Paper is a wonderful thing

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them ~ Horace Mann.
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Not content with joining one library I have now joined another, naturally I am attracted to beautiful books full with pictures, like Idées pour les Pétales by Sophie Debieve, the book bursts with colour and inspires me to paint in shades of pink and red.
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On Friday when I return books, magazines and music to Fougeres I will be searching for a favorite book about the forest, which has many poems in it. We have been asked to write about trees for next weeks French class!
Did you know that although Paper was invented about 2000 years ago in China, and was made in the 1400s throughout Europe, it was not until the late 1700s that paper was being produced in long, continuous rolls. In 1798 a French paper mill clerk invented a machine that could make a continuous sheet.
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This piece of art was Inspired by a book about Tiffany lamps.

Light Filters

Walking in the forest in spring time, it may have arrived at last!? Get out there and get shooting.

Soft spring light

On the subject of paper do you still buy one? ... these days we only buy a local paper Ouest France on a Friday, although I would like to to try out France Soir which comes out every morning ~ matin!

The French word for picture frame is cadre
The French word for bookish is livresque