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Qu’est-ce que l’amour? (What is Love?) Posted by on Jan 7, 2014

 L’amour (love.) Such a wide subject that had countless French thinkers and writers ponder about it. Today, we will go through a few quotations that aim to define it for what it really is. In other words, it is l’amour through des yeux français (French eyes.) Aimer, c’est trouver sa richesse hors de soi (To love is…

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The French Golden Lines Posted by on Jul 20, 2012

Considered by some as le père spirituel (the spiritual father) of Victor Hugo, French writer Gérard de Nerval is known to have been in the company of a rather “unusual” pet, always taking him wherever he went: It was un homard (a lobster) he called “Thibault”! In this poem, Gérard de Nerval refers to “les vers dorés”…

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