French Poetry as a Christmas Gift : a Guide by Recipient
A Christmas gift that stays on the wall all year. This guide gathers our ideas by recipient : the couple, the teacher, the wine lover, or someone whose taste you don't know. French poems, quotes and master paintings, from 35 €, printed to order. There is a particular pleasure in giving French literature in its original words.
For the couple : words worth writing down
Straw-yellow stripes, pink capitals, and a line that does all the work : love, say it, write it. This is the print a couple gives itself, for the bedroom or the hallway, in the original French.
In the same spirit, Baudelaire's L'Invitation au voyage promises nothing but order and beauty, luxury, calm and pleasure. The full poem, with a plain English translation, is in our article.
For the teacher
Against the end-of-year mugs and candles, a framed La Fontaine fable is a gift with class, in both senses. La Cigale et la Fourmi, Le Corbeau et le Renard or Le Chêne et le Roseau : the complete text, set like the page of an old edition, the very one the class learns by heart.
And for the teacher who has seen everything, the wink that lands : the madeleine passage from Proust, the school memory par excellence.
For the wine lover
« Dieu n'avait fait que l'eau, mais l'homme a fait le vin » : God had only made water, but man made wine. The phrase attributed to Victor Hugo, in capitals on terracotta, belongs in a kitchen, a cellar or a tasting corner. Paired with Monet's Nature morte au vin, it makes an epicurean wall for 70 € the pair.
The safe bet : Monet
For the person whose taste you do not know, Impressionism never misses. La Promenade, the woman with a parasol in tall grass, is the Monet everyone recognises at first glance, and our catalogue holds fifteen : gardens, cathedrals, banks of the Seine.
Small budget, big gesture
Every print in this guide is 35 € in its base size : a small-budget gift that does not look like one. Each is printed to order on uncoated matte 170 g/m² FSC-certified paper. Printed and shipped from a studio near you : most orders arrive in 3 to 5 business days.
We must love, then say it, then write it. attributed to Victor Hugo
The Last Word
A good Christmas gift is one you are still looking at in March. Pick the recipient, let the poem do the rest, and if you want to read the text before deciding, every poem print has its article, full text included.
Four Gifts to Give
French poems, quotes and master paintings as typographic art prints, printed to order on 170 g/m² matte paper.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a poetry print cost as a gift?
Most prints in this guide are 35 € in their base size; larger sizes cost more. Framing is extra, from any frame shop or department store.
Will it arrive before Christmas?
Every print is made to order. Printed and shipped from a studio near you : most orders arrive in 3 to 5 business days. In December, a few days of margin is wise.
Which French poem should I give a couple?
Two safe choices: the phrase attributed to Victor Hugo, we must love, then say it, then write it, and Baudelaire's L'Invitation au voyage, whose refrain promises order and beauty, luxury, calm and pleasure.
Do the prints come framed?
No, each print is sold unframed, in standard sizes that fit off-the-shelf frames. The styled photos show framing examples.
