NO WORRIES PARIS
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Le Petit Duc: sampling medieval sweets
Around the corner from the Eiffel Tower sits a lovely shop that smells of Provence and is filled with sweet and savory delicacies derived from ancient recipes that date back to medieval times. Ears of the Good Goddess (ancient Rome) to hearts of the Little Albert (fourteenth century), the Petit Duc offers nougat with almonds,…
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Fashion Week Paris: haute couture
The 30 collections of haute couture fashion for autumn/winter 2014/15 have officially wrapped up. It then starts all over on September 23 when the Ready-to-Wear shows begin. Mode à Paris, Fédération Française de la Couture du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode has all the info and a few photo of the runway…
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The Panthéon: go for the view
Start at the top for one of Paris’s most dramatic dioramas. Then descend the colonnade stairs and walk to the central dome to find physicist Léon Foucault’s 1851 pendulum demonstrating the rotation of the earth. Go one step deeper to the crypt where some of Frances’s most famous heroes are interred: Victor Hugo, Jacques-Germain Soufflot,…
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French Fashion: birth of the New Look
The 1950s was haute couture’s golden age. A new exhibit at the Palais Galleria retraces the evolution of the female form through the decade 1947–1957: from the birth of the New Look to the death of Christian Dior and the advent of Yves Saint Laurent. Petticoats, corolla skirts, pointed shoes, bright-coloured floral and striped prints,…
trailblazer travel books
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a photographic walking guide 