A lovely, if somewhat dark, 1928 carte de voeux that I found at the Marché aux timbres in Paris. Bonne année cards haven't always...

How to celebrate New Year's in France? Here are mouth-watering and intriguing suggestions ...from 60 years ago. The 1954 December is...

I'm a huge fan of the blue doors in Paris. Some days, when I was living in Paris, when I didn't quite know what to do with myself,...

When I was in college, I spent summers waitressing in a perfect, perfectly charming historic inn in Maine. One of the delights was to be...

Denis Josselin  photo © Caroline HENNEL If you are in Paris this Sunday, April 6, do yourself a favor and hightail it over to the 12e ar...

This painting of Paris, entitled “Boulevard Clichy, Paris,” hung in our house all of my childhood. To me, it was Paris – everything th...

[Vanity Fair France has a great article about the Hollande-Trierweiler split, explained by a family member, which hasn't been publishe...

Ah, the language of love. It's just so... fundamental! So I bring you some of the basics, in French. A is for aimer A is als...

from a postcard I bought Souhaits de Bonheur.   Happy wishes of the season.  Which is of course, what I wish to all of you. But take a...

It's the holidays! Time for some shopping, or at least a little window-shopping, n'est-ce pas ? This Manhattan pooch must have s...

Paris vitrines (store windows) never fail to delight and inspire. More often than not, they make me stop in my tracks. And snap photos if m...

Like this: Pasteur statue, place de Breteuil. 

Seen on the streets of New York.  Is black the new black?

Forty years. Forty years ago today, I boarded an Air France flight at Orly to return from France to the U.S.  It had been a magical summ...

We all know by now, don't we, that Paris more or less shuts down in August.  Some of us revel in the peacefulness of a quiet Paris .  Ot...