French book list
and the order to read them
Read French With Me: Intermediate | B1 level
Alexa guides learners through a B1-level French text focused on the history of the Olympics. The lesson highlights pronunciation nuances, specifically the G and J sound rules, and explains how…
Why we don’t have a sarcasm mark
Why is there no punctuation mark for irony? Or to flag up a rhetorical question? Well, the fact is: there once was. Numerous innovative marks have been invented then discarded…
He Took the World to the Moon, From This French City
The bottom of the sea. The center of the Earth. A journey around the world in eighty days. And even a trip to the Moon. One man took us on…
From the archives: “Persepolis” author-filmmaker Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, who won acclaim for her graphic novel "Persepolis" about growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, died on June 4, 2026 at age 56. In…
Deyrolle, cabinet de curiosités depuis 200 ans
Tigre du Bengale, zèbre, agneau… Il y a des animaux qu’on verrait difficilement cohabiter mais chez deyrolle, c’est pourtant bien le cas ! Louis Albert de Broglie, propriétaire de la…
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, “lumière,” the French word for “light,” was also the surname of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to…
Art21: Camille Henrot: In Movement
Episode 302: Camille Henrot reflects on our vast visual culture to produce a body of work that uniquely captures the speed, size, and complexity of our current moment. This film…
Le petit déjeuner, un repas mondialisé
"Frühstück", "breakfast" et petit déjeuner sont des inventions récentes, fruits de l'importation de boissons exotiques charriées de tous les continents dans l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle. Du café matinal aux récipients…