We Go to Hell with John-Jack

Very naughty people they say to me, “M. Just, why do you pretend as though Jean-Jacques Rousseau is your good friend, eh? Why do you do? Rousseau, he is not your friend. Non! Nor does he go to hell! You are so filled with mistakes! We do not like you! We call you stupid names, [...]

The Little Black Coco

What can this be? A new Coco? After Irma la Douce has so very well played her so definitave? Saint-Just tells you it is true! He has heard it for himself!
But is it so bad a thing? Two Cocos? And one so very young! She is Audrey Tautou, who plays the girl is very many [...]

Dior He Has “The Look”

When M. Laurent was a petite ecolier — I do not mean the cookie; I mean the boy scholar — he learns what he know from the great Christian Dior. Later they fight, but for a while they are good friends.

M. Dior is the fine fellow who long ago invented “The Look.” Because after all [...]

Eau de Miel

Do you have the dent douce? Perhaps you merely have the thirst from so long on Le Grand Tour, eh? Saint-Just has the solution élégante. We will murder two birds with but a single rock. A rock that is wet! I speak of the waters of Provence, but I speak in Occitan, the ancien language [...]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau the Bust

I Bite on the Barracuda!

How puzzled your face looks in America, my cousins! “What is this?” you cry. “How can it be? She is a woman! What ever shall we do? Oh! Oh!” I would laugh, but I do not wish your anger, my friends. You must not let your gallant spirits hold you back in politics. Remember: Politics [...]

Saint-Just in a Very Small Place

Do not be despairing, beleaguered French troops! C’est mois, Louis de Saint-Just, to the rescue! On the bounce, henh? Ho ho ho.
As you see, my petits touristes, we continue the travel of Le Grand Empire Français. The Sun, he never sets on the French Empire, after all. Well, perhaps he does set from time to [...]

The Eiffel Code

It is too much! All this talk of Da Vinci code this, Da Vinci code that! My blood is on boil! Leonardo, he is not the only one with a code. The magnifique Gustave Eiffel also give to us a secret code so we can be like Inspector Maigret and be sneaky little detectives. Ho [...]

French Empire Parts: Egypt

Come! It is time we travel to French Empire Parts. First we visit the Pharaohs of Egypt.
As you surely know, little ones, my good friend Napoleon made France into the Empire, so he had go get some Empire Parts. Egypt was available for a trifle, so M. Bonaparte sent the Grande Armée to make them [...]

Versailles: Land of Enchantment

When you visit my wonderful France, do not hesitate to visit my friend, Totí. See him about to spit out the water. He is a fountain of great service and wisdom. We are old friends, we two.
Do your feet swell? He will make them small.
Is your heat rising? He will turn you down.
Do you thirst? [...]