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16.22 - They Came, They Stayed, They Wrote
FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS — Suzanne finds Matisse on the Côte d'Azur. Shelby's toddler finds another virus. Eveline finds the perfect excuse to open…
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The Café and the French Art of Sharing Space
Or: how the French learned to be alone together.
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16.21.a - France as It Contradicts, France as It Moves Us
FRANCE AS IT MEANS—the paradoxes France philosophises about and everyone else ignores, a farewell to Suzanne Grosso Vidal, and new writing from Bandol…
May 30
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16.21 - France as it Happens: New Arrivals, Fond Farewells, Fresh Stories
FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS — A new contributor arrives, a beloved one is remembered, and three writers take us from a Mediterranean ridge to a reliquary of…
May 29
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Why Does France Feel So Paradoxical? (Spoiler: It’s Not Just France)
Every country contradicts itself. France philosophises about it, America ignores it, Australia jokes about it. Guess which approach makes you seem most…
May 29
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She Chose Life
Monique Lévi-Strauss turned 100 this year. You probably know the name. I suggest that you don’t know the woman.
May 25
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16.20.a - Three Generations, 40,000 Bistros, One Curtain That Wouldn't Close
FRANCE AS IT MEANS—Sunday lunch as architecture, a bistro reckoning 40,000 deep, a dressing room disaster in Bordeaux, knights below a Paris street…
May 23
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16.20 - What France Does to People Who Weren't Looking
FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS — A Dordogne stone house, a dressing room that went sideways, the bistro France forgot to save, Templars on a Paris street — and…
May 22
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Grandmère’s Table — How French Families Weave Three Generations Together Through Sunday Lunch
In a world designed to keep us apart, one weekly ritual quietly holds French families together—and offers a blueprint for us all.
May 22
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THE WRITERS' ROOM: Shining the spotlight on MyFrenchLife Contributors
The Writers’ Room is where the storytellers become the story.
May 20
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The Room that Holds Everyone
Why the French bistro was never really only about food — and what disappears when it closes
May 18
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16.19.a - The Clothes Know. So Does the Calendar
FRANCE AS IT MEANS — From a cellar beneath the gilded salons to a prison pamphlet and 60 million flowers on a pavement. France's two most elegant…
May 16
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