Tango Maurice Béjart, the French choreographer whose flamboyant and populist ballets made him the equivalent of a pop star in Europe, died in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was 80. Béjart was born in Marseille, as Maurice Jean Berger. Physically frail as a child, the young Maurice Berger enrolled in ballet school at age 14 as therapy….
Le célèbre mime Marcel Marceau, est mort à l’âge de 84 ans. Le « Charlie Chaplin » français s’est éteint samedi soir. Il est né le 22 mars 1923 à Strasbourg. « La parole n’est pas nécessaire pour exprimer ce qu’on a sur le cœur », expliquait-il à propos de son art, le mime, qu’il…
To kiss or not to kiss, that is the question or at least it’s one of the questions that non-Europeans often ask themselves when greeting a French person. To some Americans, it might seem the French are always kissing each other. In France and other French-speaking countries, people kiss their family members, friends, even their…