Category Archives: france

A Life Worth Living

July 28, 2017 – 2:15 pm

“If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.” Friedrich Engels

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La Liberte Guidant Le Peuple

July 14, 2017 – 6:49 pm

Shortly after the July revolution of 1830 Eugene Delacroix painted LA LIBERTE GUIDANT LE PEUPLE commemorating the overthrow of the Bourbon king Charles X. The new king Louis Philippe bought the painting, but never hung it in the Palais de Luxembourg, as its subject matter was too revolutionary even for the ‘Citizen King’. According to […]

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France Versus France

April 24, 2017 – 12:22 pm

The French primaries has reduced the field to two presidential candidates; rightist Marion Anne Perrine “Marine” Le Pen and ex-socialist centrist Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron. Neither has ever worked a real jobs. Marine Le Pen has been a lawyer and politician, while Macron has been a functionaire his entire career. The French press and world […]

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I LOVE BRIGITTE: a collection of short stories by Peter Nolan Smith

July 21, 2016 – 9:22 am

The Cote d’Azur stretching along the Mediterranean from Ventimiglia to St. Tropez has been populated since before the Bronze Age, but the French actress Brigitte Bardot renewed interest in the Riviera with her debut appearance as a sultry teenager in the 1956 film ET DIEU…CREA LA FEMME. That summer the blonde sensation adorned every magazine […]

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Speedos pour Le Cote d’Azur

July 15, 2016 – 11:26 am

I love the South of France. Women go topless and no one really gawks at them. The food is sublime and the Mediterranean changes color throughout the day and night. Pure paradise, except during ‘le Grand Depart’, when tens of millions of French and Germans and Scandinavians and Brits pile into their cars for a […]

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