France's big day is coming up! Get ready to celebrate with our apéritif favorites and our Bastille Day specials, a lovely selection of France-themed food, home accents, and accessories perfect for the occasion.
If you are in New York this Sunday the 12th, we would love for you to visit our booth at the Bastille Day street fair. Bastille Day on Madison (Madison Ave between 59th and 63rd St, noon to 5 PM) is our favorite annual French event here in America. Come and you'll see why! We'll bring plenty of French goodies and conversation pieces. :)
Happy upcoming Bastille Day!
Marianne Prébet
Founder & Gourmand-in-Chief
Just in: more French favorites
Among the French favorites recently added to our shelves you will find Brets La Craquante and honey & mustard potato chips from Britanny, Esprit Provence assorted aromatic extra virgin olive oils, Maison Marc gazpacho, Émile Vergeois pure yuzu & apple juice, Le Cachou licorice pastilles, Bovetti chocolate soccer ball, Dammann flavored black tea in an elegant Eiffel Tower tin, La Corvette Marine Nationale body wash and shampoo range, and a cute set of French wine charms.
If there is a French treat you would like to find on our website, please share your craving with us.
Suggestions for your French agenda
There is plenty of exciting French cultural events all around America. Enjoy your picks!
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Manet & Morisot, through July 5, and France in the Time of Manet and Morisot (a photography exhibition), through August 23.
The Denver Art Museum presents The 19th Century in European and American Art.
In New York, the MoMA presents the Marcel Duchamp exhibition. Through August 22.
L'Alliance New York presents its new film series, Chabrol & Huppert: Doing Wrong. Through July 28.
L'Alliance New York celebrates Frederick Wiseman with a new film series, Frederick Wiseman in France. Through July 24.
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Cafés and Cabarets: The Spectacular Art of Toulouse-Lautrec. Through September 20.
In Washington, DC the National Gallery of Art presents Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris. Through August 30.
In Washington, DC Marc Chagall's magistral Orphée mosaic in on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art.
Last but not least, the 2026 edition of Films on the Green, the multi-city outdoor French film festival, spans seven cities this year: Chicago, Houston, Marfa, TX, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Santurce, PR, Washington, DC. Through October 9.
Try out Le Guérandais's recipe for vegetable & sardine millefeuille
This gourmet summer dish will delight the foodies!
Ingredients (serves 4)
4 fresh sardines
1 long eggplant
1 zucchini
2 large tomatoes
1 onion
olive oil
60g fine salt with herbs
Directions
the day before
Cut the sardines in half, removing the center and large bones. Rinse the sardines in clean water, dry them, then marinate them overnight in a bowl containing 4 tablespoons of oil, 50g of fine salt with herbs and the juice of one lemon.
same day
Preheat oven thermostat 200°C (400°F).
Thinly slice the eggplants, zucchinis, tomatoes and onions. Quickly fry the eggplants and zucchinis in a little olive oil.
Place one eggplant slice, one half-sardine, one zucchini slice, one half-sardine, one onion slice and one tomato slice, one on top of the other, on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Repeat until you've used up all the vegetable slices.
Sprinkle with fine salt with herbs.