The official flower of March is the daffodil, and while the cheery yellow bloom does appear in Paris’s gardens and florists throughout this first month of spring, there’s another flower that seems to capture the whimsical spirit of an early Parisian springtime so much more perfectly: a pink magnolia. The magnolia is named after French […]
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Paris for Thinkers: The City’s Most Thought-Inspiring Places
Sometimes we holiday in Paris with friends, for fun and the fashion — or with family, to tick off the bucket-list items, from the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower. At other times, Paris is the City of Love, the perfect place for celebrating a romance. But Paris is equally the ideal city in which to […]
What to do in Paris When it Rains
‘Actually, Paris is the most beautiful in the rain.’ So says Léa Seydoux’s character Gabrielle to Owen Wilson’s Gil at the end of Midnight in Paris, before they walk away from the Pont Alexandre III, toward a glimmering future together. If you’re as similarly misty-eyed in your Paris outlook (well, if you’re a regular visitor […]
In Search of the Paris of Dangerous Liaisons
The latest version of Dangerous Liaisons (below; currently streaming on Starz in the US, Prime Video in the UK and Stan in Australia) is a Bridgerton-style (read: steamy scenes and heaving corsets) origin story of the classic French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The series, filmed in Prague, is set in Paris of […]