February kept me so busy with work that I had to learn a new French…
Another weekend, another holiday to rediscover through French eyes. Today we enjoyed the spectacular sights,…
Gertrude Stein famously wrote that a writer has to have two countries, “the one where…
The last several weeks I have been hard at work on writing projects related to…
Scads of American memoirists have rhapsodized about their wonderful meals in Paris’s restaurants, but Janet…
Nicole Diver, the anti-heroine of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel, Tender is the Night (1934),…
Although he managed to escape Paris – and starvation – during the Prussian siege in…
Once a week, I meet for coffee with Nathalie, a French friend who is hoping…
Outside every public school in Paris the French flag flies above the door and the…
A few days ago, strolling goggle-eyed through the glitz and glam of Bon Marché, Paris’s…
Rachel Hope Cleves 