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.
Glass Memories: Quinn Jacobson at the Centre Iris
"Glass Memories," intense and haunting portraits by American photographer Quinn Jacobson, at Centre Iris... pour la photographie in Paris, spring 2010.
The March Equinox at Saint Sulpice Church
The March equinox, also known as the vernal or spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, occurred today. That’s the moment when the sun is...
If I were a traveler…
Gary Lee Kraut takes a photographic promenade in the Batignolles Quarter of Paris's 17th arrondissement.
Paris Rive Gauche: A 21st Century Left Bank
Think you know the Left Bank? Take the metro to Paris Rive Gauche--not that one, the other--to see a new face of Paris on the Seine.
Paris, the world’s largest image
March 13, 2010 - Paris is now officially the world's largest image, in pixels that is. It's 26 gigapixels are sure to be beat in the future as the pixel race continues (Paris took the title from Dresden), so enjoy it now while you can still say you saw the world's biggest. Take a virtual interactive tour here
Plumbing in Paris: the Marble Bathtub of the Marquise de Païva
Nicolas Beboutoff's odd shop for old and antique porcelain and metal plumbing furnishings holds the supposed bathtub of the Marquise de Paiva.
The Weatherman, a poem
The Weatherman, March 3, a poem about early springtime in Paris by Gary Lee Kraut.
Teach a man to order a brownie and he’ll save you two steps?
A Dane and an American walk into a bakery in Paris, one orders a pistachio crumble, the other a brownie. The baker says... Read this sad tale of French service in which the author is berated for ordering a brownie inefficiently.
A Francophile East Coast U.S. Road Trip (2): Richmond, Virginia
History, monuments, and Francophilia in Richmond, Virginia. Lafayette, Washington, Stonewall Jackson, civil rights, and a Belgian baker of great French pastries.