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French Disney – The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Posted by Hichem on Feb 10, 2011
Those who have read Victor Hugo‘s work and then watch the movie adaptation would easily notice the major differences between the two— But then again, what would a Disney movie be without a “tout est bien qui finit bien” (“All is well that ends well”)! * * * French…
Victor Hugo: “On vit, on parle” (We live, we talk) Posted by Hichem on Jan 8, 2011
VICTOR HUGO: ON VIT, ON PARLE (WE LIVE, WE TALK) On vit, on parle, on a le ciel et les nuages We live, we talk, we have the sky and the clouds Sur la tête ; on se plaît aux livres des vieux sages ; On the head; we enjoy the books of the old…
Outdated French Expressions to Avoid Posted by Hichem on Oct 26, 2010
Il y a quelques années (A few years ago), one of my very good old American friends, who by the way will have no hard time recognizing herself when reading this, went to France for the first time of her life, only to discover there that whenever she used the interjections she had painstakingly learned at her French class back in the States -expressions like sacrebleu…
“Demain, dès l’aube”—La fille de Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo’s daughter) Posted by Hichem on Sep 10, 2010
After the post where we introduced Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” (“The Flowers of Evil”), today we discover yet another poem, but this time from another grande figure of the French literature. It is le seul, l’unique (the one and only) Victor Hugo. Though mostly acclaimed outside of France for his roman (novel) “Les Misérables” and its celebrated héro Jean Valjean, Victor Hugo remains nevertheless as…
Summer Reads Summary (en français, svp!) Posted by Hichem on May 27, 2010
C’est l’été, et les vacances sont enfin arrivées (It’s the Summer, and the holidays have finally arrived.) Quel bonheur ! Je remercie aussi Jennie de ses nombreux compliments (I thank her for her many compliments), et je souhaite lui dire ceci: J’aime sincèrement beaucoup tes contributions, elles sont variées (they are varied), très souvent amusantes (very often amusing), et particuliérement informatives…