2447 Portraits of France, by Robert Daley (read 18 May 1992) This is a 1991 book by an American journalist about cities and stories and travels in France. Some of the chapters I liked a lot. His trip to the Verdun battlefield is well told, and maybe is as good as going there myself. His chapter on DeGaulle and his hometown of Colombey les Deix Eglises is very good. His account of his visit to LePuy, which was a place of pilgrimage and was the town of St. John Regis, who died in 1640 and who the author says "was canonized almost at once" (actually, he was canonized in 1737), was informative and well done. All in all, this was not an important book but I liked it. ( )

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