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The business of religion in France
Business seems to be booming for the abbeys and monasteries in France. Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic and an economic crisis don’t appear to have slowed ...
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Tips for Vegetarians in France
One of the best vegetarian meals I have ever had was on a mini-break in France, my native country. It was in Carteret, a small ...
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Hemingway’s Garden of Eden: The French Riviera
“Imagination is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine” – ...
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The art of Eugène Carrière
The French artist, Eugène Carrière, was a remarkable painter who worked almost exclusively in a colour palette of browns and deep yellows, using quick, semi-dry ...
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How to be French Part 1
Many people will say well you’re French if you’re born French – but is it really as simple as that? And what makes French people ...
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Je ne regrette rien moving to France
In February 2004, on a cold and sleety February morning, I boarded a ferry at Dover and watched the famous White Cliffs fade as I ...
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A visit to the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Whether you simply pass the imposing, turned inside out, building or are viewing it from one of Paris’ look out points like the iconic Eiffel ...
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Raft of the Medusa, Louvre Museum
The French masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa is an emotionally wrenching painting that depicts a notorious real-life human tragedy: the appalling suffering of people ...
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Guide to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Chartres
The Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is located some fifty miles southwest of Paris on a small hill overlooking the city of Chartres. The Cathedral and ...
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The art of rural women’s work
The French female artist Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré captured the working lives of everyday women in the countryside of north-western France. One of her finest ...
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