Waterfront hoofin’ in Paris
Those visiting Paris in late July and August are well aware of the existence of Paris Plage, the 5-week beach along the Seine. Much less well known and less visited by foreign visitors is the Paris Plage extension along Bassin de la Villette in 19th arrondissment.
Green Paris: Smoking Is Out, Sparkling Water Is In
While Paris is test banning smoking in some of its parks and gardens, a new garden, Jardin Truillot, has been opened in the city's least green and most densely populated arrondissement.
Lafayette and the American Flag: The Fourth of July Ceremony
In permanent recognition of his role in aiding the American cause, an American flag has flown over Lafayette’s grave ever since the end of WWI. The flag is changed every year on July 4 in a highly orchestrated ceremony attended by French and American dignitaries.
Part II: Louis XIV’s Versailles. Purgatory and Heaven, War and Peace, Mirrors and Fountains
I’m not sure when my transformation from dread of Versailles to curiosity occurred—while listening to our guide, while visiting the Little Theater, while strolling...
Paris Exhibitions: Women War Photographers
The intensity of the narratives told in Women War Photographers makes this gathering of images and texts horribly mesmerizing and insightful and this exhibition perhaps the most notable in Paris this season.
Macabre Bicycle Cemetery Discovered in Paris
In a startling and macabre discovery, archeologists in Paris discovered this week what appears to be a mass bicycle graveyard on the site of a portion of Canal Saint Martin in the 10th arrondissement. The City of Paris gave France Revisited special access to photograph and report on the extraordinary find.
Paris Street Talk: Chadors, Communists, Cannibals
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.
Le Vaudésir, an Introduction to Neighborhood Bistro Life in Paris
At its heart, the French bistro is an unpretentious neighborhood gathering place for traditional, homemade food and inexpensive drink. Le Vaudésir, the archetype, is the jumping off point for a plunge into Paris neighborhood bistro life.
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.