Books
Ideas that stay with you beyond the final page.
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Gay Paris with Nancy and Aunt Lily
On D-Day, Nancy arrived. I took the day off from work and went to the airport with Brigitte and Françoise to fetch her. There was a lot of excitement in the air before the plane arrived. The three of us…
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The Battle of Leningrad
In this chapter from Around The World in Eighty Missions, Jacques Dupont travels to late Soviet Leningrad, where a UNESCO library mission becomes tangled with immigration confusion, spy stories, Russian hospitality, ballet, vodka, and family misadventure.
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Who Burnt the Library of Alexandria?
In this chapter of Around the World in Eighty Missions, Jacques Dupont travels from Cairo’s traffic and ministry etiquette to Alexandria’s literary ghosts, comic debates, and the revival of the ancient Library of Alexandria.
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Viva Zapata!
Chapter 14 of Around The World in Eighty Missions follows Jacques Dupont through Mexico City, a stolen purse, a lively dinner party, and Aunt Lily’s unforgettable Zapata souvenir.
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The Farewell Party
My farewell party is the last and, therefore, the most recent event which took place during my life at UNESCO. And yet, it is a most foggy and confused recollection. The latter part of the evening is especially blurred, even…
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UNESCO – sunny side up
UNESCO, like the United Nations, was born in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its constitution was ratified on the 4th of November 1946 by the twenty Founding Member States who signed the solemn declaration: ” Since wars begin…
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