Without Lifting A Finger

                    ***     Louis Félix-Auguste-Beaujour, (Louis-Auguste Feris) (born 28 December 1765 Callas, Var - July 1, 1836 Paris) was a French diplomat , politician, historian, and French ambassador to the United States .     Biography   He studied in Aix-en-Provence and Paris, and entered the diplomatic service. He was successively secretary of legation in Munich in 1790, and Dresden in 1791, then consul general in Greece in 1794, and Consul General in charge of business in Sweden in 1799. Back in France in 1800, Abbe Sieyes , appointed him a member of the Tribunat , where he was successively secretary and president of the Tribunat in 1803. Upon the dissolution of the assembly, he went to the United States as Commissioner General, with a mission to raise the money for the French government, that had been delegated to Mexico, by Spanish subsidies. After co...

Pere Lachaise was close enough to our 3rd hotel that I didn't have to take a Metro. Besides I wanted to walk: see things along the way. I woke early--even Mickey D's was closed on the corner--and walked in cool, on-and-off-rain. Had forgot to check when it opens (I was off an hour plus). OK, I had a couple coffees and a pain aux raisin. Kept dry by sitting at a busstop; kept warm by pacing over a vent. I only wanted three biggies (de Nerval, Balzac, Proust) and Aux Morts : I  got that and a little more.                                                                                                   ...

Paul-Albert Bartholomé (1848 in Thiverval-Grignon , Yvelines , France – 1928 in Paris), was a French painter and sculptor and is inhumed in the 4th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery . [From Wikipedia:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bartholom%C3%A9  ]

entrance-pere lachaise , a photo by ...andtheswan on Flickr.

Paris, Friedhof Père Lachaise, Monument aux Morts (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Kenotaph by Albert Bartholomé) , a photo by HEN-Magonza on Flickr. We'll be close to Pere Lachaise the last few days. A few old friends I want to visit.

Tombe de Balzac , a photo by Saltdeanbeach on Flickr. I believe I have my version of this somewhere. Too lazy to run it down and digitalize it.