Tag: French

When I Go Selected French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke


Free Download Rainer Maria Rilke, Susanne Petermann, David H. Rosen, "When I Go: Selected French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke"
English | 2017 | pages: 190 | ISBN: 1532603320, 1532603347 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
Rilke’s French poetry appears here for the first time in readable, musical versions. Largely unknown and rarely collected, these poems were written during the euphoria Rilke felt after having completed his greatest German works, the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. At the same time, Rilke was growing increasingly ill with a rare, undiagnosed form of leukemia. He died just four short years into the production of these poems, and death appears in them as "a kindly, unfamiliar figure" to be faced with courage and surrender. Five series of poems are featured: Roses, Windows, Affectionate Tribute to France, Valaisian Quatrains, and Orchards.

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Villa Decor Decidedly French and Italian Style


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English | 2002 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 1586851748 | EPUB | 9,7 mb
Design In her newest book, Villa Decor, Betty Lou Phillips discusses how to mix styles, furnishings, inspirations, and colors from different eras and locations to create the looks for which the French and Italian people are known-wisps of elegance, hints of regal color, textures that delight and inspire. Villa Decor illustrates the mastery of the fabled French way of melding the past with the present so each is seen in the best possible light, as well as the uncanny Italian knack of linking rooms effortlessly with patterns and palettes without detracting from the furnishings or objets d’art, capturing a trend in American decorating. Betty Lou Phillips demonstrates how to virtuously juxtapose various periods and styles in widely diverse, satisfying rooms that are never dull or predictable. Quiet French elegance, Italian romance, and the simplicity of sweet life-la dolce vita. Author of Provencal Interiors, French Influences, and French by Design, Betty Lou Phillips is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers. Her design work has appeared in such publications as Southern Accents, Bedroom & Bath, Window & Wall, and Decorating, and has also graced many magazine covers. Her design talents have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and the Christopher Lowell Show. She lives in Dallas, Texas.

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The French house an American family, a ruined maison, and the village that restored them all


Free Download Don Wallace, "The French house: an American family, a ruined maison, and the village that restored them all"
English | 2014 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1402293313 | EPUB | 3,6 mb
"On a tiny French island, a couple of American dreamers redefine their lives by restoring a ruin…The French House moves to a soulful, very funny rhythm all its own."―Meryl Streep

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The A to Z of French Cinema


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English | 2009 | pages: 504 | ISBN: 081086875X | EPUB | 1,7 mb
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinématographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumière’s La Sortie de l’usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumière factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges Méliès, Alice Guy, and Charles Pathé. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world’s best directors―Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Louis Malle―and actors―Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou.

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Secrets of French Design


Free Download Dan Piassick, "Secrets of French Design"
English | 2004 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 1586855212 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
From the best-selling author of Villa Decor and Unmistakably French comes an insider’s guide to French design secrets for home interiors. Betty Lou Phillips, America’s foremost interior design expert on French style, shares some of her best-kept secrets-ones that the French seem to know instinctively. Secrets of French Design looks behind heavy lacquered doors at the design principles the French hold dear.

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Rififi French Film Guide


Free Download Alastair Phillips, "Rififi: French Film Guide"
English | 2009 | pages: 135 | ISBN: 1848850557 | PDF | 2,9 mb
Du rififi chez les hommes (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialogue free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin’s role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture.

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