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Bessie Coleman, pilot

In honor of the 125th anniversary of obtaining her pilot's license we present Bessie Coleman the first black woman and first Native American to earn a pilot’s license. Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892, in Atlanta, Texas. The tenth of thirteen children, Coleman was born in a one-room cabin to parents of African American and Cherokee ancestry. Her family moved to Waxahachie, Texas when she was two and became sharecroppers. Coleman walked four miles each way to go to school. Her favorite subjects were reading and math. She spent one term at the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University before moving to Chicago to stay with her brothers in 1915. There she worked as a manicurist. Her brothers served in the military during World War I and came home with stories of their time in France. Thrilled by stories of World War I pilots, Bessie dreamed of learning to fly. She got a second job managing a restaurant to raise money for flight schoo…

From Visitor to Resident with EasyFranceNow

From Visitor to Resident: How to Make the Leap Without Losing Your Mind You came to France on a visitor visa, or maybe you have been stitching together long stays, and somewhere between the boulangerie runs and your first real Paris winter, it stopped feeling like a visit. Now you want to stay. Going from visitor to resident in France is absolutely doable, but it is less a single decision than a sequence of administrative moves, each with its own timing, its own paperwork, and its own small ways to trip yourself up. The good news is that the path is well marked once you know the order. The catch is that France rarely explains it to you, and 2026 added new requirements that caught even long-settled Americans off guard. This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute immigration or legal advice. Rules change, and your situation may differ: always verify current requirements with the relevant French authorities or a licensed immigration professional. What…

Birds in Paris and Speak Easy

A few years ago I started noticing birds and now the city is full of nature. Birds are everywhere, including in the city, if you just look and listen a little more closely. Here are a few of the birds you can see in Paris. Two of my favorites are the tiniest and busiest. The European robin and the wren. The European robin is the one you see on greeting cards all over the place, he is an artist's favorite with his bright orange-red face and neck. When you see him you'll recognize him right away by his color and shape - he looks like he just ate a ping pong ball - just that size and nicely round. The Wren is even smaller, multi-shades of brown has a stubby turned up tail. The wren makes a noise bigger than most bigger birds. Once you learn their song (listen here) you'll start hearing wrens everywhere. Another big talker is the Magpie. This bird is a little smaller than a crow, has a long thin tail and is iridescent black and white. When the sunlight glints off his…

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…

Emilien Buffalo Bill Bouglione, RIP 2026

There was a French man named Buffalo Bill whose mother was named Rosa! Yes really! OK, we admit it was his middle name, but Émilien Buffalo Bill Bouglione did exist. In fact he just passed away in March of 2026. His unusual name caused quite a stir when he went to vote and the officials called out “Émilien Buffalo Bill Bouglione a vote!”. So who was Émilien Buffalo Bill Bouglione? The Bouglione clan is the premier circus family of France. Perhaps you are familiar with their posters around Paris or have even been to the show at the Cirque d’Hiver. In the early days they were traveling circus performers. Before they became famous under their own name they tried various marketing strategies to draw crowds. One of them was capitalizing on another famous showman Buffalo Bill. After acquiring surplus posters from the 1905 French tour of Buffalo-Bill’s Wild West, the Bougliones launched the Stade Capitaine Buffalo-Bill in 1924. Despite the fact that their performance was hardly Wes…

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…

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 …

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…

Are these things really French?

True or False? 20 things called French that may or may not be. Are they really French? The following items are called French. But are they really French origin? We did a bit of research on the origins of these items and why they are called French. Some are, some aren’t, some wanna be. And some you really can’t tell. French dressing? TRUE! French dressing originally came from French vinaigrette, so this is true. Take, for instance, the 1896 Boston Cooking School Cookbook. This is the first and original Fannie Farmer Cookbook. The first cookbook ever to codify cooking. https://fusac.fr/a-brief-history-of-the-cookbook/ The section on Salad Dressings begins with French Dressing, which calls for simply oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper – a traditional salad sauce the French call Vinaigrette. Then In the early twentieth century, "French dressing" evolved from being just another term for vinaigrette to describing a specific style of salad dressing. American versions often added …

Robert Leroy, Priest and cyclist

Le Roy de la petite Reine

French Father Robert Leroy has an interesting way to relax and to connect with his parishioners. He's a priest and cyclist, and has a lovely a sense of humor. He has ridden 600,000km. That's the equivalent of 200 Tours de France, although he doesn't often compete since amateur races are most often scheduled... on Sunday mornings!

One competition he does participate in every year is the Clergy Championship which he has won more than once. Each year on the first of May this fraternal competition brings together anyone who is ordained for a short race of about 60km. About 50 clergy gathered in Brittany for the the 20th edition in 2019. Participation grew to 70 riders in 2025. Father Leroy is the only one to have competed in all the races.

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Father Leroy has been riding his bike for most of his life. He owns 7 or 8 bicycles. It was while riding one day in 1983 …

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Bessie Coleman, pilot

From Visitor to Resident with EasyFranceNow

Birds in Paris and Speak Easy

The Parisian Chapter

Emilien Buffalo Bill Bouglione, RIP 2026

Paris Quotes (France, La Seine …)

FUSAC in novels! We’re pinching ourselves – again!

French Entrepreneur Families

Are these things really French?

Robert Leroy, Priest and cyclist

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