My father was an American poet and my mother is a French photographer. I want to tell you a short story about myself, how my bi-cultural education shaped me and nourished my love for art, especially photography and architecture.
The role that French explorers played in the early exploration of North America by Europeans is an often-overlooked aspect of American history. But they had a significant impact on early settlements including in the state of Michigan.
The French concept of fraternité is inextricable from Walt Whitman’s vision of democracy.
We are proud to announce our support of Paper Routes – Women to Watch 2020 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Our contribution will facilitate the participation of Georgia Russell, an artist who is based in Méru, France.
Marquis de Lafayette visited all 24 states of the Union starting in 1824, a half-century after the Revolutionary War. Being able to see Lafayette allowed Americans to connect with the generation of Founding Fathers that was quickly passing into history.
Given the quarantine and most activities being virtual nowadays, being back in the National Gallery of Art and immersed in the world of Degas and the Opera for one afternoon was a breath of fresh air.
Almost 25 % of France is covered with chestnut forest, and for hundreds of years, wild chestnuts sustained the French peasantry in rugged regions where cereal would not grow.
To her Paris friends, many of them from years of connection to the American Cathedral, the American Library, and the American University, Olivia de Havilland’s glorious past and distinctive screen persona were hard to forget.
After the storming of the Bastille, the next significant event of the French Revolution occurred on August 4, 1789. On that day, the National Constituent Assembly adopted 18 decrees or articles – The August Decrees – concerning the abolition of feudalism, other privileges of the nobility, and seigneurial rights.
Step into any French pastry shop and somewhere in the display case you will see a pile of billowy, sugary sweet, vanilla scented confections: French pâtisserie meringues.
