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French in Istanbul
From the shores of the Bosphorus Strait to the Grand Bazaar, and through the lively streets of its trendy neighborhoods, Istanbul never sleeps. With one foot in Europe and the other in Asia, Turkey’s cultural capital is the only city in the world spanning two continents. This sprawling metropolis in...
From Cimabue to Giotto – The First Italian Masters
Following the rediscovery of a 750-year-old painting and its recent entry into the Louvre’s collection after a record-breaking auction sale (€24 million), the film traces the footsteps of a little-known artist who played a fundamental role in the history of Western painting: the Tuscan painter Cimab...
Happiness Is in Camping
Taking a holiday in the great outdoors is a deeply rooted tradition in France. There are 8,000 campsites across the country. Their revenue has tripled since 2000, and their offerings have diversified. Increasingly large complexes now provide full resort-style services, with activities and entertainm...
Holidays with Large Families
With five or six children, daily life in a large family is always full of resourcefulness, organization, and surprises. So when it comes to going on holiday with such a tribe, things get even more complicated. Military-style planning, tight budgets, fatigue, and tensions… every trip becomes an adven...
Isidore’s Great Dream
High on the hills of the Saint-Chéron district in Chartres lies a most unusual home: the Maison Picassiette. For 25 years, Raymond Isidore—nicknamed “Picassiette”—transformed every corner of his house using fragments of colorful mosaics. Every surface is covered in vibrant shards of broken ceramics,...
Les Bas Buissons, Memories of a Former Sanatorium
In the heart of the Muette woods in Dreux, restoration work is underway across several kilometers of ruins. The Bas Buissons site—once home to one of the largest sanatoriums in France—is now at the center of a major real estate redevelopment project.
Built in 1928 and abandoned since the 1990s, t...
Thank you for the Grace
Jean-Pierre is my friend. A rock guitarist and singer, a punk writer, he spent 40 years of his life in drugs, unable to create any artistic work without destroying himself.
I lost track of him around 2010. Today I’ve found him again — completely sober.
How was that possible?
Jean-Pierre speaks of...
The Fight of the Indomitable
Threats of bankruptcy, forced demolition, the disappearance of public services, the liquidation of small businesses or heritage landmarks… Sometimes life seems to play tricks on us, and certain battles appear lost from the start… David versus Goliath… except for a handful of indomitable people who h...
The French GI of Omaha Beach
In 1938, Bernard Dargols traveled to the United States for an internship. Two years later, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He would become the only Frenchman to land on Omaha Beach wearing an American uniform.
Bernard Dargols (1920–2018) led an extraordinary life. He shared his captivatin...
