France/Etats-Unis en Touraine

24/10/2026

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La langue anglaise, du français mal prononcé 😮 ?
Réponse à la question 😉 : https://www.france-etatsunis.org/la-langue-anglaise-du-francais-mal-prononce/

14/10/2026

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🍷 THIS 1845 LEFT BANK BISTRO FED HEMINGWAY, JOYCE AND RIMBAUD
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The restaurant at 41 rue Monsieur-le-Prince dates back to 1845, a short walk from the Jardin du Luxembourg.
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It started as a crémerie selling milk, eggs and cream to the neighborhood.
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By 1890, it had become a full restaurant serving cheap, simple Parisian food.
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Broke students from the Sorbonne came first. Then the writers followed.
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Verlaine and Rimbaud ate here. So did Gide, Joyce and Paul Valéry.
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In the 1920s, Hemingway lived nearby and shared dinners here with his first wife Hadley.
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The interior has barely changed in over 100 years.
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Diners still sit side by side at long shared tables.
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Which dish would you order first at Polidor?

14/10/2026

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Some of the lawns in the Tuileries Garden have been kept short by goats instead of lawnmowers.

It is called eco-grazing: the animals do the mowing, with no machines, no fuel and no noise. The goats used at the Tuileries were of a breed called chèvre des fossés, literally the "ditch goat," and gardeners like them because they reach steep, awkward spots a mower can't.

In 2018, one of them briefly became famous.

On the morning of November 13, a man tried to take two of the goats grazing on the Louvre side of the garden. Staff stopped him from leaving with both, but he got away with one and headed straight into the metro.

At 8:39 a.m., RATP agents spotted him with the goat at Tuileries station on Line 1. He refused to get off the train, and traffic was halted between Châtelet and Concorde until police arrived. The goat was handed back to the Tuileries gardeners, and Line 1 was running again by 8:56.

Seventeen minutes on Line 1, and then it was back to work.

14/10/2026

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Paris can feel like a completely different city depending on where you stay. I’ve spent years getting to know the arrondissements, and some are brilliant for food, others for history, nightlife or simply feeling a little more local. I’ve broken down all 20 in the comments 👇

14/10/2026

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The Saint-Honoré owes its name to a Paris street. And to a bishop who lived 1,400 years ago.

Around 1847, a pastry chef named Chiboust ran a shop on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. The street itself was named after Saint Honoré, a 6th-century bishop of Amiens who became the patron saint of bakers and pastry chefs. A cake created on his street, by bakers, was always going to carry his name.

The first version looked nothing like today's. It was a crown of brioche filled with pastry cream, inspired by a Bordeaux dessert called flan suisse (Swiss flan). Chiboust also gave his name to the filling: crème chiboust, a pastry cream lightened with meringue. Pastry chefs still use it.

The problem was the brioche. It soaked up the cream and collapsed. A young pastry chef from the shop, Auguste Jullien, is usually credited with the fix: a crisp pastry base, a ring of small cream puffs glazed with caramel, and the cream piped in the center.

That is essentially the Saint-Honoré you will find in Paris pastry shops today.

French bakers still celebrate their patron saint every year on May 16, the feast of Saint Honoré.

Have you tried one?

14/10/2026

After 237 days in space, Sophie Adenot has returned to Earth!

She made history with:
a European record for the longest continuous spaceflight,
Three spacewalks,
and nearly 200 scientific experiments conducted on board the International Space Station.

Welcome back, Sophie!