The Rendez-vous d'Amérique Blog

By Didier Allouch, host of Rendez-vous d'Amérique

There are some people who represent more than anything the link between France and America. One of them is Josephine Baker and she had two loves, her country and Paris.

By Didier Allouch, host of Rendez-vous d'Amérique

Even the most solid of ties could be put to the test by a political or economical challenge, and to establish a relationship between two countries that doesn’t depend on the politics or economics of the moment, there is only one weapon: culture.

By Didier Allouch, host of Rendez-vous d'Amérique

The Lumière festival is one with tons of celebrity participation, but without competition or pressure, where there’s nothing at stake but the pleasure of watching movies. But this year things are changing and that's not quite true anymore….

I’m pretty sure that the international popularity of French-speaking artists has risen during the pandemic and the multiple lock downs, and now French musicians are returning to American stages