There’s no single must-do approach to traveling overseas, even less so to an extended stay abroad. The 11 portraits, some joint, that follow reveal the various ways in which individuals have found and made their personal [...]
Shortly after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin accepted a mission from the Continental Congress to seeking an alliance with France and eventually recognition of the independence of the United States [...]
Versailles, for all its reflection of historical French grandeur, authority, nobility, art, craftsmanship, and etiquette, is also a reflection of American power. Versailles may well be the French monument that most symbolizes American power, after the Statue of Liberty that is.
When William Fleisher, a former Philadelphia Police Officer and FBI Special Agent, meets with his pals for lunch there’s often blood on the menu and a Frenchman to blame: Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857), the legendary French [...]
When does an American stop being a long-term resident of Paris and become an expatriate? The answer depends on both the subject and the onlooker, on whether one or the other sees expatriatism as a [...]
To watch Lynn Rovida demonstrate the whimsical selection of handcrafted toys, finely cut puzzles, inlaid puzzle boxes, and animated sculptures available in her little shop in the Marais, you’d think that she was more intent [...]
Heather Stimmler-Hall could be poster child for American junior year abroad programs, or perhaps a cautionary tale. In either case, Heather has done what many American students in Europe on their junior year abroad dream of doing: extending their [...]
It’s ten after six in the afternoon and the piano player has just left the gallery lounge at the Four Seasons George V, signaling the end of tea time in one of Paris’s leading palace [...]
Ever brush against a paranoid schizophrenic in the New York subway? That’s what it’s like when you don’t say Bonjour to a salesperson in Paris. It may seem harmless enough, but you can then nearly read [...]
