How much do you know about Marie-Antoinette’s Austrian childhood? That she was a bit of a tom boy? That she was a bad student? That all she wanted to do was play? That she had 15 brothers and sisters? How about that she was never meant to become the Queen of...
You must have been reading it all over the newspapers and magazines: France is the most miserable nation of the world. Oh non!!! According to surveys, our present is represented by miserabilism and our future by pessimism. I am going to give you a summary of...
Marcel Pagnol (1895 – 1974) was a French Provençal novelist, playwright and filmmaker. I admire him for being bold, daring, revolutionary (and handsome, ha!). I think of him whenever I feel discouraged. The man who never ever gave up! He was an...
In America, just like in France, April 1st is the day for jokes! But we have something extra in France! We call it “Poisson d’avril”! = April Fish! As a young French girl, I remember spending my March 31st evenings drawing lots of paper...
Modernism and impressionism are the results of the famous rebellious French nature! Did you know that until the second part of the 19th century, Art was very strictly controlled by the French State which dictated all the rules via Art Schools, teachers, training...