Author Edith Wharton, whose social novels gently critiqued the morals and manners of Manhattan’s Gilded Age, might be forever linked to her birth city of New York, but she was at heart and soul a Parisienne, residing in the French capital and then countryside for her final thirty years of life — from 1907 to […]
Paris in the Movies
Jean Seberg and Her Inner Parisienne
It’s one of the delightful quirks of Parisian history that the most iconic French New Wave figure — not to mention one of the most quintessentially à-la-parisienne beauties — just happened to have been born and bred far from the City of Light. Following in the footsteps of the likes of Edith Wharton and Joséphine […]
Paris in World War II: The Movies and Series to Watch
With All the Light We Cannot See hitting Netflix screens, you might be interested in exploring other shows inspired by the occupation of Paris during World War II. If so, read on … These fifteen movies and series (in no particular order) examine the various experiences of Parisians during this dreadful time in history. Note: […]
Catherine Deneuve’s Top Twelve Paris Moments
Catherine Deneuve has long been the epitome of Parisian elegance, from her starlet period in the early 1960s to now, as she celebrates her 80th birthday. Here, some of her most iconic Parisian moments … Early 1960s: Blonde Ambition Catherine had already scored a few small movie parts when, at the age of 17, she […]