Honoring Le Chambon

Readers contemplating a trip to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France (“Tracing Tales of Heroism in the Auvergne,” Aug. 4), might be interested to know that a history museum will be inaugurated there on June 13, 2003--one of the first museums on the rescue anywhere in the world.

The Chambon Foundation, which runs the temporary exhibition center depicted in James Dannenberg’s article, recently partnered with the village not only to open the history museum but also to create an area-wide living museum beginning in 2004.

As I recounted in my 1989 feature documentary, “Weapons of the Spirit,” I am a Jew who had the good fortune to be born in the area at that time to parents who found shelter and friendship there. It is exciting that soon the memory of the Holocaust and the memory of the righteous will be entwined forever in this historic village.

PIERRE SAUVAGE

President, Chambon Foundation

Los Angeles

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I do not agree with Dannenberg that “the roads [in France] are better than the drivers.” In many ways the French drive better than Angelenos. They keep to the right and only enter the middle lane to pass. If you are merging onto a freeway, cars coming from behind will change lanes or slow to let you in. In medieval villages the streets are narrow, and people pull over to let others pass. They do drive fast but seem to be in control.

LYLE REYNOLDS

Lakewood