NEW at Versailles! Hunter Douglas Window Fashions
Category: Events, Versailles' life
At Versailles Interiors, we specialize in bringing you a wide selection of French and European furnishings, accessories, and fabrics for style, elegance and comfort. In adding to our repertoire of products, we’re pleased to now offer a full-line of Hunter Douglas window coverings. Hunter Douglas provides a wide array of products providing luxury, innovation, ultraviolet protection and energy efficiency for traditional and modern settings.On May 6, 2010, “First Thursday,” Debra is hosting an informal Hunter Douglas presentation at Versailles Interiors with Hunter Douglas District Sales Manager, Norma Lauzon.
The International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire
Category: Gardens
For those who love flowers, gardens and flora beauty, you have to visit Chaumont-sur-Loire (in Loire Valley) during May. Each year, there is a festival garden with a lot of wonderful ideas and amazing projects. You can find too plants that care for the body, like medicinal herbs, aromatic plants, condiment plants. If you plan to travel to France on May, be sure to make a loop to the festival Gardens.
La Mousse au Chocolat
Category: French Recipes
From Francoise Bernard’s Les Recettes Faciles:
Ingredients – serves 4-5 people
- Semi-sweet chocolate – 68% Valrhona or Trader Joe’s Belge semi-sweet chocolate bar.
- unsalted butter: 1 tsp
- eggs: 4 (or 3 eggs + 1 egg white only)
- a pinch of salt
The Loire Valley, definitly a place to visit for French lovers?
Category: French Heritage, French spot
We are sure you have already heard about the Loire Valley In France. The Loire Valley (in French: Vallée de la Loire) is world-famous for castles (Chambord, Chenonceau…) and historic towns. It was added by UNESCO to its list of World Heritage Sites, in 2000, and Unesco say the Loire Valley is: “an exceptional cultural landscape, of great beauty, comprised of historic cities and villages, great architectural monuments – the Châteaux – and lands that have been cultivated and shaped by centuries of interaction between local populations and their physical environment, in particular the Loire itself.” Loire Valley is situated in the center of France Read the rest of this entry »