The French For Love

Author : Stefania Rousselle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780525506324

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Amour by Stefania Rousselle Pdf

From award-winning journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle, a stunning collection of photographs and essays that seek to understand the universality of love Journalist and filmmaker Stefania Rousselle found herself overwhelmed and dejected with the horrors of the news after covering terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and the rise of extremism. To renew her faith in humanity, she took off on a solo road trip across France, determined to see if love still exists. Traveling from village to village, farming towns to industrial cities, heart to heart, Rousselle sought out ordinary women and men, all to ask them one question, What is love? Collecting more than 90 personal testimonies, each one moving and beautiful in its own way, alongside over 100 intimate photographs, Rousselle reveals the many facets of love, and discovers that love can still be found even in the darkest of places. From a baker in Normandy to a shepherd in the Pyrenees, from a tree trimmer in Martinique to a mail woman in the Alps, Amour is a visual testament to love in all its many forms.

Author : Fiona Valpy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909490091

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The French for Love by Fiona Valpy Pdf

Like a glass of wine in the French afternoon sunshine - The French for Love is the perfect summer escape. Fans of Katie Fforde, Carole Matthews, Kate Forster or Erica James - and everyone who enjoyed Nick Alexander's The French House - will love Fiona Valpy. Gina has lost her perfect job, her boyfriend and her favourite aunt all within the space of a few months. So when she inherits her aunt's ramshackle French house, Gina decides to pack her bags for the Bordeaux countryside - swapping the miserable English weather for blue skies, sunshine, great wine and a fresh start. What she hasn't factored in is a hole in the roof, the most embarrassing language faux pas, and discovering family secrets that she was never supposed to know. Suddenly feeling a long way from home, Gina will have to rely on new found friends, her own hard work and Cedric - her charming, mysterious and tres handsome new stonemason. But whilst desire needs no translation, love is a different matter. Can Gina overcome the language barrier to make her French dream come true?

Author : Florence Besson,Eva Amor,Claire Steinlen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781452166155

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Love Parisienne by Florence Besson,Eva Amor,Claire Steinlen Pdf

From the world's most romantic city comes this enchanting guide to passion and love. Three chic Parisian women share their secrets for every stage of romance, from fleeting flirtations to the beginning of a relationship to partnerships that last a lifetime. Featuring tips on what to wear on a first date, where to go for a spontaneous romantic getaway, how to keep things hot between the sheets, and so much more, these pages give readers the tools to handle every amorous situation with allure and grace. Full of fashionable illustrations and bite-size advice delivered in a delightful tone, Love Parisienne is the super-chic guide to living and loving like a fabulous French woman.

Author : Lauren Collins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698191075

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When in French by Lauren Collins Pdf

A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesn’t understand about Olivier, having never spoken to him in his native tongue? Does “I love you” even mean the same thing as “je t’aime”? When the couple, newly married, relocates to Francophone Geneva, Collins—fearful of one day becoming "a Borat of a mother" who doesn’t understand her own kids—decides to answer her questions for herself by learning French. When in French is a laugh-out-loud funny and surprising memoir about the lengths we go to for love, as well as an exploration across culture and history into how we learn languages—and what they say about who we are. Collins grapples with the complexities of the French language, enduring excruciating role-playing games with her classmates at a Swiss language school and accidently telling her mother-in-law that she’s given birth to a coffee machine. In learning French, Collins must wrestle with the very nature of French identity and society—which, it turns out, is a far cry from life back home in North Carolina. Plumbing the mysterious depths of humanity’s many forms of language, Collins describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of learning—and living in—French.

Author : Penny Aimes
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369716026

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For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes Pdf

An Entertainment Weekly Best Romance of Summer 2021! “This book gave me every last one of the Intense Romance Feelings I crave.” —New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert April French doesn't do relationships and she never asks for more. A long-standing regular at kink club Frankie's, she's kind of seen it all. As a trans woman, she’s used to being the scenic rest stop for others on their way to a happily-ever-after. She knows how desire works, and she keeps hers carefully boxed up to take out on weekends only. After all, you can't be let down if you never ask. Then Dennis Martin walks into Frankie's, fresh from Seattle and looking a little lost. April just meant to be friendly, but one flirtatious drink turns into one hot night. When Dennis asks for her number, she gives it to him. When he asks for her trust, well…that's a little harder. And when the desire she thought she had such a firm grip on comes alive with Dennis, April finds herself wanting passion, purpose and commitment. But when their relationship moves from complicated to impossible, April will have to decide how much she's willing to want. Carina Adores is home to highly romantic contemporary love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters. Discover a new Carina Adores book every month!

Author : Guy Blaise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0578805936

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Love Like the French: A Guide to Better Romance and Relationships by Guy Blaise Pdf

Received yet another picture of the male anatomy? Wondering how to invite another man into the bedroom with you and your husband? Or looking for advice on staying in a relationship just for money? The French have a different perspective on romantic relationships and love. American women settle for too little, struggle too much, and tolerate unsatisfying sex too often. It's time to travel to the most romantic country in the world and discover how to find the love you want! In Love Like the French, author Guy Blaise reveals a Frenchman's perspective about American relationships, sex, and dating. If you're wondering if you're settling, this sexy guide answers questions from women like you with candid advice, offering everything you need to know for more passionate flings, sexual satisfaction, and fulfilling, balanced partnerships! You're about to learn: How French women turn their sexual fantasies into pleasurable reality-and how you can too. Secrets to sync up sex drives when you and your lover have different libidos. Tips for challenges like prying in-laws, age differences, and communication beyond the bedroom. How to find the men that are worth "swiping right" on online dating sites. Signs you've found the one to marry. In France, romance starts long before slipping beneath the covers. Get Love Like the French now and empower yourself to find the pleasure and love you deserve-the French way!

Author : Rae Beth Gordon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0804738947

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Why the French Love Jerry Lewis by Rae Beth Gordon Pdf

Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?" It shows how Lewis touches a nerve in the French cultural memory because, more than any other film comic, he incarnates a distinctively French tradition of performance style."

Author : Marilyn Yalom
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062048325

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How the French Invented Love by Marilyn Yalom Pdf

“Absolutely marvelous…lively and learned….Marilyn Yalom’s book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir.” —Diane Johnson, author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce “[An] enchanting tour of French literature—from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) How the French Invented Love is an entertaining and masterful history of love à la française by acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom. Spanning the Middle Ages to the present, Yalom explores a love-obsessed culture through its great works of literature—from Moliere’s comic love to the tragic love of Racine, from the existential love of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the romanticism of George Sand and Alfred de Musset. A thoroughly engaging homage to French culture and literature interlaced with the author’s delicious personal anecdotes, How the French Invented Love is ideal for fans of Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, and Simon Schama.

Author : Michel Quoist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824508521

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The Breath of Love by Michel Quoist Pdf

Author : Bronwyn Reddan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496223937

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Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales by Bronwyn Reddan Pdf

Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.

Author : Nina Epton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494102536

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Love and the French by Nina Epton Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.

Author : Peter Turnley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 0615859984

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French Kiss by Peter Turnley Pdf

Author : Allen Johnson
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781631580789

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Pardon My French by Allen Johnson Pdf

To make a friend is a joy. To make a friend in another country is a wonderment—a small miracle. Pardon My French follows the lives of an American couple who have embraced a daunting mission: Not to be spectators in France, but to be absorbed by France. Amidst the minefields of linguistic faux pas, the perplexities of French gestures, the exquisite and often exotic cuisine, and the splendor of Christmas on the Mediterranean—see what it is like for an occasionally gruff American to be adopted into a new family. Witness the hugging, the teasing, and the laughter that follows, when nothing on earth could be more perfect. Experience what it is like to fall in love with the French. Follow the adventures of the author as he pits his rather staid and conventional driving skills against the French speed demons of Languedoc. Step into his sneakers as he tests his basketball prowess against the young French bucks adorned with backward ball caps and over-the-knee Chicago Bulls game shorts. Watch how he frolics in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time with a French topless companion. Marvel as he sits in with a world-class French jazz band. Observe him overcome his shyness in talking to the beautiful nude model from his painting class in the studio atop the village police station. Envision how he learns to dance the tango with his head upright, his chest expanded, and his strides befitting a newly adorned French god—one with sensuality on his mind.

Author : New Directions
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811225601

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French Love Poems by New Directions Pdf

Inspired by the great tradition of French love poetry, New Directions presents a beautiful, small gift edition, dedicated to what makes the world go round. Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labé and Maurice Sceve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike compositions of the Surrealists, French Love Poems is the perfect, seductive gift for anyone who makes your heart flutter. This collection includes poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Cahun, René Char, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Paul Éluard, Louise Labé, Stéphane Mallarmé, Anna de Noailles, Joyce Mansour, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and many others; as well as translations by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Frederick Seidel, Richard Sieburth, and William Carlos Williams.

Author : Paul Gifford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351921251

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Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature by Paul Gifford Pdf

European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love' has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actually suspect, proposal: this is a prime symptom of an age of deep cultural mutation and uncertainty. Paul Gifford's book allows this considerable contemporary phenomenon to be observed steadily and whole, with strategic understanding of its origins, nature and meaning. Gifford paints a clear and coherent picture of the evolution of erotic ideas and their imaginary and formal expressions in modern French writing. He first retraces the formative matrix of French tradition by engaging with five classic sources: Plato's Symposium, the Song of Songs, the myth of Genesis, the tension between Greek Eros and Christian Agape and the repercussions of Nietzsche's declaration of the 'death of God'. Modern variations on these perennial problematics are then pursued in ten chapters devoted to Proust, Valéry, Claudel, Breton, Bataille, Duras, Barthes, Irigarary, Emmanuel, Kristeva. Literary and theoretical perspectives are perfectly blended in his study of these attempts at 'deciphering Eros'. The book will appeal not only to students of French literature, but to all those interested in the cultural upheavals of the twentieth century.