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Vive la France! Allez les Bleus!
I must confess, I don’t really get why people get so excited about this kind of thing. But I understand joy, and I love it.
Vive la France, Allez les Bleus!!!
Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, writing coach, and teacher of writing and of literature who divides her time between the U.S. and France. She leads writing workshops in Essoyes, a village in the Champagne region, and teaches “Paris: A Literary Adventure” for the City University of New York each summer.
Our Little Bibliothèque
“I have been thinking about libraries lately…”
Continue Reading December 10, 2017 at 1:17 pm Leave a comment
November in Essoyes (2017 Version)
The month began, of course, with Toussaint,…Then there was Armistice Day…
A Wonderful Day in Troyes-in-Champagne
Like many people, my favorite city in France is Paris. But my second-favorite city in France is not so well known. So please allow me to introduce you to a beautiful, medium-sized city in eastern France, about two and a half hours southeast of Paris, that you really should think about visiting if you haven’t already…
Continue Reading October 19, 2017 at 3:09 pm Leave a comment
Essoyes à la Belle Epoque…a magnificent success!
“As part of the department-wide Year of Renoir, the village of Essoyes hosted a weekend-long return to the year 1900—to celebrate and showcase what Essoyes was like in the height of the period when Renoir and his family would come to the village, to paysanner (enjoy the countryside)…”
Interview with Karen Schur-Narula, Author
An interview with the author of “Fatherland,” an exquisitely written, deeply compelling novel set in Germany under the Third Reich…
Et voila! La Maison #Renoir is open to the public!
…yesterday, the Renoir family home, which has been under an intense process of renovation for the past year, was at last ready for visitors–and right on schedule!…
A very special spring in Essoyes
“Springtime is always a busy time in agricultural communities, and this year is no different in southern Champagne, as local farmers tend to their crops–primarily wheat, rapeseed, and of course grapes for champagne…”
Early Winter in Essoyes
“I have always loved the beauty of lakes, oceans, forests. But it was not until I got to settle into life on our beautiful little patch of countryside that I was able to notice certain interesting and beautiful things in nature that I had never really noticed before, things that were not on the “macro” scale of sunsets and landscapes…”
Continue Reading December 12, 2016 at 7:37 pm Leave a comment
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 