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Marie de France: Poetry: Poetry : New Translations, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

Marie De France and Dorothy Gilbert

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Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and who lived in England during...

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple,...

Illuminations

John Ashbery and Arthur Rimbaud

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The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud s Illuminations has been given new life with the...

Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-De-Siecle Capital

Alexia M. Yates

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Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

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Blockbuster adaptation of a French comic-book from Luc Besson. When Alpha, a vast space city, is...

Zac Posen recommended The Price of Illusion in Books (curated)

"My dear friend Joan Juliet Buck has had quite a life — epic adventures in Hollywood, Paris, London, NYC and Ireland! This is her life story about the drive and allure of glamour and appearances, all the way to being the first and only American editor-in-chief of French Vogue, to her complicated relationship with her father (who was producing partners with John Houston and Peter O'Toole)."

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Secrets of Macarons

Jose Marechal

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Now a worldwide symbol of sweet indulgence, macarons seduce the senses with their delicate crunch...

Kim Newman recommended Eyes Without a Face (1960) in Movies (curated)

"A lurid mad-scientist drama—scripted by Boileau and Narcejac, also of Diabolique and Vertigo, and filmed by Georges Franju as a mix of surgical surrealism, hyper-graphic horror, raincoated French policier and Cocteau-ish magical romance. Edith Scob drifts through corridors in a blank white mask and a nightgown, and Alida Valli stalks her prey in a Citroën 2CV, accompanied by Maurice Jarre’s shuddery score."

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