As any Parisian will tell you, the start of summer is not marked by the solstice or a spell of hot weather, rather the season…
Every July, the sports world focuses its eyes on France to witness the longest, toughest, most renowned bicycle race in the world, the Tour de…
Paris is a jazz-lovers city, perhaps more so than any other. Turn on the radio and you’ll be sure to hear a quartet or two,…
For the 35th year in a row the FIAC International Art Fair will take over two of Paris’ most grand exhibit spaces, the Grand Palais…
For most Americans Marie Antoinette is curiously the most interesting figure from the French revolution. From all accounts she was a beautiful yet naive character,…
We’ve waxed poetic about Paris’ Bercy Quarter in the past and anchoring the neighborhood is the François Mitterrand French National Library. More than just a…
There are a lot of great concert venues in Paris but few can match the fine-tuned acoustics of the new Salle Pleyel. Recently reopened after…
Long before New York Habitat offered Americans an option to pricey Paris hotels and accommodations, much earlier than when Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald frequented the…
The Festival d’Automne is as familiar to Paris in the fall as colorful foliage and cooling temperatures. Created in 1972 by Georges Pompidou’s cultural minister,…
Nightfall on October 6 kicks off the hugely popular Nuit Blanche festival in Paris. For the sixth year in a row, the City of Light…
