Paris XIeme - Where It All Began

My grandfather, Leon Briet, lived in the 11th Arrondissement of Paris in a large, rambling apartment.  This was the same apartment in which my mother and her two brothers grew up. He and my grandmother, Marie, had lived there since shortly after they were married at the end of WWI.  It was a large flat with an unusually large kitchen; lots of cooking took place in that kitchen not to mention the eating and laughing in the dining room across the hall.

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