Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

food therapy

 

Friday, May 6, 2022

more advanced than the French

 


William Hogarth [1697-1764], "O the Roast Beef of Old England" [The Gate of Calais]

Friday, December 28, 2012


"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are."
- French aphorism

Saturday, May 19, 2012


"He was forty years older than me, but he exuded life."
- Françoise Gilot who married Picasso when she was twenty-two and he was sixty-two

Monday, January 31, 2011

jolie laide


National Geographic photo of Mouse Lemur by Mark Thiessen

Jolie Laide
[French: pretty ugly] not pretty in conventional terms, but nevertheless has a distinctive harmony or charm