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🌸What an evening. Quelle soirée! 🌠Thank you so much to @sarkozy.louis for infecting our full house last night with his passion for Napoleon, evident yesterday and throughout the pages of his fascinating just-released book, Napoleon’s Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era.🙏Un grand merci aussi to @nastasiapeteuil for her expert moderation🌟And to our audience of both Napoleon enthusiasts and Napoleon-curious for your high interest and engagement on this fascinating topic.💐Lastly a very special thanks to our amazing Kensington neighbors @goldsborough_glynn for hosting us in their exquisite shop for this event!If you missed it keep an eye out for it soon on...

   Finally posting some photos from the literary gathering last Saturday in NYC. What a fantastic event with a talented group of authors who are part of the @rencontre_auteurs_francophones network. One the highlights of the trip was meeting guest of honor Benoit Cohen —award-winning French movie producer and author whose book, Yellow Cab, is our newest absolute COUP de COEUR.In it he tells the story of becoming a NYC cab driver for six months. He documents every step of the experience: from the courses, tests, and long waiting period to the best part — picking up fares day and night and the...

What a treat to have this lazy Mother’s Day Sunday to capture some thoughts about this wonderful auto-fictional novel by Abdourahman A. Waberi :Pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches? (JC lattes, 2019)One day walking to school in Paris 5-year old Béa asks her Papa, Aden, why he dances when he walks. By “dances” she refers to his funny limp that favors his weak leg. To fully answer her, Aden must tell her the story of his childhood in Djibouti.Through his simple, soft and moving narrative he brings us all back with him to Djibouti in the late 1960s and 1970s,...

  What an amazing day at the Kensington Day of the Book! 🌟It was wonderful to see our French pavilion authors meet so many new readers! 🤩Merci to our participating authors for your positive energy and for being so supportive of each other and the bookstore! 🙏Merci beaucoup to all our amazing customers for shopping local and supporting local authors! 🙏❤️Merci to our team of Superstars Stéphanie and Sabrina and Aurélie for your incredible energy and hard work and smiles! 🙏🌟🌸🤩And a GRAND merci to Aurelie Breton for being our French Pavilion champion from start to finish and her incredible...

                        Born and raised in France to Moroccan immigrants, Amine discovers at his father’s funeral cassette tapes that he had sent home to his own father in Morocco, recounting his life, loves, work in the mines and factories of France. Amine comes to know his father for the first time through these tapes as in life he had been silent, distant, a stranger really. A beautiful tribute from a son to his father, and a window into the life of the “30 glorieuses” in post-war French reconstruction years and...