The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Yesterday was busy busy here at the Flophouse.  First thing in the morning after coffee was a trip to the wood guy in Viroflay for another...

I learned this morning from Arun's blog that Nelson Mandela died.  He was a great man - a leader the likes of which comes along only ...

FATCA is an American law that requires all foreign financial institutions to turn over lists of people with connections to the U.S. (US Pers...

The only Youtube alert I have is for this person, Emperor Tigerstar, who creates wonderful animated history maps.  War and empire are his/he...

I just stumbled across this short video via Open Culture and I thought it fit nicely with the previous post about global citizenship. This...

What an effort we folks from the developed world go to to avoid applying the word "migrant" to ourselves.  We call ourselves guest...

"Voici que nous entrons dans le temps de l'Avent.  Le mot "Avent" vient due latin "adventus" qui veut dire Venu...