W.E.B. Du Bois spoke French and seized upon the narrative of progress projected by the world’s fair to claim a place for Black Americans. His aim was to demonstrate to an international audience the ...

Paris, Avignon, and now Manhattan! At the age of 41, Cyril Dewavrin has already taken over or set up three bookstores in France. For his fourth, he decided to cross the Atlantic. Last December, he ...

Renewed interest in the explorer came from New York. In 1909, the city celebrated the 300 th anniversary of its “discovery” by Englishman Henry Hudson. Protesting that the honor was actually owed to ...

While the French press enthusiastically covered the young pioneer’s career, America remained silent. Only the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), The ...

France-Amérique: How did this series of “gourmet travels” across France start?. Emmanuelle Delteil: Back in 2000, I developed the concept of trips to meet chefs, which was already called Papilles ...

The Society of the Cincinnati, together with its French partner of the same name, was founded in 1783 by American and French veterans of the War of Independence to keep the historic struggle in the ...

Marie Antoinette lit her chambers with Cire Trudon candles, or so the story goes! Although during the iconic queen’s reign, the candlemaker was still called the Manufacture Royale de Cire. American ...

Lewis Hine has been acknowledged as one of America’s principal 20 th-century photographers, best known for his moving portraits of immigrants on Ellis Island, child laborers in factories and mines, ...

It was a small revolution a stone’s throw from the French capital. On the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the Parc des Princes neighborhood, the founders of modern architecture such as Le Corbusier, ...

The French native received the green medal, nicknamed le poireau (“the leek”) due to its color and bestowed by the Minister of Agriculture in Paris since 1883 for outstanding contributions to ...

In the Anglosphere, this credo has spawned a mindset, a lifestyle – even a vocabulary. Youngsters belonging to “Generation Sober” engage in “mindful drinking” – thinking before boozing – and espouse ...

Edith Piaf was France’s undisputed national chanteuse during the 1950s, while simultaneously leading a successful career in the United States. With her little black dress, intense stare, and vocals ...