Le Havre: What to see and do there
Le Havre, a city of resilience and reinvention, stands proudly [...]
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04, 2024
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04, 2024
Paris is Always Worth it: A Brief Parisian Autobiography in Three Parts—Part 3/3
Paris is Always Worth It: A Brief Parisian Autobiography in Three Parts by Samuel Lopez-Barrantes
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04, 2024
Paris is Always Worth it – wherein a young writer begins to question just exactly what he’s doing in Paris – Part 2/3
Paris is always worth it but I was unmoored in Paris teaching English to bankers and insurance clerks.
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04, 2024
Paris Is Always Worth It – Or, how a novelist might build a life in the City of Light – Part 1/3
Paris Is Always Worth It - Or, how a novelist might build a life in the City of Light is Part 1 of a (Brief) Parisian Autobiography by Samuél Lopez Barrantes
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04, 2024
French Recipe: Espresso Chocolate Fondants
Chocolate fondants: Recently, six chocolate fondants were on trial. They faced a jury of impartial tasters to prove their virtue above all the others.
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04, 2024
Allez, Hop ! Au Resto: Inside French restaurant culture, with a tasty little slice of my former life
Au Resto: Mastering the French restaurant experience—Working in a restaurant is the best school for key life skills. Plus ... read about my backstory—being a sommelier, a restauranteur and more...
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03, 2024
Denyse de Bravura: French artist – an untold story
Denyse de Bravura: an untold story of an aspiring French artist & illustrator during les années folles and the 30 years following World War I
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03, 2024
WWII Female Agents Behind Enemy Lines – Part 1
Violette Szabo and other female agents were sent to France by F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. F Section (French Section), part of SOE, set up as a clandestine organization “to set Europe ablaze”, as Winston Churchill once said.
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02, 2024
Marseille: the color and the gray – Part 1/2
I went to Marseille alone on a whim. I took my first visit to the famous sun-soaked coast before the crowds and heat picked up.
