Promoting French and American friendship and understanding…
I have frequently noticed that when you learn to speak another language, you tend to understand the structure, spelling and grammar rules of the foreign language better than your own native language. This is not to say that you can actually write or speak the foreign language better than your native language! It simply means you tend to understand why verbs are conjugated a certain way or a phrase is crafted with a special [...]
It may come as no surprise to hear that France is traditionally a Christian country. In every corner of France you will see a testament to its historical, Catholic traditions. Whether it is the huge cathedral completely surrounded by an urban center, the forgotten chapel high up in a hidden mountain village or a crumbling oratory by the [...]
Every time I visit a French city center, I’m always surprised to discover how planners seem to harmoniously integrate such a varied mixture of village houses, cathedrals, ancient walls, history and culture into such a modern, innovative urban landscape. Despite narrow, twisting roads and lines of centuries old buildings, delivery trucks still somehow drop off their wares in the morning, traffic manages to flow, cars find parking spaces1 [...]