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Monsieur Marcel Proust
Upon hearing the name Marcel Proust, many people will remark that they have read the first 50 pages of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past), but nothing besides that — how sad! Granted, the whole book consists of seven volumes and not everybody can read…
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In Tours, the train station is where to head for bread
Every Friday afternoon, hundreds of Tourangeaux (residents of Tours) walk towards the train station—not to take a train, as you may have imagined, but to buy bread. From a store? No, from a little delivery tricycle named “Triticum”; triticum is the name of a wheat, and the trike belongs to a fellow named Thibaud. After…
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Roma: La Villa Medici
Le Carnet de France is taking you outside of the « Hexagon” (as France is so often called due to its geographic shape) to present another French heritage treasure: the Villa Medici, which houses the Académie de France à Rome (the French Academy in Rome). Today, it is located on one of the seven hills of Rome,…
