rDay Nine-Hundred-Forty
Day: October 20, 2017
Dispatch From France XI
Herman, still spending October in rural France, makes a discovery:
Did you know I had my own Château in France? A little beat up, but I don’t stay there often.
Happy Birthday, Stéphane Hessel
Stéphane Hessel, born 100 years ago today, was a French Resistance hero and Holocaust survivor. He gained particular fame in France when he published a best-selling call to action, “Indignez-Vous!”, at the age of 93, invoking the ideals of democracy and the Resistance. Read more about Hessel here in this 2011 piece and read his publication in English here. Hessel died in 2013.