Section: American

“New Wine From France”: Documentary By American Jeanne Bernard Examines Biodynamic Vineyards in the Loire Valley

France Revisited meets with Jeanne Bernard, an American from Louisiana living in Paris, to discuss her documentary “New Wine From France,” an examination of the world of biodynamic wines, to learn how she got involved with biodynamics and filmmaking, and to discover her favorite shops and bars selling organic and biodynamic wines in Paris.

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An Hour from Paris: Chateau Thierry’s American WWI Sights (photolog)

Belleau Wood, the Aisne-Marne American War Cemetery and the Chateau Thierry War Monument are only an hour’s drive from Paris, in Picardy, an easy stop on the way to Champagne, but it took me over [...]

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The Riviera, American Style

Key figures about the American presence on the Riviera according to a study by tourist officials show that the percentage of visitors from the U.S. has decreased significantly over the past 25 years but that Americans still like it, they really like it.

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An Interview with Ellen Sussman, Author of the Novel “French Lessons”

Ellen Sussman’s new novel French Lessons is a sexy, sensual, café-filled story about three Americans who explore Paris while receiving walking French lessons. An entertaining France Revisited interview with the author by Gary Lee Kraut.

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James A. Emanuel, a Great American Poet, Turns 90 in Paris

On June 15, 2011, one of America’s greatest living poets celebrates his 90th birthday quietly in the company of a few close friends, in Paris, where he has lived since 1984. Admired, respected and acknowledged [...]

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Surviving family: Two sisters, one bed, and a 37-page itinerary

What happens when two sisters, one an artist with sore feet and a hankering for chocolate, the other an A-type corporate traveler with a 37-page itinerary and no interest in sweets, visit Paris together? Wendy Most of Trenton, New Jersey recounts the joys and suffering of a Paris adventure with her sister Debbie.

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Paris trip report: Laura and Chris’s week in June

Editor’s note: While in Normandy last week I left my apartment in Paris to the artist Laura Barton and her husband Chris. On their return home to West Chester, Pennsylvania, Laura sent the following travel [...]

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D-Day Revisited: Ian Patrick’s “Anonymous Heroes”

On the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, France Revisited honors veterans and the fallen through the work of American photographer Ian Patrick and his book Portraits: Anonymous Heroes.

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Feeling the pulse of Nice as the stage gets set for France’s largest Carnival (1/8)

By Stephanie Sommer Before I moved to Nice to study French and look for work, I had been warned by friends in nearby Provence that this was a city of little old ladies and small [...]

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