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.
Cute, Kitsch and Tacky Gifts from France’s National Museums
You can’t take the art from the Louvre, the Orsay or Versailles home with you, but you can take home a Venus de Milo tchotchke, a Marie-Antoinette manicure set, a Mona Lisa serving tray, and an I Louvre You teddy bear.
French Wines for an American Thanksgiving
Americans celebrating Thanksgiving in France typically, even traditionally, enjoy their fresh French turkey with some fine French terroir in their selection of wine—make that wines, plural, since a long meal calls for more than one.
La Fontaine de Mars, Mainsail of Culinary Explorations in Paris’s 7th arr.
The mainsail for culinary explorations in Paris's 7th arrondissement is La Fontaine de Mars, the ultra-traditional, southwest-leading Parisian bistro, red-and-white checkered tablecloths, watchful matron, harried but attentive service and all.
A Night at Hotel Thoumieux, Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris
I like sleeping around in Paris. So when a public relations agent invited me get to know the Hotel Thoumieux by spending the night “with the person of your choice” I immediately accepted. But who would accept to be the person of my choice?
Autumn 2019 Museum and Exhibition News
October is an especially artful month in Paris and elsewhere, a time to consider new exhibitions and to take stock of ongoing or completed restorations, including news about the Louvre, the Orsay, the Army Museum, the Maritime Museum, the Game of Throne, and more.
Koons Bouquet of Tulips Inaugurated in Paris
Parisians love a good debate about placing a new work of art or architecture in a public space, but honoring victims of terrorism with a Jeff Koons bouquet minus one tulip is too much like honoring victims of famine with a statue of Ronald McDonald with one French fry missing.
You know you live in Paris when…: Le Clarence
... it’s Fashion Week and you’ve tired of the pretense and now just want to stop and smell the Haut-Brion while attending the cookbook launch party for Christophe Pelé, chef at Le Clarence...
You know you live in Paris when…: Canal Saint Martin
You know you live in Paris when you, Guillaume and Ahmed have made plans to meet for a drink along the canal at 7:30 and you end up working late and it's 9'oclock and raining when...
Eisenhower, de Gaulle and the Wild Rabbits at the Invalides
Late on a drizzly afternoon, having learned nothing and felt little from reading about and watching videos of the 75th anniversary of D-Day commemorations in Normandy, I went to visit the wild rabbits that inhabit the lawn of the Invalides.