France, French Literature, History, Jean-Paul Sartre, Occupied Paris, Victor Hugo, World War II

Jean-Paul Sartre: On Being a Writer during the German Occupation of France

November 22, 2025 — 2 Comments

French Literature, History of France, Les Miserables, Paris, Victor Hugo

History of France: Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

July 25, 2025 — 3 Comments

French Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, Literature, Thomas More, Utopia, Victor Hugo

Jean-Paul Sartre: The Words

February 20, 2025 — 0 Comments

French Literature, Honore de Balzac, Impressionism, Nineteenth Century, Paris, Victor Hugo

What is so special about Nineteenth Century France?

April 16, 2024 — 8 Comments

Comparative Anatomy, Moby Dick, Paleontology, Paris, Science, Victor Hugo

Paris:  Whales, Dinosaurs, Ammonites!

February 17, 2024 — 5 Comments

French Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Paul Valery, Victor Hugo

Paul Valéry: The Mind in the Mirror

May 7, 2023 — 0 Comments

France, History, Lingustics, Translation, Victor Hugo

Summer Reading 2022

May 7, 2022 — 3 Comments

France, French Literature, Jardin des Plantes, Literature, Translation, Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s Poems of the Jardin Des Plantes

April 6, 2019 — 6 Comments

France (English version), History, Literature, Translation, Victor Hugo, Voltaire

VOLTAIRE in Strasbourg: “LETTRES D’ALSACE”, a book review

January 5, 2019 — 6 Comments

France, History, History of Paris, Literature, Paris, France, Travel, Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo in Paris

November 9, 2018 — 8 Comments