Ahhh Paris in summer … it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as Paris in the springtime, sure, but as the song I Love Paris goes, there is still something magical about the City of Light in the summer when it sizzles … Parisian days are deliciously long in summer, stretching out to […]

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Paris is peppered with nooks and crannies that seem like gorgeous secrets, that make you feel as though you’ve come across a place only the lucky ones know about. But Place Dauphine surely must be at the top of that list. Perhaps it’s because so many people might easily walk right by. If you’re too […]

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May is a month of celebration in France. It begins with Labour Day and its lovely lily-of-the-valley traditions, moves on to Victory in Europe Day, and ends with Mother’s Day. And somewhere amid all this festivity is another reason to raise a glass: the city’s rooftop terrace bars reopen for the summer. Rooftop terraces make […]

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You might not at first connect Paris with medieval times, or the so-called Dark Ages. Paris is the City of Light, after all. Of enlightenment. The city that came of age in the grand siècle — the seventeenth century — when grand new buildings and monuments were carved from bright limestone, when the Sun King […]

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