Vive la France Gothic Arch

Quel honneur!! I've been chosen to be the hostess for the Gothic Arches Challenge this week and I had so many ideas that it was quite difficult to make my final choice.

But I just had to honour a country close to my heart. I've been a Francophile all my life (although I ended up in Scotland eventually after moving out of The Netherlands! How did that happen???). I love everything about this wonderful country, the language, the landscape, the historical buildings, La France profonde and the sunflowers and of course the people.

France is also the first European country which addressed Human Rights in its Declaration of 1789 during the French Revolution, under influence from the USA. Many of the current European laws about human rights were heavily influenced by the French version. One big difference though, in 1789 it were only the hommes who received these rights despite women playing important roles during the Revolution (they did not just knit underneath the guillotine!).

In these more enlightened times we femmes also count!!

I used one of my paper/fabric collages as background. It features some French themed paper napkins. The transparency is from a vintage French book published in the 19th Century. I scanned this into my computer and printed it out onto a transparency. The text is from the same book.

Hope everyone will enjoy our visit to France this week!! Bon voyage et vive la France!