How does a trilingual Dutch postdoc performing scientific research at the prestigious Institut Pasteur extricate himself from the minutiae of that research and transform himself into a successful Paris-based artist?

Renowned photographer Frank Van Riper discusses photographing Paris and New York.

In her recently published book The New Parisienne, Lindsey Tramuta features 50 stand-out women who represent the real parisienne today.

Harriet Welty Rochefort’s latest book is a compelling story rich in human complexities. 

Jacques Dupin, a 20th-century art critic and intimate friend of Joan Miró, sought a way to express life, death, light, darkness through pure words.

Cindy Sherman’s uncanny ability to transform herself (in age, race, and even gender) leaves contributor Sarah Bartesaghi Truong totally disoriented.

A look at the life and work of legendary poet Paul Verlaine, with a translation of “Il Pleure dans Mon Coeur.”

Pierre de Ronsard was named “prince of poets” by his fellow French poets during the Renaissance.

Let Balzac be your guide and be a flâneur in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery.

It’s so difficult to choose one favorite thing about Paris, in a city full of favorite things, but I suddenly…

La rentrée gives Paris a fresh start. Show time’s over and the true Paris picks up where it left off…

Even as a child, I had known that my father had been in Paris during WWII. He had a book…