French Lessons: Take it to the Riviera
La Côte d’Azur, the Mediterranean coastline of the southwest corner of France, attracted the artistic painters, Renoir, Matisse and Picasso, …
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French Lessons: Paris is beautiful in the rain
Paris is beautiful in the rain. Passing the time at a sidewalk café waiting for the rain storm to subside …
French Lessons: Not-so-schoolgirl French
Precocious, carefree Gilberte, aka Gigi, from Colette’s 1944 novella of the same name, sent to be groomed as a young …
French Lessons: Le Weekend
Scarves à la Françoise: The Lingua Franca for Stylish Women
The young French store clerk shifted with mild amusement, cocking her head slightly to one side. She listened to me, …
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