Le Buzz: beyond the French news
Cette semaine, la politique française, les confessions d’une ex-Première dame de France et le Street Art sont à l’honneur de cette chronique.
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10, 2013
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08, 2013
A Guy’s Guide to Culture: Charlotte & Magon: Good Moody
After you spend some time with Charlotte and Magon's tunes, they move in, they show you their dark side and become songs you turn out the lights to. When you listen to this music it speaks to you, and you get close enough to recognize the harmful in the cheer.
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07, 2013
Secret lives of Parisians: the great Fitzgerald en France
The world is inundated with the glitz and glamour of Gatsby fever but it is neither Baz, nor Leonardo we have to thank for the beautiful prose transformed into box office hit, but a French ex-pat named Francis.
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06, 2013
Why Daisy came to France
From June to October 2004, Daisy soaked up Paris, walking from the Marais to her job in the 6th, learning about classical music and letting Paris get under her skin.
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05, 2013
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a haven for French artists – Part two
After the Liberation, Saint-Germain-des-Prés took up jazz, singing and theatre, and served as a backdrop in French cinema. Certain figures mythified the quarter which, since the 60s, had been transforming itself into a ‘spoilt rich-kid’ quarter.
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05, 2013
Your pocket-sized Guide to… French philosophy: Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher who believed that each individual has the freedom to change things and make a real difference.
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04, 2013
Your pocket-sized Guide to… French philosophy: Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher whose book ‘The Second Sex’ challenged the accepted role of women in society.
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04, 2013
Maurice Pialat – French painter and filmmaker
Pialat once said “if you’re not a genius, you might as well stop”. Before becoming a well-respected filmmaker, Maurice Pialat was very involved in painting in his teenage years. Lacking confidence for his future, he quickly abandoned painting to focus on cinema.
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04, 2013
Maurice Pialat, peintre et cinéaste français
Il y a dix ans, le cinéaste français Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) disparaissait. Cet anniversaire est l'occasion pour la Cinémathèque de Paris de revenir enfin sur son œuvre complète et complexe, entre peinture et cinéma, du 20 février au 7 juillet 2013.
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03, 2013
Your pocket-sized Guide to… French philosophy: René Descartes
René Descartes was a French philosopher credited with the most famous philosophical quote of all time: “cogito ergo sum” – “I think therefore I am”.
