France is a European country that borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Monaco and Andorra. France has been the world’s most popular tourist destination for over twenty years and is famous for beaches, mountains, art and food. The New York Statue of Liberty was made in France and her face was modeled on Eugene Boyer, the wife of Isaac Singer, the famous sewing machine manufacturer.
Jean Aicard I Jean had inherited from his father a little field close beside the sea. Round this field the branches of the pine trees murmured a response to the...
Alphonse Daudet I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because M. Hamel had said that he would question us on...
Mocco Wollert The gentle rain runs in vaporous tears down the somber roof and powerful walls of the old granite house blending into grey. Full-blown flowers, pearled with moisture...
Bhama Daly “Impossib!” He shakes his head, shrugs his polo-clad shoulders. “What are you saying?” The word 'saying' pronounced in French makes it sound lyrical. “That is ridiculous!” He...
Mocco Wollert A generous table invites friend and traveler, precious hours are spent sharing crusty bread while amber liquid calls from crystal decanters. Chicken steams on pearly rice competing...
Mocco Wollert Evening sun brushes the landscape with summer glory, deep green river water twinkles with gold flecks, darting silver sparks old-time poplars throw into the breeze. Covered in...
Mocco Wollert Large portals guard its sanctity allowing my careful entrance only through a small hidden side door. Inside waits a languorous sepia world, soft dust veils trailing the...
Eugene Francois Vidocq At the time when I first became commissary of police, my arrondissement was in that part of Paris which includes the Rue St. Antoine—a street which has...
Henry Murger For five or six years Marcel had been engaged upon the famous painting which he said was meant to represent the Passage of the Red Sea; and for...
Paul de Kock Nathalie De Hauteville was twenty-two years old, and had been a widow for three years. She was one of the prettiest women in Paris; her large dark...