That song kept Fitzroy people alive during our bad days
The story of Maurice Guillaux and related Australian aviation history
He was one of Australia's great aviation pioneers
The Art of the Motorcycle (Guggenheim Hermitage, Las Vegas 2003)
French engineer Pierre Michaux was the leading bicycle innovator of the 19th century.
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art | National Gallery, London
The last painter of the Grand Style but equally one of the first modern masters
dancing around duchamp | Barbican
This spring the Barbican embraces chance, provocation and humour in an international season celebrating Marcel Duchamp, widely considered the father of conceptual art and the most influential artist of the 20th century.
How Paris Became Paris : The Invention of the Modern City (Joan DeJean, 2014)
By 1700, Paris had become the capital that would revolutionize our conception of the city and of urban life.
French Influences (Betty Lou Phillips, 2001)
The truth is, it is difficult not to fall under the influence of the French
The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual–and the Modern Home Began (Joan DeJean, 2010)
How home life was virtually reinvented in Paris from 1670 to 1765
All-TIME 100 Fashion Icons – Coco Chanel 1883–1971 | Time
Coco Chanel revolutionized women's fashion in the early 20th century when she introduced a looser, more comfortable silhouette that freed women from the corsets
All-TIME 100 Fashion Icons – Jacques Cartier 1884–1942 | Time
Of all the Cartiers, Jacques — who had traveled the world looking for gems — was perhaps the most ready for the family's jewels to be more than decoration
All-TIME 100 Fashion Icons – Pierre Cardin | Time
His futuristic, space-centric legacy will live to infinity and beyond.
The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour! (Joan DeJean, 2006)
The French under Louis XIV set the standards of sophistication, style, and glamour that still rule our lives today.
French Style and Decoration: A Sourcebook of Original Designs ( Stafford Cliff, 2008)
For centuries, French furniture, textiles, ceramics, and glassware set the highest standards of fine design in the decorative arts.
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada | mexconnect.com
Modern Mexican cooking is considered by culinary historians to be a fusion of three cuisines - indigenous, Spanish and French.
The Tastemaker | Slate.com
Having revolutionized winemaking in Bordeaux and beyond, he is justly considered the father of modern enology.
The Invention of the Restaurant : Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Rebecca L. Spang 2001)
This book traces the emergence of the restaurant (as we know it) from a tiny cup of bouillon.
A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 (Susan Pinkard, 2008)
This book aims to explain how and why it was that cooking, eating and drinking in seventeenth-century France took a radically different turn from the standards of wholesomeness and good taste that had dominated European culinary traditions for more than two millennia creating the foundations of the styles of cooking we know and appreciate today.
Menus at the Nobel Banquet 1901-2016 | Official website of the nobel prize
Only in French from 1901 to 2004. Translations in English and Swedish are available from 2005.
Haute cuisine how the french invented the culinary profession (AMY B. TRUBEK, 2001)
For a century and a half, fine dining the world over has meant French dishes and, above all, French chefs
Accounting for taste, the triumph of french cuisine (Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, 2004)
French cuisine may or may not be the world's best, but it certainly is the most widely influential cooking style, and it is unquestionably the standard against which all other cuisines are measured
‘From Jammet’s to Guilbauds’: The Influence of French Haute Cuisine on the Development of Dublin Restaurants (Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, 2014, article)
This chapter will outline the origins of French haute cuisine and will trace the story of its movement
French cooking guru Bocuse is ‘chef of century’ | The Independant
Frenchman Paul Bocuse, credited as the father of "nouvelle cuisine" and the first of the celebrity chefs, has been named "chef of the century" by America's leading cooking school.
How was French cuisine toppled as the king of fine dining? | The Conversation
In the food world, one of the biggest stories of the last 50 years has been the waning of French culinary authority, the end of a 300-year reign.
Menu for dinner, May 27 1908
Menu for dinner, May 27 (Russian Imperial calendar) or 9 June (Gregorian calendar) 1908, with signatures of the people who were present, during the state visit to Reval, Russia, probably on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The menu is in French
