Gary Lee Kraut
Gary Lee Kraut is the editor of France Revisited and an award-winning travel writer. As a long-time specialist on travel and touring in France, he has become the go-to contact for individual travelers and travel agents seeking personalized travel advice and customized tours in Paris and throughout France. See the About the Editor tab at the top of this page for his complete bio.
Avignon: Practical information and Choice Accommodations
Approached from its surrounding boulevards, the 14th-century walls of the inner town of Avignon look low enough to climb over with a step ladder....
A Bend in the Road with Maura Sweeney
Maura Sweeney wants us all to be happy. Writer, inspirational speaker, radio personality, wife, mother, friend, stranger with a tolerant gaze and a kind word, Maura is a native of New Jersey, a longtime Floridian and an inveterate traveler who wants us all to carry a passport from the State of Happiness. She speaks here with Gary Lee Kraut about his concept of travel therapy.
Vice & Versailles: A Master Gardener Delves Into the Dark Shadows of the Louis...
As head gardener of Versailles Alain Baraton is responsible for restoring and maintaining the majesty of the backyard of kings, but he appears to relish in declaring that “Versailles was a great shop of horrors.” In the book "Vice et Versailles" Baraton leads readers into the dark side of the great palace.
Yours, Mine, Le Nôtre’s: An American Photographer Examines the Garden of Versailles
As France celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of André Le Nôtre, the father of French gardens, France Revisited explores some of this 17th-century landscape gardener’s most famous gardens and parks. Here, American photographer Elise Prudhomme guides us along the garden paths of Versailles.
An Extraordinary View Over Paris Becomes Accessible to the Public
One of the most extraordinary views over Paris became accessible to the general public this summer as the Tour Saint Jacques or Saint James Tower opened to the public (in limited numbers) for the first time in its nearly 500-year history of existence.
Festivals in France, Part I: Major Musical Events
Hundreds of music festivals fill the events calendars of the regions of France bringing all manner of music—classical, jazz, opera, rock, electronic, accordion, etc—to...
Festivals in France, Part II: Exceptional and Unique Celebrations
Whether celebrating street theater or strawberries, vintage bicycles or movie cars, mime or flamenco, joyful and unique festivals take place throughout France throughout the year.
Parisians Show Knee: Paris Fashion Police No Longer Forbid Men’s Shorts
PARIS FASHION FLASH: It’s been a long time coming but the Paris fashion police have finally received the circular concerning shorts, now making it acceptable for local men to show their knees on the street.
Biarritz Ocean: The Brand Between Bilbao and Bordeaux
Bilbao, Spain did it with its Guggenheim. Bordeaux intends do it with its Cité des Civilisations du Vin. Can Biarritz do it with its aquarium and its Cité de l'Océan?