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Paris Plages 2013 poster by Kiraz 6 Aug 2013 | 12:07 pm
The 2013 Paris Plages poster is by Kiraz of Playboy and Parisiennes fame. Don’t know who he is? We’ve written about him before!
Paris Cola takes on Coke (and there’s a franco-cola civil war going on) 13 Jul 2013 | 02:36 pm
Paris Cola claims to be 100% French, which surely appeals to the natives, who resent the ubiquitousness of American mega-brands. (Can’t say I blame them.) It is also competing with another franco-bra...
Blues and Rockabilly in France 3 Jun 2013 | 09:22 pm
In case you’re feeling homesick, there are two summer blues festivals coming up in France! (OK, there’s also rockabilly and country and more…). The Festival de Craponne sur Arzon (July 26-28) in sout...
Biographies of great women in graphic novel format 21 May 2013 | 06:09 pm
I can just imagine how tickled I would have been at 13 or 14, in full francophile and feminine bloom, to have received a series of biographies of great women in French — and in graphic novel format. ...
New animated short! Mickey Mouse – Croissant de Triomphe 13 Mar 2013 | 11:15 am
Nothing has tickled our francophile fancy like this since Ratatouille ! A brand new Micky Mouse cartoon commissioned by Disney from Paul Rudish, the director of Dexter’s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls...
Be cool Babar. 12 Jan 2013 | 04:24 pm
Mike Rosenthal (@vectorbelly) has created Twitter: The Comic, a Tumblr blog of comics made from tweets, some his own, some by others. There’s some random, twisted stuff on Twitter, as you may have not...
Gallica, the best of French culture at your fingertips 31 Oct 2012 | 01:28 pm
Now I know what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life… As soon as I get an iPad, that is. Which may now be sooner than I had thought because the Bibliothèque nationale de France has just released Gall...
Maps of France, as seen by… 17 Jul 2012 | 04:02 pm
Alert, cultural stereotypes ahead! France as seen by Americans, Germans, José Bové, and more. Author(s) unknown. See the rest at: Cartes de France, vues par ….
Hot young French farmers 3 Jul 2012 | 03:18 pm
“C’est beau d’être agriculteur” was the slogan for the 2012 Calendrier des jeunes agriculteurs, created by the French agricultural union “Jeunes Agriculteurs” to promote the métier of farming. We tipp...
Marie Antoinette’s little secret (she was bi) 13 Jun 2012 | 02:15 pm
And we thought we knew everything about Marie Antoinette! Well, whether or not it has any basis in reality, it looks luscious. How can it not be? We’ll be seeing it, that’s for sure. More about Farew...
