A daytrip or overnight from Paris into the Chevreuse Valley, including Chevreuse, the Chateau de Breteuil, the Chateau de Dampierre, the Hotel/Abbey of Vaux de Cernay, Rambouillet, and the Forest of Rambouillet.

…As I turned to walk up rue Saint Merri in the Beaubourg Quarter of Paris I was surprised to see that the entire wall of a 5-story building was covered with the image of a face of a man with a finger to its lips. The man was calling for quiet. He had Dali eyes.

This is not a restaurant review of Oth Sombath, a French-Thai restaurant on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris’s 8th arrondissement where I went as a favor to a French expert in gastronomy, unless he was doing me the favor of inviting me.

Every year the National Archives of France selects events of historical significance to highlight as national commemorations on the occasion of a multiple of their centennial or semicentennial, providing insights into the French national identity.

The unveiling on Nov. 30, 2011 of Oscar Wilde’s newly restored tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris was the occasion to pay tribute to the great 19th-century Irish writer. We take this opportunity to revisit the turbulent history of the tomb itself.

Belleau Wood, the Aisne-Marne American War Cemetery and the Chateau Thierry War Monument are only an hour’s drive from Paris, in Picardy, an easy stop on the way to Champagne, but it took me over [...]

You don’t need to understand French to enjoy the hip-hop gymnastics of Droles de Mecs, a high-energy, feel-good acrobatic dance show playing in Paris through Jan. 15, 2012. You simply need to give yourself over [...]

Nov. 2, 2011. There’s something therapeutic about turning the clocks back in the fall—harsh reality therapy. For an hour or two we can fool ourselves into believing that we’ve gained an hour of Saturday night [...]