THE VIENNESE associations of the Biblionews editor’s most recent article have prompted this one. After my last visit thirty years ago, I stayed in Vienna for four days in early December 2008 en route to England and again for eight days in late February 2009 on my return journey to Victoria’s languorous Longwarry, a village of some 1200 souls. As in 1978, I was in Vienna comfortably accommodated by an old school friend in his commodious flat that is located in a side building of the Baroque Palais Liechtenstein, now an art museum on the street named Fürstengasse, which intersects with Liechtensteingasse.
Category: Frank Carleton
IN 1995 Biblionews carried my short survey of the published works of General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), the London refugee French general who foresaw the 1940 French military debacle and who declined to succumb to it.1 Within twenty years of his heroic wartime role as leader of the Free French he became the architect of the Fifth and still continuing French Republic and its first President.