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Mar 13, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
“You’re going on tour with Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie for the paper.” Jean-Marie Périer couldn’t believe it. He was 17 and his boss had just given him a Leica and instructions to pick up the American artists at the airport in Nice. “I can tell you, with my baby face, I stood out like a sore thumb,” he says. Regardless, he took the musician to the sea and photographed him in his swimming trunks on the beach at Juan-les-Pins, blowing bubbles with his trumpet in the blue Mediterranean water.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
A sign on the railings around the trees lining the Avenue des Champs-Elysées reads: “Paris is committed to maintaining the cleanliness and beauty of the city and the Olympic Games.” With just a few months to go before the major sporting event, the capital has embarked on an ambitious spring clean.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet |Diane de Vignemont |Jonas Cuénin |Anthony Bulger
Every month in France-Amérique,discover the best of French and Francophone culture in the United States and Canada.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
The Comte de Kergorlay welcomes us to one of the salons at the very chic Parisian club that he has chaired since 2009, the Cercle de l’Union Interalliée, on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. He has just returned from the gala of the French Heritage Society in New York City. He also chairs this organization, which has 11 chapters in Paris and the United States, and appeals to generous donors to maintain French heritage sites on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
The rumors had been doing the rounds for several months, but the announcement in early September was still an electroshock for industry insiders. The surprise was mainly caused by the differing profiles of the two partners.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Anthony Bulger |Clément Thiery |Jean-Gabriel Fredet |Phineas Rueckert
Every month in France-Amérique,discover the best of French and Francophone culture in the United States and Canada.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
How do you offer both academic excellence and easy living? American universities tout the calm atmosphere on their campuses, which are often located far from the hustle and bustle of big cities. But the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, a temple of humanities and social sciences, has gone in the opposite direction. To strengthen the appeal of its courses through the quality of its student experience, the French “elite factory” is now showcasing the ties between tradition and modernity.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
Parisians are largely unaware that the secret of the unicorn is hidden in a room at one of the oldest mansions in the French capital, a stone’s throw from the Sorbonne in the Latin Quarter. Originally built in the late 15th century as a home for the abbots of the Order of Cluny, it is located next to the ancient thermal baths of Lutetia, the name given by the Romans to the main city of the Parisii tribe.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
Sacha Lichine was born in Bordeaux to a Russian father, whose Falstaff-like frame he has inherited, and grew up in the United States. He now splits his time between New York and Provence, where he purchased the now-renowned Château d’Esclans on the French Riviera in 2006. There, between Cannes and Saint-Tropez, 15 miles from the ancient Roman town of Fréjus, he creates the world’s most expensive rosé, Garrus, as well as Whispering Angel, the most popular rosé in America. French? American?
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
france-amerique.com | Jean-Gabriel Fredet
“The Clark is a small museum compared to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but it is greater than its size might suggest,” says Olivier Meslay, who has directed this astonishing institution since 2016. The Clark Art Institute plays on this paradox. It doesn’t have the reputation of the Met in New York City or the Art Institute of Chicago, and is far behind their surface area and visitor numbers.
