Start Here and Get some French Moments! 

Bienvenue on our Start Here page! If you’re curious about everything French and also love France, you’re in the right place.

We have been on the web for more than 10 years, so as you can imagine we’ve built up hundreds of articles on French destinations and culture around Paris and provincial France.

If it’s your first time here, we know all of the information can be overwhelming, so we’ve created this page with some of our very best resources to get you started.

Step 1: Start here by getting to know us

If you’re wondering about the people behind French Moments, be sure to check out our about page to read our story and learn our approach.

Then, drop us a note and introduce yourself. We love hearing from our readers.

Our French Moments journey has taken the whole Guernier family (Pierre, Rachel and Aimée) across France for the last 20 years: from Paris to Alsace, Lorraine, Burgundy, Savoie, Provence and Aquitaine.

Step 2: Be Part of the Community

The best way is to subscribe to our newsletter. Written and sent by Pierre and sent regularly (1-2 emails per week), it gives you an interesting insight of French culture and is full of anecdotic stories.

When subscribing, you will receive our popular ebook “20 offbeat places in Paris”.

Oh, and most importantly, your email address will never be shared and you can unsubscribe easily at anytime.

We also regularly post links to new resource and links to things we love on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Across our blogs, we have a community of over 62,000 amazing people there and we’d love you to be a part of it.

As we love great visuals, we are also present on Instagram and Pinterest. In the latter, we have created various boards such as Paris moments, Mountains of France, Gastronomy, French Savvy, Castles of France, and much more.

Step 3: Get your French Moments

Did you know that there are almost 1,000 articles on the blog?

Well, yes, that makes a lot of reading to catch up on!

But don’t worry, if you want a shortcut, here are some of our most popular posts listed by themes:

Most Popular Posts

Secret and Offbeat Paris

Holidays & Celebrations

Top Tens

France for Kids

Looking for a particular destination? Start typing what you need. Who knows, maybe we covered this place on the blog!

When will your French Moments be?

To help you with planning a trip to Paris or provincial France, get some cultural insight about our country or learn French, we're here to help!

In addition to the blog posts, we have several resources available to you.

Discovery ebooks about France

Resource for Kids

Learn French with Pierre

Did you know that Pierre offers online French courses?

As a French national, you’d think I would definitely be an asset in providing online French classes.

But a great dose of teaching practice is just as important.

Just because someone is French it doesn't make them a French teacher.

I have been teaching French since 2002 in London, Sydney and Paris.

Between 2006 and 2014 I ran a boutique French language school in Sydney, Australia with an average of 100 students per term.

In 2012 we organised a memorable 2 week-French intensive course in Alsace with 20 adult students from Australia, the UK and the US.

Since then my family has been back in Europe from where I've been working on expanding the blog founded in 2008. With over 100,000 monthly visitors on my blog, it has become a much appreciated source of information.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic that restricted our social interactions and travels, I have been offering a new online French teaching service to our faithful French Moments community.

We hope you will find what you are looking for on the blog. Once again, a big welcome and thank you for your visit!