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Villa Albertine is France's newest cultural institution abroad that is reinventing artists' residencies. Find us in a city near you!
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#FrenchExpressions
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Happy
#FrenchPetFriday
from
@OmarSy
who brought his cat to the Paris preview of
@netflix
's
#Lupin
🐱!
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
––Victor Hugo
Wishing our friends at museums near and far a peaceful day with a
#MuseumBouquet
💐(and a glass of wine––we're French!)
📸: The Engagement Still Life, 1869, Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)
@museedegrenoble
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“Great art picks up where nature ends.” ––Marc Chagall, born
#onthisday
in 1887, known for his work on the UN Peace Window in New York
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This morning,
@NicolasSarkozy
, former president of France, stopped by
@albertinebooks
to sign copies of his newest book, Passions.
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#DidYouKnow
that the number of kisses on the cheek to give when greeting a friend in France varies by region?
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The Little Prince was born in New York. 80 years later, he returns! In the presence of
@MinColonna
, we inaugurated his statue outside Villa Albertine, which continues to place literature and the arts at the core of the Franco-American relationship.
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Olivier Assayas’s film Personal Shopper stars Kristen Stewart as a young woman in Paris mourning her brother. While grieving, she begins to experience supernatural phenomena. This is a must-see if you are interested in fashion or longing for a trip to Paris!
#SundayatHome
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🇫🇷 director Claire Denis made her English-language debut with the science fiction horror film High Life (2018). Robert Pattinson and
@JulietteBinoche
star as criminals sent to a black hole in outer space 🚀 to hunt for alternative energy. Here's a scene for
#SundayAtHome
.
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#OnThisDay
in 1944, the French government granted women the right to vote! Today we celebrate all of the women who came before us and helped shape the culture and civil liberties we enjoy today.
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Happy birthday to French artist Marc Chagall! Born in Belarus in 1887, Chagall is celebrated for his colorful paintings, many of which celebrate his Jewish heritage. His work can be found in prominent buildings around the world, such as the Palais Garnier and the United Nations.
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Today we celebrate James Baldwin, author of Giovanni's Room! In 1948, Baldwin emigrated to France, where he spent the majority of his life. A critical voice in the Civil Rights & Gay Liberation Movements, his writing examines the themes of sexuality & race.
#PrideMonthSpotlights
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Dear
#EmilyinParis
,
We at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy are watching your show & have had passionate discussions about Paris & the “clichés” about 🇫🇷 (& 🇺🇸 )! We haven’t come to a consensus, but noticed things we couldn’t resist commenting on. Let’s compare notes!
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To lighten and brighten your feed, we want to share some virtual
#MuseumSunshine
with you! ☀️☀️☀️
Bouquet of Sunflowers by Claude Monet, 1881
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Did you know that the
#FrenchExpression
for “let’s get back on track” literally translates to “let’s get back to our sheep”? Next time you notice your conversation veering off topic, all you need to say is “revenons à nos moutons.”
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Today in front of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in
#NYC
. So much love from this great city.
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Happy birthday to the late Aimé Césaire. Born in Martinique, Césaire later studied in Paris, where he founded the Négritude movement with Léopold Senghor and Léon Damas. His most famous works are Discourse on Colonialism and Notebook of a Return to My Native Land.
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Tonight!✨Join
@MuseumModernArt
for a live Q&A regarding a new part of their Virtual View series: “Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde".
Fénéon championed Matisse, whose work is below. Learn more about this important figure tonight at 8 pm EST
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#NeverForget
: on this day in 2001, the loi Taubira recognizing slavery as a crime against humanity was enacted by the French Parliament.
#LoiTaubira
@ChTaubira
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On September 11, 2011, French officers gathered around an American flag to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. Today we remember all those whose lives were touched by these tragic events and share a mural by French artist Laurent Dareau. Les Français n’oublieront jamais.
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Welcome to the world,
#VillaAlbertine
🎊 we're excited to share with you France's brand-new cultural institution in the US that's reinventing artists' residencies & offers professional programs, an online platform, and events around the US! Learn more:
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Joyeux anniversaire to designer Yves Saint Laurent, born on this day in 1936 in Algeria.
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Beninese artist
@angeliquekidjo
won 📀 Best World Music Album 🎧 for Célia recently at the 62nd Grammy Awards, and since then, we've been addicted to her tunes! Here's a playlist of some of our favorites to liven up your weekend: 🎶
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“Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.”
―French Philosopher
#AlainBadiou
, born
#onthisday
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"In our eyes you embody the best part of America, that which founds its love of liberty on the most intense dreams."
––Frédéric Mitterand awarding
#ToniMorrison
the French Legion of Honor in 2010
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On this day in 1889,
@LaTourEiffel
🗼 opened to the public! The tower took 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to build––a remarkably short time for such an ambitious structure.
#EiffelTowerTuesday
#OTD
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Congratulations to
#JohnWaters
and
#DennisLim
, new inductees into the French Order of Arts and Letters
@FilmLinc
@gumyoulike
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Housed inside our home in Manhattan,
@albertinebooks
is technically on French soil and has the books to prove it.
Support Albertine's small team of booksellers when you order & get the best of French literature delivered to your door.
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France had two wins at the Oscars tonight! 🇫🇷
🎥
#JamesIvory
won Best Adapted Screenplay for French co-production
@CMBYNFilm
🎼
#AlexandreDesplat
won Best Original Score for
@shapeofwater
(which also won in Best Picture, Director & Production Design categories!)
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Staying in tonight? Watch AWARE, ANYWHERE, a documentary about Olivier Assayas’ work and the making of Personal Shopper, on on Le CiNéMa Club, the free curated streaming platform:
@lecinemaclub
@FilmsontheGreen
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Happy
#BastilleDay
! Today we celebrate the freedom of the people of France and commemorate the bravery of those who fight to protect it.
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Today we celebrate French screenwriter and director Céline Sciamma! Her latest film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, is a love story between two young women in 1770s France. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, it won the Queer Palm and the Best Screenplay Award.
#PrideMonthSpotlights
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#Oscars
🎉 Congratulations to Guillaume Rocheron on taking home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects 🌀 for his work on
@1917
! Rocheron previously won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Life of Pi 👏
#AcademyAwards
#GuillaumeRocheron
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#NinaSimone
's music had international reverberations & she maintained strong ties with France 🇫🇷
"If you're going to come see me again," she said at a concert later in life, "you've got to come to France, because I am not coming back!"
More
#BlackHistoryMonth
portraits to come!
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This is James Baldwin in Paris!
The American writer & activist, explored the intricacies of racial, sexual, & class distinctions in Western societies. His first novel was written at Café de Flore in Paris & he later made a home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Happy
#AprilFoolsDay
"April fool" in French is "un poisson d'avril," literally meaning "an April fish!"
Pictured Below: Henri Matisse's "The Goldfish."
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Happy birthday to Gauguin! Born in 1848, Gauguin was a Post-Impressionist painter beloved for his colorful depictions of everyday life. Much of his work showcases the beauty of French Polynesia, where he lived for ten years. Here is his painting "Merahi metua no Tehamana."
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Last night's celebration of Season 2 premier of
#Versailles
at
@franceinnyc
@ovationtv
@VersaillesFam
#VersaillesFamily
#MadelineFontaine
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ICYMI: Le Petit Prince landed on our garden wall in New York 💫 Thank you to
@afpfr
for documenting the big moment.
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#OnThisDay
in 2001, Amélie was released in the United States! American audiences immediately fell in love with Amélie and her charming neighborhood of Montmartre. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and is still beloved by American fans to this day.
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Today, we send our ultimate gratitude to the doctors and health workers worldwide who are working hard to keep our families and communities safe.
#NationalDoctorsDay
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Congratulations to author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translator Alexia Trigo, and publisher
@PAEditions
on Terre Ceinte winning the
#FrenchVoices
Grand Prize!
@FrenchBooksUSA
@albertinebooks
@columbia
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"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions."
––Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist, born
#onthisday
in 1908
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Happy National Cheese Day! Did you know that there are more than 400 French cheese varieties listed in France, and that the average French person consumes about 24.4kg of cheese each year!?
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Happy birthday to French composer Claude Debussy, best known for his piece Clair de Lune ()!
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Today we celebrate Henri Rousseau who was born in Laval, France on this day in 1844 🎉. This self-taught painter 👨🎨 is most known for his depictions of 🌿 jungle scenery, seen here in his work: Jungle with a Setting Sun from 1910.
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Happy birthday to painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres! Although Ingres drew inspiration from the Romantic movement, his work later influenced many modernists, including Picasso & Matisse. You may recognize his portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, which is currently at the Met.
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Happy birthday to Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor who is considered the progenitor of modern sculpture and created The Thinker.
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Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible matriarchal figures out there. May you feel loved and cared for on this special day 💝
📸: Agnes Varda in 1974 with her two children, Rosalie & Mathieu by Bernard Plossu
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Hundreds of cinephiles gather at the opening
@FilmsontheGreen
screening of Potiche by François Ozon, selected by
@iamwandasykes
#FranceInNYC
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Joyeux anniversaire to Mathieu Kassovitz! Kassovitz burst onto the French film scene with La Haine, a cult classic that deals with the themes of race, class, and police brutality. He's also celebrated for his roles as Nino in Amélie and as Guillaume Debailly in The Bureau.
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We're thrilled to invite YOU to the
#VillaAlbertine
launch at 12pm ET on Oct. 21 🎉Join Ambassador
@Ph_Etienne
, Villa Director
@gaetanbruel
,
@ngadc
Director
@KaywinFeldman
, & more to celebrate the opening of France's newest cultural institution! RSVP:
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Tonight, NYFF is screening the U.S. premiere of Claire Denis's most recent film, High Life. Find tickets and more information here: .
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Life is the sum of all your choices. ––Albert Camus
Happy birthday to
#AlbertCamus
, the a French philosopher, author, and journalist best known for his absurdist novel, The Stranger (L'Étranger).
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#FestivalAlberine
opens with a conversation on gender, power, and the future of feminism in our societies
@albertinebooks
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Today is
#Chandeleur
––crêpe day! The holiday dates back to the 5th century, when salty crêpes were handed out to poor pilgrims in Rome during a candle-lit procession.
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Sending a
#MuseumBouquet
of
@MuseeLouvre
,
@MuseeOrsay
and
@CVersailles
flowers to our friends in the neighborhood:
@frickcollection
,
@metmuseum
,
@MuseumModernArt
,
@cooperhewitt
,
@MuseumofCityNY
,
@Guggenheim
🌸♥️🌸 Stay safe and be well!
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
—Victor Hugo, born on this day in 1802
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Today is Elephant Appreciation Day! 🐘 In celebration, here is a classic image from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, in which an elephant is swallowed whole by a boa constrictor. 🐍
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“We have invented gender and we have invented race so we can dis-invent them” —
@GloriaSteinem
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📢Exciting news: announcing the 7 laureates of Sounds of New York, a new program from
#VillaAlbertine
,
@SpotifyFrance
,
@RadioFrance
,
@SACDParis
,
@Inafr_officiel
, and
@paradisomedia
for French
#podcast
creators 🎧! Meet the participants:
#podcasting
#radio
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Happy wine and cheese day! 🍷 🧀 Did you know that the French 🇫🇷 have been making wine since the 6th century? And that during the Middle Ages the cheese industry was dominated by French monks? Celebrate today with a glass of French wine 🍇 and some delicious French cheese!
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Florence Ballard, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson better known as ‘The Supremes’ in Paris, 1965. 🎶🎤 🤩
#EiffelTowerTuesday
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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
––French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born
#onthisday
in 1841
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Happy
#FrenchPetFriday
! Josephine Baker was not only a legendary performer, résistante, and civil rights activist, but also an animal lover! She had pet dogs, cats, and birds. Here she is with her cheetah, Chiquita.
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Thrilled to welcome French Minister of Culture
@franckriester
and Ambassador of France to the U.S.
@Ph_Etienne
to New York! First stop?
@AlbertineBooks
, our French & English bookstore offering 14,000+ titles, followed by a visit to our partners
@FIAFNY
! 📚🇫🇷✨
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On this day in 1974, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center. 1350 feet up in the air, Petit performed for 45 minutes. Port Authority later honored him with a lifetime pass to the Twin Towers’ Observation Deck.
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A tribute to recently deceased New Wave film star
#JeanneMoreau
will be held at
@FilmForumNYC
Aug 4-10 & Aug 26
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"I think, therefore I am" — René Descartes
Happy birthday to French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, René Descartes, born
#onthisday
in 1596.
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⚽️ 🇫🇷 🥳 Congratulations to the
@equipedefrance
on winning the
@FIFAWorldCup
!
@nytimes
#WorldCupFinal
#CoupeDuMonde2018
#AllezLesBleus
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The
#FrenchExpression
“faire la grasse matinée” refers to sleeping in. However, it literally translates to “make the fat morning”!
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Joyeux anniversaire to Audrey Tautou! In 2001, she shot to international fame with the titular role of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie. 19 years later, fans still visit Montmartre to retrace the steps of her scavenger hunt. Visit the Café des Deux Moulins if you ever get the chance!
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"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville, who was a French diplomat and the author of Democracy in America, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1805.
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True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince author, born
#onthisday
in 1900
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Mont Saint Michel, off the coast of Normandy, attracts over 3 million visitors each year. The crypt of the Mont’s 11th century abbey provides a dark setting for Frédéric Lenoir and Violette Cabesos’s novel The Angel’s Promise.
#FrenchBookTravel
📸 Tom Carter
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#NightofIdeas
🌌 NYC Speaker Spotlight: Mona Eltahawy
Award-winning journalist and "feminist giant" based in Cairo and NYC, Eltahawy writes for global publications on Egypt, women's rights, and Islamic socio-political affairs.
Join her at
@villa_albertine
HQ on March 3 at 9 PM.
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Did you know France produces 8 billion bottles of wine annually? Celebrate
#NationalWineDay
by wine-ding down your day with a glass of French champagne!
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💥To kick-off the 2021
#Francophonie
Festival, we’re thrilled to invite you to a conversation with multi-awarded Francophone writer Leïla Slimani, introduced by 🇫🇷 Ambassador
@Ph_Etienne
& moderated by
@ursulind
.
🗓️Mark your calendar for 3/1 at 12pm:
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Happy birthday to French actress and icon Isabelle Adjani! Best known for her work in Possession, Queen Margot, and One Deadly Summer, Adjani is the only actor in history to win five César Awards.
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On this day in 1919,
@MuseeRodinParis
opened to the public! Located at Paris's Hôtel Biron, the museum is dedicated to Rodin’s art but also features pieces he collected by Van Gogh, Monet, & Renoir. Before it became a museum, the building also housed Henri Matisse & Jean Cocteau.
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#DidYouKnow
that French writer Honoré de Balzac was said to drink as many as fifty cups of coffee a day? His writing schedule was brutal and he worked for about 13 or 14 hours a day, starting at 1:00 a.m.
#ArtistRituals
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On this day in 1903, cyclists took off for the first Tour de France! The race started outside the Café Reveil-Matin in Montgeron and ended on July 19 in Ville-d’Avray. After, the cyclists celebrated with champagne in Parc des Princes.
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“We have a lot more strength inside of us than we think we do”
—
@ChTaubira
at
#FestivalAlbertine
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131 years ago today✨was the first day of the 1889 World’s Fair, which coincided with the opening of the now iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris!
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“The function of freedom is to free someone else”
—
@ChTaubira
quotes Toni Morrison at the conclusion of
#FestivalAlbertine
’s first panel
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Bon anniversaire to Simone de Beauvoir, born
#onthisday
in 1908.
She was a philosophical writer & feminist trailblazer whose work continues to influence today’s modern society.
📸 by Gisele Freund
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#Baudelaire
, the French poet who wrote about the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1821.
Read his "Les Fleurs du Mal" in French and English:
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Happy birthday to
#AnnaKarina
, pioneer of the French New Wave, and
#Godard
's muse, born
#OTD
in 1940.
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Ernest Hemingway’s 1964 memoir A Moveable Feast details his experience as an expat writer in Paris and member of the Lost Generation of American artists. The book’s fourth chapter is “Shakespeare & Company,” for the historic bookstore in Paris’s 5th arrondissement.
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French-Iranian co-production
#TheSalesman
takes Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. First win for France at the
#Oscars
!
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Happy birthday to Edgar Degas! Nearly 150 years later, Degas’s images of ballerinas remain instantly recognizable. He's most famous, however, for his Petite Danseuse sculptures, which are displayed around the world. Here is his painting “Three Dancers in the Rehearsal Room.”
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🎉 Celebrate the voyage of
#Liberty2021
🗽 from Paris to NY-DC by joining the nationwide
@franceintheus
#ViveLaLiberty
#Contest
!
👉Share your creative take on the Statue of Liberty and win 🏆 from LEGO®, France-Amérique, Albertine Books & more! Intrigued?
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It's April Fool's Day! 🎉
This holiday is known for jokes and pranks called 'poisson d'avril' which literally translates to 'April fish'🐟 and has suspected origins in the late 1500s.
📸 by Marcelle Vallet, 1940s
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