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| France Recipes |
FRIED CAMEMBERT
Ingredients: 4 x 25g/1oz triangles of Camembert Cheese, 3 tbsp Flour, A pinch of Cayenne,2 Eggs, beaten, 50g/2 oz Fresh White Breadcrumbs,Oil for deep frying,4 Dessert apples, cored and quartered
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| French Language |
French can be a deceptively familiar language because of the number of words and structures it shares with English. Despite this, it's far from easy, though the bare essentials are not difficult to master and can make all the difference.
Even just saying "Bonjour Madame/Monsieur" and then gesticulating will usually get you .... |
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| France Architecture |
| France's architectural legacy is rich and important, reflecting the power and personality of successive kings, the Church and the state, vying to outdo their peers with bold, lavish statements in brick and stone. Many architectural trends filtered into France from Italy - Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque - but they have been refined and developed by the French. Rococo grew from Baroque, Neoclassicism came from the
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| France Art |
| BEGINING : In the late Middle Ages, the itinerant life of the nobles led them to prefer small and transportable works of art; splendidly illuminated manuscripts were much praised and the best painters, usually trained in Paris, continued to work on a small scale until the fifteenth century. In spite of the small size of the illuminated image, painters made startling steps towards a realistic interpretation of the world and in the exploration of new subject matters.... |
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| France Festivals |
| It's hard to beat the experience of arriving in a small French village, expecting no more than a bed for the night, to discover the streets decked out with flags and streamers, a band playing in the square and the entire population out celebrating the feast of their patron saint. Apart from Bastille Day (July 14) and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (August 15), there are traditional folk festivals still thriving in Brittany and the remote rural regions of the .... |
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| France Music |
| Standard French rock largely deserves its miserable reputation. Sixties rocker Johnny Halliday is still France's biggest music star; Patrick Bruel, idol of love-lorn adolescents, appeals equally across the generations; and Seventies disco music, epitomized by Claude François, remains depressingly popular. This said, half of all albums bought in France are recorded by British and American bands, and the dominance of Anglo-Saxon music on the radio prompted a.... |
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| France Cinema |
| While it's true that over sixty percent of films shown in French cinemas are from the US, investment in film production in France is nearly twice the level of that in the UK, and the number of films made annually is three times as great - though, of course, nowhere near the output of the US. There are ciné-clubs in almost every city, censorship is very slight, students get discounts and foreign films are usually shown in their original language with subtitles .... |
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