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Word up Your French: été
Voilà l'été, voilà l'été ! Summer is finally here, so take out your sunglasses, lather up your skin with a healthy dose of sunscreen, get...
Autumn Leaves, “Nat King Cole” (Yves Montand, “Les feuilles mortes”)
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...
HAPPY WORLD BOOK NIGHT!
Today, the world is celebrating books and readers. The 23rd of April - which marks the anniversary of the deaths of both William...
PAINTING & PASSION: PABLO, THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Always thought genius were pure minds, floating in the ethereal air of creation? Then SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters graphic novel series is...
Guest post by Chris Allen: 'Creative Craziness and The Great Game'
An oddity has just appeared on UK bookshelves: Theory of the Great Game, vivid repository of a Parisian group’s dreams and esoteric...
IBEYI
Electro, traditional, soul, trip-hop… It’s kind of hard to describe which style prevails in the songs of French-Cuban duo Ibeyi (you want...
INVADING BRIGHTON
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....especially when we went to watch loads of French bands for 'The Great Escape' festival and...
SIR QUENTIN BLAKE (might be French)
Blast to the past with this quirky interview. Do you love Sir Quentin Blake? Oui? Well, feast your eyes and ears on this: #video #Mélissa
JEAN-PIERRE FILIU, A FREE VOICE ON MIDDLE EAST
He talked in a clear-cut voice, disregarding taboos and being careful of illusions as well. Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor of Middle...
WE'VE GONE ALL HIPSTER...ONLY JOKING!
Ok, only slightly - but who can blame those enticing instagram filters to make our French-related snaps ever so funkadelic. Credit to our...
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