Beyond the Sea

Alma de Bretteville Spreckels: The Art of Extravagance

Affectionately nicknamed “the great-grandmother of San Francisco” and “Big Alma,” the six-foot philanthropist put her energy and her fortune into promoting art and enriching […]

By Jérôme Kagan
| 30 June 2022

Books

Camille Laurens: A Woman’s Life

In Girl, recently published in the United States, the novelist and Prix Goncourt jury member portrays a woman’s life from the 1960s to the […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 29 June 2022

Culture

A Hard-Hitting French-American Podcast

What can the United States learn from France – and vice versa? This is the question asked to guests on A Propos, a podcast […]

By Clément Thiery
| 23 June 2022

Unknown France

Building a Castle… by Hand!

Deep in the forests of Burgundy, a team of artisans is hard at work on a construction project unlike any other: to build a […]

By Gabriel Bertrand
| 23 June 2022

French Connection

Hawaii’s French Community on the Edge of the World

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, some 3,000 French people have made the American archipelago of Hawaii their home. They live in harmony […]

By Benoît Georges
| 8 June 2022

Cinema

Lost Illusions: Fake News in the Time of Balzac

In today’s age of Twitter and Instagram, Xavier Giannoli has adapted Balzac in an astonishingly modern period drama set to be released in American […]

By Guénola Pellen
| 6 June 2022

Cinema

Eiffel, a Towering Love Story

What if the most-visited French monument owed its slender form to a passionate love story? This is the idea behind Eiffel, a movie “freely […]

By Clément Thiery
| 2 June 2022

Books

Céline, the True Enfant Terrible of French Literature

The recent publication of a long-lost manuscript by Céline, the acclaimed author of Journey to the End of the Night and a notorious anti-Semitic […]