Your Pied-à-terre in Paris
Visitors often ask me about the price of an apartment in Paris. Nothing fancy, they say, just a little one- or two-bedroom pied-à-terre in case they...
Sex and the Luxury Hotel
When traveling alone, the hot hotel employee fantasy is nothing for to be ashamed of. Still, most travelers manage to control the urge to sequester a chambermaid or baggage boy for hotel sex.
What if Jack LaLanne’s parents had stayed in France?
The way Jack LaLanne talked about health and fitness on TV reminds me the way that some farmers and organic wine producers in France talk about their products. I wonder: if Jack LaLanne's parent had never emigrated from Oloron Sainte Marie in the Atlantic Pyrenees region of southwest France he might have become famous for producing organic goat cheese... and maybe lived longer.
A tribute to Moumoon the cat
Moumoon, this writer’s cat, has died at age 11 after a courageous battle with kidney failure. He was known to readers of "France Revisited" through various texts in which he played a prominent or supporting role, including "Of Cats and Friends" and a review of Hotel Saint Paul Rive Gauche.