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April 2021 book recs

3/29/2021

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​Our April picks are in! This month we are celebrating Asian Authors, National Poetry Month, & our Customers! We have hand-picked books for each of these categories for you to choose from through our affiliates BookShop and Libro.fm. There you will also find what the owners and our manager are reading. This makes book shopping fun and easy. We hope you enjoy our recommendations for April!
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And don't forget to follow us on social media for even more book recommendations throughout the month . . . ​
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Présentons Bryan Dupree!

3/22/2021

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This week we are continuing our meet-the-team blog series with a profile of co-owner Bryan Dupree.  

Bryan is a seventh generation Louisiana native who grew up on the eastern levee of the Atchafalaya Basin. When he walked across the stage at Millsaps College in the Spring of 2011, Bryan became a first generation college graduate. Armed with his Bachelor’s degree in French literature, he returned to Louisiana, anxious to use his ancestral language however he could.

For five years he worked as a French-speaking tour guide, giving tours in French to visitors from all over the world on Louisiana’s famous River Road. For the first time since his college semester abroad in France, Bryan realized that from the moment he opened his eyes to the moment he closed them, there were days when the only language he spoke or heard was French. He dreams of a day like that again.

When the opportunity came for Bryan to transition from the tourism industry to the study of law, he knew it had to be Louisiana. He wanted to learn more about the French influences on Louisiana’s legal system and Louisiana’s influence on the Civil Law tradition today. In addition to earning his juris doctor and diploma in comparative law from the LSU Law Center, Bryan completed additional studies to earn his LL.M. in International and European Business Law in Lyon, France.

Bryan now works as an attorney in the Lafayette office of Gordon, Arata, Montgomery, Barnett. Living mere minutes from downtown Lafayette, Bryan and his husband James often walk along Jefferson Street after work or on weekends. On more than one such walk, they ran across French-speaking visitors eager for a cultural exchange. It is through these interactions that the dream of Beausoleil Books first formed. If done well, Bryan imagined a small business that could meet so many current needs in downtown Lafayette: a bilingual and diverse independent bookstore and gift shop, a cultural hub for visitors to Acadiana, and a multi-functional wine and cocktail lounge. 

At Beausoleil Books, Bryan has found a unique way to combine all of his various interests. He curates Le coin francophone, the bookstore’s French language literature section, as well as Local Interest and cookbooks. He is looking forward to the day when festivals and events return to downtown and he can see his initial vision for Beausoleil Books totally realized. In the meantime, he is thankful for the support of the community as Beausoleil Books pushes the possibilities of what a new small business can achieve in the face of a global pandemic.
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Cette semaine, en continuant notre série de blog à la présentation des membres de notre équipe, nous consacrons celui-ci au profil d'un des copropriétaires, Bryan Dupree.

Bryan est la septième génération d'une famille née en Louisiane. II a grandi sur le bord est de la levée longeant le bassin Atchafalaya. Quand il est descendu de l'estrade de l'université Millsaps au printemps 2011, il devenait le premier de sa famille à avoir obtenu un diplôme universitaire. Sa licence en littérature française en poche, il est revenu en Louisiane, avec la ferme décision d'utiliser la langue de ses ancêtres d'une manière ou d'une autre.

Pendant cinq ans il a travaillé comme guide de tours en langue française, donnant des tours en français sur la prestigieuse route louisianaise longeant le Mississippi à des visiteurs venant du monde entier. Pour la première depuis son retour d'études en France, Bryan réalisait que du moment où il ouvrait les yeux à celui où il les fermait, il lui arrivait de passer des jours entiers où la seule langue dans laquelle il s'exprimait et celle qu'il entendait parler était le français. Son rêve est que cette occasion se reproduise aujourd'hui.

Quand Bryan a quitté l'industrie du tourisme pour se lancer dans des études de droit, il savait qu'elles devaient concerner la Louisiane. II voulait pousser ses recherches sur les nombreuses influences françaises dans le système légal louisianais ainsi que les influences louisianaises dans la tradition du Code Civil d'aujourd'hui. En plus de son doctorat en droit et de son diplôme de droit comparé de la faculté de droit de LSU, Bryan est également titulaire d'un Master en droit des affaires internationales de l'université de Lyon en France.

Bryan travaille désormais comme avocat dans le cabinet de Gordon, Arata, Montgomery, Barnett. II vit à quelques minutes du centre-ville de Lafayette. Bryan et son mari James se promènent souvent sur Jefferson Street après leur journée de travail ou les week-ends. C'est d'ailleurs au cours d'une de leurs promenades, qu'ils ont rencontré des visiteurs de langue française désireux d'échange culture! Ce sont ces échanges qui ont fait naitre en eux le rêve de Beausoleil Books. Bryan est alors parti à la recherche d'un petit espace commercial qui pourrait remplir de multiples fonctions culturelles en plein cœur de Lafayette ; une librairie indépendante bilingue et diverse, une boutique de souvenirs, une plaque tournante pour les visiteurs de l'Acadiana, ainsi qu'un salon bar et cocktail aux fonctions multiples. 
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A Beausoleil Books, Bryan a réussi à combiner tous ses intérêts dans un même lieu. C'est lui qui dirige Le coin francophone, sélectionne la section des livres de
 

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March Book & Cocktail du Mois

3/9/2021

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This month we're going on an epic sci-fi adventure into Area X with Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. With the anthropologist, the surveyor, the psychologist, and our narrator, the biologist, we will discover not only the strange things lurking in Area X, but also the strange secrets these explorers bring with them.

March’s Book du Mois Club meeting will be on March 27 at 11am in The Whisper Room, and we can't wait to serve you our delicious Cocktail du Mois, Ghost Bird. This clean, bright drink pairs perfectly with our Book du Mois. The summery aroma of basil muddled with housemade brown sugar simple syrup coats the mouth at first taste allowing for a warm backfinish of Bourbon and the tart flavors of fresh squeezed juice. The color and flavors of this cocktail gives us the "we're right there with them" vibes as we read along!
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March 2021 book recs

3/1/2021

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We love keeping all of you up to speed on what our Beausoleil family is reading and recommending. From curated classics to celebrating Women's History Month, you can always find our picks through our affiliates Bookshop.org and Libro.fm. For all of our readers who like the feel of a book in their hands, and those who pop their headphones in to dive into a good read while folding laundry, we appreciate the desire to consume a good story and to be impacted by it, and we hope you will enjoy our choices for the month of March!
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And don't forget to follow us on social media for even more book recommendations throughout the month . . . 
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