Traces de France
Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde
Étiquette : English
illustration : Palais de Noordeinde à la Haye, Pays-Bas, avec la devise « Je maintiendrai » en français
-
Je suis Berliner – Germany’s French connection | The Guardian
By 1700 about a quarter of the Berlin population was French and there is evidence that the share increased over the rest of the century.
-
Debate: Should Morocco Say Goodbye to ‘Mama Franssa’? | Morocco Word News
Is France still Morocco’s model ?
-
dans 4.5.5 Autres regards
Obama and Rouhani at the UN: decoding the rhetoric | The Guardian
Not only is modern French an official language of the UN, but French and its ancestors have given us the vocabulary of diplomacy.
-
dans 4.5.5 Autres regardsFrance country profile | BBC News
France has produced some of the continent’s most influential writers and thinkers from Descartes and Pascal in the 17th century, through Rousseau and Voltaire in the 18th, Baudelaire and Flaubert in the 19th to Sartre and Camus in the 20th.
-
dans 4.5.5 Autres regardsFrance | Encyclopeadia Britannica
Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the Western world
-
dans 4.5.5 Autres regardsBackground Note: France (U.S Department of State)
France was one of the earliest countries to progress from feudalism to the nation-state
-
Statue of Brigitte Bardot in Buzios, Brazil
Buzios is a picturesque beach town that was changed when French film star and sexpot Brigitte Bardot « discovered » the area with her Brazilian boyfriend.
-
The Baron Pierre de Coubertin Statue in Atlanta | Atlanta Monuments
The Baron Pierre de Coubertin Statue is monument in the corner of the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia. This statue was created in honor of the founder of the Modern Olympic Movement, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
-
La Perouse Monument | Monument Australia
The foundation stone was laid by Hyacinthe de Bougainville on the 6th of September 1825 on land gifted by Governor Brisbane.
-
La Perouse Museum | NSW National Parks
Housed in a heritage building at La Perouse in Sydney’s south, the La Perouse Museum documents the expedition of French explorer the Comte de Laperouse.
-
Mitad del Mundo, Historical review | Mitad del Mundo
On the South side is an inscription of recognition to the Government of Ecuador for the scientific work of the Geodesic Mission of France and to the East an inscription dedicated to La Condamine and his French colleagues of the mission.
-
Maurice Lauré Prize | International Fiscal Association (IFA)
The Prize is named in honour of Maurice Lauré, who was instrumental in the first implementation of the Value Added Tax system, now applied in more than 160 jurisdictions
-
Origins of our Club song | Brisbane Lions Football Club
That song kept Fitzroy people alive during our bad days
-
Raymond Loewy celebrated in a Google doodle | The Guardian
Described by admirers as the « father of industrial design »
-
The story of Maurice Guillaux and related Australian aviation history (2014)
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.
-
dans 4.6.2 ParisHow 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.
-
dans 4.6.2 ParisDreaming in French The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis ( Alice Kaplan, 2012)
A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.
-
The Story of the Tour De France (Bill Mcgann, Carol McGann, 2006)
Nor should it be forgotten what a debt we owe to France and its culture for this amazing invention.
-
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin French magician | Britannica.com
French magician who is considered to be the father of modern conjuring.
-
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.
-
Founding Father: Giacomo Tachis | Decanter
‘I would often travel to Bordeaux and spend time with Emile Peynaud, lecturer in oenology at Bordeaux University. He taught me the art of blending Bordeaux varieties.’
-
![How French Cuisine Took Over the World [book review]](https://tracesdefrance.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/how-french-cuisine-took-over-the-world.jpg)
How French Cuisine Took Over the World [book review]
French cuisine dominated European cooking for centuries, and royalty and aristocracy in England, Prussia, and Italy employed French cooks. How can this hegemony be explained?
-
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.