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Read our monthly French language publication.
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| Tucked into a tiny side street in the Marais district, Le Gaigne is a new vest-pocket address with a larger-than-life talent in the kitchen—young chef Mickaël Gaignon. |
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| The Paris Biennale des Antiquaires, this year in its 24th edition, is one of the most important events on the international art and antiques calendar, an unequivocal must for collectors, museum curators, fine arts dealers, gallery owners, designers and interior decorators—many of them accompanied by their best clients. |
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| In a little alley down the street from Nino, Le Chai Cassidain is a shop and wine bar that stocks all the best local wines, including those of the 12 different vineyards of Cassis, which has its own appellation d’origine controlée. |
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| I try to reduce my calorie count to an all-time low in the run-up to a trip to Nice, so that on arrival I can start at the food-and-flower marché in Cours Saleya and sample as many mouthwatering local delicacies as possible. |
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| 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the historic icon of French feminism. After a short eclipse from public consciousness, Simone de Beauvoir is back in view. |
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| In their new shared memoir, We’ve Always Had Paris…and Provence, Patricia and Walter Wells offer “a scrapbook of our life in France” where they have lived for the past 28 years, Walter as an editor and then editor-in-chief of the International Herald Tribune (and now France Today’s regular political columnist), Patricia as a celebrated food writer and American expert on French cuisine. |
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| If only the restaurants that serve France’s magnificent highway system were as good as the roads themselves. Alas, they are not, so anyone driving on the north-south Autoroute du Soleil between Paris and the Mediterranean would be well advised to do a little prospecting by taking a quick hop just off the main highway exits. |
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| More than 200 haute couture suits, dresses, gowns and accessories by the grand Italian designer who retired this year after a career that lasted nearly half a century and included such celebrated clients as Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy, who wore Valentino for her wedding to Aristotle Onassis.
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| As I walk across my living room, I hear a distinct "scrunch” underfoot. It continues as I round the table to set it. Mystified, I return to the kitchen, then back to the living room. Re-scrunch. I cast my eyes downward and see, to my horror, bits of cookies. |
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| A major retrospective of the great American photographer who died in 2004, with 270 prints including not only his celebrated fashion work but also portraits and a reportage, In the American West. |
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| France’s enthusiasm for the Obama-Clinton race has not distracted the Socialist Party from its own bruising battle. The fight sounds almost American, in fact, both by being internecine with many players and nuances, and by sliding into name-calling. The name is “libéral,” a fighting word that’s just as nasty for the French Left as when hurled by the American Right. |
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This recipe was created by Stéphane Pitré, chef at Chez Cécile in Paris. |
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| Odile Hellier, founder of the independent Village Voice bookshop, fights for its survival. |
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| French filmmakers aren’t known for musical comedy, but there are a few films in which song and dance play starring roles. |
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| “Comme c’est bizarre,” says Colombine, “every year for la fête des mères (Mother’s Day; in France it’s the last Sunday in May) mabelle-mère (my mother-in law) gives me a cactus!” |
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