Inspiring Your Dream Parisian Experience
Many Parisian hotels have been imagined (or reimagined) for the Instagram age — all sleek silhouettes and cool detailing that make for dramatic selfie backdrops. But if you prefer olde-worlde to modernist, you’ll be delighted to know that some hotels in the City of Light remain firmly styled in a past Paris, one of floral […]
Paris has long inspired artists — painters, writers and, above all, poets. Nobody who loves beauty as much as words can fail to wax lyrical about the City of Light. Read on for a poetic Parisian tour — and to find the ideal locations for swooning over your favourite poèmes. Charles Baudelaire & Île Saint-Louis […]
In commemoration of Women’s History Month, a look at some of history’s most alluring Parisiennes … and where they left their marks in Paris. Catherine de Medici The Florentine heiress — brought up in a world that worshipped beauty — moved to Paris to marry the future King Henri II in 1533. Disdained by her […]
March is the month of spring — or, in French, le printemps, a word derived from the Latin for ‘first time.’ Because, in France, it’s the time to put the past year behind you, to start afresh. And in Paris, it’s an especially poignant moment, as the first cherry blossoms burst from bare branches, a […]