The first time I saw Picasso’s 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein was at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. There was something exotic and unique about it and I was captured by that uniqueness.

Think you know something about Paris and Parisians? Think again. You are in for a surprise. If you are looking for a classic tourist-oriented publication, do not buy this book.

Be prepared: If you are in France this latter part of June you are not going to escape hearing or hearing about "The Call," "L'Appel du 18 Juin". But what exactly is the significance of this historic event?

Not a day goes by that Johnnie Marino doesn’t think about D-Day June 6th 1944. As an ammo carrier in the 2nd Infantry Division, his job was to haul cases of 105mm shells onto the beach where he would hook up with the howitzers arriving later that morning. At H+1, the LST carrying elements of Johnnie’s company dropped the ramp. And all hell broke loose.

During the Great Depression, John Steinbeck travelled across America and wrote about what he saw. Monterey was a place which had grown and thrived on harvesting sardines that turned the Humboldt Current into a surging, roiling silver river that practically swam right into the seine nets. Cannery Row introduces us to a cast of characters as colorful and as rich as any.

One of the miracles of Paris as a city—as agreeable to the eye as it is on your feet—is the thrilling vista of its wide and leafy avenues.

This summer will mark 70 years since Nazi troops entered and occupied Paris on June 14, 1940 after France, a week earlier, had recognized defeat and agreed to an armistice with Germany in World War II.  As the anniversary dates approach, reminiscences of that tragic period are certain to flourish. What seldom has been spotlighted so far, however, is the fate of Americans living then in the French capital who found themselves suddenly in a worrisome and unusual situation.

On January 4, 1960—exactly fifty years ago—Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket. But he chose to travel with a friend who drove a Facel-Vega, a car so luxurious and high-powered its ads boasted it was "For the Few Who Own the Finest."

In Paris and Her Remarkable Women, Lorraine Liscio profiles sixteen women closely associated with Paris.