One of history’s most influential (not to mention infamous) leaders, Catherine de Medici still enthralls and intrigues the world five hundred years after her birth. Case in point: The Serpent Queen, the new period drama series based on Leonie Frieda’s best-selling biography, Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. In 1533, the Florentine heiress, aged […]
Paris Architecture
The Best Paris Books of 2022 (So Far)
There’s something for every kind of Paris lover (and reader) in the latest batch of books that are inspired by or set in the City of Light. Do you like to stay up to all hours, page-turning on the edge of your seat? Or do you prefer uplifting tales of courage and romance against all […]
Making a Day of the Place des Vosges
The Place des Vosges is one of those spots in Paris where you feel as though you can breathe that much more easily. It elicits a deep sigh of pleasure, perhaps because of the harmony of it all, the gracefulness of this serene marvel set within the Marais. Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth […]
The Perfectly Delightful Place Dauphine
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 […]