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studio in Barbizon
we were told of a family
who had owned & oper-
ated the same paper mill for
over 600 years. The 1st in
France, nearly 700 years old.

I spent several hours
at the Louvre alone as
Mally & Bucket did not care
to go. It was, of course,
a wonderful few hours.
So much of the great art
from the pre historic,Egyptians
[Men] to the Christians, old
Masters, on to the Moderns.

Mally & I went to
Notre Dame together. A
wonderful Cathedral but none
touches Chartres Cathedral in
my estimation of what I saw.

We took the plane for