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Visiting Monet’s Giverny Home and Gardens

Claude Monet is one of the most famous painters in France and founded the French Impressionist painting style. Monet’s Giverny home and gardens can be visited even now. An organization called Fondation Monet in Giverny preserves and runs Monet’s Giverny home and gardens. The place is one of the most visited sites in Normandy, attracting ...

Raven Montmorency

Monet's Giverny home.

Kids Lovin’ It: The Coolest Ride to School

Amaury Piquiot is the founder of the nonprofit organization “S’Cool Bus,” which does something very special — it allows children to ride to school in what is essentially a large tandem bike. The service is currently operational only in France. The S’Cool Bus as an alternative school bus “Each S’cool Bus is 1.3 meters wide, ...

Armin Auctor

Kids putting on bicycle helmets.

Arcadio Huang, Chinese Translator for Louis XIV (Part 2)

In 1713, 24-year-old Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, known simply as Montesquieu, was introduced to Arcadio Huang and became a frequent visitor. Arcadio Huang recorded that he and Montesquieu met eight times and introduced him to China’s politics, economy, culture, law, religion, and folk customs. The intellectual closeness of the ...

Helen London

Notre Dame in Paris.

Arcadio Huang, Chinese Translator for Louis XIV (Part 1)

Arcadio Huang (Huang Jialue) was born in Putian County, Fujian Province, on November 15, 1679. He lost his father at the age of seven and was adopted by the French evangelist Li Feili. Li Feili hired a famous local Confucian scholar to teach him traditional Chinese culture. At the same time, Li Feili taught him ...

Helen London

The Jesuit Jane Fuzong.

No More Smartphones for Children Under 15 in French Schools

France has banned the use of smartphones among school students under the age of 15. The ban, passed in July and effective from August 5, was hailed by the country’s education minister as “a law for the 21st century,” and also covers devices like tablets and smartwatches. No more smartphones France already had a law that ...

Nspirement Staff