George Sand: Her Majorcan Winter of Discontent
By Joni Rendon Never before-and possibly never since-has a Mediterranean island inspired as much enmity as did the Spanish isle of Majorca for prolific French…
Tag: French authors
Bookstore Review: le lièvre de mars, Marseille, France
by Johanna Pittman Normally I’m not much of a book aesthete—despite a dislike of electronic reading, I’ve never been drawn above all else to the…
Review of Les Miserables: The Movie
By Jessica Ellen Monk Strictly speaking, Les Misérables is not a Literary Adaption; it’s based on the musical, not the Victor Hugo novel. The story has traveled…
Caodai Calling: Victor Hugo’s Vietnam
A traveler to an architectural oddity in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, tunes in to the otherworldy call of a wacky bizarro cult.
The Opera Garnier: An Eerie Tour of Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera
by Kathryn Yelinek Like any good mystery writer, Gaston Leroux builds his novels in layers. On one layer, his The Phantom of the Opera is…
Back to Balzac
by P.B. LeCron Most sightseers who venture into Paris’ chic, residential Passy neighborhood go there to admire the quarter’s lavish Art Nouveau buildings that have…
Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Company, A Mecca for Contemporary Literature
by Virginie Raguenaud When the French bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres opened its doors on November 15, 1915, at 7 rue de l’Odeon…
Understanding Joie de Vivre, Touring the French Institute Alliance Francaise
by Jennifer Ciotta Unfortunately, I could not travel to France this spring so I decided to bring the country to me in New York City. I discovered that the…
Alexandre Dumas and Monte-Cristo
By Patti Lecron “Ah! Monte-Cristo is one of the most delicious follies ever made. It is the most royal bonbonniere that exists!” wrote Honore Balzac,…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Short Period of My Life’s Happiness at Charmettes
by Dan Kane and Shawn Clankie The Savoie denotes both a region and province in southeastern France, comprising roughly that area between Geneva (and the…