International Bookstores in Paris
The most recently opened of the bookstores in Paris is our own Bill & Rosa’s Book Room is composed mainly of used English books (about 2500). We also have a…
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A Passion for Complication
A slightly adapted excerpt from Demystifying the French: How to Love Them and Make them Love You, published by Winged Words Publishing, 2019. Copyright Janet Hulstrand, all rights reserved. It’s…
The quintessential Paris museum: Musée Jacquemart André
Where in Paris can you take in some Dutch masters including Rembrandt, ceilings by Tiepolo, medieval Venitian and Florentine works (Uccello, Botticelli), a Vigié-Lebrun portrait and watercolors and oils by…
Les Maréchaux?
Why are the boulevards on the edge of Paris (where the Tramway and PC bus run) referred to as “Les maréchaux“? This ring of roads, which totals 33 kilometres and…
Atelier des Lumières Journeys Around the Mediterranean
Immersive is the right word. You are immersed in a very dark room and must let your vision adjust then you begin to see light, hear sound and things move.…
Laughter in France
Laughter is the best medicine. Reflections on laughter in France, the land of La Vache qui rit! The city of Bordeaux seems to be the center of laughter in France…