France 2022
With the pandemic and lockdown fading fast in the rear view mirror, I proposed to my son Pat that he join me in visiting our cousins in France this summer.
Olivia Riboud on Her Riboud and Gwinn Parents and Grandparents
In the spring of 2023, Olivia Cosgrave Riboud discussed her family history with her first cousin Bill Bowe.
1991 Nancy Gwinn Riboud (1911-1991)
1991 Nancy Gwinn Riboud (1911-1991) Editor's Note: Nancy Gwinn, my mother's sister, married Jacques Riboud in 1933, nine years before I was born. Though she and Jacques raised their five children in France, I remember meeting the Riboud family [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Practices His Saxophone as Melissa Riboud Listens, 10 Rue Jacques Lemercier, Versailles, France
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Practices His Saxophone as Melissa Riboud Listens, 10 Rue Jacques Lemercier, Versailles, France Editor's Note: In April, 1990, I stopped over at Jean Gwinn and Myriam Riboud's house in Versailles. After dinner, Jean Gwinn practiced [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Takes Bill Bowe to the 1918 World War I Armistice Site in Compiegne, France
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Takes Bill Bowe to the 1918 World War I Armistice Site in Compiegne, France Editor's Note: Not far from the Riboud family home in Vieux Moulin, France is the site where the World I [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Picks Up Bill Bowe and Tours the Cathedral in Senlis, France
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Picks Up Bill Bowe and Tours the Cathedral in Senlis, France Editor's Note: In April, 1990. Jean Gwinn Riboud picked me up at DeGaulle Airport when I stopped on a business trip to Europe [...]
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Gives Bill Bowe a Tour of the New La Defence Building Complex in Paris
1990 Jean Gwinn Riboud Gives Bill Bowe a Tour of the New La Defence Building Complex in Paris Editor's Note: In April, 1990, Jean Gwinn Riboud gave me a tour of the newly opened La Defense building complex [...]
1991 Sophia Lacombe and Myriam Riboud at Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn’s Rue Brey Apartment
1991 Sophia Lacombe and Myriam Riboud at Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn's Rue Brey Apartment Editor's Note: In November, 1991, I visited Jean Robert and Cecelia Lacombe Kuhn's apartment on Rue Brey in Paris. While Sophia Lacombe chatted [...]
1991 Ribouds, Caseys and Bowes Watch Tape of Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn Wedding
1991 Ribouds, Caseys and Bowes Watch Tape of Jean Robert and Cecilia Lacombe Kuhn Wedding Editor's Note: In November, 1991, Margaret and Ted Casey and I joined the Riboud family in Chindrieux, France to attend the funeral of our [...]
