Portrait

Au revoir, Monsieur Sempé

French illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé, who passed away on August 11 at the age of 89, had a longstanding love for the United States, and […]

By Gabriel Bertrand
| 11 August 2022

Portfolio

A Is for Art… and André Saraiva

André Saraiva is a French graffitist, concept artist, video maker, and entrepreneur well known in the fashion, music, and nightlife worlds – he created […]

By Clément Thiery
| 11 August 2022

Partner Article

The French School at the Heart of New York City’s Little Paris

Last year, the team at Coucou French Classes renamed one of Manhattan’s historic French neighborhoods. The French-owned businesses in Little Paris are thriving, and […]

By France-Amérique
| 10 August 2022

Interview

David McCullough: In the Footsteps of the First Americans in Paris

American historian David McCullough passed away on August 7 at the age of 89. Throughout his career, he wrote on Harry Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, […]

By Vincent Dozol
| 10 August 2022

Culture

French Inventions That Changed the World

From Blaise Pascal’s mechanical calculator to Roland Moreno’s chip card, French innovations have helped shape today’s world. […]

By Dominique Mataillet
| 4 August 2022

Documentary

Basquiat, from New York to Africa

The African-American artist’s dizzying rise to fame is as fascinating as his neo-Expressionist paintings themselves. The French documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat, l’Afrique au cœur, available […]

By Guénola Pellen
| 29 July 2022

Books

Estelle-Sarah Bulle: Guadeloupe in Four Voices

Born in the Paris suburbs to a Guadeloupean father and a Franco-Belgian mother, the author looks back over 60 years of a family’s history […]

By Sophie Joubert
| 27 July 2022

Perspectives

What Do French Overseas Territories Want?

Liberty, equality, insularity? The protests in France’s overseas territories that regularly make the news should not deceive anyone. Today, the push for independence has […]

By Dominique Mataillet
| 20 July 2022

Cinema

My Donkey, My Lover & I: On the Trail of Self-Discovery

After an acclaimed role in the series Call My Agent!, Laure Calamy plays a sorrowful mistress hiking with a donkey on the Robert Louis […]

By Clément Thiery
| 19 July 2022

French America

A French Royalist Refuge in Pennsylvania

In a testament to North America’s French heritage, many regions, towns, mountains, and rivers in the United States have French names. Every month, French-American […]

By Anthony Lacoudre
| 8 July 2022

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