As I related earlier, Eli went up to Neuville with Vic and Candie. They were fortunate enough to visit during this suburb's weekly market. Eli came back for a nap, during which Ally came home. She finished her research in Lyon.
When Eli woke up, we went back into town to visit the Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et la Déportation. This is the museum devoted to France's homefront experience during WWII: occupation, collaboration, resistance, and the forcible removal of many persons from France, especially Jews. The museum is in the former military medical school, which was used during the occupation as Gestapo headquarters. Thus the museum occupies the very buildings where some of the most horrific acts it documents actually took place.
Ally and I had both been there before, but it was Vic, Candie, and Eli's first visit. Eli was interested in squawking and walking up and down stairs. He has clearly inherited his parents' antifascism.
For dinner Ally made quenelles, which are fish dumplings. Actually we bought them from a butcher-delicatessen, which is what you normally do; you don't make quenelles at home any more than you make sausage.
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