On Wednesday the novel At Night All Blood is Black, written by David Diop and translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis, was announced as the winner of the 2021 International Booker...
★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Instead Renoir produced a bawdy comedy with French airs and graces, which seems to share much in common with so many American films of the late thirties with their loose morals, gender distortions, and hedonistic flushes of romance. The inspirations may have been Marivaux and Beaumarchais, but in style and temperament The Rules of the Game rubs up equally alongside The Philadelphia Story and the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks.
Juliette Gréco, doyenne of the French chanson, died on Wednesday at the age of 93 years old. Once described by Jean-Paul Sartre as carrying ‘a million poems in her voice’, the tributes...
On this day on 4 December 1793, during the French Revolution, the Law of 14 Frimaire was passed, consolidating power in the hands of Maximilien Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety. By the spring...
The perfume house Parfums de Nicolaï was established in 1989 by Patricia de Nicolaï and her husband Jean-Louis Michau. Born in Paris with an unparalleled lineage, as the great-granddaughter of Pierre Guerlain and...