It is a trial for us all, Dear Readers, making ends meet in this time of spiralling costs but were we to have just a centime for every time someone tells us that they have an ancestor who was a... Read more →

Meilleurs voeux, Dear Readers. (We remind you that New Year's wishes are acceptable to the end of January. After that, as in so many tricky formalities, one is considered to be ill-bred, mal élevé.) We have been revisiting many archives... Read more →