…[T]he epic mess of Piaf’s love life, as well as the scale of her talent, make this story something special, while her brutal Dickensian childhood virtually ensured that she would spend her adult life in a doomed quest for perfect love and security.
Complete review at The Barnes & Noble Review.
Enjoy this gorgeous ad, done by NeueBig in Italy, featuring stop-motion animation with paper cut-outs for the launch of Le Petit Prince Moleskine Special Edition. The cutouts you see in the video actually come with the notebooks (they differ depending on whether you get the large or pocket size).
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Her francophile style has been seen everywhere: on scarves for DKNY and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the “Vive La France” campaign for Bloomingdale’s, in her redesign of Saks Fifth Avenue children’s department and the list goes on….
Buy Chesley McLaren’s Zat Cat! A Haute Couture Tail at the Francophilia Amazon [...]
Marcel Marlier illustrated the stories of Martine, an icon of 20th-century French pop culture. Written by Gilbert Delahaye, there were 60 titles published with more than 65 million copies sold in French and 35 million sold in other languages.
Know a little francophile? You can buy Martine titles (in French!) at [...]
This important exchange between Morrison and Compagnon will be of great interest to anyone concerned with French culture and its legacy in the world today.
We have four copies of this controversial book to give away to Francophilia members. Go to the Community home page to see how to win! Offer ends [...]
Houellebecq has won many major French literary prizes, though not the coveted Goncourt, which many in the French literary establishment feel has been unfairly withheld. He has also published several volumes of poetry and essays.
Great interview with this enigmatic and controversial author (in English) at The Paris Review.
Her visits to France influenced not only her writing but also her interpretation of other worlds: for example, while visiting the American Southwest in 1912, a region that informed her subsequent works, she first viewed that landscape through the prism of her memories of Provence.
Buy the new book Willa Cather: A [...]
In 1906, suspected terrorist, art-world tastemaker, and literary instigator Félix Fénéon wrote more than a thousand faits-divers for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Fénéon’s news items are populated with opium addicts, prostitutes, drunks, those flattened by trains and carriages, inept and angry thieves, protestors, and simpletons. in Illustrated Three-Line Novels: Félix Fénéon, artist Joanna Neborsky’s [...]
Referred to as L’Enfer (or Hell in French), the Bibliothèque Nationale’s collection of pornography and erotica is probably the biggest in the world. The reason why is simple: when the public library was established in 1720, its most important duty was to collect a copy of every book, etching and pamphlet produced in France.
Do you remember the 1954 movie Désirée, starring Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons as Napoleon’s first love? The movie seems to be out of print at the moment, but a new edition of the novel by Annemarie Selinko is being published. Hopefully this will mean they’ll re-release the movie on DVD! You [...]
A new translation of Madame Bovary is to be published in September. An excerpt appears in the September issue of Playboy (US). Pre-order the new translation of Madame Bovary at the Francophilia Amazon Store!
Author Catherine Delors has donated 5 copies of her new novel For the King for our September member giveaway. The novel takes readers through the dark alleys and glittering salons of post-revolutionary Paris. It is a romantic thriller, a tale of love, betrayal and redemption. Go to the Francophilia Community for details on [...]
Chloe Pink™ takes Francophilia with her everywhere she goes:
…..with Pierre (her VW Bug)
…..on her sketchbook
…..to her favorite cafe and all around town
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We’re with The New Yorker: It’s a touchy subject, since it’s an allegory about French colonization. Plus we agree that it’s horribly misguided to do it in a combo of live action and computer animation! Let’s hope they rethink that…
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