Tag: Nightlife
Hotel Saint-Paul Rive-Gauche: Welcoming Left Bank Three-Star
Valerie Benigno, Directrice d’Hébergement de Hotel Saint-Paul Rive Gauche, recalls receiving a large envelope postmarked from the UK. Inside was a huge porte clef to room 12....
Saxe-Breteuil: Friendly Farmers Market in the Paris Seventh
There are about 70 farmers markets scattered throughout Paris, each with its own charms or, in some cases, amusing sideshows that range from wandering...
Francois Pinton: Paris Eyewear Trends
We break our glasses and sometimes we lose them; sometimes other people even steal them. When you’re away from home on business or...
Paris Day Trip: Chartres
Parisphiles and first-time visitors understandably find it impossibly difficult to leave Paris, which is why it often takes a couple of return visits for...
Bayeux Tapestry in Bayeux, Normandy
Many tourists visit Normandy for its 20th-century war memorials, but the region was the site of landmark military campaigns centuries before the Allied invasion of...
Bardot Lives: Marseille, France Travel Photography
Mikki says:
It seems hard to imagine what a beloved goddess Brigitte Bardot was to the French. This Marseille fisherman looks like he loves her...
Pyramide du Louvre: Paris Pyramid at the Louvre
Pyramide nuit
When President François Mitterand hired architect I.M. Pei and colleagues to modernize le Musée du Louvre, could he possibly have imagined the finished...
Bordeaux Bistro-Wine Bars: La Robe, Petit Commerce and Brasserie Bordelaise
Le Petit Commerce. Photo by csaba_bajko.
If “wine” is what you think of when you hear “Bordeaux,” it’s for good reason. The city reflects the...
Grand Rex Theater Tour: Lights, Camera, Action!
Grand from the start
Only a true fan of movies could produce such a fantastic movie theater. In the early 20th century Jacques Haïk was...
Paris Nightlife Goes Literary: Book Club in Bar, Le Carmen
Paris Nightlife Goes Literary
Picture your typical book club: a few sedate women sitting in circle, discussing a novel with perhaps tea brewing nearby. Now dim...
Saint-Sulpice Hotels: Senat, Perle, Recamier, Abbaye & Villa Madame
What a difference a few blocks makes when staying in Paris. You can easily access all the must-see museums and monuments from anywhere. If...
Zadkine Museum
The last twenty years or so of the nineteenth century gave birth—or at least their mothers did—to the great inventors of modernism, still so...
