had noticed that Anne-Sophie was from Grenoble. ...I had noticed that Anne-Sophie was from Grenoble. Now, in 1965 I stayed in Grenoble, actually in Crolles nearby, while on a French Government sponsored visit. I had got this while attending the Alliance for French classes. It was an excellent scheme called “Connaissances de la France” which introduced you to various aspects of French life.<br /><br />While there, we visited a stunning church up the mountains in the village of St. Hugues de Chartreuse. I have recorded this <a href="https://photopol.com/hugues/hugues.html" rel="nofollow">on my website</a> . Since Anne-Sophie was from Grenoble and in the arty world, so to speak, I thought she might be interested. I had no idea if she was even aware of the church.<br /><br />Imagine my surprise when she replied that she knew it well as she had lived beside it. St. Hugues was her people's place. What an amazing coincidence.<br /><br />I have had many contacts with France, the French, and their language, both personally and professionally over half a century. I had in mind sometime to document this, possibly in an illustrated talk, and there was a possibility at one stage that this might be at the Alliance, but that prospect has faded. I may yet find an excuse, this side of the other side if there is one, to inflict my musings on an unsuspecting public. Certainly, in the light of the above, St. Hugues will figure more prominently than first intended.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.com