The Best French Club Ever

This is Guerin Prep's French Club' blog page. Here is a space where you can learn about French in the US and especially about events and location in Chicagoland. There'll be french words and recipes and lots of cool information. On y va!

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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.

Voltaire (via hommestyling)

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Vous savez que vous êtes sur mon esprit.

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-Ça me fait vraiment mal au cœur. J’le montre pas mais je suis triste. -On veut tous le cacher

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Promis.

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Que mes baisers soient les mots d’amour que je ne te dis pas

Anonymous 

(let my kisses be the words of love that I do not say to you)

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Au revoir mon capitaine

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meet my beloved country :) i’m from aquitaine

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C’est la routine qui rend les gens fous, mais pas les extravagances.

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Children’s Clothes Au Bon Marche, 1930, Rene Vincent by paul.malon on Flickr.

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Word of the day: grimoire (French)

n. Book of magic, arcane text.

Image: Old book bindings by Tom Murphy VII. CC-BY-SA-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l'Étoile), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe (in English: "Triumphal Arch") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.

The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis (Axe historique) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense. The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and itsiconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant patriotic messages.

The monument stands 164 ft in height, 148 ft wide and 72 ft deep. The large vault is 95.8 ft high and 48.0 ft wide. The small vault is 61.3 ft high and 27.7 ft wide. It was the largest triumphal arch in existence until the construction of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, in 1982. Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is built on such a large scale that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 (marking the end of hostilities in World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.

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say it in french ;) on We Heart It.