David et le néo-classicisme Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was born in the mid-18th century, but its popularity spread all over Europe as a generation of European art students finished their Grand
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Lettres de mon moulin - Alphonse Daudet The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria. Considered to be light-hearted, and often a bit tongue-in-cheek, the stories vary from day-to-day events in southern France to Provençal
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Directed by Hubert Charuel. Starring Swann Arlaud, Sara Giraudeau, Isabelle Candelier . When one of his cows gets sick, a farmer will stop at nothing to save the rest of the herd. Hubert Charuel draws from his rural French upbringing, delivering an unconventional thriller about a desperate dairy farmer determined to protect his herd. Petit
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L'écume des jours - Boris Vian Froth on the Daydream (French: L'Écume des jours; literally: "The Foam of Days") is a 1947 novel by French author Boris Vian. Though told as a linear narrative, the novel employs surrealism and contains multiple plot lines, including the love stories of two couples, talking mice, and a man who
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FRANCE-1945-1958 : HISTORY OF THE POST WAR AND FOURTH REPUBLIC ERA. Postwar society in France has experienced a wave of deep changes which impacted the legal and political system, the culture and the way of life. The American economic and cultural influence, the liquidation of the Colonial Empire and the modernization induced by the recovery
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Numero Une - Tonie Marshall Through hard work, Emmanuelle Blachey, a brilliant and voluntary engineer, won her place on the executive committee of Trident, the French energy giant. Married for twenty years to a caring man and mother of two children, his success is total ... or almost. One day, a network of women
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Book Club Le Colonel Chabert - Honore de Balzac Ten years after being injured in the Napoleonic Wars, Frenchman Col. Chabert returns to Paris, finally recovered. There, he finds his wife is now known as Countess Ferraud , married to Count Ferraud, and the mother of the man's children. Chabert also learns his wife declared
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French Pronunciation Workshop: "The Sound of French" Learn the sounds of French and practice pronouncing them correctly, so to be understood right away. Practice hearing the small differences between sounds, and you don?t mix up one word with another? Amazingly helpful! All levels On Saturday December 1st, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Membres $20
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Book Club Hymnes à l' amour - Anne Wiazemsky Coming off the bad end of a doomed love affair, and trying to cope with her Mother's death Marianne is surprised to discover that her Father's last will and testament was not correctly administered. The will reveals the existence of a love affair. Her father had a
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French Pronunciation Workshop: "The Sound of French" Learn the sounds of French and practice pronouncing them correctly, so to be understood right away. Practice hearing the small differences between sounds, and you don't mix up one word with another? Amazingly helpful! All levels On Saturday December 22nd, from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Membres
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