June is the month of the rose, a flower that strikes me as being quintessentially Parisian. Sure, the rose is internationally beloved, having a long history in China, Greece, Egypt, Rome, the Middle East, England … but it just seems so perfectly at home in Paris. Maybe it’s because my first-ever perfume was the olfactory […]
Musée de la Vie Romantique
Five of the Best: Paris Museum Cafés
In France, food is art on a plate. So it makes sense that some of the most memorable eating experiences can be found in some of Paris’s most delectable museums … Rose Bakery, Musée de la Vie Romantique Rose Bakery, with its perfumed teas and olde-worlde cakes (think marble-swirled, berry slathered in pink icing, and […]
Romantic Paris: Two Exquisite New Exhibitions
Before Paris became a city of romance, where misty-eyed lovers could stroll hand-in-hand along beautiful boulevards or lock lips on the city’s graceful bridges, it was the city of Romanticism. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Paris was not yet the City of Light, but rather a dark place, still medieval in design, […]