FRENCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA
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1.
Petite Anglaise is a fantastic, escapist beach read for the Francophile
in all of us.
Catherine Sanderson is an
Englishwoman who fulfills a lifelong fantasy when she moves to Paris. She gets a
job and falls in love
with the city, and soon enough with a
real live Frenchman. In time she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby
girl. But her
dream starts to unravel as the daily
demands of motherhood and making a life in a foreign city start to take their
toll. One day
at work she starts a blog
(www.petiteanglaise.com).
which becomes a raw forum for her deepest secrets and a vehicle
for acting on her innermost desires.
Catherine is cheered on by thousands of adoring readers until one day when her
identity
is unmasked, her world falls apart.
Petite
Anglaise
chronicles a year in
Catherine's beloved Paris when all that seemed stable
— motherhood, romance, work, even her
very identity-explodes. It's an escapist book in every sense of the word and a
love letter to the most romantic city
on Earth.
The book is available through Spiegel
& Grau Marketing, a division of Doubleday Publishing. For more information,
please go to:
www.spiegelandgrau.com
www.petiteanglaise.com
is, by the way, a real website, which is also a fun place to visit and while
away a few minutes,
or a few hours. Enjoy!
2. Downtown Tampa has a
new restaurant featuring La Cuisine du Monde.
Visit
L'Eden at 500 Tampa Street, 813 221-4795
It's open for lunch and dinner featuring such as:
Lobster Bisque
Petit Couscous
Ratatouille
Gateau de Pommes de Terre
3.
Free French Films
In collaboration with the company "Le meilleur du
cinéma français ",
the French Cultural Services is offering an Internet portal
that enables Universities and Cultural Centers to access films online
and to
organize public screenings more easily throughout the US.
More than 60 feature-length films are available in the US, most of which
figured
among the most prominent French independent films in the last few years.
go to
http://www.frenchculture.org/spip.php?article436&tout=ok
to register to universcine.