This goes out to Nancy, one of our very first and most loyal readers who recently asked us for a few tips on real estate in Paris. Here you go, Nancy. I hope this sheds a little light on the subject ...
I’m not all about fashion despite the fact that I live in one of the world’s fashion capitals. In fact, most of my life I’ve been accused far more often of not paying enough attenti...
I’ve just put down Tatiana de Rosnay’s The House I Loved released in March 2012, a novel about one woman’s undying adoration for her past, her deceased husband and her threatened home. I was drawn to...
Picture care of a fabulous new blog I found at: http://livingtastefully.weebly .com. Thank you kindly. This recipe goes out to The Wanderlust Gene, a loyal reader who has waited ever so patiently for ...
When I was down south in Pau, I spent a lovely afternoon with my belle-mère and her great friend Rose-France at the latter’s picturesque century-old home overlooking a break-taking view of the ...
And we’re back in Paris. Wobbling around but home at last, home at last. Over my recuperation period down south, I had an abundance of time to foster blog ideas, review niche stores, test and f...
A friend sent me an email saying that she was coming to Paris for a week and wondered if I could help with where to stay and how best to spend her days. Yes, sure I can. Here is the email I sent back...
Last night the French voted François Hollande of the Socialist Party into power. Incumbent candidate Nicolas Sarkozy will finish up his last few weeks in office before the shift takes place sometime,...
For over a century, Pau has hosted a Grand Prix weekend at the beginning of May to rival that of the Principality of Monaco. Set against the majestic, snow-capped Pyrenees Mountains, the course swirl...
The number two news story in France today, after the final day of campaign for the Presidential Second Round vote this Sunday, was the abolition of the 2002 French law against Sexual Harassment, effe...
May 1st is to France what Labour (Labor) Day is to North America: a national holiday, a day of rest and relaxation, a nod to the workers of our society who keep the whole system running. In Paris tod...
Becoming Madame will be attending this year’s Paris Writer’s Workshop! Sponsored by WICE, one of the oldest Anglophone organizations in Paris, the Paris Writer’s Workshop (PWW) is a...
Reuters As we discussed in a recent post, the French election process is a bit different from the majority of its democratic partners. A two-round system, Round One of the elections took place yester...
They did not give me the Valium pill before they rolled me into the operating room. “I thought it was standard practice?” I asked the anesthesiologist in French as he sat on the edge of my rolling ho...
One of our very first videos was on the Traditional French Quiche, a recipe I inherited from my belle-mère. The recipe in this video adds a slight twist of sophistication to that original recipe. Per...
Poet. Writer. Philosopher. Spiritualist. Rainer Maria Rilke certainly warranted all these designations; one might even add that he was gifted with an understanding of the world which transcended his ...
As a Christian holiday, Easter, or Pâques as it is called in French, is celebrated in France much the same way as it is in the Anglo-Saxon traditions. In France, Easter celebrations begin on Saturday...
Just in time for the début of the wedding season, I wrote a guest blog on the particulars of getting married in France for a wonderfully insightful, fellow Francophile blogger, EmilyintheGlass. When ...
April 1st is also a day of practical jokes and laughs here in France. The difference is that instead of a the usual North American tricks, like, say, telling someone they have a big meeting that morn...
This weekend’s edition of the Figaro Magazine showcased a fabulous Special on Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau. Most of you probably know him from his famous Kiss photograph. Recently, a n...
This year’s Oscar nominations gave a flattering nod to French cinema. True, not all the film I include in this category were French in a technical sense, but they nevertheless shared a French theme t...
The past ten days have brought with them a sky over Paris as blue as a translucent sheet of sapphire crêpe paper. The rays of sunshine beating down on glowing smiles put a skip into Parisians’ ...
I watched Steven Spielberg’s rendition of Tintin in HD last night with my husband. Tintin, for those of you who might not know, is a relic when it comes to French comics and childhood traditions. Alt...
As many of you know, we are coming to the climax of a Presidential election year here in France. The current President, Nicolas Sarkozy, is running for re-election after having won his first term in ...
The Figaro Madame is a French magazine published by the Figaro newspaper conglomerate, the Dassault Group, here in Paris. Serge Dassault, the chairman of Dassault Group, is one of the wealthiest peop...
For the past three years, Parisians have known springtime is beckoning when the posters for the Hermès International Horse Show, better known as Saut Hermès, begin popping up all over the city. This ...
Last evening, I went to a play at a grand old theatre in Paris, le Theatre des Champs-Elysées. At the heart of one of Paris’ most exclusive shopping neighborhoods, Alma Marceau, Avenue Montaign...
Since I put down The House of Mirth, I’ve been fascinated by the use of vocabulary. In conversation with my husband about the subject, he told me of one of his university friends from here in P...
One of the books I picked up at Shakespeare & Company some weeks back during my Literary Afternoon in Paris was Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. This is the second of Wharton’s nov...
A few weeks ago, a lady by the name of Claire Handscombe, a trilingual language teacher based in Brussels, asked me to review her book on learning a second language, cleverly entitled Conquering Babe...
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