The Heart
While studying in Paris from 1899 to 1902, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877 – 1968) impressed Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) when he saw her sculpture Homme qui a faim, aka Man Eating His Heart, [...]
“Moroccan Sugar Loaves (II): Granulated or Not? The Question of Sugar in Driss Chraïbi’s L’inspecteur Ali” by Iziar de Miguel
Dans L’inspecteur Ali (1991), le narrateur Brahim Orourke est revenu d’un long exil en France et reçoit la visite de ses beaux-parents écossais pour voir sa femme Fiona qui est enceinte ainsi que leurs petits-fils. Brahim [...]
The Hippocrene and the Seine
Charlotte Bourette (1714-1784), whose sobriquet was La Muse Limonadière, ran Le Café Allemand (rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, Paris) which was frequented by hommes de lettres. Her verse and prose were gathered for publication in 1755, and her [...]
Une tasse de café
Life, writers, and coffee—vast topics, yet all three cinched together can look like the following: in the 2007 book Mon père (textes inédits recueillis par Leïla Sebbar, coordonnés par Behja Traversac, mis en page par [...]
Poissarde, Pêcheuse
In eighteenth-century France a literary genre grew out of ridiculing and caricaturing women who sold fish at the market: le genre poissard. The women’s speech, manners, and social class were targeted. Fear and admiration of [...]
Dietary Advice from a Poet During an Epidemic
In a twenty-four-line poem about how one might survive the epidemic of 1373 that was ravaging western Europe, Eustache Deschamps (1346-1407) spends at least a third of the time mentioning which foods to consume and [...]