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The Youtube video is a hoot! It's short and has a VERY funny twist at the end!
The Paris was a 34,369 ton French ocean liner built in 1913 for the Compagnie Transatlantique. The champagne bottle busting maiden voyage was a post World War I event of 1921. That's quite a delay!
The Paris was the first steamer to have square first class stateroom windows as opposed to those unposh portholes:) Telephones were also an added luxury in select rooms. It was a floating bit of France itself!
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I did not kwnow the existence of this ship.
The video is really funny. I always try to improve my english everyday and my german too but not often !
Never heard of this one. I took Le France from Le Havre to NYC in 1973 --wooooo---eons ago, and it was fabulous. I ate my way across the Atlantic.
Wow Bibi! That sounds just divine! I'll have to look into that:) The boys would go crazy for a trip like that.. me too!
I absolutely love you posts; They're a whole story.
A memory of an old luxury time, of our past glory.
The video is a gem. Sometimes,in english, I wonder if I'm not off topic myself !
Fun as always ..
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I can't help thinking those old ships were so very much more elegant than present day cruise ships. Love the video!
I can't imagine traveling from one place to another on a ship. At least they had telephones. That one cruise we did in Hawaii last year 'island hopping' was enough to cure me of ever wanting to be stuck on a ship again. [shudder] The YouTube was very funny. :o) Wait until you see mine I'm posting tomorrow for PFF. [giggle] ♥ ∞
You are lucky to possess a postcard of "Paris" liner when we know that it has been burnt in 1939in a dock of "Le Havre" 3 years before the "Normandie" liner.
Fortunately, it remains poscards to remember that.
Thank you, Marie, for this moment of shipping history.
Thanks for making me smile. Blessings
Love the commercial!
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I mist be tired. It sounded like they were speaking French!
Hey Marie, i found, in my collection, a poscard of the "Paris" liner...
Hilarious!
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