Paris & Surroundings

Don't be seen with last year's cream puff! In Paris, haute couture extends all the way to the dessert trolley. Even a venerable let-them-eat-cake institution like Angelina, founded in 1903, has to keep up with the trifle trends.

The terrorist attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13 killed 130 people and left hundreds more wounded. The immediate target was joie de vivre in the City of Light: the pleasure of sharing a drink or a meal with friends, of listening to music, of strolling down the street, of kissing on the sidewalk, of men and women mingling and dressing freely, of gathering comfortably with strangers, of being young in years or young at heart, of openly celebrating life. Those are all things that you, the visitor and the return traveler, look forward to when you imagine (re)visiting Paris.

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.

When it fully reopens at the end of 2020, the Cluny Museum will regain its place among Paris’s major museums. Already, its 5-year restoration project is bearing fruit in the form of two concurrent exhibitions that explore the mysteries of medieval art and culture: Magical Unicorns (until Feb. 25, 2019) and Birth of Gothic Sculpture (until Jan. 7, 2019).

France Revisited’s “Conversation with an Expert” series launched on April 15 with a 3-part discussion between Gary Lee Kraut, editor of France Revisited, and Jean-Pierre Soutric, a leading French specialist and consultant on luxury hotels around the world.In Part 1, which can be viewed here, they examine the creation and evolution of luxury hotels in Paris from 1855 to 1909,