For decades I’ve been urging readers to explore the little-known neighbourhood of La Nouvelle Athènes in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Even...
Paris is known as the city of lights, romance and, for the summer of 2016, the city of football too....
Leaving behind the pewter skies over Paris and the spring rains, it was a pleasure to escape into a plush cocoon of...
The name toile de Jouy, now commonly used generically, stems from the village of Jouy-en-Josas, just south of Versailles, where the fabric was...
If Paris has not yet become as cosmopolitan at the table as New York or London, the city has become vastly...
Jeffrey Greene was born and raised in New England. For the last 25 years, he has lived part of the...
Saturday morning in high summer finds me meandering up from my hotel towards Périgueux’s most famous landmark, the imposing Cathédrale...
No wonder Georges Simenon set most of the Maigret stories in Paris – 63 out of 75 of them in...
A new generation of gourmet grocers is helping food lovers rediscover France’s far-flung gastronomic pleasures in chic, welcoming spaces that...
Built in Rochefort using 18th century shipbuilding technology, the tallship is now crossing the Atlantic in a symbolic voyage.
The lasting grandeur of a trio of grandes dames.
Some top seasonal recommendations for the City of Light.
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