Before There Was Emily in Paris, There Was Sally Jay Gorce
Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century and well into the beginning of the…
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Inside the Original Shakespeare and Company Bookshop in Paris
That’s Sylvia Beach ↑ founder of the Shakespeare and Company, pictured in 1945 in the apartment…
A Forgotten 1920s Magazine Gives a Glimpse of the Paris Jazz Age in the Flesh
Just how folles were the “Années Folles”? In the digital archives of the French National…
The Legend of the Little Renault that Could
The French have arguably mastered the art of slow living in the name of joie…
London’s Abandoned Eiffel Tower Replica
When a tower made of 7,500 tons of steel and iron was unveiled at the…
How French Fashion Emerged even More Decadently from the Guillotine
Those of us who paid any attention in history class can probably recount a few…
When They Dug up Paris
Paris in the Belle Epoque, what a fabulous time and place to have lived, right?…
The Story of an Expat Girl in 1960s Paris
“Nadja à Paris” is a short 13-minute film by a French New Wave director, Eric…
The Most Famous Street in Paris You’ve Never Heard Of
Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Rue de Rivoli, Avenue Montaigne, each year millions of tourists follow the…
The Forgotten Elephant of the Moulin Rouge Garden Party
It turns out that Nicole Kidman’s fantastical elephant boudoir in Baz Luhrman’s 2001 motion picture, Moulin Rouge, was…
The Eiffel Tower’s Lost Art Nouveau Restaurant
Meet us for dinner in Paris under the Iron Lady … circa 1900? Over the…
A Crash-course in French Yé-Yé Pop Culture
While the Beatles were singing “She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah” in England, continental Europe…