[AGL] Margaret Martone in France

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Yo'! Home girl!

Frances forwarded 2 of your emails from France. (Frances <-> France!).

I think i remember you telling me that you were going to go to France.

You obviously had a great time. I was struck by your church going.
That is our obsession too. Madelon discovered that there were 
Delacroix paintings in one of the side chapels of the St. Sulpice.
Once we went in to the St.Paul-St.Louis church because we heard
music from inside. They were rehearsing a concert and there were
several other passerbys sitting listening to the rehearsal. The soloist
even sang Gounod's Ave Maria and was she good! Not a single
quaver in that difficult song to sing. Unfortunately they got to a 
point in the rehearsal where they didnt want anybody in the audience 
and everyone was asked to leave.

Since you are interested in relics, here is a great story about a lady
saint I forget her name who has a church on a small hill near the
Pantheon. A St. Catherine i think. In the revolution, the mob took
her holy corpse and burnt it and threw it in the Seine. In a later time
the church discovered a piece of her which was returned and is
still there. I of course am on the side of the revolution but i love 
old churches and going to organ concerts in them (20E usually).

we were sadly disappointed once in the St Sulpice which has
2 organs. got ourselves there paid 12E each and wound up 
hearing dreary 19th century organ music composed by a gent
who was their own organist at that time otherwise unknown.
you win a few, you lose a few.

these churches were built in times of Monty Python where
outside everyone was covered in sh.. except the king. a 
sanctuary from the outside. once you enter, the space goes 
up and up, in a stone and stained glass cocoon of 
otherworldliness. 

would that one lived in their neighborhood and could pop in at
any time! 

would that one had religious sentiments strong enough to forgo
old churchs and go to a church in a store in a strip mall instead! 

Mike