Author Archive
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Escargot: Don’t judge a snail by it’s shell.
28 Jun 2012By Alyssa Glawe I started taking French language classes at the age of 13 and immediately learned the differences in…
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The Left Bank: La Rive Gauche and the Land of Plenty
28 Jun 2012By Jan Dolphin “The Left Bank: La Rive Gauche and the Land of Plenty” brings us to the Left Bank…
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Wherever you go, you always meet a Breton
28 Jun 2012By Bénédicte Mahé Partout où tu vas, tu croises toujours un breton. “Wherever you go, you always meet a Breton.”…
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French Impressions: Bénédicte Mahé living as a French woman in Paris
28 Jun 2012Bénédicte Mahé was born in Rennes, in the French region of Brittany. After she completed high school in France and…
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French Impressions: Alan Davidge leading visitors in the footsteps of the soldiers who liberated Normandy the summer of 1944
26 Jun 2012Alan Davidge was born in London two years after the war ended. His father had seen action in North Africa…
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French Impressions: Anne Pawle’s arrival in Paris during the May 1968 mini-revolution
13 Jun 2012Anne Pawle, expatriate and world traveler, at the age of 24, left the BBC Drama Department in London, where she…
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Automobile Road Rallies in France: Women in the drivers seat
06 Jun 2012By Barbara Redmond Road rallies in France. The 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition, Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux, ushered in…
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Le Cordon Bleu Paris: Another “Sabrina” story
06 Jun 2012By Karen Cope It is easy to assume in the 1954 American film, Sabrina, that the character Sabrina, played by…
