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 Book 5, which begins Volume II of THE DAWN, consist of the travels of Artur Boucher through Provence, and the acceleration of increasingly inter-related events that begin to coalesce and collide, as the plot and subplots of this novel advance inexorably toward The End. I am also concurrently awaiting completion of the construction of my Dream

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...