Portraying France through Cinema: Myth vs. Reality
As I sit through another screening of Bridesmaids laughing at Kristin Wiig’s drunken airplane rant and Melissa McCarthy’s misfortunes in …
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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, …
Paris, a particular shade of gray
When the skies in Minnesota turn a particular shade of gray, I think of Paris. Today was just such a …
Stars, Stripes, and Seine: Americans in occupied Paris 1940-1944
5,000 Americans refused to leave Paris after war broke out in September 1939. Who were they? Why was Paris a …
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: John Baxter’s “The Perfect Meal” and Finding the Foregone Flavors of France
(French) John Baxter is an acclaimed memoirist, film critic, and biographer. He is author of the memoirs The Most Beautiful …
French Impressions: Bilguissa Diallo’s literary process as a second-generation immigrant living in Paris.
I am French and I write in French, in France, about people who are French, in France. For me, this …
Sequins, Lamé, and Alien Hair: Inside Ylan Anoufa’s Paris Couture Show
Paris Fashion Week: clothing, celebrities, elusive, glamorous parties. Paris, New York, and Milan all thrive on parades of new collections …
La Ville des amants pour la St Valentin
(English) Qui n’a pas rêvé de passer la St. Valentin à Paris? Après tout, Paris est la ville de l’amour. …
A Parisienne’s Guide to the City of Love on Valentine’s Day
(French) Who hasn’t dreamed of spending Valentine’s Day in Paris? After all, Paris is the city of love. Valentine’s Day …
A Woman's Paris 