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06/06/2026

06/04/2026

Check out this opportunity to learn French on the Eastern Shore.

06/03/2026

Ycare, French singer and songwriter, and those accompanying him are walking 25 kilometers per day through some of the most spectacular countryside of France 🇫🇷 in the Vendée. It is about connecting with the land and its people, about living according to a different rhythm, about sharing stories, music, and an artistic vision.

Après une tournée dans toute la France, YCARE traverse la Vendée, du 25 mai au 17 juin. Le chanteur marche à la rencontre des paysages de Vendée et de ses habitants, effectuant douze étapes à pied d’environ 25 kms. Et le soir, il se produira en concert, au cœur des communes.
Plus qu’une tournée, ce projet est véritablement la rencontre d'un artiste avec notre territoire à travers un panorama des richesses patrimoniales, naturelles, touristiques, qu'offre la Vendée.

Suivez Ycare le temps d'une journée de randonnée sur la sauvage et ...

05/30/2026

Bon week-end à tous et à toutes!

Claude Monet, Seine At Vetheuil, 1879

05/29/2026

From June 6 to 28, La Caverne du Pont Neuf, a temporary artwork by JR, will rise up in the heart of Paris and pay tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Pont Neuf Wrapped, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2025. This will be a time-limited opportunity for Parisians and visitors to experience a reimagination of Paris' oldest bridge.

05/25/2026

📚 | Le 25 mai 1693 meurt la femme de lettres Madame de Lafayette (née Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne en 1634). Fréquentant les plus beaux esprits de l’époque (Madame de Sévigné, Ménage, La Rochefoucault, Boileau, Racine), elle publie anonymement plusieurs romans dès 1662.

Son roman, La Princesse de Clèves (1678), est considéré comme le premier roman d'analyse psychologique. Proche de la cour et de figures littéraires, elle a marqué le classicisme par son style épuré et son étude des passions.

Madame de La Fayette (born Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, 1634–1693) was a pioneering French author. She is widely credited with writing France's first historical novel and creating the early blueprint for the modern psychological novel. Operating within the elite literary circles and salons of 17th-century Paris, she frequently published her masterpieces anonymously due to the social constraints of her aristocratic status.

📷 (c) domaine public et BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France/ Ministère de la Culture

05/21/2026

HBO's The White Lotus is officially filming its fourth season on the French Riviera, with primary production taking place right in the heart of Cannes. The show is utilizing the iconic Hôtel Martinez on the Boulevard de la Croisette as its main fictional setting

Season 4, set during France's Cannes Film Festival, is shaping up to be one of HBO's most ambitious shoots: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHdpl

• This season's comedy is driven by friction between American movie stars and local French workers (in one filmed scene, a star fights with a receptionist to have room service delivered after hours)

• Laura Dern, taking over for Helena Bonham Carter after exiting over "creative differences," will play a washed-up star chasing a comeback

• Instead of shooting during the chaos of the actual festival, the team will re-create Cannes in the days immediately after it wraps on May 23

05/20/2026

Where did Gothic architecture begin?

Gothic architecture did not start at Notre-Dame. It started at a basilica 6 miles north that most visitors to Paris have never set foot in.

The Basilique Saint-Denis started in 1135. Notre-Dame de Paris did not break ground until 1163. Every element that defines the Gothic style — the ribbed vault, the pointed arch, the flying buttress, the walls of stained glass flooding the interior with light — appeared first at Saint-Denis, assembled together for the first time by a visionary abbot named Suger. Notre-Dame studied the model and built on it.

The royal connection runs even deeper. For nearly a thousand years, the kings of France chose Saint-Denis as their burial place. Forty-three kings and thirty-two queens are interred there, from the Merovingian dynasty through to Louis XVIII in 1824. Notre-Dame hosted coronations and ceremonies. Saint-Denis held the bodies.

During the French Revolution, that made it a target. Royal tombs were smashed. Remains were dumped in common graves. In 1817, Louis XVIII ordered the bones recovered and placed in a royal ossuary within the crypt. The names of the kings and queens are engraved on black marble slabs, though the remains could not be individually identified.

The original north spire reached 282 feet (86 meters) before it was demolished in the 19th century after storm damage. A reconstruction project, three decades in the making, began in 2022. The new spire is expected to be completed around 2028.

Today, approximately 140,000 people visit Saint-Denis each year. Notre-Dame draws 14 million. The basilica that taught Notre-Dame everything it knows sits mostly empty on a Tuesday afternoon.

05/19/2026

Rediscover Arsène Lupin in this new work: Un Printemps avec Arsène Lupin, part of a hybrid project that includes a book by Grégoire Bouillier and a series of podcasts created by François Audoin.

Arsène Lupin n’en finit pas de fasciner et son succès, depuis 1905, fait de lui un mythe mondial, toujours d’actualité !



Maurice Leblanc a créé un personnage unique en son genre. À la fois hors la loi et non violent, Arsène Lupin réécrit les règles de la morale. Surtout, il a révolutionné le roman policier par la grâce de récits mêlant intrigues de haut vol et tours de passe passe avec la réalité.



Lupin a tout cambriolé : son époque, l’histoire de France, la Normandie, même Freud ! À lui seul, il incarne l’audace de la création, l’enfance radieuse, la poésie de l’instant présent. Ce qui n’exclut pas des côtés plus sombres…



Insaisissable Lupin ? sauf pour Grégoire Bouillier, l’enquêteur-écrivain ! Depuis ses dix ans, le gentleman-cambrioleur est sa boussole philosophique, son sésame libertaire. Un printemps avec Arsène Lupin est une course-poursuite extravagante et haletante de Paris à Étretat, en passant par les traces semées dans nos imaginaires. Une déclaration d’amour fou au romanesque et au « primesaut ». En un mot : à la littérature.

Source: Le Monde, Amazon, Radio France

05/18/2026

La Compagnie Créole a 50 ans
Le soleil officiel de la variété française

Fondé en 1975, le groupe célèbre un demi-siècle de carrière et de tubes incontournables.

Pour marquer le coup, le célèbre groupe de musique antillaise est actuellement sur les routes avec une grande tournée anniversaire.

La Compagnie Créole is a wildly popular French Caribbean pop band formed in 1975 in Paris by musicians from Guadeloupe and Martinique. Famous for festive, feel-good hits like "Le bal masqué" and "C'est bon pour le moral," they introduced upbeat Antillean rhythms like zouk, calypso, and soca to mainstream European pop culture.

Founded in the 1970s, the band initially sang in Creole but quickly transitioned to singing primarily in French to reach a wider audience. Their core themes—colorful rainbows, sunshine, harmless animals, and party atmospheres—acted as positive morale boosters. Many of their massive 1980s records were produced by Daniel Vangarde. They are on tour now in France.

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