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.
War Stories: Dawn in the Normandy Landing Zone
I was worken by the rain at 6:30 a.m.. Except that it wasn't the raind; it was water drizzling into the room from the ceiling. In a moment of verteran-like panic I had a flashback to one year ago when...
The Smoking Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is fully spelled out in the Concorde station, sets forth fundamental rights in France (and beyond), including it's little-known article prohibiting smoking.
A Francophile East Coast U.S. Road Trip (3): Croissants in Carolina
Crossing into North Carolina and discovering the South's best croissant at La Farm Bakery in Cary, NC.
Olivier Dirson, WWI battlefield guide: one history leads to another
Touring WWI sites of Picardy, north of Paris, with Olivier Dirson, a French guide with an intriguing personal history.
Americana in Paris: Cupcake Camp on the Fourth of July
An introduction to cupcakes, the cupcake trend in Paris and Cupcake Camp on the 4th of July.
Where the Seine Flows, and Our Love: The Mirabeau Bridge
You don't have to cross the Pont Mirabeau, the Mirabeau Bridge, to know the famous poem of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Daytrip from Paris: The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Laon
Eighty-five miles northeast of Paris there stands on the plateau of the old town of Laon one of the great, undervisited Gothic cathedrals of...
When’s the best time…
Several times each week someone asks me “When is the best time of year to visit France?”
I usually answer "Whenever you can make it."...
Wine, Women and, Yes, Song
A man with a passion will view the entire world though the optic of that passion. Whatever it may be—wine, women, motorcycles, baseball, Egyptology,...