Dispatches from France

Another adventure from the land of France: Rosecrans Baldwin’s dispatches from Paris.

One afternoon a roving band of 30 teenagers stopped traffic on the Champs-Elysées, marching toward the Arc de Triomphe, followed by a battalion of 60 police officers in riot gear, marching in rows of two. I asked a French co-worker what the kids were celebrating. He squinted, looking into the sun. “That it’s May,” he said. “That they’re French, that they’re young. You will not understand.” [via link]

 

~ by eÆsthete on 06/21/08.