Lots of ideas for a lovely French-themed party at Celebrations at Home!
Musee du terroir normand
We were in Normandy (home of Camembert!) this month, and everywhere we went we saw this poster for an exhibit on dairy traditions at the Musée du terroir normand. The poster just made us happy. Exhibit info: Traditions Laitières Musée Du Terroir.
Shame on US general for French-bashing
McChrystal, the Rolling Stone piece said, resented playing the diplomat, though that’s part of the job. He also hated going to posh Parisian restaurants with candles on the table. Well, suck it up, general.
La fée verte returns to Switzerland
After being banned in the mountain country and many parts of the world for almost a century, absinthe, famously associated with bohemian fin-de-siècle artists, is making a comeback in the land of its birth, five years after being legalized by Swiss authorities.
via Swisster
Mid-century Riviera glamour
Perhaps no time better exemplifies the glitz and glamour of this small sliver of Mediterranean coastline—Cannes, Monaco, Saint-Tropez—than the 1950s and 60s.
Series of photos at The Daily Beast.
Pigs with LV logo tattoos banned from art show
In latest news, the eight pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton logoes and other Walt Disney characters — highly controversial works of art by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye — has been banned by the organisers of SHContemporary, the city’s largest contemporary art fair.
via Shanghaiist, merci @mailecannon
“French Roast” – Charming animated short
Great animated short French Roast created by Fabrice Joubert, set in a French café circa 1960.
via The Presurfer
Girls in bubbles over Paris, 1963
Magnifique ! Series of photos of high-fashion models floating around Paris in Melvin Sokolsky’s Bubble Series, which appeared in Harper’s magazine in 1963.
via Boing Boing
Marguerite Duras reading “L’Amant”
Incredible video of Marguerite Duras reading from L’Amant long before the film was ever made. It was the iconic Jeanne Moreau who narrated the movie when it was made years later by director Jean-Jacques Annaud (without the collaboration of Duras).
via La Règle du jeu
Still smashing after all these years
Looking attractive, at any age, is just what Frenchwomen do, especially the urban ones. For Parisiennes, maintaining their image is as natural as tying a perfect scarf or wearing stilettos on cobblestone streets. Beauty is a tradition handed down from generation to generation.
via NYTimes.com
France 24 (en français!) now available throughout US
The French-language version of international news channel France 24 will be available throughout the US from 14 July, which is “Bastille Day”. Up to now, France 24 has been available in English in certain regions of the United States. Now the French channel will be broadcast 24 hours a day throughout the US via the Dish satellite television service.
Understanding “customer service” in France
The revolution of 1789 has burned the notion of equality deep into the French psyche and a proud Parisian finds it abhorrently degrading to act subserviently.
via BBC News
French girl won Google World Cup doodle contest
A 14-year-old French girl won the international doodle contest, which was open to kids between four and 17. Grand prize included having her doodle displayed on July 11th and getting a free trip to South Africa.
via Presse-Citron
The Great Sarko Scandal pour les nuls*
Greed, ambition, a president, a beauty empire heiress, a con man, secret envelopes filled with cash, recording devices planted by domestics, Nazis, collaborationists, and more… All you could ever want in a French political/high society scandal. The whole mess explained clearly and succinctly in this Telegraph article.
*the French version of “for Dummies” book titles
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