November Notes: Feting Beaujolais Nouveau, Pandemic Style -- & The Strange (Putrid) History of the Paris Catacombs

November Notes: Fêting Beaujolais Nouveau in a Pandemic, & the Curious History of the Paris Catacombs

November, a month of shortening days and long nights, is firmly associated (in my mind, at least) with a few things.

One that relates directly to France is the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau, the young, fruity, light, famously fickle wine that gets harve…