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Carsten SprotteJul 182 minBook Excerpts (L'Heure Exquise)The Geometry of ParadiseThe 17th-century château embodies the quintessential French noble homestead The pristine earth offers its unique expression of beauty in...
Exquisite FranceDec 3, 20222 minBook Excerpts (L'Heure Exquise)Miracle at le MeuriceNever can you love something as dearly as when you have loved and lost it. Or almost lost it. Those of us who love Paris must remember...
Carsten SprotteMay 28, 20226 minBook Excerpts (L'Heure Exquise)The Fragrance of Felicity About strawberries and salvation.
Exquisite FranceSep 25, 20213 minBook Excerpts (L'Heure Exquise)Veules-les-RosesWhere waters meet, salty and sweet It's a failed space mission. Your name is Astronaut McLowsky. You have dropped from the sky,...
Carsten SprotteApr 22, 20191 minBook Excerpts (L'Heure Exquise)Rise, Our LadyAs flames consumed its spire, I thought of Notre Dame as a pyre. What greater destruction could have been construed, so deeply embedded...