“Why was this funny at the time, but no longer today?” asked Robert Darnton, a professor at Harvard. In 1980, the American historian and printing specialist came across this anecdote, and studied it ...

France-Amérique: In your experience, what defines French and American work cultures?. Sabine Landolt and Agathe Laurent: Work culture in the United States is characterized by its flexibility and ...

Everything changed at the start of the 20 th century thanks to Marie Joseph Lucien Gabriel Folco, Marquis de Baroncelli, born in Aix-en-Provence in 1869 to an old Florentine family who moved to ...

How do you explain the global success of this approach, particularly in the United States? Thierry Coljon: Stromae is convinced that you can be a global success while singing in French, and he’s an ...

While in high school in Michigan, Jim Harrison dreamed of being friends with Rabelais. But Gargantua is who actually comes to mind when thinking of the American writer, whose classic Legends of the ...

“The hero of two worlds” was Lafayette’s nickname as he was a key political figure in both France and the United States. But Jean-Jacques Rousseau deserves the moniker more than the famous marquis, ...

It may seem obvious, but being Francophone means speaking French. However, the word is not as old as we might think. It first appeared in 1880 in writings by geographer Onésime Reclus (1837- 1916), ...

Mountain guide Roger Frison-Roche was secretary of these first Winter Games. Fifty years later, the emblematic local figure and author of the First on the Rope saga wrote that “even now […], such a ...

Juliette Gréco was 22, the muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, when she set eyes on the trumpetist, the up-and-coming “Picasso of jazz.” In May 1949, the International Jazz Festival was reborn in Paris ...

Two American women, Miriam Davenport and a wealthy socialite Mary Jayne Gold, were also very helpful members of Fry’s team (Gold’s later memoirs, Crossroads Marseilles 1940 were published by Doubleday ...

Simenon’s last feature article was published in the France-Soir newspaper in 1946, and later republished as a book called Des phoques aux cocotiers et aux serpents à sonnette : L’Amérique en auto.He ...

“At one point in Louisiana and Maine, speaking French was enough for the Ku Klux Klan to plant a burning cross in front of your house,” says Fabrice Jaumont, education attaché for the French embassy ...