LEAVES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO

The voyage starts with the Statue of Liberty representing both NY and the Atiantic ocean. It has been given to the United States by the people of France. San Francisco is the destination where the Golden Gate represents the Pacific ocean. The city has been named after Francis of Assisi. His French name being "François d'Assise", and "François" meaning exactly "Français" (in old French), "San Francisco" actually stands for "Saint Français".

From the Wiki: "Francis was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone, a rich cloth merchant, and his wife Pica, about whom little is known except that she was originally from France. Pietro was in France on business when Francis was born, and he took to calling him Francesco, in honor of his commercial success and enthusiasm for all things French."

So the journey is French all the way through. It starts with a French gift (Statue of Liberty), then there are many references to French (Fontainebleau, etc.) throughout the book, and it leads to San Francisco meaning "Saint French".

With the locomotive-smoke-like real cloud, the picture refers to a few subtitles of the book, namely:

1 - THE EMIGRANT TRAIN
2 - TO THE GOLDEN GATES
3 - THE WOODS AND THE PACIFIC

Interestingly enough "pacifique" in French means "peaceful".

I am not absolutely sure that it is readable (pun intended), but don't miss the book in the picture (a building)!

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Sunday, October 15 2017