July 2012
“En route to his execution in Auxerre, La Rochefoucauld made a break, leaping from the back of the truck carrying him to his doom, and dodging the bullets fired by his two guards. Sprinting through the empty streets, he found himself in front of the Gestapo’s headquarters, where a chauffeur was pacing near a limousine bearing the swastika flag. Spotting the key in the ignition, La Rochefoucauld jumped in and roared off, following the Route Nationale past the prison he had left an hour earlier.”
—Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld - Telegraph
June 2012
“As independent bookstores crash and burn in the United States and Britain, the book market in France is doing just fine. France boasts 2,500 bookstores, and for every neighborhood bookstore that closes, another seems to open. From 2003 to 2011 book sales in France increased by 6.5 percent.”
—The French Still Flock to Bookstores (via bookshelfporn)
Check out this page. A video of the whole length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad
All 7+ days of it. And you can listen to war and peace in Russian while watching.
