People

French and foreign, residents and travelers, famous, infamous, historical, crafty, creative or simply encountered along the way, these are the people we meet and the people, past or present, whose lives (and sometimes deaths) inform us about the places and cultures we visit.

Part III: The American Versailles. Not Impressed Yet? Try This!

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Versailles, for all its reflection of historical French grandeur, authority, nobility, art, craftsmanship, and etiquette, is also a reflection of American power. Versailles may well be the French monument that most symbolizes American power, after the Statue of Liberty that is.
Jeanne Barret as imagined by Giuseppe dalll'Acqua

Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe

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In 1765, Jeanne Barret, a young, peasant woman left a remote corner of rural France where her impoverished family had scraped a living for generations. She set out on a journey that would take her around the world from the South American jungles and Magellan Strait to the tropical islands of the Indo-Pacific.

Yiddish, a Language of France, 70 Years Out of Hiding at Paris Cultural Center...

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Yiddish is a live and well in Paris at the Medem Library, the largest Yiddish cultural center in Europe.

Teach a man to order a brownie and he’ll save you two steps?

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A Dane and an American walk into a bakery in Paris, one orders a pistachio crumble, the other a brownie. The baker says... Read this sad tale of French service in which the author is berated for ordering a brownie inefficiently.
Lyla Black Ward in France, 1952

1952: The First Time I Saw Paris…

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Lyla Blake Ward revisits her first trip to Paris as a 24-year-old newlywed with her husband Russ. The year was 1952 and the city was still coated in its post-war grime.

An Interview with Heather Stimmler-Hall

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Heather Stimmler-Hall could be poster child for American junior year abroad programs, or perhaps a cautionary tale. In either case, Heather has done what many American students...

Jacques Brel Opens for Edith Piaf

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Jacques Brel opening for Edith Piaf? It sounds like the concert that dreams are made of. And it’s actually taking place as two talented performers, Patricia Kaas and Olivier Laurent, bring the past to life on a Franco-Belgian tour from Feb. 12 to April 19, 2013.

The Vidocq Society: A Famous French Detective Inspires American Forensic Inquiries

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When William Fleisher, a former Philadelphia Police Officer and FBI Special Agent, meets with his pals for lunch there’s often blood on the menu...

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

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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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