I see him occasionally on my way home for work when the weather is decent enough for me to ride the Vélib bike home. So I stop and say bonjour. He has a lovely smile, and a soft approach to a hard life that I imagine took years to perfect. One of the stories he [...]
1. Apparently my computer has cookies and the information highway has read my beads, because as soon as I am in France, ads such as this start appearing. 2. You would think that the French, long stereotyped as the most sophisticated lovers, would have come up with a term for “cougars” before Americans. Just sayin.’
Happy Valentine’s Day! May it be so very French. Thanks to Eye Prefer Paris for this image of a classic French moment.
Have enough calendars for 2012 yet? If you’re looking a French calendar for yourself or as a gift, try something more original than the ubiquitous Impressionist paintings, historic black and white photos, or Parisian aerial scenes. This year you’ll find a whole new crop of risqué calendars coming from the most interesting places. My favorite [...]
Mon Dieu! Valentine’s Day is a mere 11 days away! Here are two more French-themed Valentine greetings from The Paris Blog’s collaboration with Hipster Cards. Click here to see the entire collection and to send one for FREE to your hearth-throb or girl-crush.
As a wedding planner in Paris, I can’t tell you how many requests I get from panicky grooms-to-be looking for help on proposing to their bride-to-be at the top of the Eiffel Tower. One thing that I like to advise these guys is that a proposal, like amour, isn’t just about the payoff. 1 Pretty [...]
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal may be turned into a movie. That is – a porn movie. There is, however, a hitch: The company that plans to make the movie doesn’t have any money. It is appealing for investors. The company is My Porn Production (what else?) and it needs €200,000. That is $276,000 / £172,000. [...]
I love to dance but I don’t like earsplitting music and have never seen the point of standing in line to be looked over by what, in France, are called physionomistes. They’re the guys whose job it is to make sure a club has a good mix of people, preferably with lots of pretty, stylish [...]
I have some new neighbors in the hood. A young couple that have obviously never had a “vis-a-vis” (neighbors that can see into their windows). How do I know this you may ask? WELL. Let me explain. Not to put too fine a point on it, I’ve seen them regularly making out on the bed, [...]
Yes, that’s Sharon Stone naked. Once you get over the surprise of seeing a never-published photograph of the Basic Instinct actress in the buff–and you stop looking for public hair that appears non-existent–your eyes are drawn to the face. It’s not exactly a come-hither stare. And that is where you start to understand the artistry [...]
