According to a United Nations report of a few years ago, France has the best health care system in the world. That said, like most French systems, health care is only as good as it is made out to be, when you know how it works.
If you are sick but it is not emergency, we […]
Health Care in France
Finding English Speaking Doctors in France
You might say that finding an English speaking doctor in France is like discovering a truffle patch in the forest. Well worth the search once you find it but hard going beforehand.The US Embassy in Paris makes it a little easier by updating a list every six months of doctors and hospitals who speak English. […]
Blokes in Périgueux
Four students of tourism at Périgueux’s IUT meet three anglophone teaching assistants and quiz them on their experience in France.
Lauren Twist from Washington DC (USA), Lucy Falkner and Stephanie Zemlak both from England, Cornwall and Birmingham respectively, came to Périgueux, Dordogne in September 2006 to work as English-language teaching assistants - since when they have […]
God bless you, uncle Kurt
We called him ‘Uncle Kurt’. The lost generation called Ernest Hemingway ‘Papa’ and we - whoever we are - called Kurt Vonnegut ‘Uncle Kurt’. We grew up in the USA amid the seethe and howl of the Vietnam war and we mostly had a paperback of ‘Cat’s Cradle’ or ‘Slaughterhouse 5′ or even ‘Player Piano’ […]
Be Wise Before You Buy
If you are thinking of buying a house in France, you will need to be just as careful as you would in the UK - if not more so - as in France the process is a little different. The main point to bear in mind is not to be afraid to ask questions. […]
Courbet restrospective
Best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), Courbet was a painter of figurative compositions, landscapes and seascapes. He also worked with social issues, and addressed peasantry and the grave working conditions of the poor. His work belonged neither to the predominant Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. Rather, Courbet believed the […]
Giacometti at Beaubourg
More than 600 rare mixed-media works from 1901-66 by the Swiss Surrealist artist and sculptor Alberto Giacometti, on loan from the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation, will be shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou for an exclusive 4 months exhibition.
Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist Movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some […]
Safavid style
An exquisite exhibition of paintings and scriptures from the fertile artistic era following Persia’s reunion under the Safavid dynasty will include an array of artefacts depicting human beings in all art forms, characteristic of the Safavid period (1501-1736), when pride of place was given to the written word.
When: 05/10/07 to 07/01/08.
Where: Musée du Louvre, rue […]
Chaîm Soutine: le fou de Smilovitchi
Chaîm Soutine was born in Smilovitchi (near Minsk) in 1893 to a Jewish Orthodox family. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius (Lithuania), Soutine settled in Paris at the age of 20, where he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts and befriended Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
His works are typified as representative of […]
The apogée of Impressionism
The Musée Marmotta Monet will host an exhibition featuring Impressionist paintings from George de Bellio’s private collection. Born in 1828 to a wealthy Romanian family, Bellio left his home country and settled in France during the Second Republic. He bought his first Monet in 1874, and became a close friend of the painter. He was […]
