A new trend in fashion in France? For those of you who’d like to adopt this style, I certainly hope the weather warms up.A new trend in fashion in France? For those of you who’d like to adopt this style, I certainly hope the weather warms up.

My friend has a theory: London and New York are boy towns, while Paris is all about being a girl. Judging from all the fashion, pink pastries and charming men around, I think she may be onto something. Paris is the ideal destination for a girl getaway. Even if that girl is [...]

I’ve developed a crush on the guy who works at my local wine store. This was at first quite enjoyable as he began talking to me about wines and making recommendations, and as a result I’ve learned a bit more wine and enjoyed some really nice ones.
The downside of entertaining this crush is that you [...]

Kiss and tell is bad enough, but dreaming of kissing, then telling, well that’s just—weird.
As if Princess Diana hadn’t suffered enough in life, former president and well known ladies man Valéry Giscard d’Estaing has written a book called The President and the Princess, in which a French president who eerily resembles himself meets a British princess, who is the [...]

 
I had a call the other night from Jon Henley of the Guardian, who had reviewed my book and wanted to talk about a piece he was writing about French women. It seems there has been a sudden onslaught of books on the subject, some of them written by Anglo-Saxon women driven by the question: what do they have that we [...]

I often get asked how I met my Frenchman. Although I would love to share some romantic love story I have to admit we met just like any young couple: in a bar. while drinking. heavily. No love at first sight or first kiss on the beautiful Pont Neuf or even a late night ride [...]

How strange to think that number 122 rue de Provence used to stand one of the most exclusive and fashionable destinations in the city, the One-Two-Two bordello. This area behind the grands magasins has always been an area linked to prostitution, with 19th century scenes described in the works of Gaston Leroux and Balzac. Mostly though this has been of [...]

  
France’s Justice Minister Rachida Dati announced her pregnancy in the fall. She is single and says it’s none of anyone’s business who the father is. 
Conventional wisdom has it that the French media and public are much more gracious than the American media and public about leaving their politicians’ private lives out of the public sphere. [...]

Mesdames, Messieurs, it’s time to dust off your vinyl skirts, polish those leather pants, and buff your latex corsets to a fine shine. The 9th annual Nuit Démonia 2008 takes place on December 11 at Le Loco. This “international rendez-vous of latex, leather and vinyl fetishists in Paris” is the biggest fetish event of the year in France, with [...]