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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; France</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/france/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:23:39 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18323</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18323#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ballet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ballet Russes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George Balanchine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[René Blum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twentieth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18323</guid> <description><![CDATA[All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that tormented France from 1894 to 1904 and the Nazi-led Holocaust in which he perished. To his dying day, Blum thought of himself as a French patriot. Yet it was the complicity of French officials during the German occupation that set him on the road to Auschwitz.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18323/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12584</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12584#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blaise Pascal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Descartes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Montaigne]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rousseau]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Shakespeare]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12584</guid> <description><![CDATA[Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the Renaissance. He can also stake a claim to be the first recognizable writer of modern times. Montaigne's <em>Essays</em> are stocked with insights of such relevance, inspiration and humanity that they might well have been written yesterday - or tomorrow.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/12584/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise</title><link>http://calitreview.com/12538</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/12538#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children Of Paradise]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic French film]]></category> <category><![CDATA[French film]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jacques Prevert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marcel Carne]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies french]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies nostalgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pantomime]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theatre]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=12538</guid> <description><![CDATA[A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse them, disgust them, terrify them, or in all too many cases bore them. One thing only a handful of films can do is inspire wonder. Every once in a while, a winning combination of writer, director, designers, composers and cast meet in perfect harmony. Such, I feel, is the case of Marcel Carné's 1945 epic romance, <em>Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)</em>.
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isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=7665</guid> <description><![CDATA[Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife who was arrested and died in a French prison. A model of cool, methodical persistence, Giap was not goaded or tricked into a rash counterattack on Dien Bien Phu. He patiently assembled his forces, digging gun positions in the forested slopes overlooking the French defenses and amassing a huge supply of ammunition carried by thousands of porters through the jungle. Then on March 13, 1954, Giap struck at Dien Bien Phu, capturing several key strong-points and pounding the air strip so that supply planes could no longer land. The base aero-terrestre had become a death trap.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/7665/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti</title><link>http://calitreview.com/3792</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/3792#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:02:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art forgery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Louvre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michelangelo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Picasso]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=3792</guid> <description><![CDATA[Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the Louvre (among them, Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod) to gaze at a blank space on a wall. The 49-acre Louvre – still the largest museum in the world today – had been closed for most of the preceding week for the investigation of a singular occurrence: the most famous painting in the world had disappeared from that blank spot.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/3792/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2601</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2601#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Agincourt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernard Cornwell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fifteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle Ages]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2601</guid> <description><![CDATA[Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole.  Alongside the loud cynicism of its insistence that the battles are meaningless, the church is corrupt and the aristocracy live in a different world, <em>Agincourt</em> continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2601/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2297</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2297#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:31:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[All Our Worldly Goods]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Irene Nemirovsky]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2297</guid> <description><![CDATA[How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within a few short years risen to a second round of best-sellerdom with three newly-discovered novels is a truly remarkable craftsman? Irene Nemirovsky first came to our attention in 2004, sixty years after her demise at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz, when a novel of hers was found “buried” within her journal entries. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2297/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Résistance by Agnès Humbert</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1459</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1459#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:38:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1940s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Agnes Humbert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1459</guid> <description><![CDATA[The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious to the reason why a German car might be parked outside the hospital her mother is in, Humbert walks straight into hell. A member of the Gestapo has infiltrated and betrayed their group, and she and her friends are rounded up for a show trial. It is only April 1941. What follows is an account that tests our 21st century belief in rationalism.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1459/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Light of the Moon by Luane Rice</title><link>http://calitreview.com/366</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/366#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:37:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Luane Rice]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/france/366/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Femi-lit doesn’t make as many headlines as its younger sister, but it shares certain familial traits. The protagonist is usually a woman in her thirties or forties, intelligent, independent, and confronted with the crises that arise in one’s middle years – the aftermath of a divorce, the death of a parent, a loveless relationship, the seesaw of work and family, the lack of a child. And as with chick lit, it is often love or a change of place that proves the catalyst for change.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/366/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik</title><link>http://calitreview.com/302</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/302#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eighteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/01/07/the-great-upheaval-by-jay-winik/</guid> <description><![CDATA[In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late eighteenth century emerging as one of the most momentous, if restless, eras in human history. In Russia, a great dynasty would be toppled; in France, revolution and the guillotine would hold sway; and, in America, the nascent democracy would enter the most critical period of its short existence.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/302/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky</title><link>http://calitreview.com/270</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/270#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:25:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holocaust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Irene Nemirovsky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
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