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French Film Festival 2016

 

french film festival 2016It’s Coming Back in 2016 – the Alliance Française French Film Festival!

After the huge success of this year’s French Film Festival the Alliance is returning in 2016 with another  captivating film festival.  The Alliance will present us with the very best in contemporary French Cinema.

With more than 45 films from which to choose from, this is a great opportunity to indulge in the latest French comedies, dramas, thrillers and films for “les enfants”.  It is a great chance to experience the very essence of French culture!

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How to Stay Chic & Slim Toujours Forever by Anne Barone

Chic & Slim Tourjours

Chic & Slim Toujours Forever: Book Review

Chic & Slim Toujours Forever by Anne Barone is a great book for women who want to find out the beauty secrets of French woman and the art of ageing beautifully.

Anne Barone, writes about French women’s techniques for obtaining a chic style and maintaining a slim body.  She believes that “the further into your 60s you are, the harder it is to look 29. Not impossible. Just more difficult”. I love this no-nonsense positive attitude to ageing beautifully.

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A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway in Paris

A Moveable Feast,Ernest Hemingway and Paris

A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway in Paris

For me Ernest Hemingway, his book A Moveable Feast and Paris are inseparable. Cafes he frequented and hotly debated in, book stores that sold his books and gardens he wandered deep in thought, are everywhere in my favourite city Paris.

Following in Hemingway ‘s footsteps, I’ve eaten at the same cafes, lingered in book stores and stared at the streets he walked imaging all the while what it was really like to live in those momentous literary times. Here’s a little about his most famous book, A Moveable Feast, some lesser known facts about the book and the man himself.

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The Little Paris Bookshop: Book Review

The Paris bookshop on Seine

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George is a fictional work set in Paris featuring the Parisian bookseller Monsieur Jean Perdu and his floating barge book store.

I read a lot and especially love reading historical books on France, biographies of French people and fictional books set in France and Paris.  I also don’t seem to be able to resist travel memoirs or journals and cute sassy French lifestyle books.

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Eiffel’s Tower: A Historical Story – Book Review

Eiffel's Tower: A Historical StoryEiffel’s Tower: A Historical Story – Book Review

Wow, what a feast of superb historical storytelling book Eiffel’s Tower: A Historical Story by author Jill Jonnes is. The book is described as The Thrilling Story Behind Paris’ Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World’s Fair That Introduced It.

Follow the incredible story of Gustave Eiffel and his struggles to design, seek approval and then build the now iconic symbol of Paris – the amazing Eiffel Tower.  I promise you will never ever see Paris and France in the same light again. after reading this book.

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Paris Style Guide by Elodie Rambaud

Paris Style Guide book cover

Winter is here!

Let me curl up under my rug,

read my book and dream.

I am inspired by the sheer colour, stylish photos and pertinent details in

PARIS STYLE GUIDE by Elodie Rambaud.

Textiles, Nature, Art, Vintage, Accessories, Children, Maps.

Elodie, a media and advertising prop stylist, takes me through the Paris she knows and loves.

   I plan. I dream. I enjoy PARIS STYLE GUIDE

A great book for any Francophile, personal style addict or budding interior designer.

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The Gardener of Versailles: Book Review

Versailles garden

The Gardener of Versailles: Book Review

Have you been wondering whether The Gardener of Versailles is the next book to join your library? Well, I’ve finished it at last and loved it and if you are interested in history, gardens, France or enjoy and appreciate reading about other people’s life achievements, you’ll love it too.

Alain Baraton’s insider view and personal recount as head gardener of the garden of Versailles just outside of Paris reveals a different side of this World Heritage listed site.

Charming … Mr Baraton is delightful when describing his daily routines – he talks to his trees and has pet names for many of them – Wall Street Journal

Simply but thoroughly, the author narrates the history of Versailles. He writes poetically about the beautiful power of the grounds he tends. The descriptions of the various sites on the grounds could only come from a man fortunate enough to have lived on and loved the site for almost 40 years – Kirkus Reviews

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The Film Lover’s PARIS: Book Review

Le Nemours cafe Paris featured in the film 'The Tourist' with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp

The Film Lover’s PARIS:  Book Review

If you love Paris, if you love films, or if you need a theme for your next trip to Paris, then The Film Lover’s PARIS is the book for you. Part travel guide, history and film review it brings cinema and Paris together.

“… the decor of Paris poses for the camera, without artifice, for short as well as feature-length films created all over the world. This book will be your guide for walks and other novel tours but most especially for exploring behind the scenes of the Paris of the cinema” – Bruno Julliard, Deputy Mayor of Paris for Culture

A collaboration between two authors, one photographer and the Deputy Mayor of Paris for Culture this book is a new and original way of finding new favourite places in a city that abounds with choices for the traveler.

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