A delightful Fragonard, The Good Mother, to illustrate this post. Isn’t it a bit late for Mother’s Day? Well, in France it is celebrated on the last Sunday in May. I will not be able to visit my own Mom, who is currently taking a well deserved vacation in Spain. So happy Mother’s Day to […]
Yes, I found the teensy cable that allows me to download my pictures into my laptop. So here they are! I left out the “big” views, which I think are so well represented by the Canalettos (Canaletti?) I used on my first and second posts. Of course when I look at these pictures, I can’t wait […]
Many thanks to Sheramy at Van Gogh’s Chair for an excellent list of this summer’s exhibitions in the United States and France. By the way, if you wish to see Marie-Antoinette or Babylon, you should hurry, because both will be closing in early June. Sheramy did not mention another exhibition, more historical than artistic in […]
So you want to write a historical fiction bestseller? Sarah at Reading the Past gives you the recipe: having already written a few bestsellers, OR writing the sequel to a bestseller, OR being a celebrity, OR, failing the above, writing a wonderful book that appeals to a wide audience and garners stellar reviews and literary […]
Yeah! What an honor to see my debut novel chosen by a group of historical fiction enthusiasts! And the best part of it is that I follow another French novelist, and not a minor one. Yes, The Count de Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is May 2008 Book of the Month at HistoricalFiction.org. Dumas was […]
Sibylle, in her blog dares you not to fall in love with my heroine Gabrielle. “She’s very intelligent, strong with lots of integrity. I wish I had her courage. The book is also excellent in that it shows how important information is in times of political troubles : Gabrielle (whom I kept picturing as the […]
The Pasadena Star-News kindly mentions me and Mistress of the Revolution, among other local authors. Thank you, Pasadena Star-News and Michelle Mills! And while browsing the pages of the Star-News, I found another article related to the French Revolution. Journalist Larry Wilson reminds his readers that the United States, Myanmar and Liberia are the only […]
For more information on Toujours Libérer (Always to free, in French.) I invite you to visit this site. Here is the description of the game: It is slash-friendly [oh good, I was a bit worried about that] … Play as any European nationality or an American observer, as a poet, politician or aristocrat. Even a […]
Yes, I went to the Grand Palais this afternoon, and yes, it is wonderful! I half expected that someone had simply thrown together objects I had seen at the Carnavalet Museum or in Versailles. Not so. I discovered many objects I did not know. Just an example: in one of the rooms, you have three […]
One, at Tea at Trianon, describes Le Petit Hameau, part of Marie-Antoinette’s private realm at Trianon. The other, at Ellen and Jim Have A Blog, Too puts it in the general context of landscape architecture, in particular the bucolic retreats fashionable at the time, and 18th century women’s issues. It also references the extraordinary Madame […]
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