Episode 1: Camille's evaluation of group classes and private tutors. Many people learned some French in High school, college, or even through an adult education class. But how can you continue to learn French once the structured grammar classes have been completed? How can you learn conversational French? How can you become fluent?
1814 - 1872: Solid Foundations. The 19th century was a watershed for French Architecture. The catacombs were fully excavated. The controversial architect Viollet le Duc restored Notre Dame Cathedral. And Napoleon III commissioned Baron Hausmann to tear apart the city's narrow alleyways and pave grand boulevards.
Guest post: When I was a French professor at a US university, I used to get questions all the time about what the French are really like. Some were great questions about dating, eating, vacations. Others were...well, they raised my doubt about the saying "There are no stupid questions..."
Premier hôtel de luxe pour le couturier Martin Margiela ! L'hôtel Maison Champs-Elysées a ouvert ses portes le 5 juillet dernier. Martin Margiela a été chargé de la réfection de 17 des suites de l’hôtel, ainsi que du lobby, du restaurant, du fumoir et du bar.
Medieval is as mediaeval does. There's a guy in Paris whose office is an ancient tower, protecting the city, who daily ascends through hundreds of years of history, and who wouldn't want it any other way.
C’est toujours aussi merveilleux de revoir ma famille et mes amis qui se mettent en quatre pour m’accueillir comme une star et me caser dans leurs emplois du temps souvent chargés... Comme on dit en anglais « it grounds me », littéralement, ça me ramène à la terre ferme, à mes racines européennes! That said, I have a confession to make ! Voilà, je suis devenue une vraie New Yorkaise à Paris !
Keep your eyes up, as you walk around the streets of the city, both in Paris and Colombes, and you'll see work by 'Rue Meurt d'Art', which is a pleasurably ambiguous play on words where we aren't sure if it's the streets which are killing art, art which is smothering the streets, the streets which are dying for lack of art, or if it all isn't just a bunch of vicious rumours...
... understanding of the French point of view. There’s no better way to get inside the mind of a culture than to read its take on another culture, in its mother tongue...
...the French tradition of 'faire les bisous' (or air-kissing on either side of the face) is alive and well. The French are not huggers or hand-shakers, they are air-kissers. I'm still always a bit shocked when I see two young macho French guys greet each other with les bisous.
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