Written as part of Paris Culture Week for our Love Paris campaign
Paris has survived medieval plagues, wars of territory, religion and revolution: no wonder it is one of the most haunted cities in the world. Read below to discover Paris’s most famous spooky spots…
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Displayed human bones, disembodied voices, statues with life-like teeth… all the things of which haunt our nightmares are just in our imagination, right? Well, these sights actually exist in Europe, should you seek them out.
Step into the world of the supernatural and discover our seven creepiest sights in Europe, just in time for Halloween…
Written as part of Paris Outdoors Week for our Love Paris giveaway
There is a genteel Paris, and there is a rebellious Paris. After days of dutifully traipsing around the city’s temples to High Art, trying to tell your Monet from your Manet, you may wish to see a more mischievous side of the city’s art scene…
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Forget your most beautiful, forget your most romantic (with one or two notable exceptions), here I offer you an alternative take on the age old problem: how not to end up writing unpalatable, purple prose-tinted, nauseating gush when talking about Paris and its good old Mère Seine.
Whence the list below, where I offer you the most artistic, the most pretentious and, yes I couldn’t resist, the most romantic bridges in Paris, to name but a few. So go ahead and get out there; maybe I’ll cross you on the Seine one of these days.
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Trocadero – Eiffel Tower – © Jean-Michel Leclercq
Written as part of Paris Outdoors Week for our Love Paris campaign.
Jean Michel Leclercq is a photographer living in Paris. Keen on black and white, with images enhanced by HDR and selective colouring, his shots of the city are true portraits – taken with love.
Read below for his five tip-offs on where best to capture Paris on camera…
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Old or new? Fiction or non-fiction? Genre or literary? If you’re looking for a good book set in Paris, the answer is: all of the above!
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I am the author of the novel Hidden in Paris, and a Parisian woman who has lived in the United States for the last 24 years. When I go back to my hometown it’s as a tourist, but an educated one, one who hurries past the well-known museums and tired old streets, and has no patience for mingling with tourists such as herself…
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Paris Fashion Week was January 24 – 27, where the likes of Christian Dior would present at Musée Rodin, and Chanel at Pavillon Cambon Capucines. I had January 26th, but no invitation, to pull all sorts of strings to get into a collection…
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Before reading this post you should be warned, print collectors can be touchy. Snobs even. Easily insulted you can’t casually mention that you have a print of the Mona Lisa hanging in your den. They’ll pale, begin to shake, and through clenched teeth remark “that’s a poster, not a print”. Oh…
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The French can be divided into two groups – those who openly love and admire Anglos, and those who secretly love and admire Anglos (but act as if they don’t care whether you live or die).
Here are a few cultural tips to help you on your stay in Paris, obviously far from exhaustive…
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