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Temple of the Imagined
A Visit to the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris
18 hrs ago • Patricia Russo
She Chose Life
Monique Lévi-Strauss turned 100 this year. You probably know the name. I suggest that you don’t know the woman.
May 25 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
16.20.a - Three Generations, 40,000 Bistros, One Curtain That Wouldn't Close
FRANCE AS IT MEANS—Sunday lunch as architecture, a bistro reckoning 40,000 deep, a dressing room disaster in Bordeaux, knights below a Paris street…
May 23 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
16.20 - What France Does to People Who Weren't Looking
FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS — A Dordogne stone house, a dressing room that went sideways, the bistro France forgot to save, Templars on a Paris street — and…
May 22 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
Grandmère’s Table — How French Families Weave Three Generations Together Through Sunday Lunch
In a world designed to keep us apart, one weekly ritual quietly holds French families together—and offers a blueprint for us all.
May 22 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
I Went to Buy a Dress in Bordeaux
I left with coral lipstick, a security alarm, and a hanger I did not own.
May 21 • A French Table 1
Rue du Temple: Where the Knights Templar Still Haunt Paris
Beneath this elegant Marais street lies the memory of a vanished medieval fortress that once frightened kings
May 20 • Pierre Guernier
THE WRITERS' ROOM: Shining the spotlight on MyFrenchLife Contributors
The Writers’ Room is where the storytellers become the story.
May 20 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
The Room that Holds Everyone
Why the French bistro was never really only about food — and what disappears when it closes
May 18 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
16.19.a - The Clothes Know. So Does the Calendar
FRANCE AS IT MEANS — From a cellar beneath the gilded salons to a prison pamphlet and 60 million flowers on a pavement. France's two most elegant…
May 16 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
16.19 - France Gets Into Everything. Even the School Run.
FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS — A village school with no English, a grandmother who swore in French, and the discovery that time here runs on completely…
May 15 • Judy MacMahon—Fondatrice
What No One Tells You About Putting Your Kids in Full French Immersion.
They cried. We cried. And then one day, they spoke fluent French, like it had been there all along.
May 14 • Kamille Longstreet
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