France


Montrealer Antoine Larose has been operating L’Envol Québécois (the Quebec take-off), a bar-restaurant in Paris that offers such Québécois dishes as tourtière, cretons, tarte au sucre and fèves au lard, along with beer from Quebec microbrewery, Unibroue. The bar has served as a rendezvous for displaced Quebecers for 10 years.


A computerized cloud harp playing atmospheric "music" visited France during travels that included Poland, Germany and the United States. Invented by Montrealer Nicolas Reeves, the instrument bounces an infrared laser beam off clouds and transforms their height, density and structure into sounds and musical sequences. It runs 24/7 and is online at www.cloudharp.org.



More than 600 tonnes of live lobsters are shipped to France annually, and every spring, more than 10,000 lobsters are served at the Canadian Lobster Festival in Paris. Restaurants across the city offer lobster dinners to promote this high-end Canadian delicacy.