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The 700 sq. m pavilion will soon be built on the ground floor, designed by Freaks Architects, and is called HAMO, pronounced the same as the French word for hamlet. For Tanguy Pelletier, the ...
Algeria, technically a part of metropolitan France since 1848, was the only part of France to hold no election this week. But it was not forgotten: Algeria was the central, most heated issue in ...
If there is anything not quite French about General Charles de Gaulle, it is his impatience with paper work. Rather than rely on secondhand reports, he prefers to find things out for himself. Last ...
The Citroen 2CV is one of the most iconic cars ever to come out of France, but nobody had ever seen one quite like Michel Robillard's handcrafted masterpiece.
“Flâner” – to wander aimlessly through a city – is a concept so French that the word has no English equivalent.
The gift makes the Art Institute one of the leading exhibitors of French art outside France, if not the leading exhibitor, based on the breadth and depth of its holdings.
In May Word for Word’s Production of George Saunders HOME will go to France, on May 10 to Angers and May 16 to Paris. This follows a run in San francisco where Words for Words’ first season ...
In English, the Matrix series inspired the phrase 'taking the red pill' and in French it inspired this word.
France has passed a law making it easier to return works of art seized by Nazi Germany during World War II to their Jewish owners or heirs.
Finger markings discovered inside a cave in France are “organised and intentional” and were likely made by Neanderthals more than 57,000 years ago, scientists have said. Thought to be the ...
For author Erika Owen, tapping into the simple act of wandering has made her more calm, creative and accepting of change.