From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.

From Harper's, 1879.

From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.

From Chatterbox, 1886.

From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.

The Bridge of St. Benezet (Avignon).  From Shadowland, 1923.

From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.

It's been said that "Australia isn’t so far away" (Duong Van Mai Elliott, The Sacred Willow).  But the reason may surprise you.  "Australia [is] in France."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.

From Harper's, 1879.

From Harpers, 1932.

From Harper's, 1879.

From Harper's, 1879.

From Harper's, 1879.

From Richmond Professional Institute's 1938 yearbook.

From Le Courrier Français, 1894.

Strange sphinxes share their riddles in my sphinx gallery.

You've heard the saying, "It's happy hour in France."  Turns out that, through one weird trick with time zones, it's always happy hour in France.  From Awake magazine, 1957.

From La Baïonnette, 1917.