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All Things French
   
For many years, French has been one of my major hobbies. I have traveled to France, taken numerous courses at my local Alliance Française.  
Fontainbleu Castle
Fontainbleau Castle (click to enlarge).

These web pages attempt to expose the visitor to a flavor of France (for people who speak French, and for those who don't), from literature, to film, and song. They highlight sites worth knowing further.    

-galeries -- images from France, and elsewhere

-musique -- the best songs

-nouvelles -- tv5, tv bistro, rfi radio (facile), figaro, le monde,

-leçon du jour, and mot du jour 1, (archive), 2 ( archive)

-romans -- on novels, including reviews

-films -- from La Vie en Rose to New Wave  
          
-poésie -- some poetry, on-line oral teaching resources here

-écritures -- my journal entries, essays

-blogs -- French Journal, Paris Blog, Paris Daily Photo

-citations du jour, proverbes  --  wisdom of  the ages

-mes liens -- a plethora of my favorite  links to explore

 





a spectacle

  --click image and be transported

songs
from Notre-Dame de Paris,
a musical to delight
                                                   Books in the Spotlight! 

Zelda Fitgerald
Zelda F.
 Alabama Song
(2007 Goncourt Prize Winner)

My Review (NEW)
Un roi sans lendemain
(A king without tomorrow  


 Films!
Truffaut in the Spotlight! 
See My Review! (NEW) of
La nuit américaine (Day for Night). 
Resnais in the Spotlight!

Alain Resnais'
L'Année Dernière à Marienbad
(The Last Year at Marenbad) (1961)
 Scene from Marienbad film
My Review (NEW) 
film poster

Also Resnais'
Hiroshima mon amour (Hiroshima my love)
Entre les murs (Class) wins
at Cannes, May 25, 2008  

 1923-2007
Marcel Marceau
Video Tribute 1, 2
See MSNBC and  Libération
A Tour in French (un beau voyage)
(click photo to enlarge)

Stained Glass in Udaipur
Travel to Rajasthan at zarkass.com
  
Understand  Spoken French!
Ma France -- 24 Interactive French Video Units

Learn French with TV5Monde

Sons en français -- many exercises
 Colors of French flag