If you're living in the U.S. or just back for an extended visit and you don't want to lose track of your French side, be sure to sign up for e-mail announcements from the French consulate (or Embassy, if you're in the D.C. area). Sacré Coeur, painted with the...
Champagne is known for its champagne, of course, but it is also home to fine dining and beautiful countryside, and yet only about an hour's drive from Paris. Along the Route de Champagne I always thought of Champagne as quite flat, but actually the countryside where...
I just finished reading Gertrude Stein's Paris France. I think I learned more about Stein herself than about Paris. Her style is...unique. It's a brand of almost child-like stream of consciousness that allows the reader to almost see her brain jumping from place to...
The atrocities of the past week have unleashed a number of questions about the future of freedom of speech, religious sensitivity and tolerance, extremism, national security, racism, diplomacy and national unity. These are all questions that need to be addressed, not...
I am Charlie. 12 dead, 66 million injured.... There are more and more cartoons in response to today's violence.... #JeSuisCharlie
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In the interior of Finistère, Brittany, about 20 miles south of Morlaix and hidden in the Parc d’Armorique, you will find the small town of Huelgoat and its bizarre landscape. Hundreds of huge, moss-covered boulders cover the floor of the Huelgoat's forest, just...
This summer, I visited France's National Assembly in the 7th arrondissement, just across the Seine from Place de la Concorde. The Assemblée Nationale is the lower house of the French legislature (the upper house being the Sénat or Senate), and home to the 577 députés...
Bricolage is defined by Wikipedia as "tinkering" but I'd say it's closer to do-it-yourself home improvement. But it is more than a pastime or a chore. In France, it is an institution, a sacred art form. My DIY project: stencils around the door handle I don't know the...
