France-Amérique Magazine

Mar 27, 2024 | france-amerique.com | Benoit Georges

A coffee shop like no other has just opened in the heart of Manhattan, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 52nd Street. In this corporate district near Rockefeller Center, Café Joyeux’s careful furnishings and peaceful atmosphere are in stark contrast to neighboring eateries, which tend to emphasize speed of service and a minimalist decor. But the main difference in this new French chain is above all human.

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.

Mar 13, 2024 | france-amerique.com | Dominique Mataillet

Ne dit-on pas que la fin justifie les moyens ? Dans sa volonté de couper l’herbe sous les pieds de l’extrême droite, le gouvernement français avait concocté l’an dernier un ensemble de dispositions législatives visant à contrôler et freiner l’immigration. Parmi les mesures envisagées figurait une restriction de l’accès à la nationalité française. Pour rappel, cette dernière s’acquiert à l’heure actuelle de deux façons.

Mar 13, 2024 | france-amerique.com | Benoit Georges

Paris, Avignon, and now Manhattan! At the age of 41, Cyril Dewavrin has already taken over or set up three bookstores in France. For his fourth, he decided to cross the Atlantic. Last December, he opened La Joie de Vivre at 145 West 27th Street. For now, the space has been launched as a pop-up with a limited selection of 3,500 books in French and English. Meanwhile, he is finishing work on the “big” bookshop, due to open in mid- March.

Mar 13, 2024 | france-amerique.com | Anthony Bulger

“Restaurant servers in two different countries chased me down the street last month,” confided a friend just back from a round-the-world trip. “In Kyoto, it was to give me back the cash I’d left on the table for a tip; in Chicago, it was because I hadn’t tipped enough!” In the first case, she said, the server was embarrassed; in the second, furious. As most well-traveled readers will know, one of the hardest things to master is when and whether to tip and, if so, how much to give.