HeyJaredFrance in Between
A personal yet informative take on France's small to middling towns -- the scenic, the offbeat, and the nitty-gritty.
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Duralex drama, museum burglaries galore, a two-student school, and more (opens the original)
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Welcome to this month’s patchwork of news and tidbits from non-Parisian France.If you’re a new special supporter, hey-ho! This monthly digest is the product of my carefully culling, nearly daily, eve… Read more
A Rough Road: The Creuse Chronicles, Part One (opens the original)
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CONTEXT:My foray into the towns of the Creuse department represented my 25th and 26th visits to France’s smaller cities for the France in Between project.In this time, I have never chronicled a journey, in the sense of recounting it more or less in order. I’m always looking for angles, comparing and contrasting, regrouping, and sometimes, tugging at that one thin thread that can be woven into something thicker.<stro
La Ciotat’s success story (opens the original)
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ContextIn February, I visited sunny La Ciotat, a seaport city in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, and published two posts about it: Sea, stories, and sun as well as La Ciotat, the cinema city. Its wi…
A reintroduction, reflections and a reset (opens the original)
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I tend to keep personal information here close to the hip. Although I’m comfortable with promoting France in Between on Notes1, I have always felt shy and weird about “reintroducing” myself there to the Substack world at large. Not that I think there’s anything wrong with it; it’s just not me.Yet here I am today, sending this post out to over 1,500 potential readers — potential being the operative, as I do check on those little stars that show who is actually o
From in-between France, August 2026 (opens the original)
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Bonjour à toutes et à tous! I’m shaking this month’s digest up a bit by starting with a section I often save until the last, and sometimes scratch altogether: “Brèves”, or short news blurbs, some of … Read more
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