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Occupied territory: France under the jackboot

We take a moment to remember the dark years endured by the country despite the jokes about the French role in the war.
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Paris Museums with 'la muséophile': Mémorial de la Shoah

Find out why le Mémorial de la Shoah is such an important part of the…
 Paris, France
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Stories of war in France: a visit to Bonaguil, and a dark memorial nearby

Badly hit in battle - find out more about the French castle Bonaguil as we…
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Beauty and the beasts

Eugène Paul Louis Schueller, the founder of a huge cosmetics company, was a thoroughly nasty…

MyFrenchLife™ – MyFrenchLife.org – Alsace: an unmissable French region

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Alsace: an unmissable French region

Alsace is a ravishingly beautiful region, with secrets to uncover...
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Paris dark days

The beast was impressed.‘It was the dream of my life to be permitted to see…
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The life and art of ‘The Little Prince’

Join us as we explore his best-selling literary masterpiece 'Le petit prince'.
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Creative parallels: "...and he lives in the 13th” Paris story – Stephanie Williamson

Enjoy Steph Williamson's alternate ending to the ‘…and he lives in the 13th!’ Paris story.
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"Il vaut mieux hasarder de sauver un coupable que de condamner un innocentIt is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire - Zadig (1747)"

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Avoir le compas dans l'oeil To be precise (able to measure something without a measuring tool)
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