English Books Paris at Bill & Rosa’s Book Room
Each week in the Book Room online, we recommend newly published English books we love. We also present some in French or bilingual, for kids or adults, fiction or non.…
Tags: Cultural Assimilation
A Passion for Complication
A slightly adapted excerpt from Demystifying the French: How to Love Them and Make them Love You, published by Winged Words Publishing, 2019. Copyright Janet Hulstrand, all rights reserved. It’s…
The quintessential Paris museum: Musée Jacquemart André
Where in Paris can you take in some Dutch masters including Rembrandt, ceilings by Tiepolo, medieval Venitian and Florentine works (Uccello, Botticelli), a Vigié-Lebrun portrait and watercolors and oils by…
Les Maréchaux?
Why are the boulevards on the edge of Paris (where the Tramway and PC bus run) referred to as “Les maréchaux“? This ring of roads, which totals 33 kilometres and…
Moving to Paris or France
Moving to Paris So you are moving to the city of light! Good news! However, Paris and the French organization in general can be painful for the unprepared. Several Japanese…
To Mask or not to Mask that is the question
We used to wear masks over our eyes for theatre, play, to sleep or perfidity, now we’ve got them on our mouths and noses for… protection. Whether the throw-away kind…