I recently came upon an issue of Paris Match from May 27, 1950, a yellowing 61-year-old chronicle of la vie Parisienne . Think about it: ...

Polly-Vous Francais is silent no more! If you'd like to hear my real voice live, tomorrow is your chance. On Saturday May 21, I will be...

Have you always longed for a sliver of immortality? Do you especially dream of that immortality intersecting with Paris? Well, here is you...

From the magazine Plaisir de France, 1947. A selection of French designers' ( modistes ) Easter hats. From... Legroux: a capeline ( bro...

A new friend – someone I met at a dinner party a few weeks ago – emailed me the other day to follow up on our recent conversation. She and h...

Poisson d'avril , as you may know, is the French equivalent of "April Fools." While taping a paper fish to someone's back ...

I awake in the pre-dawn hours, befuddled and anxious. Will our family have enough to eat? I wonder. Will we reach Tours? Will it be safe whe...

Does anyone else besides me remember the names of every French teacher they ever had? I recall each one: Madame Rhodes, Mademoiselle de Maud...

St. Patrick's Day, and even Paris is going green. Yes, the famed Moulin Rouge, for the next two days, will be the Moulin Vert . Okaaay. ...

I loved this witty display of antique advertising lettering at an antiquaire in l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Fabulous antiques mecca in the ...

For ultimate luxury shopping in Paris, nothing beats Odiot . Luxury in its finest sense, because there is nothing in Odiot that one needs. B...

You are my Valentine, my funny valentine.... The City of Paris is sponsoring a program that will allow you to submit your expressions of lov...

January 21 marks the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI at the place de la Concorde in Paris. His final words were, " Peuple, ...

If you've never visited le Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil , you are missing out on a sublime, tranquil bit of Paris. It is the Botanica...

This storefront window got me thinking about lampshades. Les abat-jours . (Hmm, or should it be abats-jour ? Abats-jours ?) Figuring out Fre...

We were wandering through the 11e arrondissement, doing what I like to do best: discovering side streets I've never traveled before. Oh,...

1) I'm amazed that in my three years of living in Paris and countless visits, I have a) never stepped in dog-deposits on sidewalks and b...

There's a kind of hush. Paris, the morning after. I expected it at 9 am on New Year's Day.  Everyone sleeping in after all that ...

Ah, itis so delightful spending Christmas in France with friends and family.  Finally.  After the pagaille with all the snow at Charles de...

Before I lived in Paris, I had total packing-for-Paris anxiety. And invariably, I packed too much clothing -- inappropriate clothing  -- and...