Art, Claude Monet, France, Impressionism, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh

Learning to Paint like the Impressionists

January 19, 2018 — 11 Comments

France, Poetry review, Translation, Victor Hugo

Translating Hugo: “L’Autre” from “A Guernesey”

November 22, 2017 — 5 Comments

Art, France, History, Literature

My Book Review of T.J. Clark’s “The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

November 10, 2017 — 2 Comments

France, Translation, Victor Hugo

Translating Victor Hugo: The Art of Being a Grandfather: Lesson One, The Moon

July 14, 2017 — 11 Comments

Art, France, La Fontaine, Literature, Marc Chagall, Translation

Le Loup et La Cigogne by La Fontaine Illustrations by Marc Chagall

December 17, 2016 — 4 Comments

France, Literature, Napoleon Bonaparte, Translation, Victor Hugo

Napoleon’s Army After the Fall of Moscow : Translating Hugo

November 19, 2016 — 4 Comments

France, Gustave Flaubert, History, Literature, Rouen, France, Translation

La malédiction de Saint-Julien by Gustave Flaubert: My Book Review

October 22, 2016 — 2 Comments

Art, France, History, Impressionism

The History and Civilization of France in the 20th Century: The Belle Epoque

July 1, 2016 — 2 Comments

Art, Emma Lazarus, France, History, Musee du Louvre, poetry, Venus de Milo

Emma Lazarus’ “Venus of the Louvre”

April 24, 2016 — 3 Comments

Charles Baudelaire, France, French, French Literature, Literature, Translation

Translating Baudelaire: Paysage, My Journey to the French Language

April 1, 2016 — 3 Comments