Our French Friends VIII ...

... Marie-Madeleine*, Sylvain and their children: Grégoire, Flavien, and Clotilde. We always get together at least once or twice each winter. Here are visits with them in 2016, in 2014, and in 2011 (the first).  Last year we visited the Gallery of Paeleontology  at the Museum of Natural History in Paris (that link's extra has the 2017 family portrait).  The extra today is a view from the Louvre of the Church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois (captured in the rain from a bus in 2010).


*Reiterating previous comments: Marylee met Marie-Madeleine's French mother Anne when they were at Oxford in the late 1960s. Then when Marylee spent 19 months in Paris in 1990-91, Marie-Madeleine, in her teens, stayed with Marylee when she came to Paris for weekly classical guitar lessons. Contact lapsed after that, but we reconnected in 2010 when we saw an announcement for a concert by Marie-Madeleine in Paris. Both she and Sylvain are professional musicians  with jobs teaching guitar and accordion (respectively) in the local school system.