On the Verge | Uzes, the Hidden Gem of the South of France

“Oh little town of Uzès!” the French novelist André Gide wrote affectionately of his father’s hometown in the South of France in his 1924 memoir, “Unless the Seed Dies.” “If you were in Umbria, Parisians would be visiting you in herds!” Gide, who was born into a middle-class Protestant family and scandalized France with a blunt but elegant defense of his homosexuality in “Corydon,” also published in 1924, was a wry and astute observer of Parisian snobberies. So he’d surely be amused to learn that today a taste-making coterie of Parisians is falling in love with Uzès and settling there, despite the fact that it’s not in Umbria.

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Robert Doisneau, the image of the poet – Cross

While a book and an exhibition devoted to the photographer, Arte offers a documentary in which her granddaughter Clementine Deroudille paints a tender of his grandfather portrait.

The photographer Robert Doisneau everyone knows Kiss of the town hall , its most iconic photograph, peacekeeper snapped up by the menacing mouth cabaret Hell, his melancholy portrait of Mademoiselle Anita , his school or distracted shooters bells, its maw of Parigots gleaned in bars with his friends Jacques Prévert or Robert Giraud.

Robert Doisneau

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When France goes Brit-mad: Dinard Film Festival – Flux Magazine

The Dinard Festival of British Film may not be France’s most prestigious movie destination, but it’s a great place to watch some indie films and rub shoulders with up-and-coming British acting talent.

Source: When France goes Brit-mad: Dinard Film Festival – Flux Magazine