The National Gallery is a documentary which was made by Frederick Wiseman. He's anAmerican director, he is famous for his firts film Titicut Follies also for the documentary La Danse which is about the Paris Opera.

The documentary came out on the 8th october 2014, and was shot over 12 weeks in 2012. Wiseman wants to show this documentary as a portrait of London's National Gallery which is respresented as an attraction when it came out at films festival around the world. During the 3 hours of the film, it states all the wall account of the life inside the museum and different paintings which we could find there. In fact, the particularity of this documentary is that there are neither voice narration nor talker, only some guides who explain some paintings. Because, Frederick Wiseman wants to show a presentation of what his camera has captured as a visitor, the day when there are visitors, and the night without them.

You can watch the trailer below :

The famous museum National Gallery

is located in Trafalgar Square in north London, is the fourth most visited museum in the world, it is famous for its distinction of having that painting of the 13th and 20th century. It was inaugurated in 1824.

If you go to London you should visit that museum.!!

The Corpse Reader (Antonio Garrido)

The corpse reader was a book written by Antonio Garrido. The story takes place in the middle age in China. 
We follow the incredible story of Ci Song a young boy who comes from the middle class society. 
After the death of all his family he decided to go to the capital to integrate the prestigious academy Ming. Like a Sherlock Holmes he's gonna investigate on crime and other mystery.
A wonderful story based on real facts ! I have really loved reading this book and I can only recommend you to read this books!!!

Gwendal Tilly

The New Library opened the on the 27th september 2014. It is located in the 972 Fith Avenue in New York city. It's a French library where you can find more than 14 000 books. 

The origin of the name "Albertine" refers to the book of Marcel Proust a famous french writter ;"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" 

The architect Jacques Garcia was honored to design the new bookshop. It has an area of 150 m² so it's a big bookshop!

It's the opportunities for francophone and anglophone too, to find titles in French and either to dicover French litterature or enrich their knowledge of French litterature in English translation! 

Here you can see a little video of  Jacques Garcia who explains the conception of the library! Enjoy it !

Shakespeare and Compagny is a bookshop which is located in the 5^th district of Paris. There we can find a lot of books and novels about policy, classical litterature, fiction... All of this in english !

In the Xvth century, it was a monastery. 

In 1951, George Whitman, a journalist coming from New-Jersey built a real literary circle in this place. In 1964, he named the bookshop Shakespeare and Compagny because of the 400^th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth and to pay a tribute to Sylvia Beach's book : Shakespeare and Company (she was a librarian during the 2 world wars and wrote this book with her memories of the interwar).

What is specific about this bookshop ? It's that above the books rooms, there is a place where travellers can be hosted and fed in return to work a few hours a day in Shakespeare and Compagny and to write their own autobiography... This travellers are nicknamed the « Tumbleweeds ».

Thanks for reading my article and have a nice day !

 Léa