🪁 When René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé (https://youtu.be/C9mSQi2DGuU) met in the late 1950s, they gave birth to the Petit Nicolas, one of the most adored figures of French kids’ literature. Nicolas is an ordinary schoolboy in an ordinary school, whose adventures are … quite ordinary too. Yet, that excess of ordinary becomes extraordinary when told with so much humor and tenderness. 📕 Read "Le Petit Nicolas": https://www.amazon.com/Petit-Nicolas-French-Sempe/dp/0828822875/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

🍷 J-3 before the Beaujolais Nouveau 2022 is released in stores worldwide. This will be the first wine of this year's harvest. Since we have 3 days to wait, why not spend 3 minutes of those listening to this episode. 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

🎭 His life is as hectic as his films are eclectic, his persona as colorful as some of his characters, we’re talking about Gérard Depardieu. The French actor is adored by the public, attracting the most audience of any living French actor. But the man behind the mask seems to have quite a few demons he’s struggling with. Should that make him less likable? 🔗 Gérard Depardieu's filmography: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmographie_de_G%C3%A9rard_Depardieu 🔗 Douze frasques de Gérard Depardieu depuis 20 ans: https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2021/02/23/douze-frasques-de-gerard-depardieu-depuis-20-ans 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

👻 Happy Halloween, everyone. Maybe some of you are celebrating it around a table invoking spirits of deceased people? But is this practice actually called spiritualism or spiritism? While the word spiritualism can mean several things, the word spiritism is specifically limited to the occult science. And, it has been introduced by a Frenchman who believed he was the reincarnation of a Celtic druid… 📕 Read Allan Kardec's "Le Livre des esprits" (Fr): https://www.cslak.fr/bibliotheque-edition/78-livres/1160-allan-kardec-le-livre-des-esprits 🔗 About the history of spiritism: https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/thematiques/epoque-contemporaine/paranormal-quand-le-spiritisme-envoute-loccident-84712.php 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

🤾‍♀️ As the upcoming release of Niki de Saint Phalle’s biopic with Charlotte Le Bon is approaching, let’s get ready with a little introduction of this artist of the 20th century. Not only has she made iconic art with her huge “nanas” in bright colors, but she was also a political activist on several fronts. Little bonus: yes, she is the artist of the Stravinsky fountain in Paris, next to the Centre Pompidou :) 🎬 Watch Niki de Saint Phalle talking about her art in this archive from the RTS television (Fr): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfkYhHntcnk 🏛 Virtual tour of the MOCA San Diego, Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=CY5E7BE8KYs 🔗 Qui est Niki de Saint Phalle in 3 minutes (Fr): https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/niki-de-saint-phalle-en-3-minutes/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

🕌 If you can't buy your dream house, just build it. That's what Ferdinand Cheval, a postman in the south of France, decided almost 150 years ago. And he built it until the last stone. He created a massive palace including each and every one of his fantasies and dreams. He made what he thought was the "ideal palace". To this day, you can still visit the eccentric building in Drôme, it is open to the public. What would be your ideal palace? 🔗 "Le Palais idéal" sur BeauxArts: https://www.beauxarts.com/vu/le-palais-ideal-du-facteur-cheval-un-reve-de-pierre-dans-la-drome/ 🎬 L'incroyable Histoire du facteur Cheval (2019) 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

🧑‍🎨 Today marks the first day of the Paris Women’s Fashion Week. A great opportunity to talk a bit about the famous Basque beret, that hat worn by every stereotyped French person. How did a woolen hat made by and for Béarn shepherds in the Pyrenees became Basque? Then a French symbol? And how did it eventually evolve as far as Argentina and the Far East? The answer is simple: amazing versatility. 🔗 ManuFrance: https://www.manufrance.fr/actualite/lhistoire-du-beret-entre-tradition-et-symbole-francais 📕 Courrier international n° 1497 (11-17 juillet 2019): La fantastique histoire du béret basque 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

📜 Here is the story of a person who spent every single minute of his time reading books, learning languages and trying to solve the mystery of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Through endless dedication, effort and perseverance, Jean-François Champollion achieved his life's goal: to decipher the ancient writing system, in September 1822. Ne jamais perdre espoir. 🔗 Champollion en Égypte: https://www.histoire-et-civilisations.com/papier/2017/edition-de-mai-2017-n028/champollion-en-egypte-le-voyage-dune-vie-80117.php 🎬 Watch "Dans le Secret des hiéroglyphes" on Arte (Fr): https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/104380-000-A/dans-le-secret-des-hieroglyphes/ 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

🥐 How could such a small thing have so much history and generate so much love? Simply by being irresistible. From the medieval bakeries of Vienna, to a small patisserie in Paris, to the White House (RIP Roland Mesnier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/27/roland-mesnier-pastry-chef-white-house-dead/), the croissant made it to my personal breakfast routine. And I wouldn’t change it for all the Fruit Loops in the world. 🔗 Comprehensive history of the croissant (Fr): https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_9704828/en/les-grands-mythes-de-la-gastronomie-l-histoire-du-croissant 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support

🎷 If we had to decide which is the suavest musical instrument, the saxophone would certainly be in the top 5. With its warm sound resemblant the human voice, it conquered the hearts of people all around the world, in almost all musical genres. Little did we know, though, that it was invented almost two centuries ago in the little Belgian town of Dinant, by the man who gave it his name: Adolphe Sax. 🔗 "La petite histoire du saxophone", Diapason Magazine: https://www.diapasonmag.fr/histoire/la-petite-histoire-du-saxophone-13188.html 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup/support