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REVIEWS AND DRAWINGS from Halley Primary School - 'Une vie de chat'
After the great drawings and reviews we've received from Michael Faraday School, here are the no-less fantastic reviews and drawings made...
CHOPIN AND DALIDA: TWO MIGRANT STARS
In an era of indifference, intolerance and downright hostility towards external and internal migrants across this supposedly civilised...
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER: COUTURE FOR THE MEDIA AGE
Paris’s Grand Palais is currently hosting an exhibition of Jean Paul Gaultier’s work (#expoJPG). Before seeing it, I had not appreciated...
NOFX, “Les Champs-Élysées” (Joe Dassin)
If you think that French culture is old-school and can’t cross the borders, we are sorry to say that you are totally wrong. The peeps at...
BOOK OF THE WEEK: SYMBOLIC MISERY VOLUME 2 - THE CATASTROPHE OF THE SENSIBLE BY BERNARD STIEGLER
This week's book of the week is Symbolic Misery Volume 2 - The Catastrophe of the Sensible by Berndard Stiegler, translated by Barnaby...
JOHNNY HALLYDAY...LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Hey there, remember me? Thought not. It's been precisely a zillion years since my last blog (y'know, the whole crash thing....let's not...
PIQUE-NIQUE | EPISODE 1 | LES SIXTIES À GOGO !
Oyé, oyé, French music fans, we've found a gem! If you like sugary pop-songs, the sixties and French mots d'amour, Pique-Nique might be...
REVIEWS AND DRAWINGS from Michael Faraday School - 'Une vie de chat'
The year 4 class from Michael Faraday school watched 'Une vie de chat' at the Institut français and they absolutely loved it! Here are...
YVES SAINT LAURENT: INSIDE THE ATELIER
The Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent holds an unrivalled archive at 5 Avenue Marceau, YSL’s former couture atelier: 5,000...
GUEST POST BY NATALIE D'ARBELOFF: REDISCOVERING BLAISE CENDRARS
Writer Natalie d’Arbeloff revisits Blaise Cendrars’s poem Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France via translation and...
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