Paris History

This week sees the reopening of Paris’s café and restaurant terraces, after a hibernation of more than half a year. That means: Paris is slowly becoming Paris once more. Of course, Paris is about the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre and Notre-Dame and the various other architectural wonders that take your breath away. But as […]

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Cherries have a long and juicy history in Paris, going right back to the Ancient Roman era. After conquering the future City of Light in 52BC, those high-living Romans imported fancy new architecture, customs, fashions and food. Markets began to sell luscious orchard fruits, with cherries — which the Romans had brought back from Asia […]

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If you ever find yourself in Paris during Fashion Week, you don’t need a front row invitation or a backstage pass to be part of the stylish action — you can feel the energy simply when walking the streets, where you’ll invariably come across gaggles of gleaming-skinned models, stylists and Instagrammers dressed to les neufs, […]

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