In Solidarity With France
On this day of mourning after the horrific attacks in Paris yesterday, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about Henry Beston's deeply held ties to France. His mother, Marie Louise Maurice, was a native of Paris, where she first met Beston's father while he was a student at the medical school there. Henry was extremely close to his mother, and from childhood was as fluent in French as he was in English, which he said was a vital factor in the development of his concise
