I realized last night that yesterday’s post on the BiblePlaces Blog was put in the wrong place. At least I had this audience in mind when I wrote it. So I’ve revised it over there (to be more sterile) and have placed the original version (more interesting and fun) here.
BiblePlaces now speaks French. It’s taken about a year and the heroic efforts of Mr. Philippe Viguier, but BibléLieux is now ready to share the best photos and descriptions of biblical sites to readers in France, Algérie, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Cap vert, Centrafrique, Comores, Congo Brazzaville, Côte d’ivoire, Djibouti, Gabon, Guinée, Guinée-Bissau, Guinée-Equatoriale, Haiti, La Réunion, Les Seychelles, Madagascar, Maurice, Mali, Maroc, Mauritanie, Monaco, Niger, République démocratique du Congo, Rwanda, Sénégal, Suisse, Tchad, Togo, Tunisie and even Québec.
If you’re a French speaker, hop on over and explore the biblical world.
If you’re an English speaker, you can do one of the following:
- Practice your French and see beautiful pictures at the same time.
- Tell all of your Canadian, African and French friends about it.
- Make a comment here about how amazing Mr. Viguier is. I can attest that if he had been on the team last night, they would have won.
Yay Philippe!!! (Truly, yay God!!!) And they say nothing good could come from France… reminds me of another episode involving a certain town called Nazareth. And the name of the dude who said, “Come and see,” was even Philip, how’s that for coincidental? (Jn 1:43-51)
Anyway, SO GLAD to see our Frenchie’s diligent labor is bearing fruit. :) He is certainly amazing. And incredibly encouraging.
-Fall 05 forever-
Wow, that’s quite a project, and all behind the scenes. Nice job, Philippe. That site stands as a memorial to a servant’s heart.
I respect people who have worked to be able to speak more than one language. I respect people even more who use their abilities to do things like this.
yes, philippe is amazing. i’m not gonna lie, wish i had a cool accent like him. oh!!! i saw that archaelogy (shoot, don’t know how to spell that) Bible w/ bibleplaces.com pictures!!! so exciting! and no one else quite understood my enthusiasm… oh well. it was fun.
~emily greer