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Between the beginning of the German occupation in June 1940 and the Allied liberation in September 1944, the French port city of Le Havre was bombed 132 times – mostly by British planes trying to wipe ...

Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, age 19, ca. 1900. © Photo by Coover and Rasmussen, San Francisco; courtesy of Adolph Rosenkrans Alma de Bretteville was born on March ...

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A coffee shop like no other has just opened in the heart of Manhattan, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 52 nd Street. In this corporate district near Rockefeller Center, Café Joyeux’s ...

Nous Foundation co-founder and president Rudy Bazenet in New Orleans. Courtesy of Nous Foundation In October 1781, General Rochambeau refused to accept Britain’s surrender at Yorktown, pointing ...

Scott Tilton (left) and Rudy Bazenet (right) launched Louisiana’s application to join the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in 2018 before creating the ...

In its most recent annual report, the department of economic affairs at the embassy of France in Washington D.C. offers a detailed review of the footprint of French companies in the United States: – ...

Juliette Gréco and Miles Davis in Paris, May 1949. © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier/Rapho Juliette Gréco was 22, the muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, when she set eyes ...

Edith Piaf’s life was a blend of joy and disaster, and her time in New York City was no different. It was in this city that she married the singer Jacques Pills on July 29, 1952. She regularly ...

France-Amérique: French culture in the United Sates is usually associated with Louisiana rather than with Alabama. When did the French arrive in what is now Alabama? Steve Murray: Mobile predates New ...

The reasons for Georges Simenon’s departure to America are unclear. He was denounced as a Jew during the Occupation, but after the Liberation he was accused of collaborating with the Nazis. He was ...