Feature: Friends
- Sol and Rhoda Hirsch were friends of my parents.
- When I went to the PX in the American Embassy with my
mother, we started by visiting Rhoda, first, in her office in the
American Embassy. She took us to the PX. She also got me
American peanut butter which I missed even though I learned to enjoy
French food and wine a great deal.
- I remember having dinner in the Hirsch home.
- My parents went out to the Foire de Paris one
evening. Sol, who was apparently an expert marksman, shot down an
ornament hanging by a slender wire at one of the booths. We've
used it as an ornament for our Christmas trees although there is
nothing specific to Christmas about it. It's a paper and
pipecleaner ornament of a pipecleaner figure riding a glittery
cardboard bicycle. It is still intact in 2009 although the bike
has broken in half several times over the years.
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MEMORIES
Living in Paris, and in
particular living with a French family, again opened many varied
and broad opportunities, especially in regard to the remarkable set of
Americans who lived and worked in Paris during this post-WWII time
period.
- Madame Bardel, Claude and Francoise, my best friends in
Paris. We
lived en pension with them in one sub-apartment on the Boulevard
Malesherbes. We ate dinner with them, en famille, most
evenings. The
meals were traditional classical French cuisine; many courses, wine,
and water to drink. Children drank wine mixed with water in
addition
to water.
- Jacques, the British (bilingual in French and English)
student
who also rented a sub-apartment from Madame Bardel. He ate dinner
with
us only occasionally.
- Sol and Rhoda Hirsch. My mother met Rhoda and Sol at
the American Embassy.
- Joe and Rose Tanous and their children, Peter,
Evelyn,... The
children went to the American School; they were all older than I
was.
My mother met Rose at the American Embassy.
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