Summary
The Dixième was the historian Richard Cobb's first arrondissement and of all Englishmen, Richard -- who was both my academic and, unbelievably, my 'moral' tutor for three years -- was possibly the most Parisian Englishman ever. Someone once told him that he spoke French 'comme un titi parisien' and it was the compliment he valued more highly than any. It was worth more to him than his Légion d'honneur or his CBE.
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Dixième Delights
I first went to Paris with my father in the 1950s. My black and white box Brownie picture shows him standing in the Champs-Elysées staring ferociously at a map held between extended arms. He's lost. It makes me wonder how we won the war. A decade or so earlier he'd been awarded an MC and an immediate DSO fighting through Europe and here he is, a newly ...
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