Paris & Surroundings

One can spend a lifetime exploring Paris and the greater Paris called Ile de France. While most of the articles in this section focus on sights, tastes, history, shops, art and life in the capital, we also make frequent trips to Versailles, Fontainebleau, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Barbizon, Chantilly, Auvers-sur-Oise, the Chevreuse Valley and other notable places in the surrounding region.

Something Old, Something New: Culture in the Court of Honor

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Across the street from the Louvre, the Palais Royal, its court of honor and garden, and their surroundings are a stunning microcosm of culture in Paris: its history a background for its present, its present a dialogue with its past, its future clearly in need of change... but gently, please.

Uruguayan artist Alba Aranda at Galérie Art Présent

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Early autumn in Paris a travel writer and culture journalist can be lulled into thinking he’s working by the mere fact that he’s received a dozen invitations for art openings.

A Return to Beauty: The Beginning of the End of Love Locks in Paris?

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The City of Paris has begun investing in the fight against love locks on its famous bridges by placing glass panels that bring back the stunning views that attracted people to place locks there in the first place.

Professional Travel Therapy for You, Your Friends and Your Loved Ones

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The perfect Paris and France travel gift for your friends and loved ones--or for yourself--suffering from Paris-envy, Francophilia and a frequent desire to travel to France: Travel therapy with Gary Lee Kraut, editor of France Revisited.

Ethnic Paris: Urban and Suburban Adventures in Indian Restaurants

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For urban residents and travelers, a trip from the big city into the suburbs is often disorienting. The mere suggestion of going into the...

Paris Street Talk: Chadors, Communists, Cannibals

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Some call it a no-go zone full of potential Islamist terrorists. Others pretend that the neighborhood is just one big hipster playground. What's really going on at the eastern end of Jean-Pierre Timbaud? Here, in a two-part illustrated vignette, is what two American travelers discover as they explore eastern Paris after brunch one Sunday afternoon.
Saint Eustache Church Paris

Gary Goes To Church in Paris, and So Should You (Video)

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Parisians aren't known for their religious fervor, yet many go to church, and with good reason: the art, the architecture, the music, and because the most of more notable churches belong to the City of Paris.

Vice & Versailles: A Master Gardener Delves Into the Dark Shadows of the Louis...

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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.

Quentin Roosevelt, President’s Son, the Most Famous American Killed in France in WWI

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Quentin Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt and his second wife Edith, was shot down by German planes during aerial combat over France on July 14, 1918, northeast of Paris between Château-Thierry and Reims.In this exclusive France Revisited interview, Christiane Sinnig-Haas, author of a forthcoming book about Quentin Roosevelt, tells about “the most famous American victim of the First World War.”

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