My Stylish French Girlfriends
$40.00
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Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families. Visit them in their grand chateaux or charming little country cottages or Parisian apartments. Learn where they shop, where they work, where they play, how they dress, and how they entertain. Absorb each girlfriend’s style and joie de vivre. Santoni’s affectionate writing, along with gorgeous photography, tells each woman’s story with an intimacy usually reserved for the closest of girlfriends.
Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families. Visit them in their grand chateaux or charming little country cottages or Parisian apartments. Learn where they shop, where they work, where they play, how they dress and, how they entertain. Absorb each girlfriend’s style and joie de vivre. Santoni’s affectionate writing, along with gorgeous photography, tells each woman’s story with an intimacy usually reserved for the closest of girlfriends.
SHARON SANTONI·SMITH grew up in England but married a Frenchman and has raised her family in Normandy, France. Her blog, My French Country Home, is read daily by thousands all over the world. She writes about life in rural France; the ups and downs of family life; her inspiring French girlfriends; the intricacies of village life; and her love of searching for brocante treasure in the flea markets of Paris and the countryside.
These portraits of women and homes show a side of France that visitors don’t normally get to see. I deliberately sought out women from all over the country, reaching from Calais in the north to Provence in the south. Each girlfriend was chosen because she has a story to tell and a great lifestyle to portray. I picked friends of all ages, because it is through living our lives that our characters grow; some faces may have a few more lines, but that is only because they have smiled more. And with age comes a new self-confidence, a self-assuredness. From candlelit dinners with lobster and champagne, to a barbecue eaten beside a river, to picnics enjoyed on their property or on a mountainside, each girlfriend went out of her way to make us feel welcome.From the moment I started working on the book, I don’t think a day passed when I didn’t pronounce the word “privilege,” for that, above all, is what making this book has truly been: the privilege of introducing you to my stylish French girlfriends.
Alicia 9Catherine 21Cécile 33Celestina 45Charlotte 55Christelle 65Claire 77Clarisse 87Cornélie 97Evelyne 107Frédérique 117Laure 127Marie-Christine 137Marie 149Nathalie 159Sabine 169Sophie 181Stéphanie 191Valérie 201Ysabel 211The Girlfriends’ Recommendations 222Un Grand Merci 224 What a great idea for a book! Santoni dedicates each chapter to one of her stylish French friends – interviews them, has them photographed and she tells us why they are so interesting and so dear to her. Wonderful! I loved it. Really loved it. It was fun to read that, after the interviews, when the twenty stylish French women met, some of them coincidentally knew each other or owned artworks, dresses, champagne that the others had created…This was a beautiful book to read and to savor the beautiful, beautiful photos. How fabulous! Enjoy. What a great idea for a book! Santoni dedicates each chapter to one of her stylish French friends – interviews them, has them photographed and she tells us why they are so interesting and so dear to her. Wonderful! I loved it. Really loved it. It was fun to read that, after the interviews, when the twenty stylish French women met, some of them coincidentally knew each other or owned artworks, dresses, champagne that the others had created…This was a beautiful book to read and to savor the beautiful, beautiful photos. How fabulous! Enjoy. What a great idea for a book! Santoni dedicates each chapter to one of her stylish French friends – interviews them, has them photographed and she tells us why they are so interesting and so dear to her. Wonderful! I loved it. Really loved it. It was fun to read that, after the interviews, when the twenty stylish French women met, some of them coincidentally knew each other or owned artworks, dresses, champagne that the others had created…This was a beautiful book to read and to savor the beautiful, beautiful photos. How fabulous! Enjoy.
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| Weight | 4 oz |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 12 × 10 in |
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