So what is a "beaumich", anyway?

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In Paris, France, there's a street called the Boulevard de Saint Michel which runs from the south bank of the Seine River (the left bank) past the Latin Quarter. (It's green on the map.)

For years, Parisians have called the Boulevard de Saint Michel "Boul'Miche".

When I learned about Boul'Miche in high-school French class (back in the dark ages), I started signing things "Beau Miche", which could be translated "handsome Mike" (obviously a joke).

I grew up (at least enough to get the bills paid most of the time) and stopped using the cutesy nickname, but when I needed an 8-letter logname for my ISP, the old French pun wouldn't go away. So I became beaumich@texas.net.

Enjoy my site, but don't get upset by anything you find here. It's my site, after all, and it fits my needs.

BTW, James Michener used Boul' Miche (with a reference to its Parisian roots) as a nickname for Michegan Boulevard in Chicago in the opening scene of his novel Recessional. I looked it up and found that "Michegan Boulevard" is actually an Avenue, and sits a couple of blocks further off the lake than Michener put it; but it was gratifying to find that I wasn't the only American familiar with the nickname.

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