Frenchmen Street First

Frenchmen Street First

Author: Melissa Chambers

Publisher: Perry Evans Press

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13:

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When your first unrequited love could possibly be your last… When Marcelle Boudreaux walked into the bar to meet up with her friends and family on Christmas night, she never dreamed she’d be face to face with her high school crush who she hadn’t been able to shake in fifteen years. Though she’d pined for him, the first and only words he’d spoken to her had been a profession of love made out the window of a speeding car on his graduation night, leaving her in unrequited torture for years. Now, she stands face-to-face with him, ready to speak her first words ever to him. Even though she’s now a Hollywood producer who commands a major television production in her day job, she finds the only word she can utter is, “Hi.” As he’s pulled into another conversation, she realizes she might be once again letting her chance with Patrick Lamontagne slip away. Back in high school, Patrick’s anxiety had paralyzed him from talking to girls, most notably, Marcelle Boudreaux. If it was possible to love someone he saw every day but never spoke to, that was what had happened for him. Social Media tells him she lives the Hollywood life, so even though he’s now versed in asking women out, that old high school anxiety creeps back in. Going another moment without talking to the only woman he's never forgotten isn’t an option. He will talk to her tonight, and if all goes as he’s always dreamed, he will turn his first love into his last. Frenchmen Street First is a bonus novella in the Broussard Brothers world. The series is set in the Big Easy and features three hot brothers and two interconnected New Orleans families with enough drama to fuel a Mardi Gras float. While Frenchmen Street First picks up where the last novel in the series ended, it features a new couple and can be read as a standalone.


Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong

Author: Jean-Benoit Nadeau

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1402230575

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"Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal


Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children-- and Other Streets of New Orleans

Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children-- and Other Streets of New Orleans

Author:

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781565549319

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"The history of New Orleans is a street-level story, with names like Iberville, Terpsichore, Gravier, Tchopitoulas, and of course, Bourbon, presenting the city?s past with every step. The late John Churchill Chase eloquently chronicles the origins and development of the most fascinating of American cities in this humorous masterpiece." -- from the publisher.


Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children ... and Other Streets of New Orleans!

Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children ... and Other Streets of New Orleans!

Author: John Churchill Chase

Publisher: Quid Pro Books

Published: 2014-06-18

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1610272390

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Bourbon? Calliope? St. Claude? Craps Street??! New Orleans history, legend, and myth are humorously and colorfully told through its street names, in a famous book all the locals grew up with — and tourists will enjoy — by cartoonist and humorist John Churchill Chase. The new ebook edition takes Chase's second and best edition and makes it more usable to the digital reader, adding a fully-linked index, active Contents, linked notes and cross-references, all the cartoons from the original, and more. It is searchable and properly formatted for e-readers, pads, and smartphones, and features all the drawings and map sketches of the original Second Edition, even including (unlike other versions) the cover inset drawings and the original dustjacket. A quality digital republication from Quid Pro Books and its Quaint Press imprint, this ebook still makes locals and visitors laugh while learning the sometimes embarrassing truths behind the people, neighborhoods, avenues, and "neutral grounds" of the hodgepodge that became New Orleans. "Once upon a time," Chase writes, "while minding my own business drawing historical cartoons, I became intrigued with the realistic manner in which the street names of New Orleans told my city's lusty history...." He closes his preface thanking his wife, "who says that she does so believe that I was at the library all the times I said I was, and not at the Sazerac Bar. I also wish to thank the bartenders of the Sazerac Bar." This classic work is funny yet very informative. And in its new digital format with special features from Quid Pro Books, it serves as a great guide to the city's pathways to the present.


Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn

Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn

Author: Pops Coffee

Publisher:

Published: 2017-11-10

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781973270836

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Now updated to 2020, this is an account of the development and output of the great young traditional jazz band Tuba Skinny, which is based in New Orleans. Many recommendations are included of videos to watch and recordings available for purchase.


The Broussard Brothers of New Orleans

The Broussard Brothers of New Orleans

Author: Melissa Chambers

Publisher: Perry Evans Press

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 881

ISBN-13:

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The complete Broussard Brothers collection, including a bonus novella! Grumpy Beignet Boss: A Second Chance Steamy Romance: He’s betrayed her before, but she won’t fall into his trap again… In order to start her own healthy junk food restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Peyton Boudreaux must trudge back home to New Orleans to claim her trust fund with her tail between her legs. But before the money is hers, she’s got to complete the required hours, cleaning grease traps and mopping floors at Boudreaux’s: Home of the Chocolate Hazelnut Beignet. On top of that, she must face the CEO of the dual family business – former love of her life, Braxton Broussard, Traitor. He shot her down both romantically and professionally years ago, and now he’s the one whose butt she’s got to kiss. Tropes found in this book: Grumpy/Sunshine Boss/Employee Childhood Crush Renewed First Love Unrequited Love Opposites Attract French Quarter Flirt: A Friends to Lovers Steamy Romance He’s New Orleans’ biggest player. She just needs to control the game. When Garrett Broussard and Savannah Sanderson are mistaken for a romantic couple and asked to attend a formal dinner that could boost Savannah’s career, Garrett capitalizes on the opportunity, trading a date for a date. He’ll attend the formal dinner if she’ll help him get his boss off his back, who wants to set Garrett up with his daughter. It’s a weekend trip, and they’ll have to share a room to make the fake relationship seem legit. He’ll just sweep the little crush he’s had on her all these years under the rug and pretend she’s not hot at all walking around in his Saints T-shirt and no shorts. Tropes found in this book: Friends to Lovers Fake Relationship Opposites Attract Guy Falls First All Grown Up Sworn Off Relationships Banter Bourbon Street Bachelor: An Enemies to Lovers Steamy Romance Calliope’s been hurt too many times to let another man in, but Quentin Broussard’s about to turn her world upside down. After having been forced out of New Orleans eighteen years ago, Quentin Broussard is now free to come back and reconnect with his family. But not all of them have such open arms. He would have left already if it weren’t for Calliope, who is healing a part of him he didn’t realize was broken. She’s been hurt many times before and is guarding her heart accordingly. He’s got to figure out how to break down her walls and make her his, because now that he has experienced a world with Calliope Koch, he refuses to go back to one without her. Tropes found in this book: Enemies to Lovers Guy Falls First Ex-boyfriend’s Brother Afraid to Commit Cinnamon Roll Hero Rejected As Unworthy by Parents Sworn Off Relationships Frenchmen Street First: A First Love Steamy Romance When your first unrequited love could possibly be your last… Even though Marcelle Boudreaux is a big Hollywood producer now, standing before her high school crush, words escape her just like they did all those years ago. Patrick Lamontagne’s old high school anxiety creeps back in, but going another moment without talking to the only woman he's never forgotten isn’t an option. He will talk to her tonight, and if all goes as he’s always dreamed, he will turn his first love into his last. Tropes found in this book: Unrequited Love Return to Hometown/Reunion Romance The One That Got Away Long Distance Relationship Childhood Crush The Broussard Brothers series is set in the Big Easy and features three hot brothers and two interconnected New Orleans families with enough drama to fuel a Mardi Gras float.


Peasants into Frenchmen

Peasants into Frenchmen

Author: Eugen Weber

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 0804710139

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France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.


The Table Comes First

The Table Comes First

Author: Adam Gopnik

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Published: 2011-10-25

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0307399036

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Transplanted Canadian, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?" Never before have so many North Americans cared so much about food. But much of our attention to it tends towards grim calculation (what protein is best? how much?); social preening ("I can always score the last reservation at xxxxx"); or graphic machismo ("watch me eat this now"). Gopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break apart) over the table, conversations across the simplest or grandest board can change the world, pain and romance unfold around it--all this is more essential to our lives than the provenance of any zucchini or the road it travelled to reach us. Whatever dilemmas we may face as omnivores, how not what we eat ultimately defines our society. Gathering people and places drawn from a quarter century's reporting in North America and France, The Table Comes First marks the beginning a new conversation about the way we eat now.