the conversation that birthed this blog as we prepared to move to france:
"did you pick french names in french class in high school?"
"yep."
"mine was dominique. what was yours?"
"remi lebeau."
"you all picked last names, too?"
"no. just me. i was serious about my french name."
"hahahahaha...okay, so we can call ourselves the lebeau's. how do you say that in french? lebeaux? hahaha..."
::blank stare::
"but no for real, how would you say that you're at the lebeau's? oh yeah! chez lebeau!"
and taken apart, chez le beau translated is "in the beautiful" and that was how this blog was born.
not very deep. corny, even. ah well, let the beautiful adventures begin!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Just in case you didn’t believe me. 10:05pm in Paris. No filter. Still trips me out. Lol (Pris avec instagram)
Chateau d’O, Mortrée, Basse-Normandie, France
à la place de la concorde sur la nuit des musées
T Magazine: The App for That | The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris
For Francophile gastronomes everywhere, knowing where to eat just got a lot easier (and far more discreet).
CongratulationsFélicitations to Christiane Taubira, France’s new Minister of Justice:In an unprecedented move in French politics, three black politicians, two of them women and all from France’s overseas departments in the Caribbean, joined President Francois Hollande’s cabinet as its held its first meeting Thursday.
In the most senior appointment, Christiane Taubira, from French Guiana, has been named minister of justice in the new Socialist government, becoming the first black woman to made a full minister.
Rama Yade, originally from Senegal, had risen to the level of junior minister in the previous Nicolas Sarkozy administration.
Taubira, 60, considered to be on the left of the Socialist Party, is the author of the 2001 “Taubira Law” which officially recognises the slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
I’d like to hear more about that space to the left of socialism that Ms. Taubira occupies ;-)
ohhhhhh this cool but I wonder why France decided to choose not only FEMALE politicians but BLACK ones giving their sexist and racist stance on women and Muslim and Roma women in general (and lol pretty much any woman who isin’t white lololol)
do these women have similar ideologies with the other peeps in the government or…? like… ohhhh
Errrrrrr actually the anti-Roma politics was led by the last government, Nicolas Sarkozy’s.
Christiane Taubira is part of the government of the new French president, Francois Hollande, who promised diversity and gender equality in his government.
Also I know this is extremely controversial on Tumblr, but the anti-veil and anti-burka laws passed in France these past years were supported and backed by some of the most prominent women from muslim background in France, such as Fadela Amara, founder of the feminist movement, Ni putes,ni soumises (Neither Whores Nor Submissive).
Yup its true, but I am going to point out that it’s not uncommon for a majority to use people from a minority (ugh I hate that term ‘minority’) to defend/approve of bigoted policies that hurts said minority group.
France gives me so much hope whiplash
Simone D’Aillencourt by Melvin Sokolsky, Paris 1963
Why 'Think Like a Man' Won't Open in France
not that I thought it would, but it’s interesting for my research why it’s not…
saw Claude Monet’s water lilies sur la nuit des musées… (Pris avec Instagram à Musée de l’Orangerie)
Ner Tamid Quintet’s first hit in Paris (Pris avec Instagram à les disquaires)
French polls silent on key campaign issue of race
just a little bit of what i’m dealing with with regards to my own research…
Who Gets to Be French?
The Toulouse killings revive an argument about what constitutes French-ness.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
3 American Women in Their Parisian Moments
“Dreaming in French” is about the formative year that three American women — Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag and Angela Davis —spent in Paris while in their 20s.
