Archive for March, 2009

Lives Well Lived

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

There are several individuals I wished I’d have met and had lengthy conversations with.  Unfortunately all are now deceased.  They include:  Henri Pirenne, Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Josephine Baker, and Albert Camus.  All have strong ties to France and Walloonia, although Baker was born in America.  I guess that makes me a bit of a francophile.  I served an LDS mission in the Franco-Belgian Mission in the 60s and fell in love with France and the French.

Belgian medievalist Henri Pirenne

Belgian medievalist Henri Pirenne

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