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Old Square, New Orleans

Old Square, New Orleans

One of my biggest regrets in life is to never have learned to speak English — my comments here are translated by my grandson.

This means that over the years, we had to find solutions to visit English-speaking countries: In 1992 for instance, we travelled with the France-Louisiane Association, and were guided in French through New Orleans' Vieux Carré, with its beautiful Spanish buildings and their elaborate ironwork balconies.

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Welcome to Wednesday, where Volodymyr Zelensky formally invites Xi Jinping to Kyiv, top French banks raided in fraud probe, and Amsterdam is trying to keep British bachelor parties at bay. Meanwhile, Chinese-language media The Initium shines a light on the quiet emergence of China's gay senior community.

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