Author: John von Sothen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224854
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home.
Monsieur Mediocre
Author: John von Sothen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224854
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735224854
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris--not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France--to its absurdities, its history, its ideals--but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home.
The Exhibitor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Some issues include separately paged sections: Better management, Physical theatre, extra profits; Review; Servisection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Some issues include separately paged sections: Better management, Physical theatre, extra profits; Review; Servisection.
The President's Hat
Author: Antoine Laurain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913547165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Like Cinderella's glass slipper or Aladdin's lamp, the hat is a talisman that makes its wearers' dreams come true.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913547165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Like Cinderella's glass slipper or Aladdin's lamp, the hat is a talisman that makes its wearers' dreams come true.
Monsieur Saguette and His Baguette
Author: Frank Asch
Publisher: Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781553379782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This fresh and funny story is about imagination coming to the rescue. Monsieur Saguette, on the way home from buying a baguette to eat with his soup, uses his imagination to help himself --- and others --- in times of need by transforming his ordinary baguette into something extraordinary! A cat up a tree? No problem once our humble hero wields his trusty, crusty baguette. An alligator on the loose from the zoo? A robbery? A stalled parade? No challenge is too great or too small for Monsieur Saguette and his amazing baguette. But what will happen when this unflappable Frenchman finds himself in danger?
Publisher: Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781553379782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This fresh and funny story is about imagination coming to the rescue. Monsieur Saguette, on the way home from buying a baguette to eat with his soup, uses his imagination to help himself --- and others --- in times of need by transforming his ordinary baguette into something extraordinary! A cat up a tree? No problem once our humble hero wields his trusty, crusty baguette. An alligator on the loose from the zoo? A robbery? A stalled parade? No challenge is too great or too small for Monsieur Saguette and his amazing baguette. But what will happen when this unflappable Frenchman finds himself in danger?
Monsieur Venus
Author: Rachilde
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603292551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603292551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France
Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Lamartine's Works ...
Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France
Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Temple Bar
Author: George Augustus Sala
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Youth
Author: Charles Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description