Victoria Olloqui

This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…

Joaquim is a musician, but it doesn't enable him to earn a living. He has another talent, which offers him an opportunity to change his existence: working with his brother in the very closed circle of traders. To celebrate this new path, he goes out... and encounters Zoé, a young violinist. The spend the rest of the night together, talking and singing. He finds himself obliged to make a choice: ensure his future, or live his passion and this blossoming love. But is any of this real?

A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin's radiant and gorgeous wife, his entire life is turned upside down. Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust star in a film by actor and author-turned-director Frederic Beigbeder.

Claire lands in Andalusia one week ahead of her sister Laura’s wedding, and promptly finds herself falling head over heels for the handsome husband-to-be!

At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !

Following the breakdown of his marriage, a self-involved man begins to embrace fatherhood.

Get swept away in this Gallic romance anthology - fall in love, see the world and practice your French at the same time!