French Impressions: Zélia – French fashion designer and her passion for artistic style and romance
(French) Zélia, French fashion designer, entrepreneur, and businesswoman, was born in Picardy, in northern France where she spent her childhood …
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Impressions Françaises : Zélia, le coutourier français, et sa passion de la mode et de la romance
(English) Zélia, courtière française et entrepreneuse, est née en Picardie, au nord de la France, où elle avait passée sa …
French Impressions: Edith Kunz on the mystique of the Frenchwoman (sexy, smart, and chic)
Edith Kunz author of Fatale: How French Women Do It peeks at the mysterious ways Frenchwomen manage to appear sexy, …
Impressions Françaises : Alice Kaplan – les années Parisiennes de Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag et Angela Davis, une expérience de transformation
(English) Alice Kaplan, auteur et professeur de littérature française, est née en 1954 à Minneapolis. Elle a fait ses études …
French Impressions: Catherine Watson on literary travel writing and memoir
Catherine Watson is a travel writer, photographer and writing coach who teaches literary travel writing and memoir in university-level workshops …
French Impressions: Responses to Napoléon’s statement on women and power in Paris
Using a statement by Napoléon Bonaparte as a guide: A woman, in order to know what is her due and …
French Impressions: Perspectives from an author and professor of French, D-Day tour historian, and Parisian teenager, writing about the process of transformation
We celebrate the culture of transformation. A sea change: the dramatic shift that comes from living abroad, divorcing the land …
French Impressions: Alan Davidge leading visitors in the footsteps of the soldiers who liberated Normandy the summer of 1944
Alan Davidge, D-Day tours historian in Normandy, was born in London two years after the war ended. His father had seen …
French Impressions: Alice Kaplan – the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, on the process of transformation
(French) Alice Kaplan, author and professor of French at Yale University, was born in 1954 in Minneapolis and was educated …
French Lessons: Sealed with a Kiss
Napoleon Bonaparte probably isn’t the first person that comes to mind when one thinks of love letters, but for those …
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