Our colorful, wine-making village of Sainte Cécile-Les-Vignes: a scenic place to ride your bike, with no-hassle parking.
livre d'or (leev-ruh-door) noun, masculine
: "golden book", guestbook, visitors' book
I hope you'll sign my livre d'or — this would make me so happy! You might include your name, location, a few–or many–things about yourself, and how you happened upon this word-of-the-day website…. and why not sign off with your own mot-du-jour? I love learning (or relearning… because I often don't "get it" the first time around) French words. Merci beaucoup!
Sound File:
Listen to my son, Max, pronounce the French word livre d'or and the following example sentence:
Veuillez signer le livre d'or de ma mère s'il vous plaît.
Please sign my mom's guestbook.
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Bonne annee! I am glad to be back reading your blog again (did a couple years ago). I am bringing my family to France this summer and look forward to reading your blog for ideas and inspiration!
-Katie
Hi Kristin,
I found your book or should I say it found me while waiting for my flight to the south of France in Logan airport in Boston. I read the and re-read your book while lounging around the beaches of Cannes and hanging out in my favorite cafes. Thank you so much for this wonderful gift you give to us all. It brings so much happiness and lovely memories of my time spent in my beloved France.
Thanks so much for having this website!! I really enjoy getting new french words daily!!
Bonne Annee a tous! Merci, Kristin, pour un mot francais chaque jour. J’aime aussi chaque mot dans une phrase. Merci beaucoup!
I’m brushing up my French after many dusty years. My family and I were in France last summer and I have fallen in love with French language and culture again. My daughter will be studying in France next year so I want to continue my French practice for when I visit her.
Donna, Tucson, Arizona
Bonne Nouvelle Année Kristin et Jean-Marc. Je suis la vieille dame de San Francisco. I enjoyed meeting you both in SF last year, and I have savored two bottles of your first vintage. I am a faithful reader, but I am not going to compliment you, because I am very afraid that all these people gushing over you are going to spoil your natural charm.
Marion
Love your messages. Working for a French company allows me to test some out on locals and natives. Thanks.
Bob Irwin
I enjoy your website very much.
Eileen, Chicago “telle quelle”
Bonjour et bonne année. Une aimee told me about your website. I joined some time ago–and have not delelted one French – Word -A- Day e-mail since I joined. My New Year’s Resolution, is to learn the best way to fully use your website–AND keep up. Even though I am so busy, I want to learn French and French culture. Merci beaucoup!
Hello,
I learned about the site when I bought your book recently. One day I hope to travel to Europe, and France is one of the destinations I would love to visit. For now I have to be happy reading about places I would love to see. The only French background I have other than having French in my family, is that I used to be a sous chef in a French restaurant. Cooking is one of my passions, though my career path went a different direction. I do still cook for friends and family. I also enjoy an occassional French film. The only French I know involves cooking, and for now I am learning Italian with Rosetta Stone. It has been fun reading your book; learning words we normally do not see when learning French. I look forward to reading this site. Thank you for the time you give it.
Bonjour Kristin……….I have been reading your blog for about 2 years now. I lived in the “banlieu de Paris” for about 4 years before returning to Brooklyn, New York. My husband is French and we hope to return to France someday. It was just easier to find jobs here. We have TV5 which keeps us in touch with everything.
My dream is to live in the south of France…so you let me live vicariously through you for the time being. I am also very eager to try your wine, I’ll have to make sure I find a place in Manhattan that has it.
I also appreciate your blogs because, having lived in France, I can appreciate all the little nuances of daily life in France. My husband has little different ways of looking at things and I call them “Frenchisms” (like, he must have gotten sick because he did not have a scarf on!!!) LOL
Anyway, I am going to sign off with my favorite word……which I use in my daily conversations because I have to search for the English word (yes, that does happen when you live in another country for those who think it’s crazy!)…Quincaillerie – hardware store!
A+
Bonne annee, un peu en retard. Je ne me souviens plus comment j’ai decouvert votre “site,” mais ca fait a peu pres deux ans que je le lis. (Avec grand plaisir d’ailleurs!) Peut-etre qu’on en a parle au “cercle francais” auquel j’assiste a Portland, OR. Je suis ancien prof de francais (“ancien” dans les deux sens du mot). J’ai passe un an en Suisse (U. de Geneve) et un autre an a Nice avec le programme de l’Universite du Vermont (Vermont Overseas Study Program). Mais il y a tres longtemps de tout ca. Mon mari et moi apprecions beaucoup vos photos – vous avez beaucoup de talent! Merci de vous dedier a ce travail and de continuer a partager votre vie familiale avec avec le monde francophile! Amities.
Bonne annee aussi! Je suis desolee mais mon francais n’est pas trop bon. Ce message est ma premiere. Merci beaucoup. Bonne journee pour tout!
Bonne Année Kristin! I found your site when I started improving my french in preparation for moving to Rwanda for work. Listening to your sound files reminds me of the differences of pronunciation. Good for future trips to other francophone locales so I don’t embarrass myself with my pronunciation. Thanks so much!
Hi Kristi, thanks for battling on with thrice-word-a-week as well as creating a whole new life and hopefully “living your dream”. It is great to read your words and picture everything in your part of France. One of my new years resolutions is to really concentrate on my French and your blog is a lovely way to help ….. keep up the wonderful work. Michele xx
Hi Kristin,
Thank you for sharing with us. I love the stories and the situations you write about. Thanks for letting us live through you!!!
My favorite places in France are Tours, Nice, and Normandy…in that order. I also liked Monaco. I recently heard of a place called Eze and Reunion (an island i think). I am hoping to visit again someday. Bonne Année aussi!!
Better late than never! I absolutely LOVE the photo for this post and I’m happy to sign your livre d’or. May you have a very blessed new year!
Super page, des sujets intéressants et de vous inviter à ma page.
Bonne annee ! I found one of your books in one of my favorite bookstores in Asheville, NC, several years ago and from there, I found your blog. I studied in France when I was in college, and I have missed it ever since! Your weekly doses of insights about life and your experiences in France are such a pleasure. Thank you for your courage in sharing those with all of us.
I am always intrigued with the lovely french language. Found your site and thought it was lovely. I will subscribe!
Bonjour, Kristin. I’ve only just now noticed the guestbook while searching for your archive link. I first encountered you when I grabbed your book to help prepare me for an extended stay in France while my husband did university research. I enjoyed it because it educated me about idioms and the French character — both important for anyone visiting as more than a tourist. It wasn’t until a year later that I realized you had a website to go with the book! So I signed up immediately and have also talked others into signing up even though they have absolutely no need to know French (they love your photos and dogs).
Your blog has inspired me to start mine about my travels (hopelessly behind schedule because of life interference).
I sit at a laptop in St. Louis, MO, planning my next adventure. My favorite French word is “doucement.” I love the sound of it and all the contexts in which I’ve heard it used. It seems to define so much of French life and attitude.
Bonjour,
Juste un petit mot pour vous remercier. J’ai trouvé votre site en googlant “how to mourn a cat”, suite à l’euthanasie de ma chatte Lili. Vous lire fut un plaisir.
Salut Kristen,
Enchanté de vous connaître. Je m’appelle Herm.
I’ve been studing French for about 6 months and I’m looking forward to your “daily trice a week” letters.
I live in Phoenix, Az and I’m an oldtimer… 80 years old in May.
Stayed in Fontainebleu, France many years ago and went to Paris many to see my petite copine.
À bientôt
Hi Kristin, I don’t remember how I found your blog, but I’m glad I did. I subscribe so that I can keep up. I bought your book, but haven’t read it yet. Soon… I am from Berkeley, but have been living in Spain since 2001. I am now studying French, hoping to move there this year, or if not, then next, or the one after that…
Come see my blog on life in Spain!
Keep up your good work and keep on sharing.
Hi Kristin,
Am a retired elementary teacher from California. Got to your blog from the link on the French Genealogy Blog. Am just beginning to do research on my family in France-Paris, Cervon, Pour-aux-bois, Escombres-so far. Not knowing French has kept me from plunging into the french side of my family history. Learned some Spanish in high school (long ago) and am trying to use my little computer desktop translator to help with some of the words. I remember my dad speaking french occasionally around his brothers when I was little but he wouldn’t teach me so I opted for Spanish. I believe he was of the generation where foreign speaking was not encouraged. Not sure where my genealogical journey may lead me but have picked up a few words such as naissances, deces, mariages & arrondisements, although the pronunciation is lacking, of course. I was ecstatic when I discovered my dad’s naissance record in Sedan and my grandparents mariage record in Paris. I’m looking forward to the opportunity of picking up more french in an easy, fun way. Thanks for your efforts on behalf of us all.
Love reading your stories of life in France and have been reading them avidly for many years now. Your photos are so evocative! I signed up and paid to see your additional photos but have not received a link to where I can view them. Can you help me? Thank you!
Hi Kristen,
I just purchased your book. I cannot believe that I never knew about this site. I want to learn French so badly. I am going to purchase Rosetta Stone with the hopes of just that. I’m not the quickest learner of a foreigner language, but I am bound and determined to move to France once I retire which is in 8 years. So I figure I now have 8 years to learn the language, it will be like taking an 8 year course. I have signed up for your emails and hope that they will help in my quest. My first trip to France was in 2004 to Paris, Normandy and the Loire Valley. I fell in love then and in 2006 went to the French Riviera, Lake Como and the Alps. I LOVED the French Riviera and now I am convinced even more that I have to live in France one day. I love taking photos (although I cannot call myself a photographer, even though I like to think that I am)! On my first trip to France I took a wonderful picture in Calavados of wine bottles in a wine cellar that have one me many 1st place and “Best in Show” ribbons which I am so proud of and love to brag were taken in France!!!! If you would ever like to see it, let me know and I will try to send it! I have a website too if you are ever interested in browsing. Unfortunately it has not been updated in a while. My sister is the computer wiz and has literally NO time for that now!!! I’m not very saavy with the computer either! I LOVE that you do this for you job, how awesome. I’m very happy for your life. Good luck to you in all your ventures. Kim
Dear Kristin,
great job on your book and your blog. I really enjoy it.
A recipe section would be something great to browse through here. Or maybe even a cook book? Definitely something I’d enjoy reading and trying.
Stephanie
Hi Kristin,
Just ordered your books and can hardly wait to receive. I love French, but cannot speak it and also love learning new words in French. So enjoy your website (just discovered this a.m.). I look forward to daily words and inspiration.
Judy Truex
Jackson, TN
Bonjour Kristin,
Thank you for your lovely website! Even 25 kiometers down the road(Crestet, near Vaison) you have followers! We love to see your photos and to recognize the spots…since we don’t leave our “cour” much because we just opened our restaurant La Fleur Bleue. When we have time we would love to come and taste some of your wines for our carte des vins!
Bon courage for now!
Fiejette
http://www.lafleurbleue.fr
This is the most delightful, fresh blog! So happy to find you!!!
I did find you through GuilaGeranium..
Another lovely place to stop and vist and learn.. ..
xo,
Penney
Thanx for this information.
This is really a gr8 site.
============taylor
Cheap Bedford Hotels
Bon jour Kristin! Thank you for your lovely, enlightening blog! Perhaps you have already discussed Marguerite Duras, but if not, I look forward to your comments! I read The Lover in English in my 20s and many years later, tried to read L’Amant in French without sufficient understanding of the language, but still loved even just looking at the words. The movie is quite good as well, and the best part to me is Marguerite’s narration at the end, herself then an old woman reflecting on the memories of her youthful love affair. It is hard to describe why French is such a beautiful language, but it is! Marguerite Duras wrote the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour, one of my favorite films of all time. The narration and dialogue is exquisitely spoken and a great tool for developing one’s ear for French! xoxo, Lydia in Phoenix 🙂
Bon jour France
Hi Kristen,
I am an Arizona girl, too, though a transplanted one, and a fellow francophile since my highschool years. I read your book years ago and have enjoyed your blog ever since. I just couldn’t resist sending a note to you after today’s post to say that I particularly loved it because I have found myself in similar scenarios with my fiancee a number of times over the years we’ve been together. It made me laugh, really laugh. And I needed that! Blessings to you and your family.
Very much enjoying your blog…fun, fun, fun
your blog is wonderfull .Iwill come to France.Please visit my web page http://www.huysepralinee.com It is a house in Belgium .Brugge is lovely
I am enjoying your stories! I am a french teacher in the Richmond VA area. One of my students brought in your post (frigo) which she got from her school bus driver! I must admit, it was the dog that hooked me! We are a dog family for sure!
I lived in Avignon when I was in college – love Provence.
Keep up the posts – I will spread the word!
Marian
Hi Kristin,
I can see why someone thinks you look like Amanda Holden, but I think you look much better – and your blog is great fun.
I just finished reading the Kindle version of your book. It was a delightful read, which i have lots of time to do as I nurse my 6 week old son. It was fun to brush up on my French a little and to remember wonderful vacations in Provence and dream of taking my son the region someday.
Hi Kristin. I believe you are sometimes called Kristi –(my daughters name)
I am a transplanted Canadian –married to a Kiwi and living in New zealand for the past 36 yrs. We made our first trip to Paris 3 yrs ago and I was completely smitten—so went back the following year for more. Would dearly love to live there and love all about it including the language–which I know only a few words of —so –was thrilled to find your blog about 6 mos ago and learning as much as a 70 plus yr old brain will allow. Love your blog and photos and your life sounds so lovely. Thank you for “sharing” with so many of us . My dream is to maybe return just one more time ….
Hello Kristin, Love your blog and website and just ordered your book…….grew up in Napa, CA and love anything French…….saw your blog address on Tongue in Cheek blog…..thank you for your blog! Will enjoy, I know…..
Suggestions anyone? I would like to enrol in a french imersion course for 2 weeks in late May. I don’t mind WHERE – excpety not Paris or riviera.
Can any of you subscribers recommend a language school for an Intermediate (mature-age)student?
Thanks Joy – en Australie.
Bojour! Can any of your readers reccommend a french language school en France – anywhere other than Nice and Paris? I want to enrol in a 2 week intenive 23/5 -04/6/11.
Any sugestions?
Joy
Seisme is topical, however, the word used in Haiti, where French is spoken by all people who have had an opportunity to go to school and by all the Kreyol speakers is “tramblaman” (probably Kreyol spelling) I like the onomatopoeia. Goudou goudou is also used. It was coined after the EQ – it was pretty much what everyone heard during the 35 seconds of the EQ. I enjoy your Word-a-Day. Jenifer Grant
Hi, Kristin & Jean-Marc. It’s been over 50 years since I left France (I was 10 years old at the time) having spent the better part of my childhood years between Paris (Vaucresson) and Orleans. I started making plans over two years ago to re-immerse myself in french life, if even for a month. In less than one month I will arrive in Nice, taxi to Ville-Franche-sur-Mer to locate my apartment, and settle in for a month of self-imposed french immersion. My goal … to re-develop my fluency so as to pass as a frenchman … Hah! Ironically today I came across and read Karen Reuter’s article, “Summer In The City of Light” in Reno Magazine where your site was mentioned. So close to Provence … I could not help myself in dropping in on your site. While in the neighborhood, I hope to be able to meet you and Jean-Marc (and the vineyards, of course) during my travels through the surrounding areas of Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo and Provence. I feel like that 10-year old again looking forward to my re-visit.
April 4 – I love your photos today – well done! The story was great, too. :O)
Hi Kristin,
I really enjoy your site. Inspired by your blog, I’ve recently started my own blog for Tamil. Please check it out and give me your feedback. I’m blogging with an assumed name.
– taamarai
Avez-vous un bon site! Je vous souhaite succès et prospérité!
I like the photo with the white wildflower today…what is it. It’s like a buttercup.
salut. Tous mes souhaits pour une reussite et des photos encore plus belles.
n’hesitez pas à m’en envoyer sur yvesnathalie.riviere@wanadoo.fr