La Voyageuse Immortelle

A busy week this week, I am still reading Paul Louis Rossi's 1990 book, Régine, which is more like an autobiography of Rossi living through the 1930s and 40s, at least, so far.

I suspect that the character, Régine, will start to take on a more prominent role. Rossi gives us lots of street names and, as readers told me last week, the district to the east of Nantes city centre which still exists today, the quartier de Doulon. And even a mention of Plymouth! But this morning La Voyageuse immortelle arrived. Rossi's later collection, which was published in 2001 by the French publishers, Le temps qu'il fait in Bazas.

Visiting Overseas Researchers

What is your unique place in Nantes? For me, it was the Maison of Visiting Researchers, the MCE. How many places can you spot in this video we made for my stay with the MCE?

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