This is the complete issue released after the January 7, 2015 attack.
Thank you to Heidi Ellison, founder of Paris Update, for this file. Paris Update brings you news about Paris happenings, restaurant reviews, and more in English. I recommend subscribing to the e-mail newsletter (I do!). Paris Update [...]
“C’est beau d’être agriculteur” was the slogan for the 2012 Calendrier des jeunes agriculteurs, created by the French agricultural union “Jeunes Agriculteurs” to promote the métier of farming. We tipped you off to the young farmers’ calendar back in 2009, but didn’t have a picture. Looks like the 2012 version is sold [...]
Magical. We especially like the sparkles as she appears and disappears. Very Tinkerbell-y. The store is Empreinte at 13 rue Saint Florentin.
The Criterion Collection, a video-distribution company selling “important classic and contemporary films” to film aficionados, just released Belle de Jour on BluRay and enlisted fashion illustrator David Downton to provide art for the cover and interior booklet.
Read the rest and see Downton’s other (sexy!) piece at Criterion Confessions. Buy
Oh dear. They should have done their French homework!!
You see, bite is a slang word for penis… Petite bite can be literal, of course (in which case, I have my doubts about “big compliments” and “dazzle and delight”), but it can also mean “a nobody,” or “an insignificant person” (C’est une petite [...]
An entertainment phenomenon is taking France by storm. Bref. is a hilarious and racy TV series, each episode of which lasts about 1.5 to 2 minutes (as the name implies). The format is a high-speed montage of experiences in the life of the endearingly pathetic protagonist played by Kyan Khojandi.
Bref. depicts the modern daily [...]
A documentary about objectophilia (being in love with objects). The part where the lady marries the Eiffel Tower starts at the 6:50 mark. Dig that ET cleavage tattoo! Watch the video on Documentary Heaven.
Seen @Brainpicker.
Interested in bande dessinée and erotica? The French are very good at both, the former being a revered art form, the latter a fundamental element of their collective consciousness… Check out BDerotique, a blog devoted entirely to the subject of erotic comics.
NOTE: The images on this blog can be very graphic, so [...]
John Coulthart at feuilleton turned me on to the late 60s–early 70s French magazine Plexus, a sexy offshoot of Planète. [...] It’s an intriguing mix of surreal-fantastic-psychedelic art, interviews with writers (Jacques Sternberg was the literary editor), Playboy-style comics and the occasional Popeye comic, science fiction stories, Gilles de Rais profiles, philosophy, and—though [...]
An emblematic character of the Belle Époque, similar to Breton and Dali in his non-conformism, Clovis Trouille had an impact on the history of 20th-century art with his carnal and ferociously joyful works. His insolently erotic, anticlerical and antimilitary canvases led him to be shunned by the critics and struck down by the [...]
Oh la la ! Read more at Mail Online
Every year French lingerie company Aubade puts out a sexy calendar using some of the year’s ads. And you can download the calendar from the Aubade site! On this page, under Téléchargements, click Calendrier (couverture + les 12 mois).
The slogan of The Original Condom, the world’s first “luxury condom,” is “Safe sex with elegance, chic and eco-aware.” It’s made (where else but) in Condom, in the south of France. Go to the About page (hover over the horrible clip-arty people) and you’ll see the two founders are a “prince” and a [...]
If you’re old enough, you may remember seeing the work of Kiraz in Playboy in the 70s. But he’s most famous in France for his parisiennes: lithe and winsome young women who epitomized the look and attitude of Paris in the 70s.
Buy Jamais le premier soir and Kiraz dans Playboy [...]
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