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La cuisine nissarde: 9 best places to try in Nice

La cuisine nissarde: 9 best places to try in Nice

Here we’re getting a taste of la cuisine nissarde, and I’m sharing where to find...

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Louvre Lens Museum, Hauts de France

Louvre Lens Museum, Hauts de France

How to set a Fire; Emile Zola’s Germinal; a history of Coal Mining in Lens; a vi...

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La cuisine nissarde + 9 great places to try it in Nice

La cuisine nissarde + 9 great places to try it in Nice

Here we’re getting a taste of la cuisine nissarde, and I’m sharing where to find...

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16.31.a - Where Things Come From

16.31.a - Where Things Come From

FRANCE AS IT MEANS—a lazy assumption that turned out wrong, a word that used to ...

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A Paragraph About Versailles I Almost Skipped

A Paragraph About Versailles I Almost Skipped

On a paragraph nearly skipped, a couturier's own faïence, and the French artisan...

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16.31 - Small Words, Long French Histories

16.31 - Small Words, Long French Histories

FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS— Fourme, before it was fromage, a village Paris swallowed w...

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Fourme d’Ambert: The wonder of Fromage – unveiling one French cheese at a time

Fourme d’Ambert: The wonder of Fromage – unveiling one ...

Once upon a time, according to Aurélien Vorger, director of the Groupement d’emp...

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Rue de Vaugirard: Paris’s Longest Street Remembers a Vanished Village

Rue de Vaugirard: Paris’s Longest Street Remembers a Va...

Four kilometres long, it carried the city’s growth from a monastery lane to the ...

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16.30.a - A Coat, A Dead Novelist, A Toddler in Paris

16.30.a - A Coat, A Dead Novelist, A Toddler in Paris

FRANCE AS IT MEANS: this week's edition ranges from Leïla Slimani's unguarded mo...

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The Woman I Thought I Knew

The Woman I Thought I Knew

Walking home from the market, I heard a voice I recognised — and discovered I'd ...

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16.30 - The Writer Who Refused to Stay Dead

16.30 - The Writer Who Refused to Stay Dead

FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS—a century old literary obsession, a spring that turns objec...

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Paris with les petits enfants

Paris with les petits enfants

Paris can be a dream playground for the littles if you keep a few trips and tric...

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Joris-Karl Huysmans Is Dead

Joris-Karl Huysmans Is Dead

I spent most of the second half of the 1990’s in the company of a French writer ...

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The Petrifying Fountains

The Petrifying Fountains

We were on our way to a cheese farm — Kathy and I had been driving since morning...

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16.29.a —French Rooms, French Rules and the Real Paris

16.29.a —French Rooms, French Rules and the Real Paris

FRANCE AS IT MEANS— four empty rooms, an unspoken code in the Dordogne, a job no...