Bastille Day 2025 In THE DAWN, Odile Marquet Van der Groef is the younger sister of Pascal Marquet, owner of Pascal’s Restaurant in...

4 July 2025 Dona Dona Dona by Teddi Schwartz, Sholom Secunda, Arthur S. Kevess, and Aaron Zeitlin On a wagon bound for market There’s a...

Bastille Day 2023 Just a Dog: Beagle Memes As part of my marching toward the future, after the sudden loss of Chance, here on earth, in...

4 July and 14 juillet 2020 I’ve been experiencing a difficult time trying to stay focused on my translation work. The final chapters of...

Édith Piaf, Broken-Wing Sparrow It was always an incongruity for me, the love that my French-Algerian tutor of Parisian French held for...

14 July 2015 François-Marie Arouet was the name of the French writer who, once fame came to him, invented his own anagram-nom de plume,...

I have attempted several times to read the first volume of seven of À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), the novel by Marcel Proust. Even as I type the title, I feel overwhelmed. The first volume is Du côté de chez Swann, or Swann’s Way. I read about fifteen pages of it one summer; tried another summer to go past those same fifteen pages; and then a third attempt was even less successful. I do not recall if the final try was in the summer, or if I made it p

14 July 2013 Guy de Maupassant, the prolific, successful short story writer par excellence, was but one of a sizable number of...