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The ninth arrondissement is a real mixed bag: from the elegance of the Garnier Opera House to the seediness of...
After living in France for so many years, you become accustomed to the month of August as a non-month. The...
Newcomers to the EU often have fantasies about their former Sunday mornings spent surrounded by a pile of newspapers and...
Remember the last time you were sitting in a restaurant and someone entered, nodding to the room and saying routinely...
The bikini celebrate its’ 60th anniversary this year, created by a Frenchman of course, two actually, couturier Jacques Heim and...
How I wish I’d had the book Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands during my trip to India and Asia. Lord knows...
The recent canicule, reminiscent of the disastrous one in 2003, prompted my friend P. to suggest that I warn Americans...
The Great Grapes Wine Festival, presented by Mills Wine of Annapolis, Maryland, at the county fairgrounds July 29-30, 2006, in...
Last week, my husband and I attended a lovely dinner with six people whom I know and respect. They’re doers...
We heard the same question over and over again. “But what are you going to DO there?” I don’t know...
Each time I return to the US, I lurch into culture shock. How intrinsically different Americans are from Europeans, even...
While most Americans living in the US traditionally celebrate the country’s independence with barbeques, fireworks, parades, flags with stars and...