Nathalie Baye

Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (born 6 July 1948) is a four-time César award-winning French actress. Also she has been nominated a further five times.

Her first cinema appearance was in Two People directed by Robert Wise. Then she rose to fame as the 'script girl' in La Nuit américaine (Day for Night) by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s she played the roles of good girlfriend and nice provincial in both film and television.

In 1981 she won her first César, for best supporting artist in Sauve qui peut (la vie) by Jean-Luc Godard. There then followed an impressive sequence of success and rise to stardom with Le Retour de Martin Guerre and La Balance.

She became one of the most popular and renowned French actresses, gaining two more Césars (Best Supporting Female for A Strange Affair, and Best Actress in 1982 for La Balance. Her 4 year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a leading celebrity couple and their daughter Laura is now actress Laura Smet.

After changing her image by playing the part of a streetwalker in La Balance, she further widened her scope with more obscure characters inJ'ai épousé une ombre and En toute innocence. In 1986 she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti.

1999 started a glittering year as she was voted Best Supporting Actress at Venice Film Festival for Une liaison pornographique and in 2000 starred in the multi-award winning film Vénus Beauté (Institut) by Tonie Marshall

Since 2002 she has had many new collaborations including Claude Chabrol and Steven Spielberg, and remains one of France's busiest and most popular actresses of stage, screen and television.

Children's Word of the Day -Circle

Kids, when you see a circle, say "un cercle"

Quick Phrase of the Day -She Must Be Angry

elle doit être en colère (ell dwaht eh truh ahn koh lehr) - She must be angry

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

les mariés (lay mah ree ay) -the newlyweds

les mariés reçoivent beaucoup de cadeaux (lay mah ree ay reh kwahv boh koo deh kah doh) -the newlyweds reveived lots of presents

One Of My Favorite Foods -French Toast

Although French Toast didn't originate in France

In France, the dish is called pain perdu, or "lost bread", since it is a way to reclaim stale, "lost", bread: hard bread is softened by dipping in a mixture of milk and eggs, then fried. The bread is sliced on a bias and dipped into a mixture of egg, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. The slices are pan-fried in butter and traditionally served dusted with powdered sugar and with jam on the side. Alternatively it may be served with syrup.

A contradictory, though highly dubious, creation myth holds that French toast owes its creation to an Albany, N.Y., innkeeper named Joseph French. Legend has it that French whipped up a batch of the golden-brown treats in 1724 and advertised them as "French toast" because he'd never learned to use an apostrophe "s."

Children's Phrase of the Day -Question Mark

Ok Kids, this is a long one, so when you see a question mark, say "un point d'interrogation"

Quick Phrase of the Day - We Ate Fried Chicken Last Night

On a mangé du poulet frit hier soir (ahn ah mahn zhay doo poo lay free eer swah) -We ate fried chicken last night.

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

lettre personnelle (leh truh purr sohn ell) -personal letter

C'est ma lettre personnelle (say mah leh truh purr sohn ell) - It is my personal letter

Children's Phrase of the Day - Pineapple

Kids, when you see a pineapple, point to it and say, "un ananas"

Quick Phrase of the Day - It's On The Hillside

c'est à flanc de coteau (seht ah flahnk deh koh toh) -It's on the hillside

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

hilarant / hilarante (hill ah rahn / hill ah rahnt) -hilarious

vous êtes hilarant (vooz eht hill ah rahn) you are hilarious (about a male)

vous êtes hilarante (vooz eht hill ah rahnt) -you are hilarious (about a female)

Johnny Hallyday Song of the Day -Vivre Pour Le Meilleur

Children's Word of the Day - Window

Kids, when you look at a window, point to it and say, "la fenêtre"

Answer To Yesterday's Guess Who

Anouk Aimée (born 27 April 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning French film actress.

Aimée was born Françoise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, France, the daughter of actors Geneviève Sorya (born Durand) and Henri Murray (born Dreyfus).

Aimée began her film career in 1947 at age 14. In 1958 she portrayed the tragic artist Jeanne Hébuterne in the film Les Amants de Montparnasse. She later appeared in La dolce vita, 8½ andJacques Demy's Lola. She won the 1967 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film that brought her international fame, A Man and a Woman. In 1980, she received the Award for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Marco Bellocchio's Salto nel vuoto (Leap Into The Void), as won Michel Piccoli (her partner in the movie) the Best Actor Prize.

Children's Phrase of the Day - Fog

Kids, when you see fog outside, point to it and say, "un brouillard"

Quick Phrase of the Day- It Will Capture Your Imagination

il stimulera votre imagination (eel stee mew leh rah voh truh ee mah zhee nay shee yohn) -It will capture/stimulate your imagination

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

le week-end dernier (leh week ehn durr nee yay) -last weekend

Tu te rappelles ce qu'on a fait le week-end dernier (too teh rah pell seh kohn ah fay leh week ehnd durr nee yay) - Can you think of what we did last weekend?

Guess Who

Guess who this famous French Person is.

Answer will be posted tomorrow.

Children's Word of the Day - Gloves

Kids, when you see a pair of gloves, say "mes gants"

Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau -French Artist

Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 - December 22, 1867), French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of abourgeois family which included one or two artists.

Rousseau's pictures are always grave in character, with an air of exquisite melancholy which is powerfully attractive to the lover of landscapes. They are well finished when they profe

ss to be completed pictures, but Rousseau spent so long a time in working up his subjects that his absolutely completed works are comparatively few. He left many canvases with parts of the picture realized in. detail and with the remainder somewhat vague; and a

lso a good number of sketches and water-color drawings. His pen work in monochrome on paper is rare; it is particularly searching in quality. There are a number of fine pict

ures by him in the Louvre, and the Wallace collection. contains one of his most important Barbizon pictures. There is also an example in the Ionides collection at th

e Victoria and Albert Museum.

Children's Word of the Day - Rooster

Kids, when you see a rooster, point to it and say, "un coq"

Children's Phrase of the Day

Kids, when you hear a loud noise, say "un bruit énorme"

French Film for People Who Don't Like Subtitles

FRANTIC (1988) Harrison Ford plays Dr Richard Walker, a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife for a medical conference. At their hotel his wife is unable to open her suitcase and Walker tells her she has picked up the wrong one at the airport. While Walker is taking a shower his wife mysteriously disappears from their hotel room. Still jet-lagged, he searches for her in the hotel with the help of a polite but mostly indifferent staff, then wanders outside to look further on his own. A street-person overhears him in a café and tells Walker he saw his wife being forced into a car. Walker is sceptical until he finds his wife's ID bracelet on the cobblestones. He contacts the US embassy and the Paris police but their responses are bureaucratic and there is little hope anyone will look for her. As Walker carries on the search himself (with input from a very sympathetic but wary desk clerk at the hotel) he stumbles onto a murder scene and then the streetwise young Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner) who mistakenly picked up his wife's suitcase at the airport. It transpires that she is a career smuggler but does not know for whom she is working, and thus reluctantly helps Walker. This begins his frantic attempt, with the young woman's help, to learn what was in the switched suitcase and trade whatever it was for his wife's life.

It turns out that hidden within a small replica of the Statue of Liberty is a krytron, a small switch capable of detonating nuclear devices. The film ends with a confrontation on the River Seine where the terrorists hand Walker his wife back. However, a firefight ensues between the terrorists and other agents, and Michelle is killed in the crossfire. Angry and upset, Walker throws the krytron into the river.

The French locations and Ennio Morricone's musical score create much of the film's atmosphere.Grace Jones' recording of "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" is heard at key moments in the film.

Children's Word of the Day - Juggler

Kids, when you see a juggler, say "un jongleur" (for a boy juggler), and "une jongleuse" (for a girl jugglera)