Cheese Tasting with cheese expert Emily Monaco
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Cheese Tasting with cheese expert Emily Monaco
Join us at Bill& Rosa’s Book Room (42 Rue du Chemin Vert 92100 Boulogne) on Saturday 23 November at 4pm for a cheese tasting with die-hard cheese lover and an Academy of Cheese Level 1 Associate Emily Monaco. 4€ « PAF » (participation fee), please sign up at brbookroom@gmail.com.
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Tarsila do Amaral Exhibition
Tarsila do Amaral Exhibition
Tarsila do Amaral exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, until 02 February 2025
The Musée du Luxembourg is hosting the first-ever French retrospective of Brazilian modernist artist, Tarsila do Amaral, also known as Tarsila. She is one of Brazil’s most famous and best-loved artists and a central figure in Brazilian modernism. She was born in 1886 in a rural town outside of São Paulo, in a traditional Brazilian bourgeois family. She benefitted from a good education, studied piano and painting and traveled to Europe for the first time when she was 16. She was married by 18 years old, but her husband did not support her wish to pursue painting, so she divorced him and moved to Paris to study painting in 1920. Tarsila do Amaral enrolled at the Académie Julian, the famous school for modern art and also studied with André Lhote, Albert Gleizes, and Fernand Léger. She moved between Paris and São Paulo and used cubism as a means of developing her own style. Two years later, she joine…
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Remembering World War I with Willa Cather
Remembering World War I with Willa Cather
In honor of the armistice of the end of World War I and Veterans in many countries, we present a fictional piece describing an American soldier's experience in France in 1917 when he and his comrades come across a cheese shop in Rouen. This extract is from the World War I novel One of Ours by Willa Cather, an American writer. The novel won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native who joins the US Army and is sent to France during World War I, just like the step Grandfather I never knew.
Extract:
At noon that day Claude found himself in a street of little shops, hot and perspiring, utterly confused and turned about. Truck drivers and boys on bell less bicycles shouted at him indignantly, furiously. He got under the shade of a young plane tree and stood close to the trunk, as if it might protect him. His greatest care, at any rate, was off his hands. With the help of Victor Morse he had hired a taxi for forty francs, taken…
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