French Literature Gifts

Marcel Proust.

Marcel Proust

"Look alive, Proust, you're next."

Andre Gide.

Paul Valery.

Voltaire.

"I'm sorry to bother you, but by any chance do you happen to have a copy of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal on your person?"

Raymond Queneau

Guillaume Apollinaire

The Vineyard

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

Honoré de Balzac

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Like I could date a guy from Notre Dame."

'You can just forget about the cake.'

'Plastic corks, then screw caps; when they come out with a flip-n-sip Chateau Petrus I'm hanging up my tastevin.'

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

Audio Books

"I cook the sausages in French mineral water, I wear a French beret and I can call you 'Monsieur'."

French wine

"Weather like this plagued my retreat from Moscow."

Atomic Bear: Part 14

French Early Bird

"Oui, c'est bon. It is, how you Americans say, 'Magically Delicious'."

Marcel Proust

"Ask the gumshoe. He'll tell ya the saucer was empty when I got there. Go on, gimme a purr detector test. I got all night."

'I, Dom Perignon, will now uncork the very first bottle of Champagne. Of course, I'm just guessing this is the right way to do it.'

"Here’s a book with a pretty peacock on the cover. Let’s try this Flannery O’Connor story before bed."

French Army knife

'Apparently, my wine-tasting computer liked the '86 Haut Brion a bit too much - it didn't leave any for us.'

Charles Baudelaire

Eugene Ionesco

"A votre sante!"

'Yes, I speak perfect English, I have to 'cause you English are too bloody lazy to learn French!'

Eugene Delacroix