The Parisian Chapter 

The Parisian Chapter

Come listen to a chapter of this multi-cast audiobook book and to the author, Janet Skeslien Charles, talking about her experience writing this semi autobiographical novel at Bill & Rosa’s Book Room on June 6th the 82nd Anniversary of D-Day.  If you'd like to come please sign up at BRbookroom@gmail.com.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library and Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade (stories of librarians in World War II and World War I respectively) comes a charming  multi-cast audiobook (we will also have print copies available for the author to sign). The story follows a young woman from Montana who finds a job in the American Library in Paris, following in the footsteps of Odile, her French war bride neighbor in Montana and  the heroine of The Paris Library.

Paris, 1995: It’s been five years since Lily Jacobsen and her best friend Mary Louise arrived from their small town of Fr…

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Paris Quotes (France, La Seine …)

Paris Quotes (France, La Seine too) To be Parisian is not to have been born in Paris, but to be reborn there. — Sacha Guitry ... here's what Paris is: it is a giant reference work, a city which you can consult like an encyclopaedia: whatever page you open gives you a complete list of information that is richer than that offered by any other city. Take the shops... in Paris there are cheese shops where hundreds of cheeses, all of them different, are displayed, each labelled with its own name, cheeses covered in ash, cheeses covered in walnuts: a kind of museum or Louvre of cheese... Above all this is a triumph of the spirit of classification and nomenclature. So if tomorrow I start writing about cheese, I can go out and consult Paris like an enormous cheese encyclopaedia. -- Italo Calvino in Hermit in Paris Two days and three endless nights later we arrived in Paris... Paris looked much bigger than Bordeaux, but much uglier. The bread tasted flat. Everything, even the sun…
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FUSAC in novels! We’re pinching ourselves – again!

FUSAC in novels, can you believe it? Three Novels mention FUSAC!   We are so amused to have touched people lives to the point of them including a mention of the FUSAC magazine in their novel. Just recently FUSAC was alerted of a mention of the magazine in another novel. This one is called The Parisian Carousel.  In this book FUSAC is mentioned three times. "He flicked through the apartment rental adverts in the FUSAC8 magazine. Along with the goldmine for-rent section where landlords and wealthy expats with vacant Paris apartments listed sublets, it had adverts for jobs, maids, nannies, and singles. He wondered if he should be looking in the regular, or short-term, furnished, non-furnished or to-share sections. ... Reading the FUSAC, he learned that in Paris, a deposit was usually the equivalent of at least one month’s rent, sometimes more. He hoped to find a landlord that would accept just a single month’s rent instead of two for the deposit. The logistics of map …
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French Entrepreneur Families

French entrepreneur families

Some of the most famous brands in France were initially and often still are family businesses. A few even headed by women! Meet six historic French entrepreneur families starting with Chaumet the creator of the 2024 Paris Olympics Medals.

Chaumet

Marie-Etienne Nitot was an 18th century creator. He started near the top apprenticing to Marie-Antoinette's personal jeweller. In 1780 he founded his own maison. He survived the trauma of the Revolution to thrive under Napoleon who had an ambition to re-make France a center for luxury and fashion. Beginning with Napoleon's coronation sword Nitot became an important creator for the Empire and one of the most sought after jewellers in Europe. His son took the reins in 1812 and set up on Place Vendome. Joseph Chaumet became the director in 1885. His signature in the time of the belle epoque was nature-inspired aigrettes and tiaras which were social symbols. Tiaras morph…

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