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Contents Preface How to use this book Embrasse-moi Les petits mots d’amour A game of love, Valentine’s Day cards, and proverbs about love L’horoscope Horoscopes—Western and Chinese Les petites annonces classées Looking for love in the classifieds L’amour éternel A letter from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo La vie romantique A letter from George Sand to Alfred de Musset L’amour au théâtre Molière’s pursuit of the perfect expression of love L’amour et les chats Chateaubriand’s love of cats L’amour et le chocolat For the love of chocolate L’adieu A farewell poem by Apollinaire Écris-moi Les notes Sticky notes, to-do lists, e-mail, a love letter, a “Dear John” letter, postcards, and a wedding invitation Échanges entre voisins Correspondence—neighborly and not so neighborly Correspondance administrative A letter to city hall Lettre de cachet An official request Lettres historiques Letters from the battlefield Runes The magic of writing Haïkus Poetry in three lines Nourris-moi La panoplie du chef A chef’s stock-in-trade Recettes Three recipes, beginning with dessert Les critiques culinaires A guide to Parisian restaurants Cuisine et littérature Déjeuner with Proust Les manières de table Eating do’s and don’ts in the 1800s Le lunch au Local Let’s have lunch with the Québécois! Des livres beaux à croquer Flaubert au chocolat, Balzac à la Chantilly Enivrez-vous An invitation from Baudelaire Chante, chante À la claire fontaine A seventeenth-century soldier’s lament Le temps des cerises Politics and love in a nineteenth-century song Les roses blanches Lyrical white roses for maman Carmen Romance in Bizet’s opera Le chant grégorien Centuries-old plainsong L’Olympia Resurrecting a musical theater in Paris Le Musée de la Musique A museum of musical instruments Nous n’irons plus au bois A song based on a nineteenth-century poem Promène-moi La France des musées Museums—old and new Le musée du quai Branly African, Asian, Oceanic, and American art by the Seine Les musées ruraux Bread, bees, and ostriches in the countryside Les musées urbains Fabric and fashion in the city Les maisons d’artistes The artist’s spirit lives on Le Paris des jardins The green space of Paris Emmène-moi au bout du monde Un voyage d’affaires Doing business in Venice L’Orient-Express A history of the train of myth and mystique Un tour en montgolfière Up, up, and away Paris bohème A stroll through 1920s Montparnasse Théodore Monod A scientist and humanitarian whose passion was the desert Alexandra David-Néel Pages from an explorer’s journal Femmes au-delà des mers Women, heritage, and networking Fais-moi explorer Lecture numérique Young, avid digital readers Les inventions Hot-air balloons, garbage cans, and Braille L’euro Technology in your pocket Les vitraux Craftsmanship in the restoration of stained glass Marie Curie, une pionnière du prix Nobel au Panthéon The first woman to join the nation’s “great men” Médecins Sans Frontières Relieving the world’s suffering Adolphe Sax The highs and lows of an inventor’s life Explique-moi tous les symboles Les symboles français Maxims, the rooster, Marianne, and “La Marseillaise” Les drapeaux The flags of France and the European Union L’Académie française Protecting the mother tongue Les discours Speech, speech! Victor Hugo delivers Fais-moi découvrir la littérature contemporaine Hommage au monde francophone A tribute to the mother tongue La théorie des nuages Cloud obsession, love, and survival Pondichéry, à l’aurore From Stockholm to Pondichéry Aimé Césaire par sa fille Césaire, fundamental man Haïti Kenbe La! Dreams of my Haitian grandmother Dany Laferrière We are human beings, all over the world Boulevard des Mots-dits A carnival of words La tourmente de la langue française Taming the French language Chant à l’Indien A poem by Khireddine Mourad Continuing to read Answer key