2008

May

 451 / Six²  via this isn’t happiness
May 5th

Apr

“All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in...”
— Chemical Composition of...
Apr 30th
Paris, May 1968. From a slideshow at the New York Times.
Apr 30th
Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque, 1925 edition. Cover by...
Apr 14th
Camille Claudel, Clotho, 1893: «la fileuse, la plus jeune...
Apr 14th
“Journalists at Le Monde, one of France’s most highly...”
— guardian.co.uk
Apr 14th
Poster for “Rififi” (1955), perhaps the classic...
Apr 2nd

Mar

A nocturnal country lane in France, by Lucien Rudaux,...
Mar 29th
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L’Arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat, (Lumière Brothers, 1895). This is the footage that...
Mar 25th
Marché - Boulevard de la Villette - Paris -...
Mar 16th

Feb

Yorkshire’s answer to Georges Brassens, Jake Thackray,...
Feb 22nd
“Porte des Lilas”, via Agence eureka
Feb 22nd
Portrait of Madame Regnault de Saint-Jean...
Feb 14th
The Ephemera Society - Item of the Month 2008 via...
Feb 14th
Brassaï, Avenue de l’Observatoire, 1934. via wood s...
Feb 8th

Jan

Chômeurs - an ill-assorted, shifty-looking, crew, via...
Jan 24th
via hsb
Jan 24th
Miroslav Sasek - This is Paris
Jan 11th
Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud via dezeen 
Jan 10th
Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de...
Jan 9th
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the puppet show from Les Quatre Cents Coups via Le Divan Fumoir Bohémien
Jan 9th
“The Mayor of Paris is about to launch another novel scheme...”
— Paris offers drivers electric...
Jan 8th
Galerie Maeght poster by Eduardo Chillida — nevver
Jan 8th
Brochure for Air France, circa 1934, at...
Jan 5th

2007

Dec

a classic image, via: BLDGBLOG: Building Lightning Farms in...
Dec 29th
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Voici Etyl. Elle n’aime pas Noël. Quoi, tu non plus? Écoutes… via Filles Sourires
Dec 22nd
“This [President Nicolas Sarkozy] is a man who likes to jog,...”
— French political language |...
Dec 22nd
Nomadics: Christian Bourgois (1933-2007)
Dec 21st
the Google of the built environment?
Dec 15th
“Something is happening in France but you don’t know...”
— Click opera rips into Time...
Dec 9th
Lampes 'Tasiilaq' : Kit de 4 lampes...
Dec 8th
via fedbybirds
Dec 8th
Toy Comix via we make money not art
Dec 8th
Design for the Centre chorégraphique national de Tours, by...
Dec 3rd
Poster for Guerlain by Darcy, 1949 via bellesdepub
Dec 2nd
210 - French Kissing Map « strange maps “Unlike...
Dec 2nd

Nov

An example of the kind of early French miniaturised armoured...
Nov 30th
1899 - Boulogne-Billancourt - Louis et Marcel Renault avec...
Nov 30th
Etienne Meneau - Strange Carafes [via designboom]
Nov 29th
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swissmiss: random french song of the day. who are these guys? 
Nov 26th
anygivenname.org - Marseille: Sebastien Wierinck
Nov 24th
julejule’s photo from 9/21/07 - Fotolog
Nov 24th
Raymond Savignac posters at www.guyantique.com via grain...
Nov 21st
Prints and Photographs Digital Item Display -...
Nov 19th
Prints and Photographs Digital Item Display -...
Nov 17th
Paula Scher, Paris, 114 in x 108.25 in, acrylic on canvas,...
Nov 10th
Un jour à Paris \ rue Lepic (18e)
Nov 3rd

Oct

via FFFFOUND!
Oct 28th
“Unkempt, malodorous, and toothless, Saint-Aubin would wander...”
— A Prodigy of Nature - October...
Oct 25th
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780) October 30, 2007, through...
Oct 25th
Arborescence dans le Parc de Sceaux - Blog Culturel
Oct 22nd
Pierre Perret: “Les petits métiers d’Atget à Willy...
Oct 21st
Musée la Fabuloserie: Pierre Avezard, dit...
Oct 21st
Pierre Avezard (via animula vagula)
Oct 21st
Citroen 2PK folder via swissmiss
Oct 20th
ah, itten, torimashita ne !: La vie des fleurs A post,...
Oct 14th
Feu de Dunkerque Like the Tour Florentine, this is by an...
Oct 13th
Photography of the Unexpected and Neglected Architecture -...
Oct 13th
“The Continental Review is debuting from its Paris base with...”
— The Continental...
Oct 5th
Don’t look so gloomy, Gaston, mon vieux. (via...
Oct 4th
Accueil Nuit Blanche - Paris.fr
Oct 4th
dezeen » Blog Archive » Lighting installation by...
Oct 4th
“Langlois saved many films, like [Feyder’s] L’Image, in...”
— girish: Henri Langlois Henri...
Oct 4th
Warch Watch
3:AM Magazine » Arthur Cravan Woz ‘Ere Dada “pugilist poet” Arthur Cravan in...
Oct 4th
Modern Mechanix » Hairline Air Line
Oct 4th
from The Koopman Collection of French artists’ books...
Oct 3rd
Fontenoy-la-Joute, village du livre. Bienvenue sur le site...
Oct 2nd

Sep

Artist Chico Mac Murtrie’s Citroën Totem-mobile morphs...
Sep 29th
Pruned: The Broken Column House “The Broken Column...
Sep 28th
Affiche on Flickr, via FFFFOUND!
Sep 26th
Hôtel des 3 collèges
Sep 26th
Image from Papillons by Eugene A. Seguy.  Paris: Tolmer,...
Sep 24th
Image from Formes et Couleurs by Aug. Thomas.  Paris: Albert...
Sep 24th
Corrected page proofs of ‘Les Fleurs du...
Sep 22nd
“Nicolas Sarkozy: a new economic model for...
Sep 19th
chronique photos : Baudelaire après l’été French...
Sep 19th
Warch Watch
Un Homme qui dort [2] (Queysanne, Perec - 1974) passage (via arcilsota)
Sep 17th
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Georges Perec - Un homme qui dort [1] (via Rafiflo21)
Sep 17th
“Jamais, sans doute, l’idée ne serait venue à un...”
— Le Monde.fr : Le choix de...
Sep 17th
WHY FRANCE? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring...
Sep 17th
Canal+: Gainsbourg | Ads of the World poster for Canal+...
Sep 17th
“For some people Paris is a fashion show or a gourmet meal or...”
— A Scholar’s Paris -...
Sep 15th

Le Temps - Livres: Lydie Salvayre -...

Extract from Goncourt-longlisted novel ‘Portrait de l’écrivain en animal...
Sep 12th
design et typo » Blog Archive » The Haka des All...
Sep 10th
Homage to Mme. Edelhaus
Sep 9th
Warch Watch
En rachâchant - Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet (1982) (via diasfelizes) Based on the...
Sep 5th
Warch Watch
Le Cercle Rouge (Billards Scene) (via immutabledude) Via Geoffrey, at work. 
Sep 5th
Warch Watch
La Planète Sauvage (1973) - English versions here via The World of Kane
Sep 5th

Aug

“We intended to show that immigration was not a topic...
Aug 28th
One of the winning entries in a competition for park...
Aug 27th
“Silverio”, 22.08.07.  Nails and screws in the...
Aug 27th
La pluie tombe sur moi - print over vintage paper by Sofia...
Aug 22nd
“Françoise Hardy” by Ivan Brunetti. Via...
Aug 21st
Balthus - La Rue, 1933. Balthus: Time Suspended - Paintings...
Aug 20th
Regard de chaussée français/ French old Manhole Covers
Aug 18th
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. Lazare,...
Aug 17th
Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items...
Aug 17th
Warch Watch
5 minute preview of BBC documentary about Jean-Paul Sartre, made in 1999
Aug 14th
Fantômas - via { feuilleton } see also  The Fantômas...
Aug 13th
La gare de triage des Caves Byrrh en 1912. via xs217.xs.to
Aug 12th
159 - Squaring the Hexagon: France’s Rectangular...
Aug 4th
Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille) is a film by Philip...
Aug 4th
Pierre LegrainLa Canne de Jaspec1925 Paris The Arts...
Aug 2nd

Jul

““France is a country that thinks,” she [Finance...”
— Scotsman.com News -...
Jul 29th
Paper bridge unveiled in southern France Japanese architect...
Jul 28th
- Et c’te soupe ?… - Fiche-moi la paix, je...
Jul 27th
Marc Riboud, Le peintre de la tour Eiffel, 1953 via LA BOÎTE...
Jul 27th
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Jean-Luc Godard: Alphaville: Une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965).via This Cruellest Month
Jul 27th

Spurious: Communism at the rue...

splendid sequence of posts from a few years ago about Marguerite Duras and the left-wing milieu in...
Jul 26th

This Space: Duras' other texts

links to some background to Marguerite Duras (via del.icio.us/ramage/french)
Jul 26th
…you’ll forgive me a little nostalgia at a time...
Jul 26th
“Rather than a three-week race around France, this...”
— Tour de France: Race leader...
Jul 26th
Tour de France leader Rasmussen sent home by...
Jul 26th
Warch Watch
Rameau - Les Indes galantes via “Intercapillary Space”
Jul 26th
Le Quai des brumes, 1938 The set design of Alexandre...
Jul 25th

The Pitiless Universe of Montherlant -...

“for an author, the loss of readers, if it continues, is like a death sentence. In...
Jul 25th

Passerelles littéraires

collection of French literary links (via del.icio.us/ramage/french)
Jul 25th

Hubert Haddad - Le Nouveau Magasin...

“this literary UFO visits the literary imaginaries and explores creative writing. The new...
Jul 25th
A group of spahis - Algerian troops - cooking their meal in...
Jul 23rd
Badaude  has moleskine-sketchbooks-full of observations...
Jul 20th
Emo via Agence eureka
Jul 20th
Warch Watch
in case you’d forgotten, it doesn’t get any cooler than this: kraftwerk- tour de france...
Jul 17th

From an horrific personal story to what...

A l’hôpital Sainte-Anne, la folie brute du “Plancher de Jeannot” | Rue89 via...
Jul 17th
florizelle est en fête! (Loin de l’Elysée - Le Divan...
Jul 16th
Wooster Collective: Roadsworth Hits The Tour De France
Jul 16th
Izzo’s translator, Howard Curtis, also translated The...
Jul 16th
village voice > books > Solea Completes Jean-Claude...
Jul 16th
+ + Musée des Confluences + +
Jul 16th
more from 36 here
Jul 14th
the art of 36 (a.k.a Alexis Cladière) via Archiact
Jul 14th
“A bookshop in Paris without Blanchot is like a Waterstones...”
— This Space: Shakespeare...
Jul 13th
films en roman-photos, via Agence eureka
Jul 12th
“For some people history is a Beach or a Tower or a...”
— Elaine Dundy on being in...
Jul 12th
Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes
Jul 12th
detail of plate from L’Atlas Souterrain de la ville de...
Jul 10th
Maison Aurouze, Destruction des Animaux Nuisibles, 8 Rue des...
Jul 10th
A Parisian mystery, from Le Petit Bazar de Betsileo: Just...
Jul 10th

Aw, shucks...

Just discovered this: Topinambours: Blog Love - Polly Vous Francais? Tried to leave a comment to say...
Jul 9th
stairs #9 (from S amo, via Anarchaia) Phare des Baleines,...
Jul 8th
Paris, 1953 - Black Magic Woman (via andi36) Photograph from...
Jul 7th
Funny little seashell house (via I like) - in Lower...
Jul 4th