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🇫🇷 French husband. 🇺🇸 American wife.
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An American wife and a French husband, in suburban Massachusetts, with three small boys and one running disagreement about butter.
She films. He objects.
New here? Start with how we met and our first date.
Short films about a man who did not ask to be filmed. The latest six, straight from Instagram.
The videos, answered properly.
Field notes, quizzes and tools, sorted by what is in season. He has opinions. Some of them are graded.
HalloweenIs Halloween celebrated in France?It exists there the way cricket exists here. Technically. Somewhere.Read →
Halloween7 Things Americans Do on Halloween That Horrify French PeopleDecorating in September, dressing the dog, pumpkins nobody eats: seven American Halloween habits that leave a French person speechless, and why.Read →
HalloweenHow American Is Your Halloween?One pumpkin or nineteen, a door or a twelve-foot skeleton, soup or carving.Take the quiz →
Halloween5 Ways to Tell You’re Celebrating Halloween With a French PersonThe costume has to be scary, dinner comes before candy and the pumpkin ends up as soup: five signs your Halloween has a French person in it.Read →
Beaujolais NouveauBeaujolais Nouveau: Thursday, 19 NovemberThe wine France opens on the third Thursday of November, and which bottle to buy.Read →
Dry-skin seasonFrench skincare vs AmericanFour steps from the French pharmacy, and the winter fix for dry skin.Read →
PumpkinsWhy don’t Americans eat their pumpkins?Two billion pounds grown a year. 1.3 billion thrown away. In France it is dinner.Read →
Halloween décorWhy do Americans decorate their houses for every season?$4.3 billion on Halloween decorations alone. France has no such aisle.Read →
Apple seasonWhy Americans pay to pick apples and the French pay to drink themOne country sells you the labour. The other sells you the result.Read →
Pumpkin spice seasonDo French people like pumpkin spice?I explained the season has a flavour. He asked which season.Read →
Cozy seasonMake Your Home Feel FrenchSix taps, and the small things that make a home feel French: fresh air, one good scent, low light, flowers,…Try the tool →
ToussaintWhy do French kids get two weeks off in October?Seven weeks on, two weeks off. American children get a long weekend and then Thanksgiving.Read →
The clocks changeWhy do the clocks change on different days in France and America?For one week Paris is five hours ahead, not six. Congress did it for Halloween.Read →
QuizHow Parisian Are You?Eight quick questions on home, food and beauty, and an official verdict.Take the quiz →Fashion & Beauty · French Recipes · Home & Table · French Parenting · Paris & Travel · Love & Relationships · Holidays · American Life
Dating one? Start with my boyfriend is French: how we met, and his 10 tips.
The Gift Guide, from our Maison.
You first, then him, your mother, the host and the kids. French and European pieces, each linked to the shop that sells it.
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IV — Ask him
He has an opinion. Ask for it.
One question about French and American life. He rules on it in a few lines.
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