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Use for razors, radios, camcorder rechargers, tape recorders, CD players, and other non-heating appliances up to 40 watts that are built for North America and require high-quality electricity. Heat-sensitive circuit breaker. Kit includes the four most commonly needed adaptor plugs.
Text and images copyright (c) 1995 Carolyn Daily O'Connor - used with permission. Scanning assistance and html by
Norman Barth and
Mark Olson of ARTFL.
I have been absorbing information about Paris all of my life. When "American in Paris" came out in
1951, I was 12. My mother took all three of us children to see it. The movie still has a lot to do with
how I view Paris.
Most postcards are general views. The close-ups are real collector's items -- finding them and
paying for them. I used my Michelin Guide to Paris (the edition purchased for a 1981 trip) to
identify as many of the places in the postcard I could.
My visits to Paris were in 1965 (three days on
an initial tour to Europe); 1967 (four days with my sister and my first Bastille Day there); June 1980
(five days by myself when I added the Place des Vosges to my favorite areas; October 1980 (five
days with my Mother before and after a trip to the Châteaux of the Loire) when I got some great
slides of the Luxembourg Gardens with fall color -- an early frost that year;
May 1981 (five days in
Paris with two friends on a trip that included Mont St. Michel, Nimes, Avignon, Vezelay and
Fontainbleau); March 1982 (two weeks just in Paris with one sidetrip up the Seine with a
French-speaking group to try out the French I had been taking at the Alliance Francais in Chicago);
October 1982 (three days in Paris on my honeymoon): and return visits to Paris with my husband the
summers of 1984 and 1986.
I've stayed in hotels on the Champs-Elysées and the Opera Quarter but definitely am a Left Bank
person. On three of the last four visits we stayed at the Hotel de Seine on Rue de Seine -- not quite
as noisy as the heart of the Latin Quarter but still lots of street life.
Several of the cards were in French. I could get the gist of the messages but couldn't transcribe them
word for word in French let alone translate the whole message. I've given you a flavor of the
messages and included whole messages from cards in English that I thought had something to say.
Most of the postcards are from the first decade of this century. The newest one used is more than 75
years old.
Transformer Voltage Converter with Adaptor Plug Kit
