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Wissant: Local Challenges & Local Producers Organic Fruit & Vegetables— Part 2, Charolais Beef and Goats Cheese

By |Dec 11, 2024|

Wissant: Three local, passionate entrepreneurs making a mark and succeeding in Wissant, who deserve all the support we can give them.

Parisian Life Through the Lens of Small Joys – Limited Edition Calendar Giveaway

By |Dec 4, 2024|

If you love the tiny Parisian shops that make up the mosaic that is Paris, you can enter to WIN a Sonja Bajic Limited Edition 2025 Calendar featuring hand-painted Parisian shops —HOW?—Leave a comment below this article, naming your favourite shop in Paris and why you love it so. The lucky winner will be DRAWN on December 12, 2024 and announced in the le Bulletin newsletter on 14 December.

Features

How to experience France beyond the cliché.

Start here with this constantly refreshed selection of featured articles and series; all from our archives of more than 3,000 articles, and all written for Francophiles.

This is where you can immerse yourself in Guides to France, covering an enormous range from champagne, shoes, art, and literature, music, and philosophy, plus a focus on Paris and other amazing locations and so much more…

Dive in by making a selection – Amusez vous

Arts + Culture

Parisian Life Through the Lens of Small Joys – Limited Edition Calendar Giveaway

By |Dec 4, 2024|

If you love the tiny Parisian shops that make up the mosaic that is Paris, you can enter to WIN a Sonja Bajic Limited Edition 2025 Calendar featuring hand-painted Parisian shops —HOW?—Leave a comment below this article, naming your favourite shop in Paris and why you love it so. The lucky winner will be DRAWN on December 12, 2024 and announced in the le Bulletin newsletter on 14 December.

Interview: Michael Francis Cartwright, All materials are equal—Materially Speaking with Sarah Monk

By |Nov 22, 2024|

Michael Cartwright likes drawing, painting, printmaking, working with beautiful red hardwoods and carving marble. He also works with found objects and discarded items, ‘old toys, bits of stick, anything’, and takes them to the local art foundry to get them cast in bronze. Once, he ripped the back off an old truck and used the metal to make a sculpture.

Escapades

The Other-Worldly French Alps: 3 days of Autumn field work

By |Nov 28, 2024|

French Alps: Every autumn, researchers from the Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine visit a network of study sites dotted through the French Alps. The network, a project called ORCHAMP, is set up along elevation gradients chosen for monitoring biodiversity from valley floors to high alpine meadows.

Gastronomie

Beaujolais: The French Wine Region You Thought You Knew

By |Nov 13, 2024|

This is not an article about Beaujolais Nouveau, the marketing phenom that took the world by purple storm several decades ago, when c’était la fête (it was party time) in restos and bars celebrating the “new wine” from one of France’s lesser-known regions that really needed a publicity boost. Its about the “Real Beaujolais” — wines of character and charm, beloved by other vignerons (winemakers) and wine insiders.

Mode + Beauté

Reportage + Société

Vie Française

  • Olive Oil Harvest
Cote d’Azur: Our Olive Tree Harvest

By |Nov 6, 2024|

Our Olive Harvest: There is something quite magical about the taste of olive oil fresh from the press. The rich aromas, the grassy, buttery flavor, as you dip your baguette into the thick green-yellow oil, savouring the peppery, spicy aftertaste—it is an experience you will never forget.

  • Diana Rowdeb
Female Agents Behind Enemy Lines—Diana Rowden: Part 5

By |Oct 1, 2024|

Diana Hope Rowden had a privileged background. Born in London in 1915 she spent her early years at Cap Ferrat and the Italian Riviera where her mother rented a villa and yacht. Coincidentally, the yacht was named the Fearless One, it was a name that would later describe Diana perfectly. After boarding school in England, she returned to France with her mother, embarking on a career in journalism at the Sorbonne.

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