“The past was bleak, the present desolate, and I was free to pity myself.” Alone and heartbroken, we escape to Paris and experience the beauty of friendship.
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Leaving to find yourself.
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Third Place in Litro’s Nature Summer Flash Fiction Competition
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Jeremy Black’s France: A Short History reviewed
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Samira Sedira’s People Like Them reviewed
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A stolen summer holiday in France.
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In Paris you do the sightseeing thing, you go up and down Notre Dame, up and down the Arc de Triumph and up and down the Champs-Élysées.
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A couple bicker as they sit outside a café in France.
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A man sweeps up the ashes of Jeanne D’Arc after she is martyred.
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The first thing I wanted was to travel. Where, why or how didn’t matter. All that mattered was when, and when was always now.
Desire ...
Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent: three of many fashion icons produced by France, the emblem of elegance, glamour and of thinness. How will the fashion world respond to France’s new ...
France’s manager Didier Deschamps is more Ruth Rendell than John Banville, while Lionel Messi’s runs with the football resemble the western coastline of Norway. Teddy Cutler brings the penultimate instalment ...
“You are so close you have to make it and you hope your watch is a few minutes fast. But as you round the bend of another museum you look ...
Lawrence Durrell’s Monsieur is battered, foxed, faded, broken… It is a book about ruined lives, as so many fine novels are. It is also about the mystery of things. There ...
The French have always done things in their own way. They’re headstrong and have a desire to be the best of the best of the best. They eat frogs’ legs ...
The Tour de France is the most sought after crown in the cycling world. This epic race covers 2200 miles, takes 22 days to complete, has men with shaved legs ...
Thinking the worst of people is too easy and leads nowhere nice or even interesting. Being generous in spirit, without too much naivety, is usually fruitful.
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The February evening is sharp as I step out of the hotel. A walk through the cobbled streets of Rouen clears my head and brings the blood pumping back into ...
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The relationship between the English and the French—our one-time conquerors, trade rivals, enemies, allies, and nearest neighbours in Europe–has always been complicated. Since 1066 France and ...
