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 […] By William Cloonan | 1 June 2022
Books Joy Sorman: Skin Deep Ninon Moise, 17, is the youngest descendent of a line of women struck by strange diseases. After contracting an illness that makes her skin […] By Sophie Joubert | 24 May 2022
History Varian Fry: An American’s Mission to Safeguard European Culture In August 1940, the American journalist Varian Fry was sent to Marseille, at the age of 32, on a mission to rescue as many […] By Roland Flamini | 23 May 2022