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October 2007-3
French Arts + Culture Archive: October 18-x, 2007
What's in French Perfume? Don’t Ask...
New York Times. October 21, 2007
A French perfume
maker reveals the ingredients of those costly scents: civet cat's anal
discharge, banana peels, children’s excrement, butter, beeswax, hair,
zebu grease. Essences redolent of dirty underwear and cat piss. > More
Actors Studio Host Lipton was a Pimp in France
FoxNews. Oct. 21, 2007
James Lipton, the host of Inside the Actors Studio, a TV show is seen
in 84 million homes in America on the Bravo network, and in 125
countries, once worked as a pimp in Paris. The TV presenter, who is a
fixture at receptions at the French Embassy Cultural Services in New York and
who was awarded France's Medal of Arts and Letters, revealed that he
once made "a rather good living" procuring clients for French hookers.
Pimping (proxénétisme)
is a crime in France. > More
French Tapestries at Met Museum
New York Times. Oct. 20, 2007
The
Metropolitan Museum’s new blockbuster show presents 44 monumental
European tapestries, including the "History of the King" series by
Charles Le Brun, court artist to Louis XIV and a "tireless royal ego
stroker." > More
Persepolis is France's 2008 Oscar Bid
AFP. Oct. 18, 2007
France’s
entry for next year's Best Foreign Language Film category at the
Academy Awards is Marjane Satrapi’s "Persepolis.” A record 63 countries
have entered the competition for this category. > More
US and France Moves Ahead with Digital Library
New York Times. Oct. 18, 2007
The Library of Congress has announced an ambitious plan to digitize a
collection of the world’s rare cultural materials and has signed an
agreement with Unesco in Paris to move ahead with the World Digital
Library project, which is in the testing phase and will not be
available for public use until next year. An independant European
Digital Library will release its prototype next year, as a response to
Google’s efforts to digitize libraries in the United States and
Britain. The French National Library has already developed a test
project, Europeana, for the European library and is in the process of
digitizing 300,000 books. > More
Metropolitan Museum Re-opens French galleries
MetMuseum. Oct. 17, 2007
On
October 30, 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is
unveiling its newly renovated and reinstalled Wrightsman Galleries for
French Decorative Arts. Improvements include climate control, new
lighting and fire suppression systems. The rooms house one of the best
private collections of ancien régime French decorative art in America.
>More
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