Category Archives: News from France

C’est une horreur!

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Susan

It took 30 minutes for 7 terrorists to change life in Paris.  We felt it around the world, as the blue, white and red lights on our buildings and monuments showed. And many of us know it could hit us … Continue reading →

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RESENTMENT –> APPRECIATION ON THALYS

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Susan

Did all us Americans feel pride when the three American heroes helped save hundreds of lives on the Thalys train in France? I certainly did! I think it was because the French have so often been critical of American behavior. From … Continue reading →

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The French Show Their Feelings

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Susan

  The French left signs of their feelings along the march today. A gifted graphic artist must have created the second one because it really conveys the emotion evoked by the killing of the Charlie-Hebdo artists and protectors. And below … Continue reading →

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A Song that really gets it. And gives it.

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Susan

A song going viral in France captures and throws at us the feelings the murders evoked – anger at the terrorists, stubborn devotion, anyway, to freedom of expression, and Solidarity with the traumatized country. Those feelings are strengthened by its … Continue reading →

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Ruben Oppenheimer’s cartoon

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Susan

The French are going through their September 11th. Their twin towers were sharpened pencils – words, satirical drawings, thoughts – as symbolically cherished by them as our Twin Towers were to us. Violence killed them all. For us the symbol … Continue reading →

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Wolinski cartoon for Susan

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Susan

Voilà un dessin de Wolinski que l’artiste a crée pour moi en 1981.  It’s on the first page of his book Tout est politique. He remained a close friend of my friend Alain who introduced me to him back then.  … Continue reading →

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Nous sommes tous Charlie !

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Susan

Nous sommes tous Charlie! That’s the cry of all of us who are horrified by the ” acte d’une exceptionnelle barbarie” by seemingly professional terrorists against a daily Parisian paper that publishes a satirical take on contemporary politics around the … Continue reading →

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Paris Off the Beaten Path

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Susan

If you think you’ve ‘done’ Paris, think again. Many new sites and experiences have developed since the old nuggets. See the following article: Dipping into a French melting pot, by Farai Chideya

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The latest tempest in a silly symbol

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Susan

La Sculpture américaine vandalisée, place Vendôme (via Etienne R.) The latest offense an American is perceived to have made against the French was an abstract inflatable Christmas tree, called “Tree.” Paul McCarthy, its American sculptor, created it for Fiac , … Continue reading →

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Duras’s ‘stolen’ movie

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Susan

Why did Marguerite Duras not get more credit for having written La Voleuse? TV5 Monde has broadcast the otherwise ordinary-looking 1966 black and white film 3 times recently without advertising or mentioning ahead that it’s a film by Duras. I … Continue reading →

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