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    <post_id>214</post_id>
    <post_category_id>23</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Alphonse Allais, Inventeur?]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Alphonse Allais, originaire de Honfleur (ville jumelle de Burlington en France), était un écrivain humoriste, honoré dans le Jardin des
Personnalités à Honfleur, comme l'a écrit <a href="/culture/sister-cities/alphonse-allais-le-pere-de-lhumour-modern/">ici</a> notre correspondant Philippe Grenier. Mais saviez-vous qu'il était aussi inventeur ?]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/214/Allais-tile.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/alphonse-allais-inventeur/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2026-03-25 15:26:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>210</post_id>
    <post_category_id>13</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Celery Root, Red Cabbage & Apple Slaw]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Enjoy this crunchy winter salad made with local ingredients!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/210/P1200254.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/patsys-kitchen/celery-root-red-cabbage-and-apple-slaw/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2026-01-30 17:24:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>209</post_id>
    <post_category_id>13</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Galette des rois (Kings' Cake)]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Brighten your January with a traditional galette des rois (king's cake)!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/209/P1190662.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/patsys-kitchen/galette-des-rois-kings-cake/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-12-30 17:44:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>196</post_id>
    <post_category_id>23</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Reconnection Passport]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Are you a French-speaking North American with ancestral roots in Normandy? A new program called Reconnection Passport invites you to trace
your origins in this region.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/196/Passport-reconnexion.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/sister-cities/reconnection-passport/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-08-02 04:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>193</post_id>
    <post_category_id>13</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Strawberry Mousse]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Celebrate strawberry season with this luscious fruity mousse!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/193/OLLI-strawberry-mousse-2-010.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/patsys-kitchen/strawberry-mousse/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-06-24 21:03:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>9</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Going Off the Beaten Path in France]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Pam Hunt suggests you expand your itinerary beyond the big sightseeing cities of Paris, Nice, and Bordeaux and explore some of the
smaller towns.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/9/ED-Firefly-trip-to-French-village-with-map-and-guidebook-94791.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/going-off-the-beaten-path-in-france/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-05-29 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>10</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Normandy and Brittany Bike Trip Raffle, June 21]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Enter a raffle to win a tour of Normandy and Brittany!]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/10/Raffle.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/normandy-and-brittany-bike-trip-raffle-june-21/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-05-28 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>16</post_id>
    <post_category_id>14</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of America]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Peter Reilly and Alan Hoffman talk about the Marquis de Lafayette and his Farewell Tour of America in 1824-25.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/16/Lafayete-portrait-tile.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/pause-midi/lafayettes-farewell-tour-of-america/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2025-03-19 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>32</post_id>
    <post_category_id>1</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[“Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” a review by Marc Vincent]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Marc Vincent reviews the 2024 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/32/Impressionism-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/art-and-music/paris-1874-the-impressionist-moment/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-12-15 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>52</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[La Mora—Guillaume le Conquérant]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[In 1066, Guillaume, duc de Normandie, s’embarqua à la tête d’une immense flotte pour envahir l’Angleterre. En quelques semaines, les
envahisseurs vainquirent le roi Harold à la bataille d’Hastings et Guillaume devint roi d’Angleterre.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/52/La-Mora-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/sister-cities/la-mora-guillaume-le-conquerant/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-06-23 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>190</post_id>
    <post_category_id>14</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Aristides de Sousa Mendes]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Denise Bérubé parle d' Aristides de Sousa Mendes, un nom dont il faut se souvenir comme ceux de Oskar Schindler et Raoul Wallenberg.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/190/sousa-mendes.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/pause-midi/aristedes-de-sousa-mendes/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-06-03 12:52:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>65</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Restoring Notre-Dame de Paris]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Josh Jackson recounts how a Vermont group alled Carpenters Without Borders helped reconstruct Notre Dame de Paris.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/65/Notre-Dame-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/restoring-notre-dame-de-paris/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-03-01 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>70</post_id>
    <post_category_id>14</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Pyrénées History Detective]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Meg Ostrum recounts her astonishing journey from Pyrénées hiker to history detective and author—and her process of recovering historical
memory. ]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/70/header-Pyrenees-header-with-mountains.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/pyrenees-history-detective-with-meg-ostrum/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-01-02 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>71</post_id>
    <post_category_id>14</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[The Megalithic Monuments of France]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Erik Trinkaus shares his  fascination with the 4000-year old megaliths that dot the French landscape.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/71/La-Roche-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/the-megalithic-monuments-of-france/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2024-01-01 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>75</post_id>
    <post_category_id>1</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[The Rodin Sculpture at Crown Point]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Janet Biehl visited the outdoor sculpture created by  Auguste Rodin, in a campground near Lake Champlain.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/75/Rodin-Crown-Point-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/art-and-music/the-rodin-sculpture-at-crown-point/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2023-10-11 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>78</post_id>
    <post_category_id>14</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Pontigny, abbaye de lumière]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Terryl Kinder of Saint Michael’s College describes her decades of work studying the twelfth-century Pontigny Abbey, located in
Burgundy, France.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/78/Kinder-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/pontigny-abbaye-de-lumiere/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2023-09-05 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>84</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[You Are What You Eat: A Visit to Three Marchés Français]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Pam Hunt shares her delight in three French markets
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/84/Pam-Hunt-story-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/patsys-kitchen/you-are-what-you-eat-a-visit-to-three-marches-francais/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2023-05-21 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>87</post_id>
    <post_category_id>14</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Allons-y! Southwest France]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Several Vermonters who participated in a Road Scholar trip to Southwest France describe their experience.]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/87/Roca-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/allons-y-southwest-france-may-10/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2023-05-11 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>99</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Gothic Cathedrals—Why Then, Why There?]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Why were Gothic cathedrals built when and where they were?
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/99/Amiens-cathedral.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/gothic-cathedrals-why-then-why-there/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2023-02-24 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>102</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Edmundites: A French Catholic Order in Vermont]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Janet Biehl reports on the history of the Edmundites at Saint Michael's College]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/102/Edmundite-priests-at-MSM-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/edmundites-a-french-catholic-order-in-vermont/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2023-02-08 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>108</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Meeting President Macron]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Lise Veronneau’s account of her encounter with President Macron in Washington
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/108/Lise-alone-header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/meeting-president-macron/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2022-12-09 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>109</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[The Divisions of France]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[Provinces, departments, and regions
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/109/Fr-pvcs-deps-numbered_header.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/the-divisions-of-france/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2022-12-03 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>113</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Gothic Cathedrals]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[A summary of Robert Hand’s presentation
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/113/PD-Photo-by-John-Towner-on-Unsplash.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/gothic-cathedrals/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2022-11-15 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>115</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[Paleolithic Art and Ritual in the Dordogne]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[A retired paleontologist recounts work on a cave in southwestern France
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/115/Cussac-Grand-Panneau-chevaux_USE.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/paleolithic-art-and-ritual-in-the-dordogne-2/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2022-10-28 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
  <posts>
    <post_id>128</post_id>
    <post_category_id>6</post_category_id>
    <post_title><![CDATA[July 14: Don’t Call It Bastille Day!]]></post_title>
    <post_content_short><![CDATA[It’s “La Fête Nationale Française”
]]></post_content_short>
    <post_icon>https://www.aflcr.org/media/website_posts/128/FR-Bernard-Launay-1789.jpg</post_icon>
    <post_content_type>page</post_content_type>
    <post_content_url>https://www.aflcr.org/culture/france/dont-call-it-bastille-day/</post_content_url>
    <post_date>2022-06-30 00:00:00</post_date>
  </posts>
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